Azure Security Center now recommends DDoS protection

Security is top of mind for most Azure customers. To have peace of mind when it comes to security for assets running on Azure, Microsoft continuously works to improve on the security recommendations Azure Security Center provides:

Resources for which DDoS protection can be enabled

Recommendation details and affected resources Starting now Azure Security Center in the Standard pricing tier will recommend Azure DDoS Protection for virtual networks as an additional layer of protection against attacks.

Azure DDoS Protection (Source: [Microsoft](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ddos-protection-overview)) — Azure DDoS Protection (Source: Microsoft)

New Azure Security Center Swagger and SDKs available

29 August 2018·80 words·1 min

It just has become easier to manage Azure Security Center at scale. While not all aspects of Azure Security Center can be automated yet Microsoft just released updated Swagger definitions for working with Azure Security Center. This includes an updated documentation where you can directly try requests to the API against your tenants you have access to.

Azure Security Center per-hour billing

31 May 2018·89 words·1 min

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Currently billing for Azure Security Center is reported on a per-node, per-month basis. Starting July 1st 2018 this reporting will be changed to per-node, per-hour to achieve more granularity in billing. Billing is still pro-rated thus you’ll only pay for the time a node was actually using the service.

Azure Security Center cost for stopped VMs

2 May 2018·56 words·1 min

An interesting question came up in a conversation today: How are the costs for Azure Security Center Standard pricing tier calculated for nodes that are stopped?

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