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Microsoft Azure - Components

Categorizing the services would help you understand Azure better. These categories
are termed as ‘Components’ in this tutorial. The Individual components are
explained with detailed pictures in subsequent chapters.

Compute / Execution Models


This is the interface for executing the application, which is one of the basic
functions of Azure.

Compute Execution Models


As seen in the above image, there are different models such as Web App, Virtual
Machine, Mobile Service, Cloud Service, and Batch Service. These models can be used
either separately or in combination as per the requirement.

Data Management
Data management can be done by using SQL server Database component or the simple
data storage module offered by Windows Azure. SQL server database can be used for
relational database. The storage module can store unrelated tables (without foreign
key or any relation) and blobs. Blobs include binary data in the form of images,
audio, video, and text files.

Compute Data Management


Networking
Azure traffic manager routes the requests of a user intelligently to an available
datacenter. The process involves finding the nearest datacenter to the user who
makes the request for web application, and if the nearest datacenter is not
available due to various reasons, the traffic manager deviates the request to
another datacenter. However, rules are set by the owner of the application as to
how a traffic manager should behave.

The virtual network is another feature that is part of networking in services


offered by Windows Azure. The virtual network allows a network between local
machines at your premise and virtual machine in Azure Datacenter. IPs to virtual
machines can be assigned in a way that makes them appear to be residing in your own
premise. The virtual network is set up using a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
device.

The following image shows how these two features actually look in Azure portal.

Azure Portal
Big Data and Big Compute
The large amount of data can be stored and managed using Windows Azure. Azure
offers HDInsight which is Hadoop-based service. Organizations often need to manage
large amount of data which is necessarily not relational database management.
Hadoop is a prominent technology used these days. Thus, Azure offers Hadoop service
on their platform for clients.

The term ‘Big Compute’ refers to high performing computations. This is achieved by
executing code on many machines at the same time.

Messaging
Windows Azure offers two options for handling the interactions between two apps.
One falls under storage component of the service and is called 'Message Queues'.
The other one comes under the app service and is called 'Service Bus'. The messages
can be sent to initiate communication among different components of an application
or among different applications using these two options.

Components Messaging
Caching
Microsoft Azure offers two kinds of caching which are in-memory Caching and Content
Delivery Network (CDN) for caching frequently accessed data and improves the
application performance. CDN is used to cache the blob data that will be accessed
faster by users around the world.

Identity and Access


This component is about management of users, authentication and authorization.
Active directory stores the information of users accessing the application and also
the organization’s information. It can synchronize with the related information on
local machines residing on premises. Multifactor Access (MFA) service is built to
address the security concerns such as only the right user can access the
application.

Components Identity and Access


Mobile Service
Windows Azure offers a very easy platform to develop mobile application. You can
simply start using mobile development tools after logging into your account. You
don’t have to write big custom codes for the mobile application if you use this
service. The push notifications can be sent, data can be stored and users can be
authenticated in very less time.

Components Mobile Service


Backup
The site recovery service replicates the data at secondary location as well as
automates the process of recovery of data in case of data outage. Similarly Azure
backup can be used to backing up the on premise data in clouds. Data is stored in
encrypted mode in both the cases. Windows Azure offers a very effective and
reliable backup service to clients and ensures they don’t face inconvenience in
case of hardware failures.

Components Backup
Media
This service addresses multiple concerns related to uploading media and making it
available to end users easily. Users can manage tasks related to the media like
encoding, ad insertion, streaming, etc. easily.

Commerce
Windows Azure offers the opportunity to users to buy or sell applications and data
through their platform. The applications are put in the marketplace or Azure store
from where they can be accessed and bought by other users.

Software Development Kit (SDK)


Azure applications can be produced by the developers in various programming
languages. Microsoft currently provides language-specific SDKs for Java, .NET, PHP,
Node.js, Ruby, and Python. There is also a general Windows Azure SDK that supports
language, such as C++.

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