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Affinity groups allow you to group your Windows Azure services to optimize performance.

All services within an affinity group will be located in the same data center. An affinity group is required in order to create a virtual network. For more information about affinity groups, see About Affinity Groups for Virtual Network and Operations on Affinity Groups (REST API).

When you create affinity groups, keep the following in mind:

  • Affinity group names must be unique within a Windows Azure subscription.
  • A virtual network must be placed within an affinity group.
  • If you plan to create a virtual network by using the Custom Create wizard in the Management Portal, you can create an affinity group within the wizard. You don’t need to create it beforehand.
  • If you plan to import a configuration file to create a virtual network, you must first create an affinity group before you import the file. To create an affinity group, use the following procedure:
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Are there any charges for affinity group in Windows Azure and how to move existing services together

I came across with affinity group terms and it's tells that it will increase performance and reduce bill somehow. what i want to know that Is there any charges for creating affinity group? Is it desirable to user for Windows Azure Websites &…
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Azure - relation between resource group and affinity group

I have read about affinity group, and it allocates the services close in the datacenter, same rack. On the other hand, the new resource groups give me easy access for managing my services related. I want to deploy an App with a website + sql +…
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WF4 Affinity on Windows Azure and other NLB environments

I'm using Windows Azure and WF4 and my workflow service is hosted in a web-role (with N instances). My job now is find out how to do an affinity, in a way that I can send messages to the right workflow instance. To explain this scenario, my workflow…
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Is there still a performance benefit in affinity groups inside regional virtual networks?

Now there's the new Azure Regional Virtual Networks feature that spans a region, is there a performance benefit of using affinity groups? In the FAQ part of the linked blog post there reads Do I incur any performance degradation for services…
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no option to add affinity group to virtual network azure

The option to specify an affinity group when creating a virtual network in azure seems to have disappeared from the form. I can still attach to a location though. How do I get this option back.
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Affinity Groups in Azure

I don't understand why some Azure resources can be aligned with an Affinity Group, but others can't. Example: I just tried creating a Service Bus namespace. I'd like to align it with an existing affinity group, but I'm only able to select a region.…
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Azures Arr Affinity response cookie

Once you consume and set Azure ARRAffinity response cookie and send it back to Azure, are you supposed to get it back with next response ? I just completed bit of code what brings Azure response cookie all the way to browser, sets it as a session…
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Virtual Machines all got restarted together, how to avoid that?

My virtual machines got restarted together by fabric controller. I think this is because I set them all in one virtual network and one affinity group. How can I avoid them been restarted together? They must be in the same network
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Multiple login prompts from azure application gateway V2

I have configured an application behind my application gateway V2 and it is providing multiple logins prompts. I Have enabled cookie-based affinity on my HTTP settings as outlined in the Azure Application Gateway Documentation, Application Gateway…
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