How to re-size Azure virtual networks that are peered—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

As customers adopt and scale their applications in Azure, they constantly need to grow or resize their networks in the cloud. Virtual networks in Azure have had a long-standing constraint where any address space change is only allowed if the virtual network does not have any peerings. Today, we are announcing that this limitation has…

Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q1 and Q2 DDoS attack trends

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Amir Dahan, Senior Program Manager, Anupam Vij, Principal Program Manager, Skye Zhu, Data and Applied Scientist 2, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking. In our 2020 retrospective, we highlighted shifts in the active cyberthreat landscape. With the huge surge in internet activity, particularly with the onset of…

Deployment patterns for the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector with Amazon Elastic Container Service

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDeployment patterns for the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector with Amazon Elastic Container Service The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) is a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. Cloud-native, distributed technology stacks are now the norm, but these architectures introduce operational challenges, which have led to the rise of observability. Several different…