Implementation of a specific application on platform Microsoft Azure

The main focus of this bachelor’s thesis is cloud computing. Throughout this thesis are firstly introduced and described basic concepts and principles of cloud computing, its advantages compared to traditional on-premises infrastructure, and secondly presented two main cloud computing vendors, Microsoft and Amazon. Amongst methods used in the theoretical part of the thesis are analysis, synthesis and comparation. The goal of said part is to introduce readers to the basic principles of cloud computing and to disprove some of the rumors regarding clouds, specifically regarding the level of its security and operational costs. The practical part of the thesis contains an application assignment including transformation of abstract requirements into the reality of cloud computing. This part consists of an application assignment, selection of suitable components, initial design, implementation and load testing of the implemented application. In order to accomplish the main goal of this part, successful implementation of the said application, it is first necessary to fulfill partial goals which include analysis and selection of suitable components, cost minimalization while maximizing performance, and passing load tests. The outcome of this thesis is a fully functional proof of concept application which demonstrates using a combination of diverse components and their connections. Metrics available in the Azure portal enable us to see results of the overall solution. This thesis is an example of a specific application implementation and serves as evidence that it is possible to create a powerful application in cloud even without high operational costs.