Introduce our new Reserved Instances (RI), a cost-effective and flexible purchasing option designed to help you build more at a lower cost. A Reserved Instance (RI) is a discounted coupon that enables…
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What is Azure Firewall
Azure Firewall its core it’s a managed, network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It functions as a stateful firewall-as-a-service and offers built-in high availability and scalability. can centrally…
Alibaba glossary and service definitions
AccessKey An AccessKey (AK) indicates an AccessKeyId and AccessKeySecret pair used in access identity verification. The OSS verifies the identity of a request sender by using the AccessKeyId/AccessKeySecret symmetric encryption method. The…
Azure — Lock Azure resources to prevent accidental deletion of resource groups
Preventing Azure Resource Deletion or Unexpected Changes using Locks Resource Manager Locks provide a way for administrators to lock down Azure resources to prevent deletion or changing of a resource. These locks…
Alibaba Auto Scaling
Introduction Auto-scaling on Alibaba Cloud is the notion of automatically provisioning and de-provisioning extra ECS instances to optimise for performance and running costs. When you experience a peak in demand and trigger…
Export Azure IaaS VM properties, including NIC IP address to CSV using PowerShell
The Script below provided to export the Azure IaaS VM properties, including NIC IP address to CSV format using Powershell. To explain this PowerShell script, it promptly works as follows: viewing the…
Security Groups
What is a security group? Security groups are logically isolated groups of instances that are located within the same region and share the same security requirements while also being mutually accessible. They…
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps provides development collaboration tools including high-performance pipelines, free private Git repositories, configurable Kanban boards, and extensive automated and continuous testing capabilities. You can access these tools through our cloud service,…
Steps to Deploy Gen2 VMs in Azure
Microsoft announced the public preview of support to deploy gen2 VMs in Azure. Gen2 VMs have been around since Windows Server 2012 R2 for on-premises Hyper-V deployments. However, there are some serious…
Preview of Microsoft Azure Bastion
Microsoft announced a new Azure service this week called Bastion which makes it significantly easier to securely and remotely connect to your non-connected VMs. The service is a new and managed PaaS offering that…