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Azure Basic Concepts

Memi Lavi
www.memilavi.com
Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/geographies/
Selecting Regions

• Almost every resource in Azure should be placed in a Region


How to Select Region?

• Geographical proximity to system’s audience


How to Select Region?

• Services’ availability

Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/services/
How to Select Region?

• Availability Zones
How to Select Region?

• Pricing
How to Select Region?

• Pricing
Resource Groups

• A logic container for resources

• Used for grouping resources by a logic boundary

• Free

• Examples:

• Development / Test / Production resources

• Team A resources
Resource Groups vs Subscriptions
Resource Groups vs Subscriptions

- Manages Subscriptions

- Associates accounts
- Cost center

- Logical Resources
Container

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-setup-
guide/organize-resources?tabs=AzureManagementGroupsAndHierarchy
Resource Groups Naming Conventions

• It’s best practice to have an “rg” or “RG” as part of the resource

group name

• Could be prefix or suffix


RG-Project-Dev

Finance-Resources-rg
Resource Groups

• Almost every resource in Azure is placed in a Resource Group


Storage Account

• Used to store almost anything in Azure

• Used transparently by various services

• For example:

• Database backups

• VM Disks

• Diagnostics data
Storage Account

• Used also for explicit data storage

• We’ll discuss it later…

• Quite cheap
SLA

• Service Level Agreement

• The uptime % of a cloud service

SLA (%) Yearly Downtime Allowed


95 18d 6h 17m 27s
99 3d 15h 39m 29s
99.9 8h 45m 56s
99.99 52m 35s
SLA

• ALWAYS check the SLA of the service used


SLA

• ALWAYS check the SLA of the service used


SLA Calculation

• To get the actual system SLA, multiply the SLAs of the participating

services

App Service SLA = 99.95%

Azure SQL SLA = 99.99%

Actual SLA = 99.95 X 99.99 = 99.94% = 5h 15m 34s annual downtime


Cost

• Almost everything in the cloud costs money

• Few pricing models:

• Per resource (ie. VM)

• Per consumption (ie. Function Apps)

• Reservations
Cost

• ALWAYS check resource’s cost before provisioning

• Check for more cost-effective alternatives

• Look for reservations when available and relevant


Azure Calculator

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Architects and the Cloud

• Software Architects designing regular system need to know:

• Non-Functional Requirements

• Technology Stack

• Component’s Architecture

• Communication Patterns
Architects and the Cloud

• Cloud-based systems require, in addition:

• Infrastructure knowledge

• Security

• Hands-on

• We’ll learn all that in this course ☺

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