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Azure service categories

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Azure service directory overview All Microsoft Azure service categories are browsable from the following URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/. You can also explore all features and technical details of all available Azure services at: https://portal.azure.com/#allservices. Microsoft Azure organizes available services under the following general categories: All Azure service documentation is available at Microsoft Docs at: Outside of the … Read more

Migrating .NET apps and SQL databases to Azure

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Introduction When planning a migration of .NET apps with associated SQL databases to Azure, you generally have two options: Azure IaaS with Azure VMs and VM scale sets running SQL Server or any other supported SQL DBMS (e.g. MySQL Server) Azure PaaS with Azure App Service and Azure SQL or other supported PaaS-based SQL service … Read more

Azure App Service design considerations part 2

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Azure App Service

Introduction In a previous blog post (azure app service design considerations part 1), a high-level inventory of Azure App Service design considerations was provided. In this post, we provide further design considerations which supplement the first blog post. Also refer to the following freely downloadable .pdf document which includes a series of tasks and tools … Read more

Azure database for MySQL zone and region disaster recovery

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Azure database for MySQL

Introduction The Azure database for MySQL instance can be scaled up and down depending on your organization requirements without downtime, as described at: https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/azure/mysql/concepts-high-availability. This article describes all possible failure events (except for region-level failure), which are automatically managed by the Azure database for MySQL service, without admin intervention. Azure database for MySQL offers zone-level … Read more

Azure Front Door design considerations

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Azure Front Door

Introduction As discussed in a previous blog post regarding Azure load balancing service options, Azure Front Door (AFD) is one of the many available load balancing options in Azure, the alternative options being the following: Azure Traffic Manager Azure Application Gateway which can be combined with Web Application Firewall Azure Load Balancer Azure Front Door … Read more

Azure App Service zone and region disaster recovery

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Azure App Service

Introduction When running a single instance of an Azure App Service, you . You need at least two instances of the Azure App service to be covered for Azure zone-level disasters, since each instance will be running in a different zone. You are however covered in cases of Azure region disaster by utilizing Web App … Read more

Google Cloud Platform federation options in Azure Active Directory

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Introduction You may come across an implementation scenario in which you will need to utilize the customer’s Google Cloud Platform (GCP) directory as an Identity Provider when consuming Azure services. This contradicts to the default case in which Azure AD is both an Identity Provider (IDP) and a Service Provider (SP), i.e. both the Authentication/Authorization/Accounting … Read more

Azure SLA for Virtual Machines and App Service

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Service Level Agreements

Introduction While monitoring monthly Azure costs and Azure resource performance, administrators often face questions about Azure resource availability. Service Level Agreements are formal agreements between Microsoft and it customers. These agreements dictate the availability levels of each Azure service. Two of the most common Azure services are Virtual Machines (IaaS) and Azure App Service (PaaS). … Read more

Azure Container Registry and the Open Container Initiative

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Open Container Initiative

The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is a lightweight, open governance structure (project), backed by the Linux Foundation, for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtime. The OCI was launched on June 22nd 2015 by Docker, CoreOS and other leaders in the container industry. The OCI currently contains two specifications: … Read more

Azure Summit 2021

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Azure Summit 2021 overview Microsoft Azure Summit will be run in the time frame of 13th-23rd September 2021 and will be an online event. A significant number of speakers from all walks of IT infrastructure, devops and software development will be participating. A list of all Azure Summit speakers can be found at: https://azuresummit.live/#Speakers. Speakers … Read more