Azure Infrastructure Announcements – October 2023
October is the month of ghosts and monsters – Halloween (Samhain as we Celts originally called it). Read on to find out what ghouls and creatures crawled from under the…
01/11/2023
Azure Firewall Basic – For Small/Medium Business & “Branch”
Microsoft has just announced a lower cost SKU of Azure Firewall, Basic, that is aimed at small/medium business but could also play a role in “branch office” deployments in Microsoft Azure.
Standard & Premium
Azure Firewall launched with a Standard SKU several years ago. The Standard SKU offered a…
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