Below are few key points on Azure architecture and management

• Check availability of Azure products region-wise

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/services/

Below we have filtered it to see products available in UAE

We can also filter it further if we are looking for a specific product or service.

• We can refer to the Data residency document to see where the data is being stored

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/data-residency/

• We can use the Pricing Calculator for estimation.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

• A resource inside Azure can be thought of manageable item in Azure that includes Virtual Machines, Web App, Database, etc.
• A resource group is a container (contains metadata) of the resources.
• It is through ARM – Azure Resource Manager the resources within Azure are managed.

Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, REST APIs are different ways of interacting with Azure Resource Manager.

• Azure CLI – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest
• Azure PowerShell – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-az-ps?view=azps-4.7.0
• Azure REST API – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/
• Azure SDK (.NET) – https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk/releases/latest/dotnet.html

• Within Azure Portal, we can use Azure Cloud Shell to run PowerShell or CLI commands.

It will ask us to create a storage account if there aren’t any

• To implement Infrastructure-as-Code, Azure has Azure Resource Manager Templates which are written in JSON, that uses a declarative syntax to define infrastructure and configuration for Azure resources for automating deployments.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/overview

• Azure Advisor is a recommendation service that analyzes the configurations and usage of the Azure Resources and provides recommendations / best practices on different categories to optimize the Azure Deployment.

The advisor can be configured to run only on specific resources along with the option to edit the existing rules and set up alerts.

• We can also use Azure Mobile App

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/azure-portal/mobile-app/

to monitor the health and status of Azure resources, run commands to manage Azure resources, etc.

Reference – Pluralsight Course – Microsoft Azure Services and Concepts

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Cloud Computing enables companies to consume a complete resource – such as virtual machine, storage, or an application as a utility – just like electricity – rather than having to build and maintain computing infrastructure in-house.

Cloud provider provides the cloud infrastructure which is shared across multiple clients. Clients can select which service to use and only need to pay for that service, which is billed on-demand.

Cloud provider takes care of high availability (disk failure, power supply) and disaster recovery (natural or human disaster like fire, flood, etc.)

Advantages of using cloud computing

Rapid elasticity, only pay for the services used, reliability, economics of scale, etc.

Azure Regions Interactive Map

https://build5nines.com/map-azure-regions/

Types of Cloud Computing Services.

• IaaS – Infrastructure as a service – Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage.
• PaaS – Platform as a service – Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Automation.
• SaaS – Software as a service – Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Power Platform.

Types of Cloud computing deployment models.

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