This document provides an overview of Azure including: - Types of cloud computing like public and private clouds - Deployment patterns in Azure like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS - ARM architecture brings together Azure resources and resource groups - Azure regions and availability zones for geographic distribution - Subscription types like pay-as-you-go, free trial, and enterprise agreements - Resource groups contain related resources for an Azure solution

1. Azure Overview
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2. Cloud
Computing
Types
Public Cloud
Computing services offered over the public
Internet; anyone can sign up
Private Cloud
Computing services offered to only select
users; internal or corporate cloud

3. Deployment
patterns in Azure
• There are three different deployment
patterns that are available in Azure; they areas
follows:
• • IaaS
• • PaaS
• • SaaS
• The difference between these three
deployment patterns is the level of control that
is exercised by customers via Azure. The
following diagram displays the different levels
of control within each of these deployment
patterns:

4. ARM Architecture • It brings Azure's resource
providers, resources, and
resource groups together to
form a cohesive cloud platform.
It makes Azure Services
available to subscriptions, the
resource types available to
resource groups, the resource
and resource APIs accessible to
the portal and other clients,
and it authenticates access to
these resources. It also enables
features such as tagging,
authentication, RBAC

5. Azure
Physical
Host

6. Azure Geographies

7. Regions and
Availability
Zones in Azure
Region A set of datacenters deployed
within a latency-defined
perimeter and connected through
a dedicated regional low-latency
network.
Availability Zone Unique physical locations within a
region. Each zone is made up of
one or more datacenters
equipped with independent
power, cooling, and networking.

8. Choose your
Region
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9. Azure Health Service

10. Azure Subscription
Types
• Free Trial Provides free access to Azure resources for a limited
time. Only one free trial subscription is available per account,
and you cannot create a new free trial if a previous one has
expired.
• Pay-As-You-Go You pay only for those resources you use in
Azure. There’s no up-front cost, and you can cancel the
subscription at any time.
• Pay-As-You-Go Dev/Test A special subscription for subscribers
to Visual Studio that can be used for development and test.
• Enterprise Agreement designed for large companies that
have a large amount of usage in Azure. When you sign up for
an Enterprise Agreement, you work with Microsoft to come
up with a yearly financial commitment for Azure usage.

11. Azure Subscriptions

12. Resource Groups & Resources