September 24, 2021

Reserve Capacity for your Azure VMs On-demand!

Hello Everyone! It’s been a while since my last post. Today’s topic will make some Azure customers (a substantial percentage as per Microsoft) save costs for their mission-critical workloads. Microsoft has recently introduced a new service called ‘On-Demand Capacity Reservation’. Through this service, they are allowing their customers to purchase and get guaranteed capacity for their VMs throughout the interval that reservation is deployed in the subscription. This feature is still in preview, which means the SLA that they offer is not yet available.

August 27, 2021

Save Azure Storage costs by using Lifecycle Management Policies

Hello Cloud Enthusiasts! Today I will be showing you quick ways about how you can set up LMPs (Lifecycle Management Policies) for your data stored in Azure Blob Storage to save costs. What are LMPs? There could be scenarios where you are required to store a huge amount of data in an Azure Storage Account as Blobs. During the initial days, the data is accessed frequently by multiple systems. But as the data ages, its usage frequency decreases exponentially.

August 20, 2021

End-to-End Correlation using Logic Apps

Hey Everyone! In this post, I am going to quickly show you a couple of ways to implement correlation between different Logic Apps you might be using in your Integration. Why do we need Correlation? Whenever you are working on an integration scenario, you would always try to keep the services involved as decoupled. So when you have multiple services running by passing data to/from each other, you need to make sure those runs are interconnected in some way.

July 30, 2021

Monitor your SQL estate using SQL Insights in Azure Monitor

Hey everyone! I have got another super cool feature for all you Azure Architects which will help you in setting up proper monitoring and management of your entire Azure SQL infrastructure. Quick note, this feature is still in preview, but you can start playing around with this to make sure it serves the purpose. Let me give you a quick overview of it. What is it? SQL Insights is just another monitoring solution available in Azure Monitor designed specifically for SQL infrastructure on Azure.

July 9, 2021

How to use Azure KeyVault secrets while scripting in Powershell or Azure CLI?

Hello All! Usually, when we start working on a deployment script, we either go with storing the passwords/secrets in variables in plain text or we tend to provide them at runtime (comparatively more secure). We all have been there. But when we are working with a huge script with a large number of parameters, the latter becomes a pain too. So why not try to find a way in which we can keep those secrets secure as well as handy to use as many times as required.

June 25, 2021

Azure Automanage -Quicker way to implement best practices

Hello Everyone! So today we will be looking into a new Azure service known as Azure Automanage which is in preview state as of today. What is Azure Automanage? Azure Automanage is a service which helps by removing the manual effort required in configuring some best practices in terms of reliability, security and better management of your virtual machines. It takes care of all that configuration by itself. All you need to do is enable your VM for Automanage service.

June 18, 2021

Use Power Automate Desktop to start/stop Azure VMs

Hello All! I am sure you must have heard about Power Automate by now, being it a talk of the town in the Microsoft world recently. For those who haven’t, Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow, provides a Cloud-based automation platform to configure repetitive tasks as workflows and trigger them on an event basis or on a schedule. Platform already has more than 400+ pre-built connectors to allow the Citizen users to connect to various Cloud-based as well as On-premises resources.

June 11, 2021

Cloud Adoption Framework vs Well-Architected Framework

Hello! In this blog, we are going to see how CAF and WAF help organizations adopt and improve their Cloud deployments. First of all, lets see what each of these offer individually and then we will see how both can co-exist and work together. Cloud Adoption Framework As per Microsoft’s definition The Cloud Adoption Framework is a collection of documentation, implementation guidance, best practices, and tools that are proven guidance from Microsoft designed to accelerate your cloud adoption journey.

June 4, 2021

How to use Azure Advisor ?

Hey Everyone! Today I’ll be walking you through the capabilities and features available in Azure Advisor, an AI-based recommendation engine working as a self-hired cloud consultant for you to help you with personalized recommendations based on your current Infrastructure in Azure. With Advisor, you can: Get proactive, actionable, and personalized best practices recommendations. Improve the performance, security, and reliability of your resources, as you identify opportunities to reduce your overall Azure spend.

May 28, 2021

How to secure Logic Apps in Azure?

If you are new to Logic Apps, keep reading. If you have deployed such workflows before, you may skip to the next section.. What is Logic App? Logic Apps in Azure provide a cloud-based platform to design and run workflows that can span from the boundaries of your Azure infrastructure to external systems accessible via Internet and even to your On-premise applications. To give a brief introduction about the service, Logic Apps have 3 basic artifacts which are important to be understood before getting your hands dirty with this amazing service from Microsoft.