regions
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Current Azure Region Names — Reference
How do you get the name of a region to use in CLI or PowerShell for Azure coding? If you do a lot of CLI or PowerShell coding you will want to know the region names that you can reference for any region specific code you write. In this article I show you how easy…
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Using Azure Spot VM Instances – The Regional Quota Challenge
Microsoft Azure Spot VMs can represent significant savings to an organization when combined with good overall resource management practices. Today, let’s take a look at how to request an increase to your Spot VM regional limits. We will walk through how to create an Azure Support request to increase regional vCPU limits today. If you…
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Azure Readiness – Let’s Talk Network Latency
Understanding your network latency between you and your favourite Azure Region is important. It can be the difference between responsive services hosted inside Azure, and a negative user experience. Especially if you are using Azure VPN and not Express Route services. To understand what region is likely better for you to be working out of,…