Overview Azure API Management is a fully managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs. With a few clicks in the Azure portal, you can create an API facade that acts as a “front door” through which external and internal applications can access data or business logic implemented by your custom-built backend services, running on Azure, for example on Azure App Service or Azure Kubernetes Service, or hosted outside of Azure, in a private datacenter or on-premises.

Overview Hello! Microsoft recently announced the general availability of support for Managed Service Identity(MSI) in Azure Automation account. This news has been widely appreciated from Microsoft Azure’s customers as it greatly reduces the pain of managing the Run-As-Account SP certificates, which has been the main authentication method for runbooks running in Automation accounts since the inception of the service. To make the customers adapt this more-secure method, Microsoft has now removed the option to create a Run-As-Account along with the new Automation account.

Overview Hello! In today’s post, we are going to talk about how we can implement governance and compliance for a very important resource in Azure which is Azure KeyVault. If you want to learn what is KeyVault, you can read more about it here Now, we all know storing secrets and certificates in KeyVault is considered a best practice when it comes to storing and accessing sensitive information in Azure. And in order to follow this practice, multiple teams in an organization start storing the secrets/keys in the vault without following any standards and regulations.

Hello everyone, this post is going to be of huge help for you if you are using Storage Accounts in Microsoft Azure. If you want to learn about Storage Account and how to create one, click here. Overview Storage Account is a very common service in Azure which almost every Microsoft’s Cloud customer uses. The steps to create and get started with this service are very straight forward. You create one of these accounts and you are good to go with your online, readily available data storage solution.

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.

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.