Azure Cloud Hardware is Made of Containers
At the heart of the Microsoft Cloud are servers, networks, Internet connections, and much, much more! These data centers share a lot of qualities with…
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage, and networking. Azure enables businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centers. With support for various programming languages, tools, and frameworks, Azure provides solutions for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Known for its strong integration with Microsoft products and services, Azure is designed to provide secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for enterprises of all sizes.
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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 range…
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…
Azure Marketplace: pfSense – gateway, firewall, vpn
There are many 3rd party VM appliance images available within the Azure Marketplace. Many of them offer Router, Firewall, and VPN solutions. One such solution is…
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 Azure…
Using Chocolatey with Azure VMs
Automate Everything. That’s my new mantra, and it should be yours… Like many of you, I’m an infrastructure guy and grew up with the crutches…
Top 10 Web Application Security Risks in Microsoft Azure and Ways to Mitigate Them
In today’s digital landscape, web application security is paramount. As businesses increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, the importance of safeguarding web applications hosted…
Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool v2.0
The Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool is a command-line tool that provides data import and export capabilities for using with Azure Cosmos DB.…
AI-100 Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution Certification Exam (RETIRED)
The AI-100 Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution certification exam tests and validates your expertise using the various services within the Microsoft Azure Artificial…
Terraform: Deploy Azure Function App with Consumption Plan
HashiCorp Terraform is great for deploying any Microsoft Azure resource, and the same applies to deploying serverless compute with Azure Function Apps in the Microsoft…
Windows Server running on ARM CPUs, Azure is Next!
So far the servers within Microsoft Azure data centers have been running Intel processors (CPUs). For a long time I’ve wondered if the power efficiency…
Happy 7th Birthday Microsoft Azure! (2017)
February 1, 2017 marks the 7th anniversary of when Microsoft turned on billing for the new Microsoft Azure service. Happy birthday Azure! Initially the service…
Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum Released
Microsoft has been investing a lot into the development of Blockchain based technology. Azure Blockchain is the cloud offering that’s part of making Enterprise Blockchain…
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 colocation with Azure ExpressRoute.…
Lambda Architecture for IoT and Big Data Systems
Lambda Architecture is a data processing design pattern designed for Big Data systems that need to process data in near real-time. This pattern works very…
Azure Portal goes Native on iOS and Android
Since the beginning of Microsoft Azure with the initial General Availability in February 2010, then Azure Portal has always been a Web Application. It’s gone…
How to Compare Azure VM Pricing Across Azure Regions
At first glance, Virtual Machine pricing in Microsoft Azure seems fairly straight forward. However, the different VM pricing tiers actually do vary in price from…
Microsoft Azure Space – Innovation on Earth and Beyond
Microsoft is advancing cloud datacenters where no cloud datacenter has gone before; into Space! They have brought together a team of renowned space industry veterans…
Receive Azure Subscription Invoice Statements via Email
Sometimes the little features added to software and services can really go a long way. Recently, Microsoft added a new Generally Available feature to Microsoft…
Azure Stack Capacity Planner Excel Spreadsheet
The Microsoft Azure Stack documentation team has released a new Azure Stack Capacity Planner. This planner is intended to help assist in the pre-purchase planning…