Learning Microsoft Azure
by Jonah Carrio Andersson · Jonah Andersson
O'Reilly introduction covering cloud deployment models, core Azure compute, storage, and networking services, developer tooling, DevOps collaboration, security, and migration paths. Readers finish able to choose appropriate Azure services for an application and plan a move from on-premises infrastructure.
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