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Designing an Azure Compute Infrastructure

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 1 minute and 23 seconds
Students: 11,633
Rating: 4.7/5

About

Microsoft Azure offers services for a wide variety of compute-related needs, including traditional compute resources like virtual machines, as well as serverless and container-based services. In this lesson, you will learn how to design a compute infrastructure using the appropriate Azure services.

Some of the highlights include:

  • Designing highly available implementations using fault domains, update domains, availability sets, scale sets, availability zones, and multi-region deployments

  • Ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery using Azure Backup, System Center DPM, and Azure Recovery Services

  • Creating event-driven functions in a serverless environment using Azure Functions and Azure Log Apps

  • Designing microservices-based applications using Azure Container Service, which supports Kubernetes, and Azure Service Fabric, which is Microsoft’s proprietary container orchestrator

  • Deploying high-performance web applications with autoscaling using Azure App Service

  • Managing and securing APIs using Azure API Management and Azure Active Directory

  • Running compute-intensive jobs on clusters of servers using Azure Batch and Azure Batch AI

Learning Objectives

  • Design Azure solutions using virtual machines, serverless computing, and microservices

  • Design web solutions using Azure App Service

  • Run compute-intensive applications using Azure Batch

Intended Audience

  • People who want to become Azure cloud architects

  • People preparing for a Microsoft Azure certification exam

Prerequisites

  • General knowledge of IT architecture

Please note that Azure Active Directory is now called Micosoft Entra ID.

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