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Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform by Microsoft. Users of the platform can deploy their applications onto cloud hosting benefiting from on-demand service, elastic scale, and a highly managed environment on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure can be used to build a web application that runs and stores its data in Microsoft datacenters. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or to map between different sets of identity information.

Azure offers several high level services

Azure offers several services currently in preview

Intro to Azure

Each of these services offers the ability to scale up or down based on demand using predetermined virtual machine sizes to run the services.

Use this tag for questions relating to applications hosted on Azure.

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Is it possible to make Nginx listen to different ports?

I created one Nginx with one Linux Azure VM, is it possible to make nginx listen to different ports so that when I change the port number, the content would be different. I found there would be a collision if I created two or more ports related to…
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Can Microsoft employees see my data in Azure?

I have sensitive data stored in both Azure DB and Azure SQL VM. An authorised DBA can log on and query the database, but in theory could a random Microsoft employee do the same without asking permission? I found this online which suggests the answer…
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Putting RSA keys into azure key vault

How can I store my key pair (typically the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub) in azure key vault. I want to put the public key in my GIT service and allow a virtual machine to download the private key from Azure key vault -> So that it can access GIT…
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Does enabling "Always On" in a MS Azure Website make it more expensive?

We are hosting 32 websites in one Standard web hosting plan mode and a Small instance size. Will it cost us more to enable "Always On" in one or all of the websites?
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How can I determine if it is cost-effective to move my site to cloud solution?

I have a large, busy site; it currently runs completely on a dedicated server that I rent each month for ~$700. It has three parts that I think I could carve off to a cloud solution: Media (image/video) file hosting. Currently I have something like…
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Cloning Virtual Machine On Azure, keeping existing

There doesn't seem to be a straight answer online about this. I have an existing Virtual Machine on Azure and I want to clone it to another region in case my existing server goes down. It needs to be the exact replica but all I can find are moving…
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Can I replace my domain controller with Azure Active Directory?

I currently have a small network with a few servers and about 25 client PCs. We are using Office365 and have AD synchronisation setup from our on-premise server. We also have single-sign-on setup using ADFS. We have recently replaced all but 2 of…
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Import-Module Azure fails

I am trying to work with Windows Azure PowerShell module on Windows 8.1. I have downloaded and installed the Azure module and in start I can run and use the "Windows Azure PowerShell" which is a PS that just loads Azure. When I open just a plain PS…
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How to find the service principal assigned to a newly created AKS cluster?

I have just created an AKS cluster using a standard az aks create ... --ssh-key-value .... According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-service-principal, an AKS cluster is created, and because an existing service principal…
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32bits or 64bits for Windows Azure Web Sites?

The Windows Azure Web Sites offers two options 32bits or 64bits. New sites come with 32bits by default. For a server configuration it feels a bit odd because, AFAIK, the vast majority of web servers have been in 64bits config for years now.…
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Renaming an Azure VM

I am looking to rename an Azure VM. I have copied a VM from one subscription to another using this…
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Difference between Azure Container Instances and Azure Container Apps

Microsoft announced Azure Container Apps, a new service for running serverless containers in the cloud. This appears to be similar to the Container Instances service, which is also for deploying fully-managed containers. What are the key…
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How to identify the cause of 100% CPU usage in Azure App Service?

I have five apps in an Azure App Service Plan, all different copies of the same app for different clients. It's an ASP.NET MVC app with an SQL database. This morning I woke up to slow and non-responsive sites, sometimes resulting in a 503 error. …
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Difference between Azure tenant and directory

Are Azure "tenant" and "directory" different things, or different names for the same thing? According to the documentation, a tenant is a container within Azure associated with a company or group of people, and a directory is a container; all…
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How can I work out who created an Azure resource, older than 90 days old?

We have discovered some resources in a resource group in our Azure subscription and we have no idea how they got there. They seem to be unnecessary, so we will be deleting them, but before we do we need to know who created them (and then ask them…
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