A VM that cannot be recovered is a risk no matter how well it runs. Azure Backup gives you a managed way to protect Azure virtual machines without deploying backup servers or agents by hand. This post walks through how it works, how to set it up, and how to …

I had three D-series VMs running in Central US on Azure subscription 1. When I tried to create a fourth VM of the same kind in the same region, Azure refused. I switched to another region, tried again, and it worked right away. This post explains what happened, how to …

Every Azure VM you create has at least one IP address, and often two. Knowing which one does what is the difference between a VM that works on the first try and an evening spent wondering why your website won't load. The short version: the private IP is how your …

Ever bought a plane ticket on standby? You pay way less, but there's a catch — if the flight fills up, you might not get on. Now imagine that same idea, but for the computers that power apps, websites, and data crunching in the cloud.

That's basically what a Spot VM …