In July I wrote about capacity constraints in Europe and why North Europe is feeling it most. My conclusion then was that we’d be working within those constraints for years, and that customer…

AllocationFailed. The requested VM size is currently not available in the selected region due to capacity restrictions.Operation results in exceeding quota limits. If any of those look familiar, yo…

If you've been running Network Virtual Appliances in Azure for a while, this is one you'll want to pay attention to. Microsoft are in the process of rolling out the Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) to existing VM size families, with the deployment scheduled to begin on 1st August 2026. For most workloads, this is a non-event and you'll get some performance benefits for free.

Spring is here once again and I’m delighted to be contributing a post as part of the Azure Spring Clean event organised by Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton. As always, thanks to the organisers…

Welcome everyone to my contribution to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar. Thanks, as always, to the event organisers who put this event together. It’s always great to see such amazing a…

Microsoft unfortunately suffered not one but two major service outages in October 2025 on their Azure Front Door service. This is a global (non-regional) load balancing service offering CDN and WAF…

I'm delighted to present my contribution to the Festive Tech Calendar which is now in it's sixth year. Thanks to all the event organisers for pulling together so much fantastic content once again, it just continues to get bigger and better each year. Well done everyone. This year, I have chosen to write a post on Azure Business Continuity Center which has very recently gone into general availability.