Cloud anywhere:
Azure for hybrid and multicloud environments
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To build an optimal hybrid
cloud infrastructure,
businesses need to create
a reliable, efficient, and
secure foundation. The
following section covers
three fundamental areas
that need to be understood
to build that architecture:
networking, identity and
access management,
and security.
If you are planning a larger-scale migration
to the cloud, you can find guidance in the
Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure,
which aims to help IT professionals and
cloud architects define their cloud strategy
and migrate their on-premises workloads.
The framework focuses on assessing
the current infrastructure, migrating
applications and infrastructure to the
cloud, optimizing their architecture
to reduce costs, and managing their
workloads and data more securely.
In addition, by helping developers take
responsibility for their code—so-called
shifting left—the resulting applications
will be updated, patched, and secured
more quickly.
The Cloud Adoption Framework focuses
on bringing together heterogenous
components of a company's infrastructure
—and delivering a single management,
deployment, and administrative platform.
For this guide, rather than covering
all aspects of cloud adoption, we will
instead take a look at three areas that
are of particular importance for those
organizations currently working in, or
moving into, a hybrid or multicloud
environment: networking, identity and
access management, and security.
