Azure Case Study - PrecisionCare

Azure Scenario for PrecisionCare - Medical Provider of Precision Medicine

Scenario Overview: PrecisionCare, a leading provider of precision medicine, operates a research and healthcare division that focuses on personalized treatment plans for patients. PrecisionCare has a headquarters in London and manages a cloud infrastructure to store and process vast amounts of patient data and research information.

Existing Environment

Technical Environment: The on-premises network includes two Active Directory forests named corp.precisioncare.com and rd.precisioncare.com. The corp.precisioncare.com forest supports internal user authentication, while rd.precisioncare.com is dedicated to the R&D department and restricted to on-premises resources only.

An existing application, MedApp1, is hosted in the London office’s data center. It supports patient appointment scheduling, personalized treatment plans, and data analytics. MedApp1 is hosted on virtual machines using Hyper-V with a web tier running on IIS and a database tier using SQL Server 2016.

Requirements: Planned Changes

PrecisionCare plans to migrate the production and testing environments of MedApp1 to Azure. As part of this move, PrecisionCare is developing a hybrid identity model to support an upcoming Microsoft 365 deployment.

Technical Requirements

MedApp1 should remain available during peak usage with minimal resource waste during low-demand periods.
Authentication must use the corp.precisioncare.com UPN identity.
Database backups must be retained for at least seven years to meet compliance requirements.
Existing on-premises SQL Server licenses should be leveraged to reduce costs.
Azure deployments should be redundant across regions.

Scenario Task: Database Strategy for MedApp1

Please choose the appropriate database strategy to meet these requirements.