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This option aims to provide users with enhanced control and cost-efficiency in managing their storage resources within the Azure cloud environment. By leveraging this feature, organizations can make informed decisions to optimize their cloud spending while ensuring the desired level of performance and availability.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>00&#58;00 - Introduction</li><li>01&#58;09 - Resiliency Basics</li><li>10&#58;55 - Blast radius</li><li>20&#58;08 - Multiple regions</li><li>24&#58;19 - Global balancing</li><li>28&#58;35 - Limit considerations and change roll-out</li><li>35&#58;44 - Monitoring</li><li>37&#58;29 - Permissions</li><li>41&#58;48 - Security</li><li>43&#58;29 - Operational hygiene</li><li>44&#58;27 - Summary</li></ul><p><br></p><p>These articles offer comprehensive advice on creating highly dependable workloads on Microsoft Azure. They propose architectural strategies and detailed steps to develop and manage critical workloads, emphasizing the importance of constant operation and availability based on business needs. The material encourages the adoption of cloud native solutions to fully benefit from the features of the Microsoft Cloud.<br></p><p><a data-cke-saved-href="https&#58;//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/mission-critical/" href="https&#58;//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/mission-critical/">Mission-critical workload documentation - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn<br>​​​​​​​</a>​​​​​​<br></p><h3>Whiteboards</h3><p><a data-cke-saved-href="https&#58;//raw.githubusercontent.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/master/Whiteboards/MaximizingAzureReliability.png" href="https&#58;//raw.githubusercontent.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/master/Whiteboards/MaximizingAzureReliability.png">https&#58;//raw.githubusercontent.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/master/Whiteboards/MaximizingAzureReliability.png</a></p><p>The introduction of this optimization option aligns with the resiliency basics of Azure Storage. It takes into account factors such as blast radius, multiple regions, and global balancing. By considering these aspects, organizations can design and implement robust storage solutions that can withstand failures in individual components, minimize downtime, and provide seamless access to data from multiple geographic locations.</p><p><br></p><p>When adopting this new option, it is essential to consider limit considerations and change roll-out strategies. Understanding the limitations and restrictions associated with the optimization feature is crucial for effective planning and implementation. Additionally, organizations need to devise suitable change management approaches to ensure smooth transition and minimal disruption to ongoing operations.</p><div tabindex="-1" data-cke-widget-wrapper="1" data-cke-filter="off" class="cke_widget_wrapper cke_widget_block cke_widget_inlineimage cke_widget_wrapper_webPartInRteInlineImage cke_widget_wrapper_webPartInRteClear cke_widget_wrapper_webPartInRteAlignCenter cke_widget_wrapper_webPartInRte" data-cke-display-name="div" data-cke-widget-id="8" role="region" aria-label="Inline image in RTE. Use Alt + F11 to go to toolbar. Use Alt + P to open the property pane."><div data-webpart-id="image" class="webPartInRte webPartInRteAlignCenter webPartInRteClear webPartInRteInlineImage cke_widget_element" data-cke-widget-data="%7B%22classes%22%3A%7B%22webPartInRteInlineImage%22%3A1%2C%22webPartInRteClear%22%3A1%2C%22webPartInRteAlignCenter%22%3A1%2C%22webPartInRte%22%3A1%7D%7D" data-cke-widget-upcasted="1" data-cke-widget-keep-attr="0" data-widget="inlineimage" data-instance-id="31d7e871-5ead-488d-95db-420671091ed2" title=""></div></div><p>Monitoring plays a vital role in optimizing cloud spend with Azure Storage. By leveraging monitoring tools and services provided by Azure, organizations can gain insights into their storage utilization, performance, and costs. These insights can help identify areas for improvement, adjust resource allocations, and make informed decisions to optimize spending based on actual usage patterns.</p><p><br></p><p>Permissions and security are crucial aspects of any cloud storage solution. Organizations must define and manage appropriate permissions to ensure authorized access to data while preventing unauthorized activities. Implementing robust security measures, such as encryption and access control policies, helps protect sensitive information and ensures compliance with data privacy regulations.</p><p><br></p><p>Operational hygiene refers to the best practices and routines that organizations should follow to maintain the optimal performance and efficiency of their storage resources. Regular maintenance, data lifecycle management, and periodic review of configurations are some of the operational hygiene practices that help optimize cloud spending while ensuring a reliable storage infrastructure.</p><p><br></p><h3><b>Cloud Optim</b><b>ization with Azure Storage</b></h3><h4><b>Introd</b><b>uction</b></h4><p>Azure Storage offers a wide range of capabilities and options for organizations to store and manage their data in the cloud. As data volumes continue to grow, optimizing cloud spending becomes a priority for businesses. The new optimization option in Azure Storage provides a valuable tool to achieve this objective.</p><p><br></p><h4><b>Resiliency </b><b>Basics</b></h4><p>When designing storage solutions in Azure, it is essential to consider resiliency basics. This involves understanding the potential impact of failures or disruptions and designing architectures that can withstand such events. The optimization option takes into account factors like blast radius, multiple regions, and global balancing to ensure high availability and data redundancy.</p><p><br></p><h4><b>Blast Ra</b><b>dius</b></h4><p>Blast radius refers to the potential impact of failures in a storage system. By implementing the optimization option, organizations can minimize the blast radius by distributing their data across multiple regions and ensuring that failures in one region do not affect data availability in other regions.</p><p><br></p><h4><b>Multiple R</b><b>egions</b></h4><p>Azure Storage allows data replication across multiple regions, providing resiliency and ensuring data availability even in the event of a regional failure. The optimization option leverages this capability to improve resiliency and further optimize cloud spending by distributing data across regions based on usage patterns and cost considerations.</p><p><br></p><h4><b>Global Bal</b><b>ancing</b></h4><p>Global balancing refers to the ability to distribute data across multiple regions while maintaining optimal performance and minimizing data transfer costs. The optimization option in Azure Storage incorporates global balancing techniques to ensure that data is stored and accessed efficiently, taking into account factors such as network latency and bandwidth costs.</p><p><br></p><h4><b>Limit Consider</b><b>ations and Change Roll-out</b></h4><p>Organizations need to be aware of the limit considerations and potential impact when implementing the optimization option. Understanding the limits and planning the change roll-out strategy accordingly is crucial to avoid disruptions and ensure a smooth transition to the optimized storage solution.</p><p><br></p><h4><b>M</b><b>onitoring</b></h4><p>Effective monitoring is essential for optimizing cloud spending with Azure Storage. Azure provides monitoring tools and services that allow organizations to track their storage utilization, performance metrics, and associated costs. Monitoring</p><p><br></p><h3><b>Questions and Answers abou</b><b>t Azure Storage&#160;</b></h3><p><br></p><ul><li><a data-cke-saved-href="https&#58;//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/resiliency/app-design#&#58;~&#58;text=Azure%2Dmanaged%20services%20provide%20native,easier%20to%20configure%20and%20administer." href="https&#58;//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/resiliency/app-design#&#58;~&#58;text=Azure-managed%20services%20provide%20native%2ceasier%20to%20configure%20and%20administer.">Which Azure feature enhances manageability and reliability?</a><br>Azure-managed services provide native resiliency capabilities to support overall application reliability. Platform as a service (PaaS) offerings should be used to leverage these capabilities. PaaS options are easier to configure and administer.</li><li><a data-cke-saved-href="https&#58;//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/overview#&#58;~&#58;text=Azure%20services%20are%20built%20for,avoid%20single%20points%20of%20failure" href="https&#58;//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/overview#&#58;~&#58;text=Azure%20services%20are%20built%20for%2cavoid%20single%20points%20of%20failure">What is the reliability of Microsoft Azure?</a>.)<br>Azure services are built for reliability including high availability and disaster recovery. There are no services that are dependent on a single logical data center (to avoid single points of failure).</li><li><a data-cke-saved-href="https&#58;//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-performance-recommendations" href="https&#58;//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-performance-recommendations">How can I improve my Azure performance?</a><br>Reduce memory constraints on your Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Azure Database for MariaDB servers, or move to a Memory Optimized SKU</li><li><a data-cke-saved-href="https&#58;//www.saasguru.co/azure-fundamentals-az-900-practice-test-free/#&#58;~&#58;text=Rationale%3A%20Azure%20autoscale%20enhances%20manageability,machines%20to%20handle%20increased%20demand." href="https&#58;//www.saasguru.co/azure-fundamentals-az-900-practice-test-free/#&#58;~&#58;text=Rationale&#58;%20Azure%20autoscale%20enhances%20manageability%2cmachines%20to%20handle%20increased%20demand.">Which Azure feature enhances manageability and reliability by provisioning VM?</a><br>Rationale&#58; Azure autoscale enhances manageability and reliability by provisioning virtual machine instances based on workload. Azure autoscale is a feature of Microsoft Azure that creates and manages a pool of virtual machines to handle increased demand.</li></ul></div></div><div data-sp-canvascontrol="" data-sp-canvasdataversion="1.0" data-sp-controldata="&#123;&quot;controlType&quot;&#58;0,&quot;pageSettingsSlice&quot;&#58;&#123;&quot;isDefaultDescription&quot;&#58;true,&quot;isDefaultThumbnail&quot;&#58;true,&quot;globalRichTextStylingVersion&quot;&#58;0,&quot;rtePageSettings&quot;&#58;&#123;&quot;contentVersion&quot;&#58;4&#125;,&quot;isEmailReady&quot;&#58;false&#125;&#125;"></div></div>

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