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MCW Optimized architecture

Optimized architecture

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Contoso has recently completed a migration to shift most its enterprise data center footprint to the cloud. "The cloud is the future, and as such, it is essential for us to proactively adopt the cloud before our competitors to remain innovative and as competitive as possible," says Emma Lowton, Chief Technology Officer. "Unfortunately, due to our limited expertise in cloud computing, I have grown concerned that our Azure spending is much higher than it should be."

Target audience

• Infrastructure Architect
• Application Developer

Abstract

Workshop

In this workshop, you will learn how to optimize a lift-and-shift style Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) architecture in Azure to improve cost savings. You will also compare IaaS and PaaS (Platform as a service) hosting options to save cost even further using Azure App Service. Additionally, you will learn to improve resiliency and high availability through multi-region deployment.

At the end of this workshop, you will be better able to design and implement a plan to optimize Azure IaaS and PaaS deployments, compare costs between Azure IaaS versus Azure PaaS, setup SQL Database geo-replication, and configure multi-region deployments.

Whiteboard design session

In this whiteboard design session, you will review how to size and optimize a migrated workload to Azure Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). From there, you will consider the cost and benefit of optimizing the solution using Azure Platform as a service (PaaS) services and then design and price the optimized solution.

At the end of this whiteboard design session, you will be better able to design and plan for optimizing Azure IaaS and PaaS deployments, price solutions using the Azure calculator, and setup multi-region solutions.

Hands-on lab

In this hands-on lab, you will determine the appropriate hosting tiers for the Contoso Financial application and estimate the total cost savings on a monthly and annual basis. You will implement and integrate Azure Traffic Manager, then migrate the Web, API and Background App Tiers of the application to the Azure App Service. Next, you will then de-commission the old application infrastructure, and setup geo-replication for the Azure SQL Database in preparation for the next step, which is deploying a European instance of the Web App Tier. Finally, you will add an endpoint for this new Web App Tier to the Azure Traffic Manager.

At the end of this hands-on lab, you will be better able to implement optimization of Azure IaaS and PaaS deployments, price solutions using the Azure calculator, and setup multi-region solutions.

Azure services and related products

• App Service
• Web Apps
• API Apps
• Traffic Manager
• Load Balancer
• SQL Database

Azure solutions

Security and Management

Related references

• Microsoft Cloud Workshop

mcw-optimized-architecture's Issues

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HOL or Workshop Document
Base file

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Now

Another Get Ready for Boot Camp

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HOL - step-by-step & unguided

Both documents are using title casing in the table of contents and headers. MS Style is sentence case. Only proper nouns and products should be capitalized. Need to go through the documents and correct please.

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HOL or Workshop Document
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SQL Database SKU and pricing in WDS

Describe the bug
The WDS suggests to use SQL Database P4 SKU, and quotes a price. I've two concerns:

1. This uses the DTU pricing model, which does not support Hybrid Benefit. Wouldn't it be better to use the vCore pricing model, and discount the price using Hybrid Benefit to re-use the existing SQL licenses? (We'd have to check the number of licensed cores etc.)
2. The guide says to use Active geo-replication. This doubles the SQL database price (see pricing page), but this is not accounted for in the WDS.

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WDS trainer guide and presentation deck

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Next review cycle is fine

Before the HOL

I've updated the document to follow the most current template. I don't know how to add TOCs though. Please update.

WDS: Review Phase 2 costs

Describe the bug
Concerns about costing in WDS slide 30:

1. Can the various app service components (front end, backend API, backend processing) share the same App Service Plan? Or the backend components at least?
2. Where is the North Europe deployment in the pricing calculation?
3. Header of table refers to VMs, but there are no VMs here...

HOL or Workshop Document
WDS deck and possibly trainer guide

Time Frame Needed
Next review cycle is fine.

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Test Team Issue

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Getting Started Contents

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Need to determine how we will manage getting started contents; i.e. all at the uber level or unique to each workshop? e.g. invitation templates (where field has requested these be unique to each workshop)

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new update test-fix

Lab guide is updated

Hi Dawnmarie

Lab guide for MCW-Optimized-architecture is updated and ready for QC.

December Update

General Updates - Screenshots/Steps
Introduce Azure Cost Management (WDS) for monitoring/alerting on optimization
Add Azure Advisor (WDS & Lab)

WDS: Clarify Traffic Manager usage

Describe the bug
Slide 25/26 says to use Traffic Manager in Performance mode. Slide 27/34 says Geographic mode. Needs to be made consistent (and check the trainer guide also)

Slide 25 also says that Traffic Manager is 'instead' of the Load Balancer. I don't think that's accurate, and it could be confusing. The Load Balancer is gone because we're using App Service, which provides a built-in load balancer. Traffic Manager is added because we've added a second region. But one is not 'instead' of the other.

HOL or Workshop Document
WDS deck, and possibly trainer guide.

Time Frame Needed
Next review cycle is fine.

September test/fix QC

WDS presenter presentation (PPT) - slide missing alt-text.
Trainer/Student guides & HOL step-by-step - solution alt-texts need more detailed descriptions

Get Ready for Boot Camp

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all issues resolved

Test Fix for March is ready

Discrepancies in amounts in Excersize 1, Task 5

Describe the bug
In Exercise 1, Task 5 the amounts depicted do not match any of the pictures or text in the previous sections leading to incorrect math in calculating cost savings

HOL or Workshop Document
Hands-on lab/HOL step-by-step - Optimized architecture.md

Time Frame Needed
Immediate

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'https://github.com/Microsoft/MCW-Optimized-architecture/blob/master/Hands-on%20lab/HOL%20step-by-step%20-%20Optimized%20architecture.md#task-5-calculate-estimated-cost-savings'
2. Compare amounts used in calculation with previous sections

Expected behavior
Amounts used should match pictures depicted in previous sections.

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Need to setup project workflow

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