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All sample PowerShell companion code for this blog can be found here . Azure has plenty of tools that do one thing really well, and Azure Resource Mover fits right into that category. If you need to move supported resources across regions without rebuilding from scratch, this is your tool. The trick is knowing what it was built for, what it refuses to touch, and how to use it without creating a surprise outage. This guide walks through what Resource Mover is good at, what it

The code referenced in this blog can be found here ! There are still moments when Azure catches me by surprise. Back when I first moved away from traditional on-prem environments, I was convinced the Contributor role was almost identical to Owner , just without the ability to manage access or view billing. Simple, right? Turns out that was completely wrong, and what I learned since then keeps saving me headaches every time I spin up a new environment. My goal of this post is

Tis the season! Customers always ask the most interesting questions about cloud capabilities. This one isn't documented well and you have to sort of piece it together by "reading the tea leaves" (my least favorite). A customer asked me a question that sounded simple enough: “Can we stand up Azure Migrate in our brownfield tenant, run dependency mapping there, and then use Azure Migrate to migrate workloads into our new greenfield tenant?” If you’ve ever led a large-scale migr

a.k.a. Here's Your Full Guide to Understanding Azure Cloud Governance Without Losing Your Mind or Sanity Cloud governance is one of those topics that sounds straightforward until you start hearing people use the same five words to describe completely different things. You walk into a meeting and someone says, “We should solve this with Azure Policy,” and someone else responds, “We need a Blueprint,” and a third person chimes in with, “This belongs in our Service Group model.”

Cloud engineering looks complicated from the outside. But when you peel back some layers, it doesn't seem so daunting. I believe in breaking down tricky concepts so that even a six-year-old could understand. We don’t need to make everything so complicated that no one gets it. To me, that's the quickest way to lose the hearts and minds of your esteemed colleagues, customers, and peers. The Complexity of Cloud Engineering What I've found is that folks often imagine giant Terraf

I was reminded of Conway’s Law the day I watched an episode of The Bear where Carmy tried to redesign the entire kitchen workflow in the middle of lunch service. Onions were flying. Pans were screaming. Richie yelled “cousin” every twelve seconds. Sydney was five seconds away from either fixing everything or throwing a stainless steel pan into the alley. Half the staff looked like one more missed step would send them into a new career that involved silence and scented candles