When developing solutions for Azure, it is very useful to have a local development experience. This is good for development, integration tests, and validation of approaches. When using Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, or Service Fabric, there is a very good local emulator story. But for Event Hubs, there is no local emulator story, so all development and integration testing needs to use the real thing, which causes a number of issues. For example, integration tests now need to provision an isolated Event Hub, and then ensure that it gets torn down.

It would be much better if we had a local emulator for Azure Event Hubs. In the style of Cosmos would be best (cross platform, general parity in features.

Hi Microsoft,
I can’t help thinking that Microsoft is pursuing some sort of imperialist western agenda with the deployment of its worldwide Azure Datacenters! As an independent software developer based here in Dubai with clients right across Africa, The Middle East and the Sub-continent we currently have the choice of hosting in Western Europe (Amsterdam) which is between 6500km and 8000km away from our clients, or South East Asia (Singapore) 5000 to 11000kms away.
Guys it is time to realize that there is 2/5's of the world’s population nearby - let’s see something proactive in terms of datacenter deployment, and get the priorities right instead of deploying two new datacenters in Australia to service only 20mill people.
Get with it fellows!

I cannot afford to have a runaway process or a mistake in the Azure portal to generate a huge bill for me.

Many of the special offers that give Azure credits come with a spending limit of $0.00 such that when your credit is used up, your account is temporarily disabled until your credits are refreshed.

However, you can only remove the spending limit. You cannot change it to a higher level.

Also, Pay as you Go accounts cannot have a spending limit either.

It would be extremely useful to be able to set a spending limit on Pay as you go or Dev Essentials and would make users far less afraid to turning on new services.

I know there is an spending alert that you can turn on (which has been in preview for a very very long time), but all that does is send an email.

That is just not sufficient. If that email is overlooked or goes into your spam folder then you can still end up with a giant bill.

This feature would be important for Personal accounts and larger businesses.

For example, I have personal Azure account linked to my personal credit card. I don't mind spending a limited amount on Azure each month but I can't afford to risk getting a multi-hundred or thousand dollar bill just because I clicked the wrong button.

Application gateway has a very low listener limit (20 listeners / certificates). This severely limits it's usefulness for multi-tenant/domain applications where a web farm / service hosts many endpoints. IIS itself has no such small limit, but due to constraints on certificate deployment in cloud services, Application Gateway is the only clear path to wide scale SNI based SSL hosting. With it's low limit, it does not come close to meeting our use case. I would suggest the limit be removed or set to a very high limit like 10k+ so many certificates could be bound to host many different domains.

Hello ! At this moment we can fail over in "Azure to Azure" model only between region's locations. For example if source resource group is located in West Europe we cannot use USA as a target location. Six months ago or more there was a disaster fail of a whole region - unfortunately, I don't remember what was it. However, you will find this event in Azure event logs on the portal. I kindly ask Azure backend team - would you be so kind modify "Azure to Azure" mode and include different regions for target and resource groups please ? We need this feature for our project very much as soon, as possible because we need to implement this feature on our production site as our client insists only on using of different regions.
I'm opened for any discussions, so please do not hesitate and contact me if you need. If you need any details or help in testing please contact me - I'm ready to spend extra time for this case.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Andrey Vishnikin.

see [REG:115031012492134] support reference for full history of this issue

Hi,
It would be great if you could answer the following questions:
1) Please show me where on the azure web site that it states that cloud services are auto deleted immediately if a subscription is disabled for any reason.
2) Please let me know if you also delete cloud services automatically without warning “by design” if a credit card expires or fails dues to funds shortage or the like?
3) Why do you want to seriously annoy your customers by designing your system like this????? That is a ridiculous design! How many partners and the like have you deleted all their work from when a subscription expired????? Please register my utmost infuriation with your management.
4) Please confirm if your standard email response which I received (see below) is wrong? It clearly states all data will be deleted in 90 days.

Hello David Hince,
The following subscription has reached its monthly free Microsoft Azure limit and has been disabled.
Subscription Name: Intertec Action Pack Subscription
To get details about your account usage limits, go to: https://account.windowsazure.com
If you are not in the last month of your subscription term, your Microsoft Azure service will be restored on your subscription's next monthly anniversary.
If you would like to re-enable service for this subscription now, you can upgrade to a paid subscription by signing in to http://account.windowsazure.com using your david.hince@intertec.com.au Microsoft account. Once there, go to this subscription and follow the link to upgrade to a paid subscription. If you upgrade to a paid subscription, you will only be charged standard rates for usage that exceeds free monthly quantities included with your offer.
If you are in the last month of your subscription term and decide not to upgrade to a paid subscription, all data will be deleted in 90 days. Please be sure to retrieve any data you want to keep.
Thank you!
Microsoft Azure