Microsoft Azure infrastructure services
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 Front Door allows for a truly global service which includes Web Application Firewall (WAF), Content Delivery Network (CDN) and ... Read more
Introduction This article provides a high-level description of Azure App Service zone and region disaster recovery options. When running a single instance of an Azure App Service, you are at risk of downtime if your service goes down for any reason. You need at least two instances of the Azure App service to be covered ... Read more
Introduction This article provides a high-level overview of services for hosting SQL Server workloads in the Azure Cloud. Microsoft Azure offers a handful of cloud services for hosting your SQL as well as NoSQL databases and in-memory databases. The supported SQL databases are SQL Server, Oracle database, MySQL, PostGreSQL and MariaDB. Hosting SQL databses in ... Read more
Introduction This article describes at high-level the Google Cloud Platform federation options in Azure Active Directory. You may come across an implementation scenario in which you will need to utilize the customer's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) directory as an Identity Provider when consuming Azure services. This contradicts to the default case in which Azure AD ... Read more
Microsoft Azure free training resources This article provides a compilation of Microsoft Azure free training resources: A few more important notes to keep in mind around free Azure training and resources:
Every Azure service has a set of physical limitations by design. When planning and designing Microsoft Azure-based solutions, these Azure service physical limits should always be taken into account. This article items to consider around Azure service limits and known issues. More specifically, Azure has a number of subscription and service limits as well as ... Read more
What are Azure reservations? Azure Reservations help you achieve Azure cost optimization by committing to one-year or three-year plans for multiple products. Committing allows you to get a discount on the resources you use. Reservations can significantly reduce your resource costs by up to 72% from pay-as-you-go prices. Reservations provide a billing discount and don't ... Read more
This post is part of a series of Stefanos Cloud blog posts covering Azure App Service design considerations. Part 2: Check the second 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 ... Read more
Azure provides a suite of fully managed load-balancing solutions for your scenarios. Combine this article with my separate articles on Azure migration and Azure App Service design considerations. Azure Front Door Azure Front Door (AFD) works at Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS layer) using anycast protocol with split TCP and Microsoft's global network to improve global connectivity. ... Read more
This post discusses Cloud migration options for software applications. The post is also available in my podcast. You should combine the review of this article with the following related articles: Introduction It is a common theme in various Cloud migration projects to migrate a number of on-premise apps to a public or hybrid cloud infrastructure. ... Read more
