In the early days of computing, systems were always physical, meaning that a computer was a

discrete collection of hardware that ran an operating system and often used various input and
output devices.Virtualization changed that model.

A virtual machine is an emulation of a computer system that provides the functionality of a physical
computer. The VM still runs on a physical device generally referred to as a host

VMs also offer considerable flexibility over physical machines. Because VMs are software based, you
can create them very quickly by specifying their parameters. A physical server that might take a day
or more to deploy and get operational could take just minutes to deploy virtually

Scalability is another advantage to using VMs. You can easily add resources like CPUs, cores, and
memory to a VM by modifying its configuration settings. When you need to add another server for
horizontal scaling, you can do so in a matter of minutes

A storage account contains Azure Storage objects and provides a unique namespace through which
you can access those storage objects via HTTP and HTTPS

Azure Blob storage is optimized to store very large amounts of unstructured data such as text and
binary data. It is dedigned for store any kind. Blob storage can be accessed in several ways, including
through HTTP or HTTPS, the Azure Storage REST API, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or an Azure
Storage client library.

Azure Storage provides three access tiers for Blob storage to enable you to not only fine-tune the
type of storage you need but also minimize costs

Hot access: This tier is optimized for storing frequently accessed data.

■ Cool access: This tier is optimized for data that you access infrequently and for a relatively limited
period of time, and that typically would move to a lower tier of storage when access is no longer
likely.

■ Archive access: This tier is intended for data that you rarely access, if at all. An example is long-
term storage for backups

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You want to store flexible datasets like user data for web applications, address
books, device information, or other types of metadata your service requires.

Azure disks are virtualized storage presented as a disk and attached to a virtual machine, much like a
physical disk in a server. Azure disks are designed for 99.999 percent availability through three
replicas, Even if two replicas fail, the third enables the disk and data to remain available. Azure
offers three main disk roles: data disk, OS disk, and temporary disk. OS and data disks are persistent,
meaning they don’t go away if you reboot a VM or redeploy it. Temporary disks are not managed
and do not necessarily persist during maintenance events and reboots.
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Azure Files is another storage type supported by Azure. Think of Azure Files as files that are available
securely from anywhere in the world but not associated with a specific VM or volume .

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Azure VPN Gateway enables you to create VPN connections between Azure virtual networks and
between Azure and your on-premises network. VPN Gateway supports multiple VPN configurations:
■ Site-to-site: Establishes a VPN tunnel between two sites, such as between your onpremises data
center and Azure.

■ Multi-site: A variation of site-to-site, a multi-site VPN establishes VPN tunnels between Azure and
multiple on-premises sites.

■ Point-to-site: Establishes a VPN tunnel from a single device (point) to a site.

■ VNet-to-VNet: Establishes a VPN tunnel between two Azure VNets.

Azure ExpressRoute enables you to extend your on-premises networks into Azure over a private
connection managed by a third-party connectivity provider

Load balancing refers to distributing network traffic across multiple resources. For example, if you
deploy a web application with three web servers, you will use a load balancer to distribute the traffic
among the three web servers. Client systems see a single hostname and IP address for the balanced
services, and the load balancer distributes the traffic across the hosts in the balanced group. Not
only does this distribute the load for performance reasons, but if one of the web servers fails, the
load balancer can exclude the failed server from the group and begin sending all the traffic to the
remaining two. Or, if you scale out with additional servers, the load balancer will begin sending
traffic to the new servers.

Azure offers four load balancing services:

■ Azure Front Door: Azure Front Door is designed for global routing and site acceleration of Internet-
facing web traffic. It uses the Microsoft global edge network to enable fast, secure, and scalable web
applications.

■ Azure Traffic Manager: This service is an application layer DNS-based traffic load balancer that
balances traffic at the domain level. It can balance traffic across global Azure regions. Traffic
Manager offers several options for routing traffic and detecting endpoint health.

■ Azure Application Gateway: This is an application layer load-balancing service that provides an
application delivery controller (ADC) as a service. You can configure Application Gateway as Internet-
facing, internal-only, or a combination of the two. Azure Application Gateway is applicable for
HTTP(S) traffic and can route traffic based on several criteria, including incoming URL, URI path, and
host headers.

Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) places web content across a distributed network of servers to
make that content readily available to users based on their location. For example, if your
organization is based in the United States but you have large video files that you need to make
available to users in Switzerland, you could place those files on a CDN that has a point of presence
(PoP) in Zurich or Geneva. When the users access those files, the files come from the cached copies
in the CDN, rather from your servers in the United States. This reduces latency and improves
performance

Benifts

Microsoft provides various advanced security tools and technology like Azure
Information Protection, Advanced Threat Analytics for Azure environments
to ensure the complete safeguard of your data
Multi-Factor Authorization that really helps to completely protect from
hackers or suspicious users accessing your data
Microsoft has data centers in almost all parts of the world. Microsoft
Azure provides high availability compared to other cloud services in
the market now. It ensures almost 99.95% of uptime.
It can adapt to any change in the environment immediately. Flexible for many
platforms
Scaling is the ability of the system to adjust the amount of workload or traffic
with the web application or increasing or decreasing the resources for application
based on the workload or the traffic is known as Scaling
Microsoft Azure is one of the cost-effective cloud solutions compare to the
other vendors in the market. It provides the pay as you go model meaning pay
for that only what you are using. You can buy only what u want to use with some
extra features

Azure provides you with the benefit to create hybrid environments, that
allow you to leverage your on-premise resources and benefits of the cloud
environment with very little cost solutions.

Microsoft Azure has the capability to recover the data within a span of time in
case of any failures and will make sure the business will continue without any
impact. This is one of the great and much-needed benefits of Microsoft Azure.
Agility is one more offering from Microsoft Azure. Agility and Azure both help
the companies for working on their core solutions directly without getting
worried about IT infrastructure and other services.
With the help of Azure, your business can easily build, manage, and deploy all
the applications with customer-focused features.