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Microsoft Azure, originally announced as 'Project Red Dog' in 2008, is a cloud platform launched in 2010 that provides a wide range of services including cloud storage, compute, and analytics. It utilizes virtualization technology to manage applications across its global infrastructure of over 300 datacenters and 60 regions, ensuring high availability and data redundancy through features like Availability Zones and Regional Pairs. Azure also offers various features such as security management, AI services, and a Well-Architected Framework to support developers and IT professionals in building and managing applications efficiently.

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Windows Azure

Microsoft Azure, originally announced as 'Project Red Dog' in 2008, is a cloud platform launched in 2010 that provides a wide range of services including cloud storage, compute, and analytics. It utilizes virtualization technology to manage applications across its global infrastructure of over 300 datacenters and 60 regions, ensuring high availability and data redundancy through features like Availability Zones and Regional Pairs. Azure also offers various features such as security management, AI services, and a Well-Architected Framework to support developers and IT professionals in building and managing applications efficiently.

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ORIGIN O F AZURE
• Windows Azure, now known as Microsoft Azure, was originally
announced in October 2008 at the Professional Developers
Conference (PDC) as "Project Red Dog".
• It was launched in February 2010 and renamed to Microsoft Azure in
March 2014.
• Microsoft Azure now supports open source software, especially Linux.
• Azure provides a wide variety of services such as cloud storage,
compute services, network services, cognitive services, databases,
analytics, and IoT. It makes building, deploying, and managing
applications very easy.
AZURE
• Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform, just like Google has its Google
Cloud and Amazon has its Amazon Web Service or AWS.000.
Generally, it is a platform through which we can use Microsoft’s
resources.
• For example, to set up a huge server, we will require huge investment,
effort, physical space, and so on. In such situations, Microsoft Azure
comes to our rescue.
• It will provide us with virtual machines, fast processing of data,
analytical and monitoring tools, and so on to make our work simpler.
WORKING OF MICROSOFT AZURE
• It is a private and public cloud platform that helps developers and IT
professionals build deploy and manage applications.
• It uses the technology known as virtualization.
• Virtualization separates the tight coupling between the hardware and
the operating system using an abstraction layer called a hypervisor.
• Azure takes this virtualization technique and repeats it on a massive
scale in the data center owned by Microsoft.
• Each data center has many racks filled with servers and each server
includes a hypervisor to run multiple virtual machines.
• The network switch provides connectivity to all those servers.
GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF
AZURE
• Microsoft Azure global infrastructure is built
on two key components, a physical
infrastructure and connective networking
components. Physical infrastructure consists
of physical datacenters where the data is
stored, which are further grouped into
regions. The networking components
connects all the azure datacenters with each
other with a low latency and high availability
links.

• Azure infrastructure globally distributes


around the world and serves the user close to
their location.
• 60+ Azure regions | 300+ datacenters
region
• A region is a geographical area
containing at least one, but
potentially multiple datacenters
that are nearby and networked
together with a low-latency
network.
• When one deploys a resource in
Azure, one needs to choose the
region where you want your
resources deployed.
• Examples of regions are West
US, Canada Central, West
Availability Zone
• Availability Zones are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region.
• Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with
independent power, cooling, and networking. It is set up to be an isolation
boundary.
• Azure creates a duplicate of your data and resources so that the information
is safe, in case of failure. If one zone goes down, the other continues
working.
• Resources are highly available through Availability Zones.
• Not every region has support for Availability Zones. The examples of
Availability Zones are Central US, East US 2, West US 2, West Europe, France
Central, North Europe & Southeast Asia
Regional Pair
• Each Azure region is paired with another
region within the same geographical area,
which is at least 300 miles away.
• It allows replication of resources (such as
VMs) which helps in reducing the
interruptions due to natural disasters, civil
unrest, power outages, or physical
network outages.
• Azure updates are rolled out to paired
regions one region at a time to minimize
downtime and risk of application outages.
• Examples of region pairs are West US
paired with East US, South-East Asia
paired with East Asia.
GEOGRAPHY
• Azure divides the world into geographies that are defined by
geopolitical/country boundaries typically containing two or more
regions that preserve data residency and compliance boundaries.
• Geographies allow customers with specific data residency and
compliance needs to keep their data and applications close or within
geographical boundaries.
• Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure
through their connection to dedicated high-capacity networking
infrastructure.
Windows Azure Features
• Service hosting
• Service management
• Storage
• Windows Server
• Development tools
FEATURES

Data
Security 01 Analytics 02 Databases 03
Azure offers multilayered security, including Azure offers cloud-scale analytics solutions for Azure offers fully managed databases for
identity and access management, threat data analytics and AI. building cloud-native applications
detection, and compliance.

Virtual Load
Networking 04 networks 05 balancer 06
Azure offers a reliable networking Azure Virtual Network allows users to Azure Load Balancer scales and offers high
infrastructure for securely linking apps and construct isolated virtual networks and control availability by dividing incoming traffic among
services. subnets, IP address ranges, and network several virtual machines.
Virtual ne security settings
FEATURES

Azure Active AI and machine


Directory (Azure AD)
learning
Azure AD offers secure user and application Azure offers a range of AI and machine
authentication and authorization. . learning services to incorporate intelligence
into applications.

Well-Architected
Framework 04 Azure
Functions
The five pillars of the Azure Well-Architected
Azure Function is a serverless compute service
Framework are reliability, cost optimization,
that allows users to run event-triggered code
operational excellence, performance
without having to provision or manage
efficiency, and security
infrastructure.

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