Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — March 2018 Edition

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

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Azure Backup Instant VM Recovery and Large Disks

Aidan Finn discusses recent improvements that were announced for Azure Backup, making backups more efficient, large VM restores faster, and enabling support for virtual hard disks that are larger than 1TiB (1024GB).

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Stop Taking Advice From “A Person Connected To Microsoft”

One of the things that annoys me in our industry is how supposedly educated people take advice and guidance on IT from no-nothings, the barfly, or the town idiot.

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Architecting Availability Zones for Azure VMs

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Aidan Finn discusses some architectural elements that you will use if you wish to deploy services across availability zones within a single Azure region.

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Deploy Azure App Service Environment With A Public IP

Public Cloud Guide

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy the “public” version of App Service Environment (ASE), where the app services are shared through a single, simple public IP address.

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Controlling Resource Usage and Costs in Azure DevTest Labs

Aidan Finn shows you how to configure DevTest Labs to control what can be deployed by testers and developers, how much of it they can deploy, and importantly, what the cost of the service will be.

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