Introduction The current post presents an overview of the Azure compute services, as of late March 2022. Given the dynamic nature of public clouds, this list will most likely change soon in the near future but nevertheless acts as a general point of reference when discussing Azure compute services. You find an overview of all … Read more
Overview Some of TLS protocols (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) as well as ciphers suites (3DES – TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA) are gradually being deprecated from all software systems (client and server). This undoubtably affects Azure services as well. If there is a mismatch in the TLS configuration among the components of your Azure solution, you may encounter … Read more
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
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
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
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
Part 2: Check a more recent blog post (Azure App Service Design Considerations Part 2) for additional design considerations which supplement this post. Also refer to the following freely downloadable .pdf document which includes a series of tasks and tools to plan for when designing an application migration to the Azure App Service PaaS offering: … Read more
