Every cloud journey often begins with Virtual Machines in Azure—sometimes as a temporary solution, sometimes as a long-term setup due to legacy applications. While deploying VMs is straightforward, running them efficiently and securely requires thoughtful planning and best practices.

In this session, we’ll explore the most common mistakes in Azure VM deployments and how to avoid them using built-in Azure services. The focus will be on reducing management overhead, enhancing automation, and simplifying provisioning and security.

Key topics include:

Right-sizing VMs and automating deployments
Ensuring uptime and resilience
Leveraging Azure tools to streamline operations and protect workloads

Whether you're just starting with Azure or managing a mature environment, this session will provide actionable insights to improve your VM strategy and reduce costs.

In this session we will discuss the most common mistakes and which Azure services are suitable to avoid them. The session will have a 50:50 ratio of slides and demo and is aimed at cloud admins, architects and security managers