Azure for Decision Makers The Essential Guide to Azure for Business Leaders
Develop expertise in Azure to plan, guide, and lead a streamlined modernization processKey FeaturesExplore core Azure infrastructure technologies and solutionsAchieve smooth app migration and modernization goals with cloud designMaster Azure architecture and adopt it to scale your business globallyP...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing Ltd
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Evolution of Microsoft Azure
- IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public, private, hybrid, multicloud, and edge
- Importance of the shared responsibility model
- Reasons for adopting Azure
- High availability and scalability
- Reliability and predictability
- Hybrid flexibility
- Innovation
- Thinking about cloud management, migration, security, and governance
- Cost management
- Migration and deployment
- Configuration management
- Unified governance, risk management, and compliance
- Observability and resiliency
- Security and control
- Bringing it all together
- Start building with Azure
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Modernizing with Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Computing
- Reasons for embracing hybrid, multicloud, and edge computing
- Motivations and business outcomes
- Additional considerations
- What makes a hybrid, multicloud, and edge strategy successful?
- Identifying and addressing concerns
- How Microsoft Azure helps?
- Mapping strategic intentions
- Unified operations - one set of tools and processes
- Key impacts
- Thinking about workloads and architecture
- Use cases and technical considerations
- Looking at efficiency, reliability, security, and compliance
- Microsoft Azure reference architectures
- Important operational considerations
- Design, build, and orchestrate with modern practices
- Utilize monitoring and analytics for operational insights
- Testing
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Migration and Modernization
- Benefits of modernization and migration to the cloud
- Reasons for choosing Azure
- The three stages of migration and modernization
- Two versatile frameworks for cloud adoption
- Maximizing the value of your cloud investment
- Additional tools for maximizing your cloud investment.
- Workload migration scenarios
- Achieving cloud scale and maximizing performance
- Enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery on Azure
- Azure migration and modernization best practices and support
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Maximizing Azure Security Benefits for Your Organization
- Identity and access management
- Security benefits of Azure
- Security best practices for identity and access control in Azure
- Delivering intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence using Microsoft Sentinel
- Searching, analyzing, and visualizing data in Microsoft Sentinel
- Global prerequisites
- Enabling Microsoft Sentinel using the Azure portal
- Setting up data connectors
- Securing your workloads using the Microsoft cloud security benchmark
- Steps to implement the Microsoft cloud security benchmark for securing Azure workloads
- Enabling visibility, detection, and response to threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Enhancing organizational security with Microsoft Defender for Identity
- Protecting devices against advanced threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Securing sensitive data and meeting regulations with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
- Secure infrastructure everywhere: Deploying hybrid security solutions from the cloud to the edge
- Securing your Kubernetes clusters in Azure: protecting against threats and vulnerabilities
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Automation and Governance in Azure
- Automate provisioning of Azure resources using IaC
- Streamline infrastructure management with IaC
- Principles of IaC
- Microsoft-native IaC frameworks
- Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
- Bicep
- Popular third-party IaC frameworks
- Automate ARM templates and Bicep with Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Best practices for using Azure DevOps and GitHub for IaC on Azure
- Improve governance with Azure.
- Implement governance on Azure
- Implement Azure Policy
- Define Azure Blueprints
- Use role-based access control (RBAC)
- Monitor and audit your Azure environment
- Use Azure Advisor
- Analyze your cloud inventory with Azure Resource Graph
- Manage your cloud spending
- Five disciplines of cloud governance
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Maximizing Efficiency and Cost Savings in Azure
- Cost optimization with the Microsoft Azure Well‑Architected Framework
- Incorporating Azure Advisor best practice recommendations for cost savings
- Implementing cost management best practices
- Effective budgeting for Azure services
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Next Steps
- Index
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