AzCopy

In my monthly summary, I will summarize all the Azure infrastructure news from April, which appeared to be a month for security announcements.

As we approach Build, Microsoft is ramping up the Azure announcements; here’s everything that happened last month.

I predicted that the Build conference would give us lots of Azure news. In one respect, I was right; there was lots of news.

In this article Aidan will show you how to migrate the data disks of an Azure virtual machine (in Azure Resource Manager or ARM) from a Standard Storage (HDD-based) account to a Premium Storage (SSD-based) storage account to improve performance (more IOPS and less latency).

Aidan Finn shows us how to copy files up to an Azure storage account, down from a storage account, and even between storage accounts using a free tool called AzCopy.