Evgeny Borzenin
Azure Solutions Architect Expert | Senior Consultant at Konsulentselskapet Ensō AS
Oslo, Norway
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I am an Azure Solutions Architect Expert with over 30 years of experience spanning development, architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
My career started with building complex distributed systems in the financial sector, and for the past decade I have focused on Azure, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
I am particularly passionate about automation, immutable infrastructure, and building cloud platforms that are predictable, repeatable, and resilient by design.
As a Senior Consultant at Konsulentselskapet Ensō AS, I work at the intersection of development and infrastructure — helping teams modernize safely and sustainably.
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Hope Is Not a Strategy: Azure Disaster Recovery in Practice
Nothing stress-tests a disaster recovery plan like a real outage. After being hit by failures across multiple Azure services, we learned that a plan you haven't tested is really just a hypothesis.
Most teams have a plan for when things go wrong. Few have tested it under real pressure. Even fewer actually trust it when everything is on fire.
In this session, we’ll ground you in the fundamentals — RTO, RPO, failover strategies, and what business continuity really means when alerts are flooding in and time is running out. From there, we’ll walk through some of the concepts and services from Azure toolbox — paired regions, availability zones, Traffic Manager, Key Vault, Storage — not as a checklist, but through the lens of the decisions we had to make when things broke.
But the real story is what we got wrong. The assumptions that seemed reasonable until they weren't. The gaps we only discovered under pressure. The workbooks that saved us. We'll also cover immutable infrastructure as a key technique for making recovery predictable and repeatable. And if you're considering a DR region that isn't paired with your primary — we've been there too, and there are extra challenges you'll want to know about before you commit.
You'll leave with a clearer mental model of BCDR in Azure, a concrete checklist of things to validate before you need them, and at least one thing we'd do differently from day one.
Improving Network Observability with Azure Connection Monitor
Need better visibility into your cloud and hybrid networks—without setting up a complex observability stack? This lightning talk shows you how Azure Connection Monitor can help you monitor connectivity, detect issues, and respond to network failures before they hit your SLAs. Fast, practical, and demo-focused.
Immutable Infrastructure on Azure
When you design your infrastructure provisioning model, you need to choose whether you want your infrastructure to be mutable or immutable.
In a traditional mutable infrastructure, infra components are incrementally updated and modified in place. An immutable infrastructure is another paradigm in which infrastructure components are never modified after they are provisioned.
Join me at my session where I will show you how to model a blue-green infrastructure provisioning process. You will learn what tools and options are available at the market, how to structure resource groups and how to use Traffic Manager or Azure Front Door to implement canary testing of your services under new infrastructure with “close to 0” down time.
This talk is rated level 200-300 with a target audience of developers and architects working with Azure infrastructure. You will hear a lot about automation, infrastructure as code and will learn what load-balancing options are available on Azure.
Workshop: Working with Azure Virtual Network Manager
This is level 100 workshop that covers different aspects of working with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) where you will learn what AVNM is and:
- How to segment your virtual networks with Network Groups
- How to implement hub-and-spoke and mesh network topology with AVNM
- How to secure your virtual networks using AVNM rule-set
- How to route spoke-to-spoke traffic via Azure Firewall
- How to manage the IP addresses of your virtual networks using AVNM IP Address Management (IPAM).
and much more...
Workshop is organized as a combination of theoretical blocks with slides and hand-on labs. Estimated time for workshop completion is 3 hours.
Building Secure Azure Networks with Azure Firewall (Hands-On Workshop)
This Beginner/Intermediate (level 200) hands-on workshop explores practical aspects of designing, deploying, and operating Azure Firewall in real-world environments. By the end of the two days, participants will gain a solid understanding of Azure Firewall capabilities, learn how to implement secure, scalable network architectures using proven design patterns and will have the knowledge and practical experience required to confidently design, deploy, and operate Azure Firewall in production environments.
The workshop begins with an overview of Azure Firewall, its core features, and common enterprise use cases. From there, attendees will deploy and configure Azure Firewall in a hub-and-spoke topology, learning how to integrate it into existing Azure networking designs.
A significant focus is placed on Azure Firewall Policy, its structure, rule processing logic, and best practices for organizing and managing policies at scale. Participants will create and manage both Network and Application rules, gaining clarity on rule evaluation, prioritization, and common configuration pitfalls.
Operational excellence is also covered in depth. The workshop examines SNAT port exhaustion, its causes, impact on workloads, and effective mitigation strategies. Finally, attendees will learn how to monitor Azure Firewall using logs and metrics, enabling visibility, troubleshooting, and proactive performance management.
The Azure Network Detective: Advanced Troubleshooting Techniques
This Beginner/Intermediate (level 200), two-day hands-on workshop focuses on the practical aspects of troubleshooting Azure networking in real-world environments. By the end of this workshop, participants will have a practical toolkit of techniques and best practices to troubleshoot Azure networking issues efficiently in real-world scenarioos.
Through guided labs and real scenarios, participants will explore how to use VNet Flow Logs to gain network visibility, leverage Azure Network Watcher toolset for effective diagnostics, and identify outbound connectivity problems. We will break down routing challenges, explain how to validate effective routes, and troubleshoot misconfigurations across VNets, peering, and hybrid connections.
Participants will also learn how to monitor network performance, collect and interpret diagnostic logs, capture and analyze packets, and understand traffic behavior across Azure networking components. The workshop emphasizes structured troubleshooting methodology, helping to move from symptoms to root cause with confidence.
Evgeny Borzenin
Azure Solutions Architect Expert | Senior Consultant at Konsulentselskapet Ensō AS
Oslo, Norway
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