Azure Architecture Studying Notes

 This post is to summarize some knowledge points regarding Microsoft Azure learned from Internet.

Azure Services

Azure Resources Hierarchy

• Tenant - Organization - AAD users
• Management Groups - Centralized management of subscriptions
• Subscriptions - Billing agreement
• Resource Groups - Group related resources together
• Resources - VMs, databases , etc

Identity and Access management

 Components:

Monitoring Azure Environment

Logs

Metrics

Core Services

1. Virtual Machines (Compute)
• Flexibility
• Availability Set
• Scale Set
2. Networking
• vNet - SDN
• Subnets
• Peering/VPN/Express Route
• Network Security Groups / Firewall
3. Storage
• blob, Files, Disks, Queus, Tables.
4. Database and Analytics
• Structured Data - Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Managed Mysql/PostgreSQL, and others
• Analytics : BI - Azure Synapse - Azure Data Lake
5. App service and Serverless Compute
• Web apps, Mobile apps, API apps, Cloud Services, service Fabric, Notification Hubs, Functions

References