Azure Availability Zones
One of the largest gaps that Azure has had when compared to the competition has been the lack of high-availability options. The most glaring has…
Cloud
The “Cloud” refers to a network of remote servers hosted on the internet that store, manage, and process data, rather than relying on local servers or personal computers. This technology enables users to access and utilize computing resources and services, such as storage, databases, software, and analytics, from anywhere with an internet connection. Cloud computing offers scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, allowing individuals and organizations to quickly adapt to changing needs without significant upfront investment in hardware and infrastructure. Popular cloud service providers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Deploy Docker Containers to Azure Web Apps on Linux
The PaaS (Platform as a Service) offerings within Microsoft Azure have been getting expanded out pretty impressively lately. The “extreme PaaS” that is the serverless…
NoSQL vs SQL: Demystifying NoSQL Databases
There’s a lot of talk about NoSQL being the database of the future. Let’s take a look at NoSQL vs SQL databases, and what the…
Unlocking the Cloud: How to Seamlessly Migrate On-Prem File Shares to Azure Storage
For many organizations, legacy file servers have long been the backbone of data sharing and collaboration. But as cloud adoption reaches critical mass, those old…
TLDR: Microsoft Build 2024 Keynote with Satya Nadella
During the Microsoft Build 2024 keynote, CEO Satya Nadella delivered a comprehensive overview of Microsoft’s vision and advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). Addressing a global…
Terraform + Azure Multi-Region Naming Convention across Azure Regions, Resources, and Terraform Modules
Imagine this: your application goes down in a major Azure region outage. DNS traffic shifts to the secondary region as designed. Terraform kicks off to…
Microsoft Azure gets a new Logo and a Manifesto
Out of the MANY different announcements made today is included the fact that Microsoft has created a new logo for the Microsoft Azure cloud. The…
Microsoft Says “Ditch Passwords & Keys”, Use Entra ID Authentication Instead
The era of passwords is coming to an end. In December 2024, Microsoft stated they are blocking 7,000 attacks on passwords per second. A number…
Azure Cloud Shell with Azure CLI inside Azure Portal
Here’s a short introduction to the Azure Cloud Shell; a new feature recently released into the Microsoft Azure Portal as part of the many announcements…
AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification Exam
The Microsoft Azure Security Technologies (AZ-500) certification exam tests and validates a candidates expertise at implementing security controls, and maintaining security, and identity, access and…
What is Azure Event Grid?
Azure Event Grid is a messaging service built to enable event-based architectures to be built more easily. At the basic level it’s similar to a…
Goodbye: MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA Certifications are Retiring
In the continuation of the move towards all role-based certifications, Microsoft has announced that they are officially retiring all of the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA…
Using Azure Service Bus Queues from .NET
The Azure Service Bus Queue feature offers easy to implement infrastructure for implementing brokered messaging communication. Implementing a Message Queue requires the implementation of at…
Scaling Azure Functions with Durable Functions
Serverless compute is the latest advancement in Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities in the cloud. Azure Functions is the Serverless Compute service options available…
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…
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 Functions: Copy Blob Between Azure Storage Accounts in C#
I recently worked on a project where I was required to write an Azure Function that would watch for newly stored files in Azure Blob…
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…
Python Scripting in the Azure Cloud Shell
Did you know the Azure Cloud Shell includes support for Python? You can write Python scripts, save then, upload, and run them directly within the…
What is Azure IoT Hub?
Security and reliability are 2 huge problem areas to overcome with the Internet of Things (IoT). The Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is the cloud solution…