Today Microsoft Azure becomes 9 years old. Azure released on February 1, 2010, as “Windows Azure” before being renamed “Microsoft Azure” on March 25, 2014 Some major dates of Azure until now: October 2008 (PDC LA) – Announced the Windows Azure Platform March 2009 – Announced SQL Azure Relational Database November 2009 – Updated Windows

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a function of the Azure Application Gateway that detects and prevents exploits and attacks to a web application. Using a WAF we add an additional security layer in front of our application. To have a sneak peak at the most common web application attacks, take a look at the

At this post, we will create a Logic App that will query the Log Analytics workspace for the WAF logs of the last 24 hours and send the results in an email, using a free SendGrid account. A Web Application Firewall protects your application from common web vulnerabilities. Azure provides enterprise grade Web Application Firewall

Azure offers free smtp relay using the SendGrid application. SendGrid is a cloud service that provides email delivery and marketing campaigns. The specific offer is for up to 25.000 emails per month. Also this offers provides full reporting and analytics and 24/7 support. At this post we will see how to create a SendGrid free

Working as a Cloud Consultant, Administrator, Architect, many companies will provide you guest (Azure AD B2B) access to their subscription. After completing the Admins of the subscriptions, many times, forget to remove this accesses and as a result you still have access to resources with no reason and also the list of your available subscriptions

At the 15# Azurehads meetup we talked about how to integrate our data using Azure Data Factory and from the Azure Data Factory to call an Azure HDInsights cluster that will be created on-demand. After the process ends, the HDInsights cluster will be automatically deleted. Also we saw how we can copy and transform data

Today Microsoft Azure announced the Simplified restore experience for Azure virtual machines https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/simplified-restore-of-azure-vms/ Now we can restore an Azure VM directly with managed disks with a truly single-click operation. In addition, we can restore only the unmanaged disks to a storage account and the process will create a template for us to create the VM  on a

Create an Ultra High Available on-prem <-> Azure VPN Connection At this post we will see how to make a high available connection between our on-premises network and Azure. This way we will have an Active-Active Dual-Redundancy VPN Connection. The idea behind this is that we have a router/firewall cluster,connected with two ISPs and we want

Save money following the Azure Advisor Recommendations Microsoft Azure has a very helpful service, called Azure Advisor. Think it like your personal advices on Azure services. Azure Advisor has many advices and recommendations about operations, availability, performance, security and cost. Following the Cost section of the Azure Advisor one can save a lot of money.

Have you tried the improved filtering and sorting Azure Portal Experience? Just “Try preview” Once you enable the Preview the new left sidebar will appear with all the sorting and filtering options. A very improved user experience. Check all the Octomber Azure Portal Updates at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-portal-october-update/ The post Have you tried the improved filtering and sorting

Serverless Computing | Check your expired public certificates Check for expired public certificates serverless, using an Azure Function App. Magically run the required PowerShell script directly at the Portal without deploying VMs or App Services. At this post I combine Azure Function Apps, with a PowerShell script to check the certificate expirations and the Send-MailMessage

Azure Storage Advanced Thread Protection Azure Storage Advanced Threat Protection is a new security feature, currently in Preview. It monitors the Azure Blob Storage accounts. It detects anomalies and uncommon access to the Storage Account and notifies the admins through email. All the Azure Storage Advanced Threat Protection monitoring and logs are integrated to the