All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOverview: In most cases when we talk about Azure Architecture, we end up talking about Availability Sets, Availability Zones, or Multi-Region Architectures for redundancy and business continuity. Even though we can be inside the 2ms latency envelope within a specific zone, there are cases where applications are incredibly latency sensitive and even a millisecond of […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesOverview: From day one in Azure (which for me was over a decade ago), one of the critical design requirements has been to choose a network address space that doesn’t overlap with that which is configured on-premises or any other connected environments. Admittedly, this has gotten significantly easier since over the years there have been […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesOverview: Azure Firewall is a cloud-native, stateful, managed firewall service with built-in high availability, with incredible automated scaling and throughput capabilities, and many security features. In some cases, though, the price point can be a bit high to get started if they’re being used for basic L3/L4 rules, routing, and NAT capabilities. For this reason, […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesI frequently work with organizations who are migrating data from an on-premises datacenter into Azure. Undoubtably the question will come up “should we use an Azure Data Dox to ship that much data?”, and most of the time the room echoes in a resounding “Yes!”. I’ve been working in Azure for many years and have […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week , Azure Front Door Premium went into Public Preview. While this did bring about some other cool features and integrations, the one I’m most excited about today is the integration with Azure Private Link. This now allows Azure Front Door to make use of Private Link Services (not endpoints, which is what most […]
Reading Time: 9 minutesRecently, I posted the “Shared Storage Options in Azure: Part 1 – Azure Shared Disks” blog post, the first in the 5-part series. Today I’m posting Part 2 – IaaS Storage Server. While this post will be fairly rudimentary insofar as Azure technical complexity, this is most certainly an option when considering shared storage options […]
Reading Time: 9 minutesIn the past, I’ve written a few blog posts about setting up different types of VPNs with Azure. Azure Point-to-Site VPN with RADIUS Authentication « The Tech L33T Azure Web Apps with Cost Effective, Private and Hybrid Connectivity « The Tech L33T Azure Site-to-Site VPN with PFSense « The Tech L33T Since the market is […]
Reading Time: 10 minutesCaution: this blog post may save you significant time and money, and has been affectionately dubbed “The ASE Killer!”. Note: If you prefer a video walk-through, you can now view my video building this solution on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeYwTLd_zB8 With the advent of the cloud came the ever so attractive PaaS service model. The first time […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes(Edit: I’ve also now posted about how to do this with a Palo Alto Firewall as well, you can see that post here: https://hansencloud.com/2020/11/18/azure-site-to-site-vpn-with-palo-alto-firewall/ ) If you’re like me, you like to have a little bit more control over your network (home or business) than is available with the ISP-provided router – enter PFSense. The Netgate […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the money, it’s hard to beat the Azure VPN Gateway. Until recently though, Point-to-Site VPNs were a bit clunky because they needed mutual certificate authentication. It wasn’t bad, but it certainly wasn’t good. Thankfully, Microsoft now allows RADIUS backed authentication. This post is how you impliment said configuration. To start off, here is my […]
