Azure Availability Zones offers high availability for data and applications. In an Azure region, there can be one or more data centers. Azure Availability Zone is made out of one or more datacentres in the same Azure region, which have independent power, hardware, networking, and cooling. All Zone redundant service will replicate data and application across Availability Zone for high resilience.
Azure AD Privileged Identity Management allows organizations to manage, monitor, audit access to sensitive Azure resources. One of the main features of PIM is the ability to provide just-in-time (JIT) access to Azure AD and Azure resources. As an example, a user can request to be a Global Administrator for 1 hour. Once a user requests it through the portal, Approver will receive a notification.
In my previous blog post, I have explained what is Server-Side Encryption (SSE) for Azure Managed Disks. If you didn’t read it yet, please go ahead and read it using this link. In there I have created a new virtual machine with encrypted managed disks. But sometimes we may have to do the same for the existing Azure Managed Disks. In this blog post, I am going to demonstrate how we can…
Disk encryption is a basic data protection method for physical & virtual hard disks. It falls under physical data security and it prevents data breaches from stolen hard disks (physical & virtual). By using Azure Disk Encryption, we can encrypt disks within the guest VM. If the guest VM is running Windows OS, Azure Disk Encryption will use BitLocker. If the guest VM is running Linux, it…
