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Azure Landing Zone – Networking Overview

In this blog post, we will be going through the networking overview of the Azure Landing Zone. key design considerations and recommendations surrounding network typologies in Microsoft Azure. Design Element : Below are the design consideration for Azure networking and connectivity. Planning for IP Addressing Configure DNS Define an Azure Networking Topology Connectivity to Azure Connectivity to other cloud providers Planning for IP Addressing IP address planning is a vital first step when designing a network in Azure especially if you have a hybrid environment to avoid overlapping IP address space across on-premises environment and Azure. Design Considerations: Azure reserves 5 IP address with each subnet so factor in the address space when sizing the virtual networks. Some Azure service such as Application Gateway – WAF, Azure Firewall, Azure Bastion and VPN Gateway require dedicated subnets. You can delegate subnets to some Azure service that can be injected into the virtual network.
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Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public

 Azure service updates > Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/asr-policy-preview/ Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.    I hope this has been informative and thank you for reading!
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Machine Learning in Azure

Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. It's a branch of Artificial Intelligence based on the idea that systems can learn from data, identify patterns and make decisions with minimal human interaction. This series of articles intend to elaborate the usage of Azure Machine learning and usage of different machine learning tools in Azure ML studio. This is the first post and it walks you through the introduction to the Azure ML studio and how to upload data to the tool. Two most widely adopted machine learning methods are,  Supervised learning: algorithms are trained using labeled examples, such as    an input where the desired output is known Unsupervised learning: is used against data that has no historical labels. The System is not told the "right answer." The algorithm must figure out what is being shown.   Differences between data mining, machine learning and deep learning  Data mining is about to identify previously unkno
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Microsoft Ignite 2020 for Azure Cloud

  Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals hosted by Microsoft. It has taken place in several locations around the world. Here are the news that I consider the most relevant for Azure cloud. Azure AI Azure Cognitive Search, Private Endpoint Indexers can now connect to data sources behind a VNET. Azure Cognitive Services is introducing a series of new capabilities — spanning Decision, Vision and Speech. Azure Machine Learning now offers new capabilities, the Designer capability provides drag-and-drop modules for numerous tasks Bot Framework Composer— Now makes it easier to build skills for use within the Virtual Assistant Solution Accelerator with a visual bot development tool. Azure Data Azure Cosmos DB now offers a serverless option for database operations Flexible Server, a new deployment option now in preview for Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL. Azure SQL Edge, which brings the most secure Microsoft SQL data engine to In
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Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework

The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is a collection of documentation, technical guidance, best practices, and tools that aid in aligning business, organizational readiness, and technology strategies. This alignment enables a clear and actionable journey to the cloud that rapidly delivers on the desired business outcomes. The Cloud Adoption Framework contains detailed information to cover an end-to-end cloud adoption journey. It begins with setting the business strategy, which should align to actionable technology projects that deliver on the desired business outcomes. It then describes how the organization must: Prepare its people with technical readiness. Adjust processes to drive business and technology changes. Enable business outcomes through the implementation of the defined technology plan. Define strategy Organizations adopt the cloud to help drive business transformation, such as processes and product improvement, market growth, and increased profitability. Let’s look at the
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Azure Traffic Manager (ATM)

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions while providing high availability and responsiveness. The traffic manager service is used to direct client requests to the most appropriate service endpoint that is based on a traffic routing method and health of the endpoint. The different traffic routing methods available for the Azure Traffic Manager below Priority: Route traffic to another endpoint in case the primary falls. Weighted: Route traffic to the different endpoints based on weight. Performance: You want the end-users to use the "closest" endpoint in terms of the lowest network latency. Geographic: Users would be directed to the endpoint based on their geographic location. Subnet: This maps the set of end-users IP address ranges to a specific endpoint within a traffic manager profile. I hope this has been informative and thank you for reading!
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Benefits and usage of Core Azure Architectural Components

Azure core benefits and usage of Azure Architectural Components. Azure Regions provide customer flexibility to bring application closer to the user by allowing them to choose regions closer to them as per the geographical location. Azure provides Region pairs for disaster recovery if there is any natural calamities or any one data center is down due to any technical reason, Azure Availability zone provides you a guaranteed SLA of 99.9%. The availability zone helps to recover from data center level failure. Availability Sets allows you to achieve 99.95% SLA. Availability Sets keeps application online during maintenance or hardware failure with the help of the fault domain and update domain. Azure Resource Group helps you to organize your resources. This helps to delete all the resources in one shot by deleting the resource group. Azure Resource Manager helps to create, configure, manage, delete and control access to the resource groups and all the resources under it. It provides a consi
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