John Savill - Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services for Architects: Designing Cloud Solutions

John Savill

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For my wife, Julie, and my children, Abby, Ben, and Kevin

I could not have written this book without the help and support of many people. First, I need to thank my wife, Julie, for putting up with me for the last 6 months being busier than usual and for picking up the slack and for always supporting the crazy things I want to do! My children, Abby, Ben, and Kevin always make all the work worthwhile and can always make me see what is truly important with a smile.

Of course, the book wouldn't be possible at all without the Wiley team: Kenyon Brown, the acquisitions editor; Janet Wehner, the project editor; Christine O'Connor, the production editor; John Sleeva, the copyeditor; and Nancy Carrasco, the proofreader.

Many people have helped me over the years with encouragement and technical knowledge, and this book is the sum of that. The following people helped with specific aspects of this book, and I want to call them out for helping make this book as good as possible: Alex Shteynberg, Alexander Frankel, Ali Mazaheri, Anavi Nahar, Andrew Mason, Anuj Chaudhary, Ashish Jain, Bala Natarajan, Brian Tirch, Charles Joy, Christina Compy, Cosmos Darwin, Daniel Savage, David Berg, David Browne, David Powell, Derek Martin, Doug Lora, Elisabeth Olson, Gunjan Jain, Jason Hendrickson, Jeff Cohen, Jeff Peterson, Jim Benton, Jose Rojas, Kiran Madnani, Klaas Langhout, Larry Claman, Marc Kean, Maria Lai, Markus Hain, Mark Russinovich, Mike Stephens, Mutlu Kurtoglu, Rajat Luthra, Ramiro Calderon, Randy Haagens, Raphael Chacko, Reed Rector, Rena Shah, Rich Thorn, Rimma Nehme, Rochak Mittal, Sadie Henry, Satya Vel, Simon Gurevich, Sibonay Koo, Steve Espinosa, Steve Linehan, Sujay Talasila, Thomas Weiss, Trinadh Kotturu, Tyler Fox, Varun Shandilya, Yugang Wang, Yunus Emre Alpozen, Yves Pitsch, and Zif Rafalovich. If I've missed anyone, I'm truly sorry.

John Savill is a technical specialist who focuses on Microsoft core infrastructure technologies, including Microsoft Azure, Windows, Hyper-V, and anything that does something cool. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 20 years and was the creator of the highly popular NT FAQ website. He has written eight previous books, covering Azure, Hyper-V, Windows, and advanced Active Directory architecture. When he is not writing books, he regularly writes magazine articles and whitepapers, creates a large number of technology videos, which are available on his YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/ntfaqguy, and regularly presents online and at industry-leading events. John has a large library of technical learning materials available via Pluralsight (https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/john-savill), including entire tracks focused on identity, infrastructure, data, and more in the Microsoft cloud.

Outside of technology, John enjoys fitness training, including weightlifting and cardio to help prepare for his full IRONMAN triathlon events. John has completed 12 full IRONMAN events and while writing this book is busy training for IRONMAN Texas, Canada, and Maryland, for which he has signed up to complete in 2019 (hopefully).

John tries to update his blog at https://savilltech.com/ with the latest news of what he is working on and tweets at https://twitter.com/NTFAQGuy.

The book you are holding is the result of my 25 years of experience in the IT world, including 20 years of virtualization experience, which started with VMware, Virtual PC, and now Hyper-V, and many years focusing on public cloud solutions, especially Microsoft Azure. My goal for this book is simple: to make you knowledgeable and effective architecting an Azure-based infrastructure. If you look at the scope of Microsoft Azure functionality, a single book would be the size of the