Raju RH

Azure Resource Locking feature helps to prevent deletion and modification of Azure Resources on which the lock is been applied. Now you might be wondering how it's different and advantages compared to Azure RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)? RBAC is used as the first line of defense against restricting access to Azure Resources. Using RBAC you can restrict access to resources and resource actions. RBAC alone will not be sufficient across all environments especially from the Test environment onwards. RBAC and Resource lock doesn't conflict with each other rather they complement and should be applied as standard practice/pattern across all your Azure Subscriptions in your organization.  Assume you are an Administrator, which means you have full access to all your resources. With Resource Lock applying it provides a way for administrators to lock down Azure resources to prevent deletion and modification of a resource. Resource lock applies to all users regardless of their roles. Th...

In Microsoft Ignite (March) 2021 there were several new announcements made by different product teams (e.g. Data, AI, etc.) within Azure. As part of today's blog post, I am going to cover one such announcement made by the CosmosDB team - Continuous backup with the point in time restore capability which is in public preview now.   Prior to this new feature announcement now you might be wondering what was the option for CosmosDB backup? Until this new announcement made the option we had was Periodic backup mode where the backup is taken at a periodic interval which will be defined by the end-user. The minimum backup interval can't be less than one hour. Unfortunately, with Periodic back up you can’t access the backup by yourself. You’d need to raise a support request/ticket with the Microsoft team, who would then perform the backup for you. Another option was implementing custom implementation by yourself which comes with Time, Cost, and Effort.  By using Continuous b...