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Alan Kinane
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Azure Practice Lead based in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 Microsoft MVP in Azure and Security.
***New blog post***

Using Traffic Manager to Failover or Bypass Azure Front Door

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Using Traffic Manager to Failover or Bypass Azure Front Door
Microsoft unfortunately suffered not one but two major service outages in October 2025 on their Azure Front Door service. This is a global (non-regional) load balancing service offering CDN and WAF…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Football, F1 and then the final round of the masters sounds like an ideal Sunday to me. Enjoying the final rays of sunshine first before that disappears again from Ireland for who knows how long.
April 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Tomorrow is your last day to submit your session for #AzureSpringClean an amazing set of submissions already, make sure to submit yours to be part of it! azurespringclean.com #MVPBuzz #CloudFamily
February 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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We’re back for another year! #AzureSpringClean returns in March, and the CfS is now open azurespringclean.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A nice reminder that I need to apply to for a few speaking sessions in 2025.
January 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We're at that stage of the year where everyone in IT is just praying that some new problem doesn't land on their desk until after the holidays.
December 19, 2024 at 3:05 PM
My blog post for Festive Tech Calendar 2024 is now live! Come and learn all about Azure's Business Continuity Center here.

https://azurealan.ie/2024/12/10/tidings-of-comfort-and-joy-with-azures-business-continuity-center/

#Azure #FestiveTechCalendar
Tidings of Comfort and Joy with Azure’s Business Continuity Center
I'm delighted to present my contribution to the Festive Tech Calendar which is now in it's sixth year. Thanks to all the event organisers for pulling together so much fantastic content once again, it just continues to get bigger and better each year. Well done everyone. This year, I have chosen to write a post on Azure Business Continuity Center which has very recently gone into general availability.
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December 10, 2024 at 10:00 AM
☝️☝️Verified! ☝️☝️
December 3, 2024 at 10:32 PM
En route for day 2 of #MsIgnite. Busy schedule of meetings, sessions and labs today. I will hopefully cross paths with a few more MVPs throughout the day. Come over and say hi if you spot me.
November 20, 2024 at 2:27 PM
All boarded for #MsIgnite here in Dublin. See you in about 8 hours Chicago!
November 17, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Here we go again....
September 20, 2023 at 3:56 PM