Spin up Azure HDInsight clusters on demand This is my Global AI Bootcamp, Athens 2019 Presentation with title: Spin up HDInsight clusters on demand for ETL, IoT, Data Science & Machine Learning At my presentation I explained with a hands-on demo, how to use Azure Data Factory to spin up on-demand Azure HDInsight clusters to

At the previous post we created an Azure Front Door to scale our web apps across Azure Regions and also publish them only through the Front Door’s URL. At this post we will create Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules, to protect our web apps. To add WAF functionality to the Front Door we need first

Securely scale your Web Apps with Azure Front Door There is a big buzz out there about Azure Front Door.  Is it a Load Balancer? A CDN? A Traffic Manager? A Web Application Firewall ? A Reverse Proxy? An Application Gateway? So, what is Azure Front Door? Azure Front Door actually is all the above

Azure Portal | Playing with Disk Snapshot Disk Snapshot is a powerful tool to manage Azure VMs. It’s simple to create and can help the administrators in various tasks. It’s a fast and efficient way to have a crash-consistent Disk of a Virtual Machine, before performing tasks, updates, configuration changes, application installations, etc. Of course

Happy Friday! My blog post is featured at this week’s Friday Five! Check out this week’s Friday Five section of the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog! My blog post about using SendGrid for free SMTP relay from Azure is featured !!! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-MVP-Award-Program-Blog/Friday-Five-Azure-free-SMTP-relay-using-Sendgrid-Power-Platform/ba-p/894274 The post Happy Friday! My blog post featured at this week’s Friday Five!

Azure Security Center Remediate security recommendations in 1 click Azure Security Center provides unified security management and advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads. Using advanced analytics, it helps you detect potentially malicious activity across your hybrid cloud workloads, and recommends potential remediation steps, which you can then evaluate, and take the necessary action. One

Azure Private Link | Private connection to Azure PaaS   Azure Private Link is a new service, currently in Preview, that provides private connectivity from a virtual network or an on-premises network with Site-2-Site VPN to Azure platform as a service (PaaS) Microsoft services. Azure Private Link makes the networking a lot more simple improving

ExpressRoute is a Microsoft Azure service that provides a private connection between an organization’s on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365. Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute was general available back on 2014. To connect to Azure ExpressRoute you need a direct line with an ExpressRoute provider. Now Microsoft announced

Azure Policy | Enforce tags for resource creation Azure Governance After the previous post about how to use Azure Policy to limit the Azure VM sizes, I continue the series of posts about Azure Governance with a video guide on how to enforce tags for resource creation. The idea is to explain through examples and

Σήμερα δημοσιεύτηκε η συνέντευξή μου με τίτλο “Το Azure εξελίσσεται” στο NetFax τεύχος #4230,  όπου συζητάω για τις τάσεις που θα μας απασχολήσουν στο Microsoft Azure & το Cloud!  Ευχαριστώ όλη την ομάδα που συνέβαλε για αυτήν την συνέντευξη & φυσικά Read more @netfax The post Το Azure εξελίσσεται & οι τάσεις που θα μας

Govern your Azure environment It was a day full of Microsoft Azure and technology, from both IT Pro & Dev perspective. A sunny day at Athens, with a lot of fun. For sure we had a great time! You can download my Athens Azure Bootcamp 2019 presentation, Govern your Azure environment, from this link: https://papostolidisgr-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/pantelis_e-apostolidis_gr/EUS8pnejNdNEhrm0GVe4qaYBkFH2s_ZZKqGh9AaDY0NTFw?e=nQaNSD

Azure Bastion – Jump Server as a Service Azure Bastion is a new Azure Platform (PaaS) service, at this time is still in Preview, that allows to have RDP and SSH access to Virtual Machines inside a Virtual Network directly from the Azure Portal. This eliminates the need to expose the Virtual Machines RDP and