Applying cost expenditure models to cloud computing In the traditional computing model (pre-cloud technologies), hardware resources and software were purchased up front in a one-off lump sum; these business assets would be seen as depreciating assets. This is the CapEx model. To contrast this to the public cloud computing model, resources that are provided by […]
Workspace licensing Workspaces store and host data for users and this takes server resources to achieve. So, for most organizations, this will involve licensing costs. Power BI does have a free tier, but it is limited when it comes to capabilities as many of the advanced features discussed in this chapter require either Pro or […]
Thought exercise This section allows you to reflect on all the information presented in this chapter and apply it in a customer requirements scenario. Migration assessment discovery output The following inventory was discovered from an organization assessment. What approach should you take for each of the inventory items listed?: Now that you have identified an […]
Azure regions and geographies Microsoft data centers are grouped into collections across different sites to provide redundancy and high availability for the resources, such as compute and data hosted within the data centers. These sets of grouped data centers are known as regions and are exposed as the deployment location when creating resources. There can […]
Availability components When creating resources in Azure, we should think back to the cloud computing services model of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), serverless, and Software as a Service (SaaS), with the same principles and approach being applied to the responsibility of the availability of resources. This means we should […]
Availability sets In a nutshell, availability sets are logical groupings of virtual machines that provide the availability of the virtual machines within a data center and provide the virtual machines a 99.95% SLA. Availability sets deploy virtual machines across different hardware instances through what is known as a fault domain, meaning the virtual machines are […]
Availability Zones Some regions are further divided into Availability Zones, although they are not available in all regions, and not all resources support Availability Zones. The purpose of an Availability Zone is to provide redundancy within a region, that is, to protect against a data center failure, so that a failure related to something such […]
Proximity placement groups Proximity placement groups are a logical entity, and an architectural component that should be considered in any solution design where low latency between Azure infrastructure compute resources are required. They ensure the compute resources are physically adjacent and collocated within the same physical data center and not across data centers. Proximity placement […]
Creating a Power BI app At a high level, the steps involved with creating a Power BI app are as follows: Next, we will look at each of the steps to publish a Power BI app in detail. First, we’ll need to start from an existing workspace that contains the reports and dashboard we’d like […]
Using deployment pipelines In software development best practices, you never want to mix development work with work that has been completed, is of a known good quality, and is used for production. To do this, most organizations will have separate environments for development and production. Some organizations will have more environments in the middle, such […]