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Steve Miles
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Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.
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Azure Dedicated Host

With Azure being a shared resources computing platform, this means that the default premise is that any VMs you create will run on a multi-tenant platform, thus you share the underlying physical hardware virtualization hosts with other tenants (organizations). However, your VMs and their workloads are isolated from other workloads on other VMs.

Putting this into an analogy, this means that you may have your own individual hotel room, but you share the hotel building itself with others; you may have your own dedicated front door to access your room, and each person has their own door (as it were) to their own room, but you all share the same corridor, stairs, lifts, restaurant, lobby, front entrance, car park, and so on.

However, Azure Dedicated Host changes that model and provides physical virtualization hosts dedicated to individual customers to host their Azure VMs for Windows and Linux workloads. In our analogy, this means that the building and its contents...

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Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.
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