What you need for this book

To follow along with what is covered in the book, you do not need a lot of resources. You only need a Windows 8 or above/Windows Server 2008 R2 or above for most of the topics with Azure PowerShell module installed on it, a SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 to connect to Azure SQL Database, as well as a  quad-core, 8 GB memory, and 500 GB Disk VM to be used while working with Azure Site Recovery and StorSimple. Finally, some simple tools, such as AzCopy and Azure Storage Explorer would need to be downloaded.