Besides the Azure Portal of course, there are some useful and nicely done websites that I use during my workshops. Maybe they are also helpful for your next meeting.

Azure Charts

This site from Alexey Polkovnikov gives you a great overview over all Azure services and their latest updates. At this moment the region comparison tool is very useful to me. I use it for example to show my customers what services are still missing in the new Germany datacenters compared to West Europe.

Azure Charts, Azure Region Scope: service presence in Germany West Central compared to West Europe, grouped by category

Azure Speed

If my customers asking me about the “best” Azure region for they workloads from their location, i’ll open up Azure Speed and then discuss with them.

Azure Speed: the closest datacenters (Germany West Central, France Central, Switzerland North) and a latency chart for the selected regions

azureprice.net

When talking about different prices for the same service in each region, I’m opening azureprice.net/region and show them the difference in VM pricing.

azureprice.net: bar chart of the average VM price in USD per hour for each Azure region, from East US 2 as the cheapest to West Europe as the most expensive

AAD Application Proxy Port Check

“Are we ready for AAD App Proxy?” - Start with checking the connections from your designated server. It’s a nice starting point.

msappproxy.net domain Ports Test Tool: port 443 is reachable in all listed Azure regions, green check marks from Central US to Japan East

If you have more useful sites, let me know!

Christoph Vollmann
Christoph VollmannSenior Cloud Architect at SoftwareOne and Microsoft MVP for Azure Networking. Routing, DNS, firewalls and Private Endpoints, preferably with Bicep or Terraform.LinkedInGitHubAbout mePhoto: Matthias Piekacz

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