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Basics

How do I request a Cornell Azure subscription?

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Login to https://portal.azure.com with your Cornell netId credentials. If the login process asks you, choose "school/work account", not "microsoft.com account".

Support

How much does Azure support cost?

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• All Azure subscriptions managed by the CIT Cloud Team have access to Premier-level support (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/). See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-supportability/how-to-create-azure-support-request for your options for creating a support request.
• Email the CIT Cloud Team at cloud-support@cornell.edu. At present the CIT Cloud Team is ramping up expertise in Azure so support is available on a best-effort basis.

Costs & Billing

How am I billed for my Azure charges?

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Cornell does receive a discount by virtue of having an Enterprise Agreement (EA) with Microsoft. Any subscription that is under our EA automatically receives the discount. The discount percentage is variable based on the service. To see the exact EA price for each Azure resource, please follow the instructions here :   Azure Pricing Calculator

Is there a data egress waiver in Azure, like there is in AWS?

In short, yes Yes there is a data egress waiver. See See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-egress-fee-waiver-for-the-academic-community/

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Yes. Campus 10 space has been extended to Azure via an ExpressRoute connection. 

Authorization and Authentication

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Yes! You can use any combination of individual netIDs and/or security groups to meet your need. Documentation to make permission changes is available directly from Microsoft.

I'm working with a researcher at another institution, can I invite them to my Azure subscription to collaborate?

You can as long as they have a Microsoft account. Any person from an institution that is using O365 will have a Microsoft account. Additionally, even personal Microsoft accounts can be invited. You can scope their access as appropriate from the subscription as a whole even down to the individual resource level.

Learning

What training options are there to learn more about Azure?

Microsoft offers a free online learning path for Azure Fundamentals. In addition to that, within the Microsoft Learn training options, there are currently 316 1,381 related to "Azure".

 Additional training opportunities are available here: Azure Training

Virtual Machines

What are the recommended settings for synchronizing the system clock?

Images from the Azure Marketplace should include default configurations for system clock management.  These range from using an emulated real-time-clock within the guest or reaching out to public network time servers around the world.

 In In cases where you have configured restrictive Network Security Groups (NSG) that limit out-bound traffic, you should confirm that outbound probes to NTP servers are permitted.  Typically, this traffic operates on UDP port 123.  No special in-bound rules are required, since NSGs at Azure are stateful.

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All Windows Server images at Azure are provisioned by default with a 128GB OS disk. Azure does not officially support shrinking the size of the OS disk. To provision a Windows Server with a smaller (32GB) OS disk, you need to select the OS image that is indicated as "smalldisk". Growing the OS disk can be done at any time after the VM is in a "deallocated" state. See how to grow a disk at Azure.

Can I resolve Cornell 10-space addresses to hostnames in Azure?

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https://microsoft.github.io/AzureTipsAndTricks/

Azure Migration Examples 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/contoso-migration-overview

Fun Trivia

How to say Azure, Microsoft's Cloud Platform

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