Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets

When organizations migrate workloads to Azure, the focus is usually on architecture, performance, and security. Cost management should be part of that conversation—but in practice, it’s often treated as an afterthought. One of the most overlooked and underutilized tools in Azure is Budgets, despite the fact that it can prevent unpleasant billing surprises with minimal […]

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Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones

One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that if you do not place it into an availability zone at deployment time, you’ve traditionally had to rebuild it later.   That usually meant starting from scratch or detaching the disks, creating a new VM, and reattaching them.  Neither option is not […]

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Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones

One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that if you do not place it into an availability zone at deployment time, you’ve traditionally had to rebuild it later.   That usually meant starting from scratch or detaching the disks, creating a new VM, and reattaching them.  Neither option is not […]

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When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages

Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be.  Two well established cloud services, Cloudflare and Azure Front Door, both had simultaneous outages that caused major global havoc.    Major platforms like LinkedIn, Zoom, Canva, DoorDash, and even crypto exchanges such as Coinbase and Kraken were knocked offline due to these […]

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