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Azure Service Groups – A New Way to Organize Your Cloud
Microsoft has recently introduced Azure Service Groups (public preview since August 2025) – a feature designed to bring flexibility and clarity into how you…
Auditing Azure VM Operating Systems
Managing a growing Azure environment often means dealing with multiple subscriptions, distributed teams, and a wide range of virtual machine configurations. One critical but…
VM Power Management in Azure Using Tags, Runbooks, and a Custom GUI
As a Cloud Solutions Engineer, optimizing costs and automating operations is a daily priority. One of the common challenges in Azure is managing the…
Collecting GPU Metrics on Azure VMs with Telegraf
When working with GPU-enabled Azure virtual machines — such as those used for AI training, inference, or video rendering — you often need to…
Azure Template Specs: Reusable ARM Templates
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is undoubtedly the gold standard when it comes to modern cloud infrastructure. Tools like Bicep, Terraform, and Pulumi allow for…
Quickly Find Azure VMs Without NSG Protection
Network Security Groups (NSGs) are a key security feature in Azure, acting as virtual firewalls to control network traffic to and from your Virtual…
Self Service VM & AVD Order via Web Form
In one of my projects, I developed an Azure-based solution that enables users to provision a virtual machine (VM) or an Azure Virtual Desktop…
Deallocate VM based on Activity Log
In many organizations, virtual machines in Azure are kept running even when they’re no longer needed – especially during business hours. But what if…