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In this blog post, we will introduce the private preview of Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS). This means that you can now replicate and failover your Azure Trusted Launch VMs to another Azure region using Azure Site Recovery. This will help you achieve business continuity and disaster recovery for your critical workloads that require enhanced security.
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In the event of an outage at one of your locations, if you wish to maintain your private connection to Microsoft, Azure’s newly announced feature, the ExpressRoute guided portal experience, might be of interest to you.
This feature, which is currently in public preview, makes it easier for you to configure multi-site resilient ExpressRoute circuits and connect them to a virtual network gateway. It also provides information such as distance between the peering-locations (sites) and traffic engineering recommendations to help you make informed configuration decisions.
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Business continuity is a vital aspect of any organization’s digital strategy, especially in the face of potential disruptions such as natural disasters, cyberattacks, or human errors. To help you achieve your business continuity goals, we are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Business Continuity (ABC) Center, a new initiative that enables you to govern, monitor, operate, and analyze protection at scale across all regions.
Azure Site Recovery is a service that helps you keep your data safe and your apps and workloads online when planned and unplanned outages occur. It allows you to replicate your Azure VMs to another region and failover to the secondary region in case of a disaster.
But what if you are using Premium SSD v2 disks for your Azure VMs? Premium SSD v2 is a new offering that provides the most advanced block storage solution for IO-intensive enterprise workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies and high IOPS and throughput at a low cost. Premium SSD v2 disks are currently available in select regions and can only be attached to zonal VMs.
Continue reading “How to enable Azure Site Recovery on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2”Azure NetApp Files is a fully managed cloud service that provides high-performance file storage for enterprise applications. It supports multiple protocols, such as NFS, SMB, and iSCSI, and integrates seamlessly with Azure Virtual Networks.
One of the features of Azure NetApp Files is the ability to create capacity pools, which are logical containers for volumes that share the same performance tier and network features. Capacity pools allow you to provision storage in advance and pay only for what you use.
Continue reading “How to save money with Azure NetApp Files 1 TiB capacity pools”Microsoft Copilot for Azure (preview) is a new AI-powered tool that can help you do more with Azure. It can answer your questions, generate queries, perform tasks, and safely act on your behalf. It can also help you discover new benefits of the cloud, gain insights into your workloads, and orchestrate across both cloud and edge.
In this post, I will show you how to use Microsoft Copilot for Azure (preview) to optimize your cloud and edge workloads. I will use an example of a web app that runs on Azure App Service and uses Azure Database for MySQL as the backend. I will also show you how to use Microsoft Copilot for Azure (preview) to connect to Azure Arc-enabled servers and devices.
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Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a service that helps you protect your applications and data from disasters by replicating them to another location. ASR can also help you migrate your workloads to Azure with minimal downtime and risk.
One of the challenges of using ASR is to keep track of the health and status of your replication and recovery operations. You may want to know if there are any issues with your replication, such as network failures, agent expiry, or configuration errors. You may also want to know if your failover or failback operations are successful or not.
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Offering exceptional performance and availability for your business applications, the fully managed cloud file storage service integrates seamlessly with Azure Virtual Networks and Active Directory. It supports both NFS and SMB protocols. This service is none other than Azure NetApp Files.
One of the challenges of using cloud file storage is managing the costs of storing large amounts of data that may not be accessed frequently. For example, you may have backup files, archive data, or historical records that you need to keep for compliance or auditing purposes, but you don’t need to access them often.
That’s why Azure NetApp Files has introduced a new feature called standard storage with cool access, which is now in public preview. This feature allows you to enable standard volumes with the ability to transparently store data more cost-effectively on Azure storage accounts based on its access pattern.
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Should you have a web application hosted on Azure App Service, it could be beneficial to back up its files and configuration data to a secure storage account for recovery in the event of accidental deletion, corruption, or other unforeseen circumstances. However, if your application is connected to a virtual network or is situated in a v3 App Service environment, you would need to employ custom backups for this purpose.
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Azure Firewall is a cloud-native network security service that protects your Azure resources and applications. It operates in a transparent proxy mode by default, which means that traffic is sent to the firewall using a user defined route (UDR) configuration. The firewall intercepts that traffic inline and passes it to the destination.
However, there is another mode that you can use for your outbound traffic: Explicit proxy. This mode allows you to configure a proxy setting on the sending application, such as a web browser, with Azure Firewall acting as the designated proxy. This way, traffic from the sending application goes to the firewall’s private IP address and egresses directly from the firewall without the need for a UDR.
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