Compute Resources

Getting Deep into the Technical:

• Compute Services

• Networking Services

• Storage Services

• Database Services

• Azure Marketplace

Compute services covered:

• Virtual Machines (VM)

• App Services (Web apps)

• Azure Container Instances (ACI)

• Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

• Windows Virtual Desktop

What is Compute?

Compute: "Executing code" in the cloud

Virtual Machines:

• Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS

• Take an existing machine from your environment into the cloud - a copy

• Windows or Linux OS - several of each

• A "slice" of a physical machine shared with other customers

• Full control over it, as if it was your machine

Virtual Machine Types

Over 200 to choose from

Examples:

• Number of CPU cores

• CPU speed

• RAM size

• temporary disk size

• IOPS

• etc...

App Services:

• Platform as a service (PaaS)

• A new paradigm for running code in the cloud

• Give your code and configuration to Azure and they will run it

• Promise of performance but no access to hardware

Containers:

• Another paradigm for running code in the cloud

• Containers contain everything the app needs to run in a "container image"

• Fastest and easiest to deploy

• Azure Container Instance (ACI) - Single instance, quickest way to deploy a container

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Runs on a cluster of servers, enterprise-grade

Windows Virtual Desktop

• Desktop version of Windows that runs in the cloud

• Your software installed, your files - available form anywhere

• Can even see your desktop on IOS and Android from any web browser

• Runs on Azure