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The naming of Pricing Tiers is not consistent across Services. The number of Tiers and their resource cost can vary. The Basic Tier of Load Balancer is free but the Basic Tier for App Service is not; there is Free tier for App Service. AAD has 3 Tiers - Free, Premium 1, Premium 2 This table (WIP) shows the Tiers for different Azure Services -

This Week I Learned - * For your Azure deployments, you already use Azure portal, Azure Cloud shell, Azure API to manage your resources. With Azure Arc , you can extend these capabilities to manage resources in hybrid environments such as datacenters, private, public clouds and the edge. Azure Arc can help with management and governance of servers and Kubernetes clusters across environments with a unified view in Azure Portal and API. Azure Arc also enables you to enforce compliance by centrally managing access and security policies with standardized Role Based Access Control. * Azure Service Health is a free service that provides personalized guidance and support when you're affected by an Azure service problem. Advisor identifies subscriptions that don't have alerts configured and recommends configuring them. * Embedded within the Azure Service Health suite of services you’ll find Azure Resource Health Alerts. This service provides a near real-time availability signal r...

This Week I Learned - * In case of Geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS), data is synchronously replicated 3 times across 3 availability zones in the primary region, then asynchronously replicated to the secondary paired region (3 more copies) = can sustain node failure within the storage cluster, entire datacenter or availability zone going down or a region-wide outage (only region failure would require account failover to restore read and write availability. Typically has an RTO of less 1 hour (no SLA). * Microsoft Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) is an open-source, event-driven framework aimed to build resilient and portable microservices for Cloud and Edge applications. * By connecting Azure Boards with GitHub repositories, you enable linking between GitHub commits, pull requests, and issues to work items. * With deployment scripts, you can add PowerShell or Bash scripts to your templates. The deployment scripts extend your ability to set up resources during de...