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Understanding Failure Mode Analysis in Azure: Improving Cloud Workload Reliability
In today's cloud-centric landscape, ensuring the reliability of your Azure workloads is paramount. One of the cornerstones of achieving this is through Failure Mode Analysis (FMA), as highlighted in the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework's Reliability pillar. This strategic approach empowers organisations to identify…
Capacity issues in Azure UK South and European datacenters: Strategies for management
As the demand for cloud resources continues to surge, particularly due to the rise of AI workloads, Azure's UK South region is reportedly facing capacity challenges. Anecdotal feedback in the public domain appears to confirm from experience that there is some pressure with requests for subscriptions and compute quota being…
Reducing Emissions and Cost of Function Apps with KEDA on Azure Container Apps
The general availability launch of Azure Container Apps back in May 2022 brought, in my opinion, a game-changing feature for serverless compute: Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA). At Advania, within Managed Services, we've been migrating some of our own Function Apps to Container Apps in recent months and I wanted…
Implementing an Azure Tagging Strategy, Retrospectively
A strategy for resource tagging within Azure can often become an afterthought. While you might have a plan in place for what tags to apply, the controls to ensure consistent application of these tags can slip through the cracks, and you can soon be down the road with hundreds or even thousands of resources. This is a…