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Extending Private Data Center to Azure Cloud — Part 2
Introduction
In Part 1 of this article, I talked about network and system design issues related to scalability, redundancy and security for deploying a 3-Tier application in a private Data Center (DC). It is more a theory-only article. Parts 2 and 3 of this article are more hand-on where we will deploy this web application and its associated network setup on Azure while maintaining control of the application from the private DC (i.e., Hybrid Cloud).
All Cloud Service Providers (CSP) are competing fiercely for your Cloud service business and they all offer free trial accounts. With an Azure’s free trial account, you can deploy this 3-Tier web application on Azure and try it out for free.
Azure’s Reference Architecture
All CSPs document their cloud deployment best practices to expedite user learning and cloud service deployment. They call these best practices Reference Architecture. I found Azure’s Reference Architecture very well organized and documented. Particularly, Azure goes extra miles to include deployment scripts for each reference architecture example to simplify and expedite Azure Cloud service learning and deployment. Hybrid Cloud is a common cloud deployment scenario and thus Azure has a reference architecture example called DMZ between…
