Azure Architecture Free ebooks
Please find the list of Azure cloud free ebooks
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Common Resources
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Services Map | All Azure services with references to its docs. | Anton Romanov (MSFT) |
| Azure Architecture Center | Landing page for everything Azure Architecture. | Docs |
| Azure Application Architecture Guide | Structured approach for designing applications. | Docs |
| Azure Architecture Framework | Guiding tenets that can be used to improve the quality of a workload | Docs |
| Azure Assessment | Customers can evaluate their business strategies and receive curated guidance from Microsoft Assessments. | MSFT |
| Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure | The framework gives customers a set of tools, guidance, and narratives. | MSFT |
| Recommended naming and tagging conventions | Well-defined naming and metadata tagging conventions help to quickly locate and manage resources. | MSFT |
| Microsoft Cloud IT Architecture Resources | Learn core cloud architecture concepts for Microsoft identity, security, networking, and hybrid. | MSFT |
| Azure Tech Case Studies | Technical Case Studies using Azure Services | MSFT |
| White papers, analyst reports, and e-books | Whether you’re new to Azure, or ready to deploy business-critical workloads in the cloud, explore these white papers, analyst reports, and Microsoft e-books. | MSFT |
| Cloud Adoption Framework enterprise-scale landing zone architecture | Enterprise-scale is an architecture approach and reference implementation that enables effective construction and operationalization of landing zones on Azure. | MSFT |
Design
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Choose an Azure compute service for your application | Including a flowchart that will help you to choose a compute service for your application. | MSFT |
| Choose the right data store | Overview on the different data store and on how to pick the best fit. | MSFT |
| Overview of load-balancing options in Azure | Decision tree for load balancing in Azure | MSFT |
| Asynchronous messaging options in Azure | This article describes the different types of messages and the entities that participate in a messaging infrastructure. | MSFT |
| Cloud Design Patterns | Building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud. | Docs |
Diagramming
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Set Up Microsoft Visio for Azure Architecture Diagramming | In this lesson Tim demonstrates how to set up Visio for creating Azure architecture drawings. | Tim Warner |
| draw.io | Design tool to create architecture diagrams | draw_io |
| CloudSkew | Draw cloud architecture diagrams for free! | CloudSkew |
| Cloud Maker | Cloud Maker helps you rapidly draw beautiful, standardised cloud architecture diagrams. | Cloud Maker |
Dashboards / Visualization
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| AzViz – Repo | PowerShell Module that can generate a topology diagram to Visualize Azure Network Topology and ARM templates (WIP). | Prateek Singh |
| Continuous Cloud Optimization Power BI Dashboard | The Continuous Cloud Optimization Power BI Dashboard (referred as CCO Dashboard here after) is a Power BI Dashboard developed using Power Query M language that pulls information directly from different Azure and Graph REST APIs. | MSFT |
Enterprise Architecture
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Cloud Identity for Enterprise Architects | What IT architects need to know about designing identity for organizations using Microsoft cloud services and platforms. | MSFT |
| Microsoft Cloud Security for Enterprise Architects | What IT architects need to know about security in Microsoft cloud services and platforms. | MSFT |
| Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects | What IT architects need to know about networking for Microsoft cloud services and platforms. | MSFT |
| Microsoft Hybrid Cloud for Enterprise Architects | What IT architects need to know about hybrid cloud for Microsoft services and platforms. | MSFT |
| Common Attacks and Microsoft Capabilities that protect your Organization | Learn about the most common cyber attacks and how Microsoft can help your organization at every stage of an attack. | MSFT |
| Microsoft 365 Enterprise Foundation Infrastructure | Get an at-a-glance view of the foundation infrastructure for Microsoft 365 Enterprise to begin your deployment. | MSFT |
| Architecture approaches for Microsoft Cloud Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations | This series of topics illustrates several architecture approaches for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other scenarios that might lead you to migrate to a new cloud tenant. | MSFT |
| Deploy a Modern and Secure Desktop with Microsoft | What IT architects need to know about deploying and managing updates for Office 365 ProPlus on Windows 10. | MSFT |
Comparison
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Azure for AWS Professionals | Azure for AWS people. | Docs |
| AWS to Azure services comparison | AWS to Azure services comparison | Docs |
| Google Cloud for Azure professionals | Google Cloud for Azure professionals | Google Docs |
Templates
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Architectures – Reference Architectures | Recommended architectures for Azure. | MSFT |
| Architectures – Example Workloads | Workload examples covering the implementation of specific business or technical challenges using Azure | MSFT |
| Architectures – Azure Solution Ideas | Solution ideas with architecture proposal. | MSFT |
| Managing Azure Blueprints as Code | A library of sample Blueprints that can be easily imported via API or PowerShell | MSFT |
| Code Samples | This doc provides seamless samples to developer tools and technologies offering from Microsoft. | MSFT |
| Azure Quickstart Templates | With this resource, you would get access to community contributed templates that empowers you to get more done in no time. | MSFT |
| Azure Template Explorer | Explore published Azure Resource Manager QuickStart templates for services of your interest. | MSFT |
Articles & Guides
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Is Public Cloud Cheaper Than Running Your Own Data Center? | Great guide about TCO calculation for Cloud in general. | Marco Meinardi (Gartner) |
| Your Cloud Journeys is Unique, but Not Unknown | “Network Operations and Security Professionals’ Guide to Managing Public Cloud Journeys” pt.1 | Rich Mogull |
| Defining the Journey—the Four Cloud Adoption Patterns | “Network Operations and Security Professionals’ Guide to Managing Public Cloud Journeys” pt.2 | Rich Mogull |
| Mastering the Journey—Building Network Manageability and Security for your Path | “Network Operations and Security Professionals’ Guide to Managing Public Cloud Journeys” pt.3 | Rich Mogull |
| Introduction – Moving to Cloud, but with a real Strategy — part 1 | Typical errors from customers moving to the Cloud. | David das Neves |
| Introduction – Moving to Cloud, but with a real Strategy — part 2 | This article provides a crash-course on what a good strategy and vision should contain. | David das Neves |
| Overarching IT Architecture & Roadmap | IT Infrastructure Architecture from a CIO point of view for an Enterprise company and demonstrate the necessity for an Overarching IT Architecture, including a Roadmap. | David das Neves |
| Hub and Spoke network topology in Azure | Great article about all the dependencies of a Hub&Spoke model | Lucian Frango |
| Get automatic notification before you hit your Azure Express Route BGP Advertised Routes limit | Important guidance when having a Hub & Spoke model | Mohamed Ghaleb |
| Getting More Value from Objectives and Key Results | A good overview into OKRs and KPI for a company. | By Darren Johnson and Joost Spits |
Sessions
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| The Architect Elevator: Connecting Penthouse and Engine | What is actually the work of an IT Architect and what are the challenges? | Gregor Hohpe |
Books
| Title/Link | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation | A Chief Architect’s Journey | Gregor Hohpe |
| Cloud Strategy | An Architect Elevator Guide to Successful Cloud Migration | Gregor Hohpe |