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Cloud Native Architectures

You're reading from Cloud Native Architectures Design high-availability and cost-effective applications for the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280540

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Native

Authors (4):

Tom Laszewski

Kamal Arora

Erik Farr

Piyum Zonooz

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Introducing Cloud Native Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. The Cloud Adoption Journey

3. Cloud Native Application Design

4. How to Choose Technology Stacks

5. Scalable and Available

6. Secure and Reliable

7. Optimizing Cost

8. Cloud Native Operations

9. Amazon Web Services

10. Microsoft Azure

11. Google Cloud Platform

12. What's Next? Cloud Native Application Architecture Trends

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Index

Chapter 10. Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure had a very different start compared to AWS. It was originally launched in 2009 as the Windows Azure platform, where the focus was on developers and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) components. The initial set of services that were launched were Windows Server AppFabric and ASP.NET MVC2 to help developers build applications using the frameworks and services in the cloud. The only infrastructure components at that time were Windows Server virtual machines to enable hybrid use cases, but the overall strategy was still geared towards developer community, which was radically different from AWS, who had more infrastructure components around that time being offered apart from some basic application-centric services. With this foray into the cloud, Azure continued the push towards application aspects until 2014, when it changed the whole strategy to go into the IaaS space as well and also rebranded the platform to Microsoft Azure.

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Authors (4)

Tom Laszewski

Tom Laszewski

Tom Laszewski is a leader and cloud technologist who has helped ISVs, SIs, start-ups, and mid-market, and global customers modernization IT systems and develop innovative software solutions. He currently leads a team of Enterprise Technologists responsible for the business and IT transformation strategy with key AWS customers pursuing cloud modernization initiatives and digital transformation efforts utilizing cloud native architecture. He enjoys traveling the world with his teenage sons Slade and Logan.

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Kamal Arora

Kamal Arora

Kamal Arora is an inventor, author, and technology leader with more than 15 years of IT experience. He currently works at Amazon Web Services and leads a diverse team of highly experienced solutions architects who enable global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to cloud. Kamal has also led the creation of biggest global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and incubated multiple new strategic initiatives. He's passionate about the latest innovations in the cloud and the AI/ML space, and their impact on our society and daily-life.

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Erik Farr

Erik Farr

Erik Farr is a technology leader with over 18 years in the IT industry. He has been on the leading edge of cloud technology and enterprise architecture, working with some of the largest companies and system integrators in the world. In his current role at Amazon Web Services, he leads a team of experienced solution architects to help global system integrator partners design enterprise scale cloud native architectures. Before AWS, he has experience with Capgemini and The Walt Disney Company, always working to create highly valuable outcomes for customers.

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Piyum Zonooz

Piyum Zonooz

Piyum Zonooz is a Global Partner Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he works with companies across all industries to help drive cloud adoption and re-architect products to cloud native. He's led projects in TCO analysis, infrastructure design, DevOps adoption, and complete business transformation. Prior to AWS, Piyum was a Lead Architect as part of the Accenture Cloud Practice where he led large-scale cloud adoption projects. Piyum holds a BSc and MSc. degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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