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🔥 How to Stop Burning Cash on Azure Network Traffic

Structure of this Article Introduction to network cost optimization in Azure Cost Management in Azure can be a straight forward topic. Assume a resource has a fixed cost billed per instance, along with a dynamic cost component that depends on usage. When it comes to network costs the situation gets confusing. Nearly all Azure operations include data transfer over the network, but not all traffic incurs charges. But, when you skim the documentation for this topic you will mostly read

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azure virtualWan VPN optimization for bandwidth

Pushing VPN Performance Limits in Azure virtualWan

Structure of this article Introduction Virtual WAN is a networking service that brings a lot of functionalities like  routing and  security together. It offers full managed mesh connectivity and various connectivity options. Anyone planning site-to-site VPN connections in Azure VWAN is probably aware of the ~1 GBit/s bandwidth limit per tunnel. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/includes/virtual-wan-limits.md This article shows a way to push the vpn perfomance by aggregating multiple tunnels (up to 8) to one interface in a Virtual WAN setup. Concept: Link aggregation

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Azur Log Analytics Search Jobs

Azure Log Analytics Search Jobs

Introduction – What are Log Analytic Search Jobs ? Azure log analytics search jobs enable you to query log analytics data across long timespans and across huge datasets. It includes the logs available for interactive querying as well as those in retention. Usefulness of search jobs  – examples: Audit & Compliance Logs -> Compliance checks over several months. Search for user activities, privileged identity management logs or Azure policy violations over long periods of time Security & Incident Investigation -> analyze

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Infrastruktur in der Azure Cloud

News: Website relaunch!

I’m happy to share that my website has undergone a modest redesgin! Launched in 2019, the site now is based on wordpress elementor site builder with updated plugins. The hosting is now managed, as I simply didn’t have enough time to keep the cloud server up to date There will now be regular blog posts on topics such as cloud computing, network and technology in general. Stay tuned for regular updates and feel free to share your thoughts or topics

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🔥 How to Stop Burning Cash on Azure Network Traffic

Structure of this Article Introduction to network cost optimization in Azure Cost Management in Azure can be a straight forward topic. Assume a resource has a fixed cost billed per instance, along with a dynamic cost component that depends on usage. When it comes to network costs the situation gets confusing. Nearly all Azure operations include data transfer over the network, but not all traffic incurs charges. But, when you skim the documentation for this topic you will mostly read

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azure virtualWan VPN optimization for bandwidth

Pushing VPN Performance Limits in Azure virtualWan

Structure of this article Introduction Virtual WAN is a networking service that brings a lot of functionalities like  routing and  security together. It offers full managed mesh connectivity and various connectivity options. Anyone planning site-to-site VPN connections in Azure VWAN is probably aware of the ~1 GBit/s bandwidth limit per tunnel. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/includes/virtual-wan-limits.md This article shows a way to push the vpn perfomance by aggregating multiple tunnels (up to 8) to one interface in a Virtual WAN setup. Concept: Link aggregation

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Azur Log Analytics Search Jobs

Azure Log Analytics Search Jobs

Introduction – What are Log Analytic Search Jobs ? Azure log analytics search jobs enable you to query log analytics data across long timespans and across huge datasets. It includes the logs available for interactive querying as well as those in retention. Usefulness of search jobs  – examples: Audit & Compliance Logs -> Compliance checks over several months. Search for user activities, privileged identity management logs or Azure policy violations over long periods of time Security & Incident Investigation -> analyze

Read More »
Infrastruktur in der Azure Cloud

News: Website relaunch!

I’m happy to share that my website has undergone a modest redesgin! Launched in 2019, the site now is based on wordpress elementor site builder with updated plugins. The hosting is now managed, as I simply didn’t have enough time to keep the cloud server up to date There will now be regular blog posts on topics such as cloud computing, network and technology in general. Stay tuned for regular updates and feel free to share your thoughts or topics

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