[AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

[Chad Kelly]

Yeah they also announced Azure Arc
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/azure-arc/
Which lets you run Azure infostructure in your own DC on your own network. 
Which I would love to say increases uptime but it also makes things significantly complex and the SLA around that I imagine would be shared as MS don't have full control. 
But for customers that want control themselves as well as close to 100% uptime it’s a great solution as you can run services across your own facilities and even on multiple clouds.
Regards Chad.

Chad Kelly 
Manager 
CPK Web Services 
Phone 03 52730246
Web https://www.cpkws.com.au

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From: James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:21 PM
To: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au>
Cc: Chad Kelly <chad at cpkws.com.au>; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

> Admittedly I’m not super clear on this but I thought Microsoft stopped 
> really generally offering O365 via ER and it’s now on “special request only”?
> “Free peering” is “Direct connectivity” FWIW.

They recently announced Azure Peering Service, which offers cold potato routing so it stays on their network until it gets as close to your end users (well, a defined service provider network for a given location) as
possible: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/peering-service/about

Although there's not many partners at the moment: 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/peering-service/location-partners

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