What's an Azure?

Tech Talk Tuesday
February 19th, 2019

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organization meet your business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-azure/

Office 365

Azure Active Directory

Azure Cloud/Azure Sovereign Clouds

IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service

• Azure provides:
  • Servers and storage
  • Networking firewalls/security
  • Data center physical plant/building
• You purchase/install/configure/manage your own software (OS, middleware, apps)
• Example: Virtual Machine

PaaS - Platform as a Service

• Azure provides:
  • Servers and storage
  • Networking firewalls/security
  • Data center physical plant/building
  • Development tools, database management, business analytics
  • Operating systems
• You provide your applications
• Examples: App Services, Azure SQL(?)

SaaS - Software as a Service

• Azure provides:
  • Servers and storage
  • Networking firewalls/security
  • Data center physical plant/building
  • Development tools, database management, business analytics
  • Operating systems
  • Hosted applications/apps
• You use the offering
• Examples: SharePoint, SalesForce, YouTube

Quiz

For which offering am I not responsible for licenses?

SaaS - You pay for the SaaS and they handle licensing

Quiz

For which offering am I not responsible for security?

None - You have security concerns in all offerings

Quiz

What offering gives the most control?

IaaS - You have full control (and responsibility) of software and applications

Questions?