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Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform by Microsoft. Users of the platform can deploy their applications onto cloud hosting benefiting from on-demand service, elastic scale, and a highly managed environment on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure can be used to build a web application that runs and stores its data in Microsoft datacenters. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or to map between different sets of identity information.

Azure offers several high level services

Azure offers several services currently in preview

Intro to Azure

Each of these services offers the ability to scale up or down based on demand using predetermined virtual machine sizes to run the services.

Use this tag for questions relating to applications hosted on Azure.

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Open connection communication between two machines

i'm trying to connect two machines. Azure Cloud service (A) with Linux machine (B) that doesn't belong to Windows Azure. What i`am trying to do is to make an open connection between A and B. So A could know that B is alive. I can't ping B from A…
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Centos 7 on Windows Azure, who mounts /dev/sdb? (systemd)

I need to find out which systemd service mounts /dev/sdb (aka /mnt/resource) on Windows Azure? I am using Centos 7 image and it is systemd-based and I am trying to launch a service that depends on /mnt/resource mounted already. Tried googling but…
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counter for availability of dedicated Azure cache

The following link have a list of Azure caching perf counters : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh914135.aspx#PerfCountersc2 we are interested in, to get the utilization of the cache memory on the dedicated cache worker roles. In the…
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Azure Use Auto-Deployment from Bitbucket and My Local Git Concurrently?

it is possible that an Azure website even after being configured to use Bitbucket for automated deployment, can still accept updated triggered manually if it previously had a git (SCM) repository exposed? Am asking because of late, much as I hadn't…
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Azure VM crashed and I recovered the VHD however cloud-init prevents me from booting it locally

One of our VM's suddenly was stuck at 100% CPU load and was unable to be reached from SSH. Rebooting did not help, nor did creating a new VM from the existing VHD. I downloaded the VHD. However, I'm unable to boot it since it gets stuck on…
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Publishing to Azure without taking the site down

I am relatively new to this field although I've been a programmer for years. My company has a website hosted in Azure. I am the one that performs the "Publish" action after confirming that the team finished developing a certain module. However, I…
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Azure: Give a "WebSite" (not a vm) a public IP

Is there an easy way to give an azure "Website" (not a virtual machine) an IP, so that any time the website makes a connection to an external service, it comes from the same IP. I really don't know much about Azure, we are just using it to host an…
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Chef over Puppet on Azure?

It seems like Microsoft is preferring Chef over Puppet? There seems to be more "buzz" around Chef and Azure than Puppet. https://docs.getchef.com/plugin_knife_azure.html https://www.getchef.com/solutions/azure/ If the question's unclear, here it…
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Cannot access Azure VM endpoint

I created an Ubuntu VM in azure and installed CouchDb on port 5984. nmap localhost -p5984 shows that the port is opened. I added an endpoint for the VM with the public / private ports as 5984, but I still cannot access CouchDb. Is there another step…
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Should the Windows Time (W32Time) service be enabled in an Azure VM?

When connecting to a newly created VM in Azure, there's an alert under Services: When clicking on it, it says the Windows Time (W32Time) service is stopped: Should it remain like that, or should the service be started? I assume it should be…
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Azure Memory Allocation (Windows VM) for Python?

I'm running a pretty intensive python script on a large Azure Windows VM. I'm using Enthought Canopy for my python environment. The VM has 56gb of ram available... however in the task manager python only appears to be using 240mb of ram. Is this a…
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Setup MongoDB on MS Azure virtual machine to access it from an azure website

I have setup a MongoDB replica cluster on 3 virtual machines (Ubuntu 14), on MS azure cloud. The mongodb cluster has been setup with MMS (https://mms.mongodb.com amazing tool btw) and it works fine. I have also an azure website with PHP, the mongodb…
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Configure FTP access to CentOS VM on Azure

I have just set up a Virtual Machine running CentOS through Azure. In order to be able to access the virtual machine through an FTP client, I have enabled the FTP endpoint. When I try to FTP in to the server, I see this in FileZilla: Status:…
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Change Azure VM Temporary Storage size

Is there any way in which we could increase the storage of an azure's virtual machine by decreasing the temporary storage? We currently have 126GB of disk storage and 312 GB of temporary storage.
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No Ping/Telnet connection between VM

I am new in Azure and have one problem which I can not solve. I tried asking on StackOverflow, but - quoting - "You will have better luck asking on ServerFault". I want several Virtual Machines to ping/telnet each other to check if they communicate…
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