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Best practices, Management and Governance, Networking, Virtual Network

Published August 18, 2022 • 4 min read

Dive deep into NAT gateway’s SNAT port behavior

By Aimee Littleton Product Manager 2, Azure Networking

NAT gateway’s unique SNAT port allocation is beneficial to dynamic, scaling workloads connecting to several different destination endpoints over the internet. In this blog, we deep dive into the key aspects of NAT gateway’s SNAT port behavior that makes it the preferred solution for different outbound scenarios in Azure.

Best practices, Compute

Published July 5, 2022 • 3 min read

Choose the right size for your workload with NVads A10 v5 virtual machines, now generally available

By Vijay Kanchanahalli Principal Program Manager

Introducing the general availability of NVads A10 v5 GPU accelerated virtual machines, now available in US South Central, US West2, US West3, Europe West, and Europe North regions. Azure is the first public cloud to offer GPU Partitioning (GPU-P) on NVIDIA GPUs.

Best practices, Cost Management, Management and Governance, Migration, Virtual Machines

Published April 11, 2022 • 3 min read

Optimize your cloud investment with Azure Reservations

By Diana Gao Senior Product Marketing Manager

For cloud workloads with consistent resource usage, you can buy reserved instances at a significant discount and reduce your workload costs by up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go prices. Azure Reservations can be obtained by committing to one-year or three-year plans for virtual machines, Azure Blob storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, SQL Database compute capacity, Azure Cosmos DB throughput, and other Azure resources.

AI + Machine Learning, Best practices, Internet of Things

Published September 7, 2021 • 4 min read

4 ways AI, computer vision, and related technologies expand IoT solutions

By Justin Slade Director, Channel Marketing

Intel and Microsoft Azure are working together to help enterprises deploy intelligent IoT technologies and services, including AI’s deep learning abilities, computer vision, and audio or speech capabilities. Adding these capabilities enables solutions to solve more business challenges, uniting two or more—adding both computer vision and AI, for example greatly expands the potential uses for IoT solutions.

Analytics, Best practices

Published March 8, 2021 • 4 min read

Choose the landing zone for your cloud adoption journey

By Sarah Lean Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Tailwind Traders is a retail company that is looking to adopt Azure as part of its IT strategy. The IT team is familiar with deploying infrastructure on-premises and is now researching what they need to do in order to run its workloads on Azure; they have come across the Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Landing Zones guidance.

Azure Migrate, Best practices, Hybrid + Multicloud, Migration

Published February 25, 2021 • 5 min read

Demystifying cloud economics

By Jeremy Winter Vice President of Product Management

Migrating to the cloud is an evolution, and it is important to think differently about how you consume resources. As you're building a business case in your organization, it is critical to step back and understand the cloud's key constructs and transform your mindset.

API Management, Best practices, Serverless, Web

Published February 22, 2021 • 4 min read

A deep dive into serverless applications on Power Apps and Azure

By Ricardo Duncan Product Marketing Manager

In 2021, each month, we will be releasing a monthly blog covering the webinar of the month for the Low-code application development (LCAD) on Azure solution. LCAD on Azure is a new solution to demonstrate the robust development capabilities of integrating low-code Microsoft Power Apps and the Azure products you may be familiar with.

Azure Resource Manager, Best practices, Cloud Services, Compute, Management and Governance

Published January 25, 2021 • 3 min read

Build regionally resilient cloud services using the Azure Resource Manager

By Gaurav Chandwani Principal Product Manager Lead

Today, we are announcing the preview of Cloud Services (extended support), which is a new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services.

AI + Machine Learning, Azure AI Metrics Advisor, Best practices, Management and Governance

Published December 17, 2020 • 5 min read

Watch this new series to help you navigate and adopt the cloud

By Omar Khan General Manager, Azure Product Marketing

Whether you are just embarking on your cloud journey or you are looking to maximize business value out of your existing cloud investments, you may want to leverage industry best practices and and technical guidance we have compiled in Azure documentation, from working with many engineers, customers, and partners.

Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Best practices

Published October 22, 2020 • 2 min read

Quickly get started with samples in Azure Synapse Analytics

By Microsoft Azure

To further accelerate time to insight in Azure Synapse Analytics, we are introducing the Knowledge center to simplify access to pre-loaded sample data and to streamline the getting started process for data professionals.

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Choose the right size for your workload with NVads A10 v5 virtual machines, now generally available

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Choose the landing zone for your cloud adoption journey

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Watch this new series to help you navigate and adopt the cloud

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