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October, the first month in Q4 of the calendar year and Q2 of the Microsoft financial year, is also in the middle of planning for the next semester of development of Microsoft Azure (codenamed Cobalt).

We are now in the middle of the second Azure (and Windows) semester of 2019. Planning for the first semester of 2020 is underway. And now we are just over 1 month away from Ignite, the week that is usually an explosion of announcements for Microsoft’s enterprise products.

The half-year point has passed meaning that Azure (and Windows/Windows Server) are into a new planning & development cycle.

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

We’re just a few weeks away from the Microsoft Build conference, where historically, a lot of announcements are made.

Aidan Finn discusses things you should consider when designing an Azure App Service deployment.

Aidan Finn discuss the recent expansions of Azure, adding support for virtual machines to more regions, and the expansion of the number of regions internationally.

Aidan Finn explains explains a new high-availability and service level agreement (SLA) feature of Microsoft Azure called availability zones.

Aidan Finn discusses how to enable disaster recovery replication of Azure virtual machines from one region to another region, which will enable your services to survive a massive outage in an Azure data center or region.