6. Azure load balancers are awesome
• PROXY protocol not required
• Direct Server Return
• UDP support
7. Also awesome on Azure
• Resource Manager Templates
• Compare actual state
• SecureString parameters
• Multi-location
• Resource Explorer
• https://resources.azure.com
• Price
8. Where Azure is different
• Azure Availability Sets
• Less tangible
• Cross-Zone Load Balancing
• Subnets
9. Where Azure is surprisingly different
• Virtual Machines Scale Sets
• Cannot be created in the portal*
• Virtual Machines can’t receive public IP addresses
• Virtual Machine identification