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Continue reading →: Azure Managed Disks: Attached Doesn’t Mean Used
Managed Disks are one of the most popular places to look for Azure cost savings. They may not generate the biggest savings on their own, but they are usually easy to investigate — and in larger environments there can be quite a few of them. One of the first things…
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Continue reading →: Azure Unattached Public IP Addresses: A Small FinOps Win
Public IP addresses are easy to forget. You create one because a VM, load balancer or another service needs it. Later, the resource is removed or migrated, but the IP address is still sitting there in the subscription. One forgotten IP probably won’t make anyone worry about the Azure bill.…
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Continue reading →: Azure Inventory: The First Step to Cloud Cost Management
This article is the first one in my practical FinOps for Azure series. In the previous article, I introduced the FinOps Foundation and the idea behind FinOps: managing cloud costs isn’t simply about reducing the Azure bill. It’s about making better decisions about how we use cloud resources and making…
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Continue reading →: Fixing an Azure Arc Certificate Expiration Issue
Azure Arc uses certificates to establish a secure identity between an on-premises or multicloud server and Azure. If the certificate expires and cannot be renewed automatically, the machine enters a disconnected state and displays the following message in the Azure portal: The server certificate has expired, and automatic reconnection is…
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Continue reading →: Automating Azure Arc Agent Upgrades
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been preparing an article about FinOps and cloud cost optimization. Today, however, I’d like to take a short break from that series to share something I recently discovered while working with Azure Arc. In June, Microsoft released Azure Arc Agent 1.65. In one of…
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Continue reading →: FinOps — Why Mid-Year Is the Perfect Time to Review Your Cloud Costs
The middle of the year is a very good moment for every company to stop for a second and take a closer look at its spending. Are we still moving in the right direction? Are our costs under control? Or maybe our cloud environment has become too expensive and requires…
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Continue reading →: How to Update Azure Arc Extensions at Scale
Today, I’d like to walk you through how to efficiently update extensions on machines connected via Azure Arc. Recently, I noticed that in the two commonly used extensions — WindowsOsUpdateExtension and WindowsPatchExtension — there was a little arrow pointing up in Azure Portal . This means that newer versions are…
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Continue reading →: Updating the Azure Connected Machine Agent in Azure Arc
Last month, Microsoft released a new version of the Azure Connected Machine Agent. If you are using servers connected through Azure Arc, you might have already noticed a notification in the Azure portal indicating that a newer agent version is available. Keeping the Azure Connected Machine agent up to date…
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Continue reading →: Azure in Thailand: More Than a New Region
A new region that means more than it seems In February this year, Microsoft launched a new Azure cloud region called Thailand South. At first glance, it might look like just another dot on the global Azure map. But when you work with cloud on a daily basis, you quickly…
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Continue reading →: When Azure Arc Servers Patch Too Early: Understanding Update Manager Behavior
You’ve configured Azure Update Manager, defined maintenance windows, everything looks correct — and yet your servers onboarded to Azure Arc start patching before the scheduled window. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This is a fairly common scenario, and today I’d like to explain why it happens and how…
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