Designing for Certainty: How Azure Capacity Reservations Safeguard Mission‑Critical Workloads

Why capacity reservations matter now Cloud isn’t running out of metal; demand is compounding and spiky. Peaks concentrate by region, zone, and VM SKU, especially for popular CPU families, memory-optimized sizes, and anything GPU-adjacent. Seasonal events (retail peaks), regulatory cutovers, emergency response, and bursty AI pipelines all create synchronized surges.…

25/08/2025Azure Governance and Management Blog

Share:

You may be interested in

Log Analytics Agent-based Azure Management Services: Shut down starting 28 February 2025
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
Overview The legacy Log Analytics (LA) agent, which has played a critical role in transferring data logs for software and applications to Azure, was deprecated on August 31, 2024. Subsequently,…
17/02/2025
Change Tracking & Inventory: Enhanced discovery & onboarding to manage in-guest actions efficiently
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
Overview Azure Change Tracking & Inventory (CTI) service enhances auditing and governance for in-guest operations by monitoring changes and providing detailed inventory logs for servers across Azure and Arc connected…
04/04/2025
Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
We are happy to share that Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers, Azure Blobs and Azure Disks! This means that you…
17/05/2023
Azure portal January 2023 updates
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
Virtual Machines > Virtual Machine Scale Sets Virtual machine scale sets now default to Flexible orchestration mode Virtual Machines > Virtual Machine Scale Sets Force delete for Virtual Machines…
24/02/2023
Improve visibility into workload-related spend using Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
Reducing spend is more important than ever given today’s dynamic economy. Today’s businesses strive to create efficiencies that safeguard against unpredictable shifts in the economy, beat competitors, and prioritize what…
20/11/2023
Optimize your Cloud investment with new Azure Advisor Workbooks
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
Everyone is under pressure to cut costs these days. But in times of economic flux, it’s not just about cutting costs. A successful approach lies in the ability to continuously…
10/10/2023
Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
 As a Backup and Disaster Recovery Admin, one of your key roles is to obtain insights on data that spans a long time. Similar to Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery…
22/05/2024
Announcing AuthorizationResources in Azure Resource Graph
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
We are excited to announce support for Azure RBAC resources in Azure Resource Graph (ARG) via the AuthorizationResources table! You can query your Role Assignments, Role Definitions, and Classic Admins…
16/10/2023
Four Strategies for Cost-Effective Azure Monitoring and Log Analytics
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
Effective cost management in Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics is essential for controlling cloud expenditures. It involves strategic measures to reduce costs while maximizing the value derived from ingested,…
31/03/2024
Combine FinOps best practices and Microsoft tools to streamline and optimize your workloads
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
Cloud adoption is not a one-and-done endeavor, but an iterative process. Constant innovation means there are new and better cloud-based solutions available every day. That impacts your cloud workloads and…
21/03/2024
Announcing GA of Bicep templates support for Microsoft Entra ID resources
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
We're thrilled to announce that Bicep templates for Microsoft Entra ID resources is generally available from July 29th, 2025. Bicep templates bring declarative infrastructure as code (IaC) capabilities to Microsoft…
29/07/2025
Now Open Source: Simplify authoring custom machine configuration policy using the Powershell module!
Azure Governance and Management Blog,
Following the open sourcing of nxtools, we are excited to expand our suite of open-source features by making the GitHub repository of the Guest Configuration PowerShell Module publicly available! …
10/11/2023