Azure Storage Client Library Retry Policy Recommendations
Guidance on choosing Azure Storage Client Library retry policy settings.
Best practices
Explore the core principles and methodologies that drive success on Azure with our curated Best Practices content. It’s the blueprint for building and maintaining solutions that are not only robust and secure but also efficient and forward-thinking.
Internal Load Balancing
We are very excited to announce the support for ‘Internal Load Balancing’ (ILB) in Azure.
Reserved IP addresses for Cloud Services & Virtual Machines
This Blog Post walks through the Reserved IP Feature exerpience with Cloud Services & Virtual Machines.
Virtual Machines Best Practices: Single VMs, Temporary Storage and Uploaded Disks
Hello Everyone, I am Drew McDaniel from the Microsoft Azure team working on the Virtual Machines feature and have been working on it since the beginning.
Basic Tier Virtual Machines
With our latest Microsoft Azure release, we introduced a brand new tier of Virtual Machine sizes called “Basic”.
Azure Websites and wildcard domains
This post was written by Michael Candido, Software Development Engineer on the Azure Web Sites Team Some web applications have a need to use multiple subdomains and certain situation also require…
Custom Data and Cloud-Init on Microsoft Azure
What is Custom Data? Customers often ask how they can inject a script or other metadata into a Microsoft Azure virtual machine at provision time.
VM Image
Drum roll, please. With our most recent Microsoft Azure Runtime release, we are happy to announce the successor to OS Images, the new VM Image entity.
Network Isolation Options for Machines in Windows Azure Virtual Networks
Recently we published a Windows Network Security Whitepaper (download from here) that gives insights on how customers can take advantage of the platform’s native features to best protect their…
Windows Azure Websites online tools you should know about
If you like getting up-close and personal with managing your computing resources, you’ll be happy to know that your Windows Azure Website comes with some useful online tools that let you do some…
Auto-Healing Windows Azure Web Sites
How many times have you been woken up in the middle of a night for an issue that was simply resolved by restarting your web site?
Securing your Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) with HTTPS and SSL
With the rapid increase in identity theft and various forms of cybercrime, security your website with Secure Socket Layer, or SSL for short has become more important and more common.