As a followup to my earlier blog post on Accelerated networking on Azure i am looking at other options available in Azure to reduce latency for Azure VM’s. When you place your Azure VM’s in a single region, the physical distance between VM’s is reduced. Placing them within a single availability zone is another step you can take to deploy
Read moreAzure Accelerated Networking is network throughput performance improvement feature provided by a Microsoft for Azure Linux & Windows Azure VM’s. This feature enables a high-performance path and bypasses the host from the datapath, reducing latency and CPU utilisation, for use with the most demanding network workloads on supported VM types Without accelerated networking, all networking traffic in and out of
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This blog post will help you understand subnetting using CIDR notation assuming you already have an idea about IP Address, Network ID and broadcast ID in networking. There are many approaches for understanding this but hopefully this approach might help you. I have an IP Address with a CIDR notation /20. Using this I need to figure out what the
Read moreAmazon has been a fore runner in the cloud computing arena and pioneered many industry revolutionizing services like EC2, VPC etc. AWS’s initial offering EC2-classic platform allowed customers to run ec2 instances on a flat global network shared by all the customers, also there were other attributes including shared tenancy, restrictions on Security Groups and lack of Network Access control
Read moreAzure Virtual Network is a construct that allows you to connect virtual network interface cards to a virtual network to allow TCP/IP-based communications between network enabled devices. Azure Virtual Machines connected to an Azure Virtual Network are able to connect to devices on the same Azure Virtual Network, different Azure Virtual Networks, on the Internet or even on your own on-premises
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