Tag Archives: Azure

Key points about Azure Spot VMs and its eviction.

At a technical level, spot VMs are the same as regular VMs. They use the same images, hardware, and disks that translate to the same performance. The difference between spot and regular VMs comes down to priority and availability. Spot … Continue reading

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Azure tag Policies Issues and fixes

Tags in Azure Resource Manager are key/value pairs you apply to subscriptions, resource groups, and resources (not management groups) for things like cost tracking, environment classification, owner identification Special Characters are not supported in tag names for few Azure resources … Continue reading

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Azure Policy “Encryption at Host”

In this blog we can see the steps to enable the Encryption at host for VMs and AKS nodes. The policy targets the resource types Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines and Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets, with the field securityProfile.encryptionAtHost For New VM Check the status of the … Continue reading

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Azure Private Resolver solution

We have a requirement to make sure all the Azure VMs are resolving to our company.com which is our primary DNS domain for on-perm services and also VMs running Azure and from on-perm should resolve azure services like Storage,AKS. Reference: … Continue reading

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How to identify the incoming connection of Azure storage blob container.

To check and identify which IP is hitting the Azure blob container, we need to enable the logs under Diagnostic settings – Log Analytics workspace – Enable Audit logs \ all logs Run this query which will show from which … Continue reading

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Failed to save DNS zone group.

We were facing an issue with running an operation from your Azure Storage Account to create a private DNS zone for a specific private endpoint connection across our DNS subscription. From the logs, we can see an error when trying … Continue reading

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Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Storage Analytics to Event Hub.

{ “properties”: { “displayName”: “Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Storage Analytics to Event Hub”, “policyType”: “Custom”, “mode”: “Indexed”, “metadata”: { “createdBy”: “9e1a4c2c-4a14-468c-bad0-0ed38afbb990”, “createdOn”: “2023-01-17T02:48:32.7901427Z”, “updatedBy”: null, “updatedOn”: null, “category”: “Storage” }, “parameters”: { “eventHubRuleId”: { “type”: “String”, “metadata”: { “displayName”: “Event … Continue reading

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Azure AZCopy architecture design

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Useful tips to find the resource types under the azure policy.

In our organization, we have restrictions to use all the services in azure and have to work with the different teams to enable the resource types in policy for the resources. Recently I was working to add the non-azure VM … Continue reading

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