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  <contributor>
    <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
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  <entry>
    <title type="text">Introducing the CloudSkew Professional Plan</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/12/17/upcoming-pricing-model-changes/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/12/17/upcoming-pricing-model-changes/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.443Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CloudSkew</a> now introduces a professional plan for cloud architects. Subscribe to create unlimited architecture diagrams &amp; reusable templates.</p>
<p><img src="https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/pages/pricing/pricing-table-01.png" alt="cloudskew professional plan"></p>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CloudSkew</a> now introduces a professional plan for cloud architects. Subscribe to create unlimited architecture diagrams &amp; reusable templates.</p>
<p><img src="https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/pages/pricing/pricing-table-01.png" alt="cloudskew professional plan"></p>
<p>Bonus: All early adopters &amp; power users have been upgraded/grandparented for free for the next 6 months!</p>
<p>Please refer to our <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/pricing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pricing page</a>, <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FAQs page</a>, <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com/about/terms-of-service.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">terms of service</a> and <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com/about/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">privacy policy</a> for more details.</p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2020-12-17T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">CloudSkew featured at Azure Community Conference</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/11/24/cloudskew-on-azure-community-conference/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/11/24/cloudskew-on-azure-community-conference/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.451Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A big thanks to the <a href="https://www.azconf.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Azure Community Conference</a> for featuring CloudSkew. Here's the recording in which <a href="https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) talks about the internals of <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure.</p>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A big thanks to the <a href="https://www.azconf.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Azure Community Conference</a> for featuring CloudSkew. Here's the recording in which <a href="https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) talks about the internals of <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure.</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/isRLHQZbs08" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2020-11-24T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">CloudSkew crosses 20K user signups</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/09/05/milestone-20k/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/09/05/milestone-20k/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.453Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> is acquiring users at a steady clip and just crossed 20K user signups this week.</p>
<p><img src="https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/38-milestone-20k-user-signups.png" alt="20K user signups"></p>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> is acquiring users at a steady clip and just crossed 20K user signups this week.</p>
<p><img src="https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/38-milestone-20k-user-signups.png" alt="20K user signups"></p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2020-09-05T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">CloudSkew featured on the Cloud Lunch &amp; Learn show</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/07/21/cloudskew-on-cloud-lunch-learn/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/07/21/cloudskew-on-cloud-lunch-learn/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.455Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A big thanks to the Cloud Lunch &amp; Learn show for featuring CloudSkew last week. Here's the recording in which <a href="https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) and <a href="https://twitter.com/HmsBarona" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hugo Barona</a> (host) talk about the internals of <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure.</p>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A big thanks to the Cloud Lunch &amp; Learn show for featuring CloudSkew last week. Here's the recording in which <a href="https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) and <a href="https://twitter.com/HmsBarona" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hugo Barona</a> (host) talk about the internals of <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure.</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZyPlXiXsqY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Please do subscribe to Cloud Lunch &amp; Learn's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHZeZzSlTtmfgPozIq8J2Kw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">youtube channel</a> for great Azure content!</p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2020-07-21T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">CloudSkew crosses 14K user signups</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/06/26/milestone-14k/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/06/26/milestone-14k/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.456Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> just crossed 14K user signups. It's been a good week (we made it to the HackerNews front page). Onwards &amp; upwards!</p>
<p><img src="https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/35-milestone-14k-user-signups.png" alt="14K user signups"></p>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> just crossed 14K user signups. It's been a good week (we made it to the HackerNews front page). Onwards &amp; upwards!</p>
<p><img src="https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/35-milestone-14k-user-signups.png" alt="14K user signups"></p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2020-06-26T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">CloudSkew featured at Cloud Community Days conference</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/06/17/cloudskew-on-cloud-community-days/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/06/17/cloudskew-on-cloud-community-days/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.457Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A big thanks to the <a href="https://ccdays.konfhub.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cloud Community Days</a> conference for featuring CloudSkew. Here's the recording in which <a href="https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) talks about the internals of <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure (skip to the 3:49:00 mark).</p>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A big thanks to the <a href="https://ccdays.konfhub.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cloud Community Days</a> conference for featuring CloudSkew. Here's the recording in which <a href="https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) talks about the internals of <a href="https://www.cloudskew.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure (skip to the 3:49:00 mark).</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_dZwMidN9wY?start=13742" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2020-06-17T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">High Availability in Azure: Availability Zones</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.459Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><strong>Availability Zones (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><strong>Availability Zones (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>
<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2019-03-31T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">High Availability in Azure: Availability Sets</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.467Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><strong>Availability Sets (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><strong>Availability Sets (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>
<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2019-03-29T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">High Availability in Azure: App Service, Function Apps</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.474Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><strong>App Service, Function Apps (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><strong>App Service, Function Apps (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>
<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2019-03-23T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">High Availability in Azure: Traffic Management</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.478Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><strong>Traffic management (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><strong>Traffic management (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>
<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2019-03-16T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">High Availability in Azure: Storage Redundancies</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.481Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><strong>Storage redundancies (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics">The basics</a></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><strong>Storage redundancies (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>
<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2019-03-02T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title type="text">High Availability in Azure: The basics</title>
    <id>https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics/</id>
    <link href="https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-07T17:37:53.486Z</updated>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>The basics (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>The basics (this post)</strong></em></li>
<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets">Availability sets</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones">Availability zones</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>
<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic">Traffic management</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps">App service, function apps</a></em></li>
<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>
<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>
</ul>
<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>
]]></content>
    <author>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Mithun Shanbhag</name>
    </contributor>
    <published>2019-02-28T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <rights>Copyright by Mithun Shanbhag</rights>
  </entry>
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