Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC on October 29, 2025, Microsoft Azure began experiencing a significant outage affecting the Azure Front Door (AFD) service. This incident is resulting in latencies, timeouts, and connectivity failures across...
Azure Networking
Microsoft Azure offers a variety of networking and related virtual appliance services in the cloud. This includes Azure Virtual Network, Application Gateway, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Private Link, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Azure Front Door, and more!
Comparing Azure Front Door, Traffic Manager, and Load Balancer: Choosing the Right Tool for Global Application Delivery
Modern cloud architectures demand flexible, resilient, and scalable traffic distribution strategies. As workloads increasingly span multiple regions and hybrid environments, choosing the right load balancing service in Microsoft Azure becomes a strategic architectural...
IPv4 Address CIDR Range Reference and Calculator
As a network engineer, administrator, or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you probably have run across CIDR notation for defining IPv4 address spaces for both networks and subnets. CIDR notation is used a lot in the IT infrastructure configuration world. The following...
Microsoft Azure Regions: Interactive Map of Global Datacenters
This Microsoft Azure Regions Interactive Map shows the locations of each of the Microsoft Azure cloud regions plotted on a map. The map code is...
Major Azure Networking Outage in East US 2 Affecting VMs, App Service, and More! (January 8 – 11, 2025)
On January 8, 2025, Microsoft Azure started experiencing a significant networking outage in the East US 2 region. This outage has impacted a broad...
Retirement of AzureEdge.net DNS: Edg.io Business Closure and What You Need to Know
Microsoft has announced the retirement of Azure CDN services from the azureedge.net domain by January 15, 2025, driven by Edgio’s (formerly...
Azure Network Security Best Practices to Protect Your Cloud Infrastructure
Securing network environments in Microsoft Azure is paramount when organizations migrate their infrastructure and applications to the cloud. Azure,...
What is Azure Private Link and How to Deploy with Terraform
Azure Private Link offers several benefits, including enhanced security, simplified network architecture, and improved performance. It supports...
Deploying Hub-and-Spoke Network Topology in Microsoft Azure using Terraform
A hub-and-spoke network topology is a popular design pattern used to manage and control network traffic when deploying enterprise workloads to...
Azure Front Door: CNAME/alias record is not currently detected
When configuring a custom domain with Azure Front Door, one common issue that users may encounter is the "CNAME/alias record is not currently...
Azure CDN POP Locations: Interactive Map of Azure CDN Points of Presence
The Microsoft Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) provides secure, reliable content delivery with a broad global reach along with rich features....
What is Azure’s Special 168.63.129.16 IP Address?
In the realm of cloud computing, Azure stands as a behemoth, offering a multitude of services to cater to the diverse needs of businesses and...
Terraform: Deploy Azure ExpressRoute Circuit with VNet Gateway
Microsoft offers the ability to create a direct, private connection between Azure data centers and infrastructure located on-premises or in a...
Azure Outages with Azure Front Door and Internal Azure WAN (October 6 – 7, 2020)
It seems Microsoft is having quite a few outages lately. With last weeks Azure AD outage, Microsoft has continued to have some service disruptions...
Easy to Use VPN with OpenVPN in Azure
Security and Privacy are key in todays digital first world. Setting up a VPN with OpenVPN in Microsoft Azure offers a fairly simple method to add an...
AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Exam
The AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Administrator. Candidates should also...
Azure Bastion: VM RDP & SSH Access within Azure Portal
Recently, a new Remote Desktop (RDP) and SSH remote access service in Microsoft Azure came to my attention. In short, Azure Bastion enables the...
Fix Azure Front Door Error with Azure Web App “Always on” Configuration
Azure Front Door is a Layer 7 (or HTTP(S) layer) load balancer service and provides a number of great features for better running globally available...
May 2, 2019: Major Azure Outage Due to DNS Migration Issue
A DNS outage affected many services in Microsoft Azure between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC on May 2, 2019. The outage affected many services within...
Securing Azure Virtual Machines using Network Security Groups (NSGs)
Security! Security! This is top of mind for everyone these days and Azure has many security features. Today we are going to explore the world...
Setup SSL / TLS on Azure CDN Custom Domain
Since the beginning the Azure CDN has allowed for custom domains to be mapped so you can use your own domain name instead of the Azure CDN default...