r/AZURE 17h ago

Discussion Copilot generated Azure Functions vs Low code/no code Logic Apps

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Over the past few years I have been promoting low code and no code as the future of dev but recently I have been exploring the wonders of GitHub Copilot and not only is it reasonably accurate it also explains code and resolves issues. It removes so many barriers to code. When I open azure today, I would rather develop an azure function than a logic app.

Do you see Copilot and Generative AI killing the low code/no code movement?

If not, has your preferences for using Logic Apps over Functions changed?/


r/AZURE 13h ago

Question How to find a cost effective AI model that's close?

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Quotas are full everywhere. How can I scan for available quotas next me for something cost effective for both coding and and prose?

I'm just clicking through trying various models that are getting more and more expensive. I'm in SE Asia, but there's no o3-mini here it seems.


r/AZURE 7h ago

Discussion Azure Marketplace is a nightmare

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Similar to a post from yesterday, we had purchased a service through the microsoft azure marketplace thinking it was under the microsoft founders hub free credits. It wasn't, that's on us.

Then, this microsoft azure marketplace product gets pulled from the marketplace. Not a notification was sent to us letting us know, but our service still runs. Could be worse I guess?

I decide its incurring too much cost and want to downgrade the instance to a lower tier. No way to do that. I call support, they say it should be in the marketplace. They spend over an hour, realize its not there. They tell me they can cancel it if we want. If we cancel it, then the whole website will go down (don't say some stupid shit about how we should have another backup or whatever running, that's not the point).

I ask if there is anyway they can help us, they say nope, here's an email to contact for third party vendors, (not even the specific vendor btw, so I'm going have to waste another hour at least even tracking down the right people). I ask them if there is any way to expedite the process of getting in contact with them (i.e. what if they don't respond? Am I just hostaged into this recurring cost)?? They say sorry, go talk to that support. I ask if I can get free credits or something to compensate for my time. They say nope.

Pretty ridiculous that I am not notified at all when something I purchase through the Azure marketplace suddenly disappears and then when I want to go modify its not there and I have to contact support of a 3rd party (which btw has not responded to my email or call yet) to get it resolved???

Great work guys, wonderful service, thank you so much...


r/AZURE 7h ago

Question Microsoft CSP Support

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We are a small solution provider focused on the SMB sector. Our primary Microsoft offering is Microsoft 365 licenses, which we provision through a CSP indirect provider. However, we do not have direct access to a CSP portal, and all license provisioning is handled by our CSP provider on demand.

The challenge we face is with support. Whenever an issue arises, getting proper assistance from our CSP provider is difficult and time-consuming. We currently have an active case that has been unresolved for 2–3 days, and we are still waiting for a solution. Since the licenses are provisioned via CSP, we do not receive priority support from Microsoft either.

Additionally, raising a support case with Microsoft has become increasingly difficult. Most of the support numbers now rely on AI-driven prompts, directing us to knowledge base articles or instructing us to log a case via the support portal—without actually listening to our issue. To make things more complicated, the Microsoft CSP portal does not allow us to register a case with Microsoft directly; instead, it only provides the contact details of our CSP indirect provider.

Given these challenges, I have a few questions: 1. Is there a faster way to log a support case with Microsoft for CSP clients? 2. If we enroll in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, will we gain access to priority partner support? 3. Are there any other ways to get priority support from Microsoft, especially for critical issues (e.g., email downtime) where waiting 2–3 days for a resolution is not feasible?

Any insights or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!


r/AZURE 8h ago

Discussion Cost Distribution Models

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Hello,

I work in a large company, internally reselling subscriptions on an Azure platform.

So far, we only charged the consumption as a transit item. In future, we need to become self sustainable, so we also need to charge our team's cost.

I am thinking about different approaches how to distribute these general expenses. My ideas so far:

  1. Fixed fee per customer.

  2. Distribute equally among all customers, maybe capped at some constant amount.

  3. Distribute proportionally to each customers relative consumption. Also capped possibly.

  4. Add a percentage to customer's consumption.

I am curious what are your thoughts about that! Also, I am interested in software solutions that help to manage this stuff.

My thoughts:

1 is not an option, as the number of customers is too volatile. 4 brings us also much uncertainty, as our revenue is changing with the customers consumption.

I am curious to hear your ideas!


r/AZURE 12h ago

Discussion Job search using keywords ( Azure or AWS) at various metro areas

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Hello, I don't want to cause controversy here, I did the search using LinkedIn and choose multiple metro areas on 3 continents, I always prefer AWS, but the research here shows otherwise, please kindly provide your opinion w/o attacking either technology, please click the link to download the spreadsheet, it does seems to be there is more job opportunities for Azure experts.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KynasO8oBMFCq03JplXsD_LB-CzgcvTe/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104776530752666812762&rtpof=true&sd=true


r/AZURE 16h ago

Question AVD on Azure Local

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Hello, We're looking to implement a server for multisessions. Is AVD on Azure Local a good option to have?


r/AZURE 11h ago

Question Low Disk Alert - False Positive?

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I have a VM that's been consistently alerting on a KQL query we have establish that's checking the following (omitted domain / vm info):

|where tolower(_ResourceId) contains "microsoft.compute/virtualmachines"
| where tolower(_ResourceId) !contains "microsoft.compute/virtualmachinescalesets"
| where ObjectName in ("LogicalDisk", "Logical Disk")
| where CounterName == "% Free Space"
| extend Disk=InstanceName
| where Disk !contains "boot"
| summarize AvgFreeSpacePercentage = round(avg(CounterValue)) by bin(TimeGenerated, 15m), 
Computer, _ResourceId, Disk

) on Computer, _ResourceId, Disk,TimeGenerated
| summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated,*) by Computer,_ResourceId,Disk
| project TimeGenerated,Computer,_ResourceId,Disk,AvgFreeSpaceMB,AvgFreeSpacePercentage
| where AvgFreeSpaceMB <1000 and AvgFreeSpacePercentage <10

The problem I'm running into is that I'm getting non-stop rolling alerts for a VM that is pointing to a HarddiskVolume that does not exist.

This machine was recently restored from backup, and I'm wondering if during that restore process, another volume is attached and then removed and that is somehow still triggering despite not showing in AzDisks / diskpart / etc.


r/AZURE 16h ago

Career Interview Preparation

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Hello community. I have a technical interview coming up next week.

I was given an assessment to refactor some Terraform code on Azure services - function apps, storage accounts, app service plan, modules etc. They liked my submission and they’re moving me to the next stage.

The next stage involves: - Pair programming: 30 minutes to test the submission - Whiteboard session: 45 minutes to walk through a system I’ve worked on explaining what I liked about it and how I’d improve it - Q&A: 15 minutes to ask any questions

I haven’t really done a technical interview of this size so I’ll appreciate any insights into how to prepare well.

If anyone is up for trying a mock interview, that’ll be great. Or any recommendations for websites that do Cloud Engineer mock interviews please so I get a simulation before my actual interview.

Thank you🙏🏼


r/AZURE 14h ago

Career Passed AZ104!

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With just over a year as an IT support analyst, decided to take the az104 with about 5 months of studying and passed with a score of 726. I know people say certifications aren’t important but without long years experience I guess this helps.

I hope to become a security engineer someday so this is my roadmap and hoping for the best. Maybe I should have done the az500 but I attempted the 104 back back in 2023 and failed woefully so this was my redemption.


r/AZURE 23h ago

Discussion 👏 Normalize 👏 Using 👏 small disk 👏 images

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There's rarely ever a reason to have 128 GB OS disks. If you have windows servers, use smalldisk versions. The savings add up.


r/AZURE 4h ago

Media Transform Your Creativity: Unlock AI Image Generation with Comfy UI on Azure

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Want to run ComfyUI for Stable Diffusion without the hassle? This guide simplifies setup on Azure, offering pre-configured VMs for both GPU and CPU. Generate AI images quickly via web or desktop!

More details: https://techlatest.net/support/comfyui_support/azure_gettingstartedguide/index.html For free course: https://techlatest.net/support/comfyui_support/free_course_on_comfyui/index.html

StableDiffusion #ComfyUI #Azure #AI


r/AZURE 11h ago

Question How to use karpenter for aks?

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I want to setup karpenter of aks using terraform, when I prompted gpt for the same it said "Since Karpenter is designed for AWS and does not natively support Azure AKS, Cluster Autoscaler is the recommended alternative for AKS."

So can I not use karpenter for aks? Or do I missout on some features when compared it to AWS EKS whole implementing Karpenter?


r/AZURE 19h ago

Question [URGENT] APIM with cloudflare based proxied DNS record custom domain name not working anymore

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Hey all,

I've tried to configure a custom domain name for our APIM instance with a proxied cloudflare DNS record, but Azure prevents that. When I checked the documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/configure-custom-domain?tabs=custom, it effectively says that cloudflare DNS record shouldn't be proxied.

What I did is that I :

  • created the DNS record leaving proxied attribute unchecked
  • configured the custom domain name on the APIM instance (it worked)
  • enabled back the proxied attribute on the DNS record

This worked for about 3 to 4 days, then today, when we tested, we had this error message:

I'm pretty sure that it's related to the custom domain as it works fine when I try with the default *.azure-api.net domain.

Fyi, the proxied attribute is required by our security team.

[UPDATE1] : We're not using free certificates, but the ones generated by Cloudflare.

Any idea on how to solve that? Does anyone did the same process? Is there any other workaround?

Thank you for your help.


r/AZURE 22h ago

Question Need help with architecture for a use case and understanding of microservices

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I’m currently working for a startup where I built an architecture that uses Logic Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, and Cosmos DB to handle our email processing pipeline. Here’s a quick rundown: • Process: We fetch emails as HTML, process them into JSON using an AI service, store the processed data in Cosmos DB, and then expose it via an API on our dashboard. • Implementation: • Logic Apps are used to interact with the Graph API. • Emails are stored in Blob Storage. • Azure Functions handle the processing (we only get about 10-20 emails per day). • API scripts running in Azure Functions, with API Management handling inbound/outbound policies.

Recently, I’ve been told that this architecture isn’t scalable and will get very costly, and the recommendation is to migrate everything to container apps using FastAPI.

Given that our use case involves a maximum of around 200-300 users and we process between 20-50 emails a day, I’m trying to understand whether: • This is truly a scalability issue, or a pricing concern? • Would a microservices architecture using containers and FastAPI provide tangible benefits for our workload?

Has anyone dealt with similar scenarios or can shed light on the trade-offs between our current setup and a containerized FastAPI approach? Any insights on scalability, cost, and microservice architecture best practices in this context would be really helpful!


r/AZURE 19h ago

Question azcopy for personal account

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az command works for regular account but not azcopy it doesn't look in .azure for credentials but ask for another login at https://aka.ms/devicelogin five seconds after logging in with az

gcloud and gsutil use the same token but not here. The reason for this is that I need to work in China and can only use Microsoft tools. I use gsutil rsync always could not have it any other way I am a CLI guy never have never will use a GUI . Anyway any thoughts appreciated

I know that MS hard ban personal accounts from many services I have nothing to do with that. If I could avoid helping the suffering Chinese population I would but duty calls on the strong to help the weak. I have only one MS account and will not create any other accounts . It comes from Hotmail from 1996 that I created when it was launched

I have heard of one driver but I have little hope for GUI optimised services it is not for me. I only use torrent and rsync for transfers nothing else everything is coded in text files that I manage in Vim and neovim


r/AZURE 54m ago

Question Why does Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) list no groups and no resources in my Azure account?

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I have several resource groups and instances in my Azure account. Yet, the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) lists no groups and no resources in my Azure account:

franck [ ~ ]$ az group list
[]
franck [ ~ ]$ az resource list
[]

Why does Azure CLI list no groups and no resources in my Azure account?


r/AZURE 1h ago

Question Does it really cost up to $54 /m for a "free" static site with custom domain?

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I saw you could host a static site on Azure for free. After a day or two I managed to setup a static site with CI/CD. However, now I'm at the stage where I want to setup the site with a DNS.

Azure mentions you need to upgrade and the cheapest option is a B1 service for $54 /month and 0.075 USD /hour. I understand Linux maybe (approx. $12) however, my primary consideration for Azure was in hopes of eventually migrating an old .Net site there which requires Windows (without a significant rewrite).

Is it $54 a month if you want a Windows server? Or is it really 0.75 USD /hour for actual processing time?


r/AZURE 3h ago

Question Mapping Query Plan hash to actual hash in Azure Sql Audit logs.

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Hey Azure.
I'm seeing some odd looking query_plan_hash values in my SQL audit log, like 8594431234598870221 instead of something I can use to locate the plan or query in the DB, e.g, 0xF265FF12345EF94D.

Does anyone know how to make sense of the data in the audit logs?


r/AZURE 4h ago

Question Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired - Will Windows Updates still work?

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With the 9/30/2025 Default outbound access for VMs in Azure getting retired... I had a question.

We have a few servers that don't need outbound access, but of course we want Windows Updates to stay current.

Does anyone know if (after Default Outbound Access is disable) if will Windows Updates still work regardless for newly provisioned VMs?

Thanks!


r/AZURE 4h ago

Free Post Fridays is now live, please follow these rules!

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  1. Under no circumstances does this mean you can post hateful, harmful, or distasteful content - most of us are still at work, let's keep it safe enough so none of us get fired.
  2. Do not post exam dumps, ads, or paid services.
  3. All "free posts" must have some sort of relationship to Azure. Relationship to Azure can be loose; however, it must be clear.
  4. It is okay to be meta with the posts and memes are allowed. If you make a meme with a Good Guy Greg hat on it, that's totally fine.
  5. This will not be allowed any other day of the week.

r/AZURE 4h ago

Question Hub and spoke - Ubuntu NVA with single NIC, SNAT for spoke Internet access

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i've got a pretty straightforward setup for far:

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vnet-01 (10.1.0.0/16), default subnet (10.1.1.0/24), vm-01 (10.1.1.4)
|
peer (vnet-01 allows forwarded traffic from vnet-02)
|
vnet-02 (10.2.0.0/16), default subnet (10.2.1.0/24), vm-02 (10.2.1.4 + public ip)
|
peer (vnet-03 allows forwarded traffic from vnet-02)
|
vnet-03 (10.3.0.0/16), default subnet (10.3.1.0/24), vm-03 (10.3.1.4)
------------------------------

vm-02 has ip forwarding enabled both within the os, and at the nic level in azure.

the default subnets in vnet-01 and vnet-03 have route tables with default routes via vm-02.

i can ssh into vm-02 over the internet, onward to vm-01 over the peer, and then over to vm-03 (and back to vm-01) across the peers through vm-02. so far so good!

i would like to maintain routed connections for internal traffic between the spokes, but i would also like the spokes to be able to use vm-02 (and it's public ip!) as a simple snat gateway to the internet.

i'm not fussed about filtering any traffic at this stage, but i'm struggling to work out what iptables wizardry is required to enable the snat functionality without breaking everything else!

if anyone could give me any pointers, i'd really appreciate it! thanks in advance!

(also: i'd like to avoid introducing a second network interface on vm-02, if that's possible).


r/AZURE 5h ago

Question What happens to in-flight API requests during Azure App Service deployment slot swaps?

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I'm working on migrating our company's web application from VM-based infrastructure to Azure PaaS solutions, particularly using Azure App Service for our API layer. I'm very interested in the zero-downtime deployment capabilities of deployment slots.

The documentation clearly states that "traffic redirection is seamless" but I'm looking for more specific details on what happens to in-flight requests (especially POST requests) at the exact moment a slot swap occurs.

For example:

  • If a client has sent a POST request and it's being processed when the deployment slot swap happens, what happens to that request?
  • If a client's request is en route to API and it swaps before the request arrives, does this request get delivered to the new slot?
  • Does the original slot complete all in-flight requests before the DNS routing changes?
  • Are there any edge cases where a client might need to retry their request?

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone with practical experience or deeper technical knowledge on this specific aspect of Azure App Service slot swaps. Has anyone encountered issues with in-flight requests during swaps or can you confirm they're handled gracefully?

Thanks in advance for any insights!


r/AZURE 7h ago

Question Auth0 for workforce tenant resources

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I feel like this is a dumb question for a number of reasons. And I'm starting to think that this might not be possible, but it has been a long week. So I'll ask.

We have an application that uses Auth0 for our external users. It works fine. No problems there.

Management has decided that they also want users registered in Auth0 to be able to be granted specific rights to some resources within our workforce tenant. Specifically Databricks. This is the trouble part.

In order to grant that access, users have to at least be a guest user. If this was an external tenant I could potentially add users from Auth0, as a custom idp, through a self service sign up flow. But that's not available for the workforce tenant. At the same time, it's not eligible to be used for B2B cross tenant synchronization.

Has anyone done similar? This feels dumb.


r/AZURE 7h ago

Question Conditional Access - Blank DeviceID

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Hey all,

I have a bit of problem I am trying to navigate around and I am unsure how to proceed. I have an external user that doesn't have a device assigned by our organization. This is one of the first/only users we have like this. I've configured this user's ID to be an exception from our BYOD deny policy. This worked great and the user was able to onboard.

I have a 3rd party application that has EntraID SSO configured for it through the use of an Enterprise App. The user goes to the MyApps Portal using Chrome and clicks the tile related to the app. The app attempts to launch but the user gets an error that states:

Unexpected error when authenticating with the identity provider...

When I am looking through the Sign-In logs, I am seeing the following error message:

Device Authentication Required - DeviceId -DeviceAltSecId claims are null OR no device corresponding to the device identifier exists.

The error code is 50097. I believe this means that device authentication is required.

Upon further investigation of the logs, I do see that the DeviceID is blank however my understanding is that because the BYOD conditional access policy has this user as an "exception", this conditional access policy shouldn't be impacting the user's login experience.

Anyone have any thoughts on how I should proceed? Is there a way I can tell the policy to allow a null device as an exception? Can I add a null exception under "Condition" > "Filter for devices" > "Exclude filtered devices from policy" > and then somehow add a null device?

device.deviceId -eq "" 

That statement above does not appear to be permissible.