Azure Basics
Azure Region infrastructure
- Region - One or more linked datacenters
- Geography - Two or more regios in a geography or compliance erea.
- Region Pairs - Region pair in Geography more tgen 300 miles away from each other. Only one region in a pair will get updates in a time.
Azure availability
- Fault Domain - Seperate server rack of power and network in same datacenter.
- Update Domain - Server in the same datacenter on a other update schedule.
- Availability set - A config set of the fault and update domain.
- Availability Zone - Two or three datacenters in the same region. A combination of a fault and update domain. The platform will only update one zone at a time. The datacenters are on seperate power systems and spread over one region with low latency connections.
Azure SLA
Service Credit - Return percentage if SLA is not met.
Azure components
Azure Compute
- Virtual machines -
- Containers -
- Azure Kubernetes -
- Azure App Service - Dedicated PaaS web HTTP servers.
- Serverless Computing -