A well-designed cloud infrastructure covers factors such as consistency, maintenance, simplified administration and development, security, scalability, and reusability. Hence, it is important to choose the right architectural pattern as it has a huge impact on the quality of cloud-hosted services.

This book covers all Azure design patterns and functionalities needed to help you build your cloud infrastructure to fit your system requirements. Each of these patterns describes a problem that you normally could have when implementing a cloud infrastructure—a recommended solution for your problem (pattern appliance) and pros and cons of applying this pattern.

Using a pattern (or at least thinking about it) is a recommended way of working when designing an enterprise cloud-based infrastructure.