Hub & Spoke Architecture on Azure
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The standardization and reuse of architectural models is a common practice in software development, which can be inspired in cloud network topologies. The Hub-and-Spoke model is a network topology increasingly…
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How to Create and Configure ExpressRoute Circuits
One of the main objectives for an organization moving to a public cloud, in any type of shape or form, is regarding the overall performance experience: It cannot be a…
How to deploy a Domain Controller on Microsoft Azure
Active Directory is the heart of your network. The domain controller of your active directory domain is responsible for a lot of on-premises connectivity (LDAP, DNS, …) and is probably…
Comply your AD password expiration policy with Azure AD
How does EnforceCloudPasswordPolicyForPasswordSyncedUsers policy works? If you have an expiration policy configured in your on-premise environment, this is not synced to Azure AD. This results in the scenario where a…
Azure — ExpressRoute Overview
What is Azure ExpressRoute? — Introduction to Azure ExpressRoute Azure ExpressRoute lets you seamlessly extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft Azure. This connection between your organization and Azure is…
AWS — Direct Connect Overview
Introduction to AWS Direct Connect AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated connection from an on-premises network to Amazon VPC. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish…
Azure — Virtual Network (VNet) Peering Overview
Introduction to Virtual Network (VNet) Peering in Azure VNet peering (or virtual network peering) enables you to connect virtual networks. A VNet peering connection between virtual networks enables you to…
Getting Started with Infrastructure as Code
What is IaC? When you are new to the cloud, your early interactions are via the web portals such portal.azure.com for Microsoft Azure or aws.amazon.com for Amazon Web Services. This…
Azure — Difference between Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway
Azure Load Balancer vs Application Gateway in Azure Azure Load Balancer works with traffic at Layer 4, while Application Gateway works with Layer 7 traffic, and specifically with HTTP (including…
AWS — Amazon RDS vs Amazon EC2 Relational Databases — Comparison
Difference between Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 Relational Databases in AWS TL;DR: Amazon RDS enables you to run a fully featured relational database while offloading database administration. Whereas, for more…