Extended Security Updates Windows Server 2012

2023-10-13 Niels Ophey

The blog post “Secure Windows Server 2012/R2 workloads with options from Azure” shows the most important ways to continue to provide security updates to a workload based on Windows Server 2012 even though the end of support has already been reached. At its core, there are the following main options related to Microsoft Azure if you are not able to modernize your workload and migrate to a new server version in the short term. Continue reading

Cost Management - Azure RI vs. Saving Plans

2023-10-05 Niels Ophey

There is always a discussion about whether Azure Reserved Instances (RI) or Azure Saving Plan (SP) are the better option for running an application based on IaaS in Azure. There is not one answer to this question. In the following, the two options Reserved Instance and Saving Plan are compared and evaluated based on scenarios.

Bicep Modul for an Anommaly Alert

2023-05-05 Niels Ophey

In our CAF Landing Zone Starter Kit, the implementation of the Anomaly Alert on the subscription was missing until now. This is almost finished. First of all, here is a possible implementation of the Anomaly Alert as a bicep module.

CAF partner bootcamp link collection

2023-01-24 Niels Ophey

As part of a partner bootcamp, we collected some links and summarized them here:

WAF Devops Tooling

2022-10-07 Niels Ophey

Well-Architected-Framework Tooling

The assessment out of the Well-Architected framework provides a list of recommendations for implementation after answering all questions. The list of these recommendations can be exported in an Excel file directly from the assessment tool.

Older posts