Updates, Lifecycle & Status
Track what is new, what is retiring, and whether Azure is healthy right now.
The canonical feed of every new feature, preview, GA, and retirement announcement.
Live charts and heat maps of services, updates, and the deprecations timeboard.
Authoritative end-of-support dates for every Microsoft product and feature, searchable by year.
A clean, filterable calendar view of upcoming Azure service retirements.
Live global service-health and outage status across all regions.
Pricing & Cost
Estimate, compare, and optimise what your Azure footprint will cost.
Build and estimate the cost of a full solution before you deploy.
Compare on-premises vs Azure total cost of ownership.
Unauthenticated price data for automation, dashboards, and reporting.
Fast VM price comparison across regions and SKUs — great for cost tuning.
$200 credit plus always-free services — the way to start hands-on labs without spending.
Every Azure VM size with specs and pricing side by side — the Azure edition of EC2Instances.info.
Governance, Policy & Security
Design guardrails, custom roles, and a secure baseline.
Searchable, change-tracked catalog of Policy, initiatives, aliases, RBAC roles, and provider operations.
Ready-to-use built-in policy and initiative definitions.
Baseline security controls mapped directly to Azure services.
Security advisories, CVEs, and official update guidance.
Architecture & Frameworks
Proven reference designs and the frameworks Microsoft builds on.
Reference architectures, design patterns, and best-practice guides.
The five pillars for designing and reviewing any workload.
End-to-end guidance: strategy, landing zones, migrate, and operate.
Community-contributed ARM/Bicep templates for common deployments.
Networking & Compute
Plan IP ranges and latency; pick the right VM and image.
JSON of all service IP ranges for firewall and NSG rules.
Measure latency from your location to every Azure region; storage speed tests.
Searchable VM image URNs (publisher / offer / SKU / version) for IaC and CLI.
Guided picker to find the right VM family for a workload.
Interactive 3D globe of every Azure region, datacenter, and connecting network.
Developer, IaC & Identity
Author infrastructure as code and explore the platform and Graph APIs.
Query all your resources at scale with KQL — the successor to the retired Resource Explorer.
Every resource type’s schema and properties for IaC authoring.
Author Bicep and see the compiled ARM JSON side by side.
Standard naming conventions and recommended resource prefixes.
Try Microsoft Graph / Entra ID API calls live against sample or your tenant.
Keyboard-style quick-launch shortcuts to Azure, Entra, and M365 admin blades.
Microsoft-maintained, Well-Architected-aligned Bicep and Terraform modules — the current IaC best practice.
Learning & Community
Official docs, training, and the best free community deep-dives.
Docs, training paths, free practice assessments, and certification info.
Product-team blogs, deep-dives, and announcements.
Widely-trusted free deep-dive videos and certification cram series.
Free official practice assessments for AZ-900, AZ-104, and most Microsoft certification exams.
Weekly official show — Azure engineers demo new services and features in ~15-minute episodes.
Long-running free community newsletter summarising the week in Azure — a painless way to stay current.
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