Let’s assume for your organization, you know the number of users who will be accessing your application (web / mobile / BI reports) are defined and it does not fluctuate drastically like an Internet Organisation. All the fluctuations are measured and it is a step-up progression, measured and occurs over several years rather than like an erratic ECG graph. Your business could be a business with big ticket customers and is not catering for economies of scale. In such cases, you can go for Single server deployment in this case without over-engineering your business process and avoid unnecessary spend. Single server deployment for a lean and mean organization.

Gateway to your single server deployment

**Security **in general: Any cloud architecture should be ring fenced and also it should be security encompassing architecture in the sense that each and every resource that we deploy for the Single server architecture must have security-first architecture. Refer to “Azure Series #2: Cloud Security Roadmap” and Azure’s Security Benchmark.

1. Azure Active Directory

2. DNS

3. CDN

4. Advanced Threat Protection

5. DDoS Protection service

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