Cloud networking considerations

- [Instructor] I do want to ensure that everyone knows … that there are some amazing abilities unlocked … with cloud computing, … but there are also some things to consider carefully … before diving into the pool head first. … Microsoft Azure provides us with the ability … to have computing resources located all over the world. … If the solution in United States were to go down, … you could send users to an identical solution … hosted in Europe. … Or if Europe was not available, … you could have that traffic served … into Azure data centers in Asia. … It's easy to imagine a perfect world where down time … is a thing of the past. … Of course, if we have two copies of our solution, … we are doubling the cost. … Three copies makes it a triple. … We also need technology such as Azure Traffic Manager … on top to manage the load balancing and the fallback. … So both the cost and the effort required to maintain … go up when we want availability to be higher, … and even then it cannot be a perfect solution. …