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  • Building the Foundations of Azure DDoS Defense

    Today we start a journey into the heart of Azure’s DDoS protection capabilities—not just to check a box, but to build a resilient, observable, and defensible cloud perimeter. DDoS attacks are no longer rare anomalies.  They’re persistent, evolving threats that target everything from public-facing APIs to mission-critical web apps; and while Azure offers built-in protection,…

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  • Azure Updates – Number 85 – March 9, 2024

    Azure Updates – Number 85 – March 9, 2024

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Thank to each of you on this special 85th Anniversary Update Post!

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  • Azure Updates – Number 59 – March 11, 2023

    Azure Updates – Number 59 – March 11, 2023

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

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  • Azure Updates – Number 17 – August 14, 2021

    Azure Updates – Number 17 – August 14, 2021

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released August 14th, 2021. Have an amazing week everyone!

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  • Azure Storage – Keep Your Data inside Azure

    Azure Storage – Keep Your Data inside Azure

    Why would you want to keep data inside Azure? Don’t users need to get their files? Let’s talk about data security and data charges as part of our Azure design. When you create a file server, file share out of an Azure Storage Account, or otherwise allow users to access their data, it often can…

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  • Azure Storage – Restrict Storage Accounts to a Virtual Network

    Azure Storage – Restrict Storage Accounts to a Virtual Network

    Today, we will restrict the access to the storage account to a single virtual network to ensure that it is more secure and not accessible over the internet directly. This is something to consider when designing your Azure storage as there are specific use cases where the design should be more secure. This does not…

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  • Azure Storage – Create a Storage Account

    Azure Storage – Create a Storage Account

    Let’s take a look at how to create a storage account in Azure that you can use for storing your files. This will be the first in a series of articles that will show you how to create, secure, and then optimize usage on the Azure internal backbone for your storage account data. First, let’s…

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