Microsoft Azure

[Sir Asvald]

Hello guys and girls. 

 

Has anyone worked with Microsoft Azure? also, has anyone connected it to their on-premise network to the cloud? I was thinking of setting up Web server and and connecting my existing network to Microsoft Azure. 

[3rrant]

30 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

Hello guys and girls. 

 

Has anyone worked with Microsoft Azure? also, has anyone connected it to their on-premise network to the cloud? I was thinking of setting up Web server and and connecting my existing network to Microsoft Azure. 

I worked with Azure. It is a good product, but it's not "for everyone". It depends a lot on what your business actually need. What kind of software do you run on-premise? If it's just a website/ecommerce/sort of web based application for internal use, Azure is a great solution if you have frequent peaks and lows in your traffic as you can address resources differently based on your needs. But it's also quite costly as a system.

[Sir Asvald]

4 minutes ago, ErrantNyles said:

I worked with Azure. It is a good product, but it's not "for everyone". It depends a lot on what your business actually need. What kind of software do you run on-premise? If it's just a website/ecommerce/sort of, Azure is a great solution if you have frequent peaks and lows in your traffic as you can address resources differently based on your needs. But it's also quite costly as a system.

I see. Well, I'm currently running SQL Server, webserver and other CMS applications. My business is PC Repair and IT consulting. Everything is currently running with Google G Suite. I was thinking of running the application server on-premise/SQL and the website on Azure. 

 

 

[Pixel5]

my company recently shifted a productive system to the azure cloud.

we are using the web services for the web frontend and run a normal SQL server in an virtual machine.

 

in my optinion you should either go for a full cloud solution or no cloud solution at all, just running a web server in the cloud means whatever is running on it still depends on your local SQL server to function and to have a stable connection.

 

we are running a hybrid setup that is kind of the reverse from what you want to do, we have everything in the cloud and on top of that on premise webservers that connect straight to the cloud database due to some authentication issues we are having because or certain user groups.

 

this way we can route users that cant login on the cloud system to the on premise system and still write to the same database.

[Sir Asvald]

27 minutes ago, Pixel5 said:

my company recently shifted a productive system to the azure cloud.

we are using the web services for the web frontend and run a normal SQL server in an virtual machine.

 

in my optinion you should either go for a full cloud solution or no cloud solution at all, just running a web server in the cloud means whatever is running on it still depends on your local SQL server to function and to have a stable connection.

 

we are running a hybrid setup that is kind of the reverse from what you want to do, we have everything in the cloud and on top of that on premise webservers that connect straight to the cloud database due to some authentication issues we are having because or certain user groups.

 

this way we can route users that cant login on the cloud system to the on premise system and still write to the same database.

Quick question. How do you connect your AWS Instance's and your on-premise together? I want them to be part of the domain. 

[Pixel5]

3 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

Quick question. How do you connect your AWS Instance's and your on-premise together? I want them to be part of the domain. 

to be honest im not actually involved in the doing part of this as i am responsible for administration of our application and not for the infrastructure but for our example it was as easy as pointing our on premise application to connect to the external database together with making the database accessible from the outside.

 

the cloud system is not in our domain, we use ADFS for user authentication, all users are authenticated there and get a login token so they dont have to authenticate over and over again.