Microsoft's Azure and Research teams have been working together two years to build a mirror of the Azure production network in order to test hardware and software changes before they're made to Azure.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of Network HUD for Azure Stack HCI, which is designed to detect and address networking issues.

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.