Azure Classroom Series – 15/Dec/2020

Scenario 1: LT-insurance Management System

• This scenario is about a ficticious product from learning thoughts, LT-iMS
• This product is used by insurance companies. Users of this application are
  • insurance companies
  • insurance agents
  • customers
  • Hospitals
• Quotes are generated for customers depending on the needs by insurance agents
• Once the customer gives an approval, an insurance policy is generated.
• Customer can claim insurance benifits in hospitals
• This product as of now is deployed in the Datacenter maintained by Learning Thoughts, Lets examine its architecture
• For LT-iMS lots of organization across the world are becoming customers and it is becoming difficult and costly to maintain the infrastructure across the globe.
• So architect of LT-iMS (Steve) has decided to migrate the application to Azure
• Now Steve has to know about the storage options of azure.
• Some of the storage requirements
  • Insurance quotes generated should be available for next 5 years to access
  • Policies generated should be available in the database for 20 years
  • Insurance Policy generated in one country cannot be moved to storage in other country
  • Quotes grater than 1 year of generation have to be archived.

Scenario: LT-eLearn

• This is a new product about to be launched by LT for elearning solutions
• The customers of this are
  • companies for training employees
  • colleges for training students
• Users of one organization would be
  • Content Designer
  • Content Uploader
  • Customer
• All of the trainings will be in the form of
  • videos
  • powerpoint slides
  • audio files
  • Interactive Tutorials (web based)
• Lets try to see how architect mike designs this product to run on microsoft azure
• Now what are different considerations for mike to design a global elearning product.

Storage Terms

• Data Availability:
  • This refers to uptime (Whether the storage system is operational and can deliver the data upon request)
  • Historically to maintain availability redundancy
• Durability:
  • This refers to long-term data protection i.e. the stored data doesn’t get corrupted/lost
• IOPS: IO per second. The time taken by storage system to perform Input/Output Opertations

Exercises

1. Azure Cloud Account is Created Refer Here
2. Try creating a free vm Refer Here
3. If you want to start cloud from scratch Refer Here