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While status.azure.com shows major issues that affect all Azure customers globally, Azure Service Health provides a personalized view of service health. It displays both major and minor issues, but only those that could directly affect your subscriptions, resource groups, and resources. What Azure Service Health Shows Azure Service Health provides information across several categories: Health READ MORE

Azure Advisor is a recommendation engine that helps you optimize your existing Azure resources. It analyzes how your services are configured and used, and then suggests improvements in key areas such as cost, security, performance, reliability, and operational excellence. Areas of Recommendations Azure Advisor provides guidance in the following categories: 3. Reliability 4. Operational Excellence READ MORE

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the management layer in Azure. It acts as the go-between between the client tools you use (such as the Azure Portal, Azure CLI/PowerShell, or Azure Arc and the underlying Azure services. Benefits of Azure Resource Manager Azure Resource Manager provides consistency and control when managing resources: Azure Resource Manager (ARM) READ MORE

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning infrastructure through code instead of manual configuration. With IaC, the same model generates the same environment each and every time, reducing the chance of human error and ensuring consistent results. Azure DevOps Azure DevOps is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) collection of services that supports the READ MORE

Azure Arc extends Azure’s management and governance capabilities beyond the Azure cloud. It allows you to bring on-premises and multi-cloud resources into the Azure platform, creating a unified management experience across all environments. Unified Management With Azure Arc, you can manage resources consistently through: Some functionality is free, while advanced scenarios (like Azure data services) READ MORE

While the Azure Portal provides a graphical user interface for managing resources, there are also command-line tools for administrators and developers who prefer scripting or automation. These tools allow you to perform one-off management tasks and execute multiple commands for managing Azure services. Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI Both Azure PowerShell and the Azure Command-Line READ MORE

The Azure Portal is a graphical user interface (GUI) that provides a visual, point-and-click environment for managing Azure services. It is the most common entry point for new users, offering a convenient way to explore, configure, and monitor resources. Accessing the Portal The Azure Portal is available through any modern web browser at https://portal.azure.com. Once READ MORE

In Azure, resource locks prevent accidental changes or deletions. They are a simple but powerful governance control that helps ensure critical resources aren’t modified without intent. Where Locks Can Be Applied Locks can be applied at several different levels: Locks are inheritable, which means that if a parent scope is locked, all child resources are READ MORE

When your organization has data, it is essential that it is handled correctly. Companies not only have to comply with national laws, but also with state or regional laws and industry-specific regulations. In addition, businesses are often required to keep records of user activities for many years, while still respecting user privacy and the right READ MORE

In Azure, tags are a way for you to categorise and organise your services. They are made up of name/value pairs (for example, Department: Finance or Data Classification: Confidential). Not every Azure service supports tags, but where they are available, they can be extremely useful for: It’s important to note that tags are not automatically READ MORE