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Microsoft Azure guides from the perspective of someone who has deployed it in anger across public sector, consultancy, and MSP environments. Covers the infrastructure certification path (AZ-104, AZ-305), Entra ID and Conditional Access, networking with VNets and NSGs, Bicep and Terraform for IaC, cost management, and the security baselines that keep auditors happy. No vendor marketing, no course slides reheated. These are notes from real deployments, common failure modes, and the gaps the official documentation skips over. If you are taking certifications or running production Azure workloads, the guidance here is built to survive the Monday morning support call.

Microsoft 365 E7 Explained: What IT Pros Need to Know (And What Microsoft Doesn’t Want You to Ask)

Architecture & Cloud Strategy, Azure, Digital Sovereignty /

Microsoft just moved the goalposts. Again. On March 9th they announced Microsoft 365 E7 — branded “The Frontier Suite” — the first new enterprise tier since E5 launched in 2015. It goes GA on May 1st at £79 per user per month. I’ve spent 18 years watching Microsoft licensing evolve. Every few years the pattern

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When Hyperscalers Fail: What Three Major Outages Taught Us About Internet Resilience

When Hyperscalers Fail: What Three Major Outages Taught Us About Internet Resilience

AWS, Azure, Internet & Networking /

It was the afternoon of November 18, 2025. I was finishing up some configuration changes to ReadTheManual’s self-hosted infrastructure when I noticed something odd: my Cloudflare tunnel had gone dark. No big deal, I thought, probably a blip. Then I checked Twitter. Spotify was down. ChatGPT was offline. Even Trump’s Truth Social had gone silent.

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