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How to Optimize Azure Storage Costs: A Comprehensive Guide

admin — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:57:12 +0000

In today’s data-driven landscape, efficient storage management is crucial for businesses leveraging cloud services like Microsoft Azure. While Azure offers robust and scalable storage solutions, costs can escalate if not managed properly. This guide provides actionable strategies to help you optimize your Azure storage costs without compromising on performance or reliability.

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Azure Reservations vs. Azure Savings Plan for Compute: Which Option Is Right for Your Business?

admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:37:19 +0000

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, managing costs efficiently is paramount for businesses leveraging Microsoft Azure. Two prominent options for cost optimization in Azure are Azure Reservations and the Azure Savings Plan for Compute. Both offer substantial discounts over pay-as-you-go pricing but differ in terms of flexibility, scope, and ideal use cases. This blog post delves into…

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3 Key Benefits of Managing Your Cloud Provider SLAs

admin — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:30:10 +0000

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations of all sizes rely heavily on cloud services to drive their operations. With this increasing dependency comes the need to ensure that the cloud services you’re paying for deliver as promised. This is where managing your cloud provider’s Service Level Agreements (SLAs) becomes critical. Let’s explore three key benefits of managing your…

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Does the Azure SLA always apply?

admin — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:40:41 +0000

Microsoft Azure has a financially backed Service Level Agreement (SLA) where they return some of the monthly spend if they do not meet what they promises (for example a certain uptime percentage). This is good, but there are certain circumstances when the SLA does not apply. This blog post will explore when the SLA does not apply and then offer up a simplified version of the exclusions.

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Azure SQL Database reservations

admin — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:36:57 +0000

What is Azure SQL Database? Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine provided by Microsoft Azure. It handles most of the database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user involvement. Azure SQL Database is always running on the latest stable version of the SQL Server and enables users to process…

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Azure App Service reservations

admin — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:37:39 +0000

What is Azure App Service? Azure App Service is a fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft that allows developers to host web applications, REST APIs, and mobile backends. It supports multiple programming languages and frameworks such as .NET, .NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Python. Azure App Service provides a fully managed environment where the…

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Azure Cosmos DB reservations

admin — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:05:46 +0000

What is Azure Cosmos DB? Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that is schema-agnostic and horizontally scalable. Cosmos DB provides several benefits such as global distribution, low latency, high throughput and reliability. It supports several APIs including MongoDB, Cassandra, SQL, Gremlin, PostgreSQL and Azure Table Storage.

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Azure Synapse Analytics Pre-purchase plan

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:23:09 +0000

What is Azure Synapse Analytics? Azure Synapse Analytics is an analytics service that integrates data, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. It allows users to ingest, transform, and consume data at scale. Let’s have a look at the available discounts! The only available term is One Year and there are currently six available Discount tiers of different…

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JBoss EAP Integrated Support reservation

admin — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 14:17:27 +0000

What is JBoss EAP? JBoss EAP (Enterprise Application Platform) is a fully managed JBoss EAP platform that runs on Azure App Service and is supported by Red Hat. JBoss EAP is an enterprise application platform that supports Java EE and web services standards. JBoss EAP is available on the Linux variants of Premium v3 and Isolated v2 App Service plans. Note that this reservation…

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Azure VMware Solution reservations

admin — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:48:59 +0000

What is Azure VMware Solution? Azure VMware Solution is a first-party Azure service that allows you to migrate and run vSphere workloads natively on Microsoft Azure. It provides a unified VMware Software-Defined Data Center in the Azure cloud. The solution is fully supported by Microsoft and VMware. A popular use case is to use the service as a rapidly scalable disaster…

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