However, not all applications are economically portable to serverless systems; for those the architect needs to make some good choices as outlined above. There’s no free lunch with cloud computing.

Cloud computing allows businesses to match compute and database capacity to the usage pattern, which saves money and allows them to scale to meet performance objectives (see how). With on-premises ...

The patterns & practices group at Microsoft have released a guide with solutions and patterns suitable when implementing cloud-hosted applications. The guide contains ten guidance topics together with ...

Cloud native application architectures let you make highly available, massively scalable, globally distributed applications. This O'Reilly technical guide for architects and developers details the ...

Money can be saved by hosting applications on the most appropriate type of cloud that suits an organization’s needs. Companies only pay for what they use, and they can scale up or down as required.

A “Hybrid cloud” deployment architecture pattern may be the only viable option for such applications that dependent on internal services. Another common use case is Single Sign-On (SSO).

He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. Dave writes the Cloud Insider blog for InfoWorld.

For instance, if the usage pattern is unpredictable with peak loads causing SLA misses (for example, in retail), such an application should have a higher priority to be moved to the cloud.

Microsoft's Cloud App Security add-on will alert you to suspicious sign-in activity in Office 365, Azure and other cloud apps using standard templates or custom policies.