What Are Azure Availability Zones?

Aidan Finn explains explains a new high-availability and service level agreement (SLA) feature of Microsoft Azure called availability zones.

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Converting Availability Set Virtual Machines to Azure Managed Disks

Aidan Finn explains the benefits of using Azure Managed Disks with availability sets.

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Restore Azure Virtual Machines to an Availability Set Using PowerShell

Learn one way to restore an Azure virtual machine from Azure Backup and join that machine to an existing availability set.

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How to Avoid an AWS-Style Outage in Azure

Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, recently had a major outage that affected almost an entire region. With that outage fresh in our memories, I thought I’d write a post on how to prevent services outages in Azure. Note that the focus of this article is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).     The AWS Outage Amazon Web Services had […]

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