Hey everyone,

TL;DR -- /r/WindowsAzure will be merging with /r/Azure. Posting will be disabled in /r/WindowsAzure on 12/16 at midnight EST.

Over the last couple of weeks the Mods of both Azure subreddits have been discussing combining forces to create a single subreddit where people will be able to learn about Azure products, ask questions to each other, engage with Azure Engineers, and not have to think "which one should I post on?" or cross posting.

If you're not subscribed to /r/Azure it is simply a "Subscribe" click. /r/WindowsAzure will be an auto-redirect to /r/Azure, you can also simple click "Unsubscribe" from /r/WindowsAzure.

It should be noted that as a result of this merge, the mod teams have been merged.

So why did we choose /r/Azure over /r/WindowsAzure? Both subreddits were relatively similar is size (as we write this post the numbers are 1,430 and 1,443 respectively). With the official name changing from "Windows Azure" to "Microsoft Azure", we figured "Azure" was shortest. Recent AMA's on /r/Azure have created an uptick in Azure Engineers being involved on the /r/Azure forum.

Will anything change? The goal is that the subreddit will continue to grow. As moderators, we don't have anything planned that will to limit/censor/modify anything. We are mainly software developers with a vested interest in keeping the sub sane.

We thank everyone for the patience in the transition, and will do anything to make this as quick and easy as possible. If you have any questions, feel free to message the moderators.

EDIT Sept. 8th, 2016

Clarified that we decided against an auto-redirect as we felt the history of this sub was valuable and should remain viewable.

Hey guys,

I have my personal website with a custom domain name and I was curious if it is worth it to move form 1&1 at $8.99 to whatever azure would be a month for my site.

I posted these in my blog but thought I'd share them here as well. These are some of the recent learning resources that I've come across from Microsoft.

• Developer Tools Download

• AzureCon On-Demand Videos

• A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from Microsoft

• AzureCon Keynote Announcements: India Regions, GPU Support, IoT Suite, Container Service, and Security Center

• Five questions to ask when choosing an IoT provider for your business

• Windows 10 development for absolute beginners

• Zero to Continuous Deployment of Dockerized App for Dev-Test in Azure

• Platform As A Service, Ease of Use, Rich Features Make Microsoft Azure Awesome

• Preparing your Enterprise for Windows 10 as a Service

• What's new in Windows Server 2016 Preview

Share and Enjoy!

I have a client in a use it or lose it situation who has about 10k of extra azure monetary commit on his EA. He wants to renew with the same amount but he needs to show he used his Azure this year to get executive buy in next year for the same amount.

He needs to burn roughly $10k azure in about 2 weeks. Any ideas of creative ways he can burn through it, it does not need to be productive use.