Microsoft Azure infrastructure services
Introduction If you are a Cloud engineer or possess a similar technical Cloud related role, you need to ensure that you can automate your daily tasks and better manage your workload. This post serves as a compilation of a software toolkit which I regard to include the most frequently used and most useful software applications ... Read more
Introduction to Microsoft TCO calculator When planning your on-premise to Azure migration there are a lot of technical and business factors which need to be taken into account. First off, you need to assess your existing on-premises infrastructure and make decisions as to whether or not to migrate everything to Azure or keep a hybrid ... Read more
Introduction There is an increasing number of customers around the globe in need of migrating to the Cloud. Implementing a migration project can be challenging and planning/designing the proper migration approach is of paramount importance. Microsoft can offer free solution assessment consulting services to its partner organizations implementing a migration project. This article provides an ... Read more
Azure pre-migration assessment tools When designing a migration to a new Azure infrastructure (either green field project or a migration from an existing infrastructure) it is of paramount importance to plan ahead and be proactive. Planning is always almost the 60-70% percent of the work and deployment/execution is the remaining 30-40%. A solid high level ... 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
Running an Azure migration can entail many services and parameters which should taken into account. In the case of an Azure migration Proof of Concept (PoC), the Azure PoC subscription is used as an intermediary platform on which to perform an initial migration, test the proof of concept and validate functionality and then switch-over to ... Read more
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 When planning a migration of .NET apps with associated SQL databases to Azure, you generally have two options: It is important to take the time to carry out proper planning and actively engage with the software development and systems engineering teams from the very beginning, in order ... Read more
Introduction This post is part of a series of Stefanos Cloud blog posts covering Azure App Service design considerations. Part 1: In this first part of Azure App Service design considerations (https://stefanos.cloud/azure-app-service-design-considerations-part-1/) we cover all the initial design considerations for Azure App Service PaaS. Also refer to the following freely downloadable .pdf document which includes ... Read more
Azure database for MySQL zone and region disaster recovery The Azure database for MySQL instance can be scaled up and down depending on your organization requirements without downtime, as described at: . This article describes all possible failure events (except for region-level failure), which are automatically managed by the Azure database for MySQL service, without ... Read more
