Monthly Archives: July 2014

Affinity Groups in Azure

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Neil Mackenzie

I see a lot of confusion about the current status of affinity groups in Microsoft Azure and thought it worthwhile to describe that status (or my view of it). Until 2012, Azure used a north-south network built to handle traditional … Continue reading →

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Migrating a VM from EC2 to Azure at 300 Mbps

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Neil Mackenzie

This post contains instructions for migrating a VM from Amazon Web Services EC2 to Microsoft Azure. The instructions assume a basic setup where the AWS EC2 instance is running Windows Server and comprises a single disk containing the OS. A … Continue reading →

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