Azure Infrastructure Blog

We have come across customers who are looking for a starting point  or a guideline on assessing their on-premises storage for migration or optimizations. This document has been created as a…

Overview This blog discusses an overall approach for monitoring very commonly encountered uscases e.g. performance monitoring for CPU, disk, network, port connections, service status for hybrid VMs that are connected…

In this article, we'll briefly explore how you can effectively utilize Microsoft Azure Cloud services to comprehensively plan and orchestrate your disaster recovery strategy.   What is BCDR  BCDR stands…

This is the first blog in a series of detailed efforts and offerings addressing network disaggregation in the datacenter and how it intersects with Azure’s new Accelerated Connections offering.   Part1: …

While onboarding customers to Azure they ask what permissions do we need to assign to our IT Ops or to partners and I’ve seen customer gets confused when we ask…

Ideally, it would be convenient to manage the Prod env, Test env, and Dev env within a single Entra ID tenant. However, from the perspective of governance and compliance, it…

Today, we’re announcing Microsoft Copilot for Azure, an AI companion, that helps you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot your cloud infrastructure and services. Combining the power of cutting-edge large language…

We’re excited today to announce the general availability of Azure Boost, a system designed by Microsoft that offloads server virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto…

  Microsoft Ignite 2023 is bringing together the best of what’s next, and we are sure to see showcases of the practical implementation of AI transformation. We are dedicated to…

  Terminology Term Definition VC Virtual Client library for Azure, an open-source repository of workloads and industry benchmarks by Microsoft. Shift-Left Enabling quality evaluations of the hardware systems during early…

Introducing OCP-SAFE, a collaborative initiative to enable higher levels of security assurance.   When it comes to building the Microsoft Cloud, one of our top priorities is standardizing designs for…

Introduction   In the dynamic landscape of container orchestration and management, Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has emerged as a powerful solution for deploying and managing containerized applications. To simplify…

To implement disaster recovery and high availability for API backends we can either place traffic manager or front door services in front of APIM.   Traffic Manager is a DNS…

  If you have executed a CSP to EA Azure migration, you undoubtedly understand the potential unforeseen challenges that can arise when essential planning elements and comprehensive activities are overlooked.…

Overview Organizations nowadays have the flexibility to move from one cloud vendor to another due to a lot of factors, one of the primary being the micro services architecture. Application can…

Today we are introducing the preview of Microsoft Azure Boost, one of Azure’s latest infrastructure innovations.  Azure Boost is a new system that offloads virtualization processes traditionally performed by the…

Hello all, welcome to another featured post from the Open at Microsoft show. In the ever-evolving world of software development, Microsoft has been at the forefront of innovation, constantly introducing…

From new preview features like cold storage to expanding Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure has grown a lot in the past year—and there’s still so much more to come! Join us…

Chapter 3 << Chapter 1          << Chater 2   Traps and Avoidance 1. Pitfalls of dependency and update sequenceExample:With Hub&Spoke vNET/Subnet in place, we need to…

Chapter 2 << Chapter 1          Chater 3 >>   Bicep Development EnvironmentBicep is a language. You will need an editor to write the language and an…

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 >>     Chapter 3 >>   What is Bicep ?   Bicep is an IaC language for automating Azure infrastructure construction.-- IaC means Infrastructure as Code.…

  We are excited to share that a new episode of Inside Azure for IT is now available! In this fireside chat with Erin Chapple, CVP of Azure Core Product…

In this post, I will explain how to use custom archetypes of Azure Landing Zones and how to automate this deployment using enterprise landing zones module in terraform  Azure Landing Zones are an…

  The technical nature of cloud infrastructure involves components such as virtualization, software as a service (SaaS), storage systems, networking technologies, databases, serverless computing services, and more. As these technologies…

Analysts estimate the financial cost of downtime due to an IT outage at hundreds of thousand dollars an hour, depending on company size. Aside from monetary damage, any unexpected outage…

Your role as a network engineer is evolving as quickly as the cloud. To help you keep pace with the demands of your company’s digital infrastructure, we’re introducing a new…

    AKS Web Application Routing with Open Service Mesh   AKS product team announced a public preview of Web Application Routing this year.  One of the benefits of using…

Hi everyone, I am a senior service engineer at Microsoft, working with our S500 customers around the world. Our CxP organization focuses on Customer Success Experience and to achieve customer…

A community-driven approach to infrastructure innovation is vital – not just for continued advancements in trust, efficiency, and scalability, but in service of a larger vision of empowering the ecosystem…

One thing we've learned over the past few years is that companies are not migrating or modernizing to accelerate their digital transformation - they're doing both simultaneously. We are dedicated to…

As we emerge from pandemic trends and customers continue to accelerate their digital transformation, we see ample growth potential ahead. Cloud technology is expanding access to innovation beyond the IT…

  We are excited to share that a new episode of Inside Azure for IT is now available! In this fireside chat with Erin Chapple, CVP, Azure Core Product and…

KEDA (Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling) and identities   Currently, there are several blogs and videos about how KEDA works. The intention of this blog is to explore identities a bit more…

New to Azure or looking to broaden your knowledge?   Finding the right content is always a challenge, so we’ve gathered the essentials into a new learning resource designed especially…

  Microsoft Build will take place online from Tuesday, May 24th to Thursday, May 26th. Build will kick off with the annual keynote on Tuesday, May 24th at 8:30 AM…

Within the mining, oil and gas, utilities, and manufacturing industries you will find two distinct environments: Information Technology (IT) - this environment is the backbone of an organisation and is…

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