Sujit, Kendall, and Cynthia talk with the one and only Richard Campbell on how to tell the cloud story, the conversations to have with customers as they enter the cloud and the implications of globally distributed cloud that needs to be considered. Probably one of our favorite shows.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode285.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/538a6024a4/?location=EUS2

Kendall, Cynthia and Sujit talk with Abel Wang, Anthony Chu and Cecil Phillip on their respective focus areas on DevOps, Serverless and Students.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode284.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/bf9e9a1533/

Sujit and Cynthia talk with VS & .NET Director, Scott Hunter, on how Microsoft is shifting paradigms in the Linux world and .NET development experience with Azure.

Audio file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode283.mp3 

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/d7a742f921/

Cynthia talks with Sharad Agrawal on what Azure Front Door Service is, how to choose between Azure Front Door Service, CDN, Azure Traffic Manager and App Gateway, and how to get started.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode282.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/cc15977be8/?location=EUS2

Kendall and Cynthia talk with Sujay Talasila and Won Huh on how to think about Disaster Recovery, differences that need to be considered between Disaster Recovery and Backups, and recommended practices that users should consider.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode281.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/48a5536153

Cynthia talks with Satya Vel on the latest ARM template updates including an enhanced template export experience, best practices for ARM clients, and new capabilities that are now available on ARM templates.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode280.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/cd48c483cc/

Kendall and Cynthia talk with Matthew Henderson on the latest updates on Azure Functions including Azure Functions on Kubernetes with KEDA, PowerShell language support, and stateful entities.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode279.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/9a12088a97/

In this first show from Build 2019, Cynthia and Kendall talk with Byron Tardif and Nitasha Verma about what is new on Azure App Service and the Azure App Service Migration Assistant to migrate sites from Windows or Linux Server to a Azure App Service.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode278.mp3 

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/e8e6b273dc

Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Nills Franssens discussed a cool approach to help customers automate the network security settings in Azure to reduce errors and improve traceability of the infrastructure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode277.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/c30d2920e9/ 

Resources:

https://github.com /NillsF/NSG-CSV-to-ARM

https://www.slideshare.net/NillsFranssens/automating-network-firewall-rule-creation-using-powershell-and-cicd

Other updates:

Because we’re committed to delivering consistent, high performance and mission-ready solutions to Azure Government customers, we’re continually optimizing our cloud datacenter infrastructure to be more efficient and cost-effective. As part of this optimization, we’ll be retiring the Azure US Gov Iowa region on April 30, 2020, and you’ll need to migrate your resources to an alternative region to avoid service disruption. As with all changes of this type, we’re providing 12 months’ notice so you have adequate time to adjust.
We operate three additional government regions, all of which provide similar or enhanced capabilities to the US Gov Iowa region, including:
 · Access to a more comprehensive and growing portfolio of Azure services.
 · Identical comprehensive compliance and resiliency options.
 · High performance through our dedicated low-latency network.
Required action
Take these steps by April 30, 2020, to avoid disruptions to your applications and enjoy quality and feature updates:
 1. Choose from three alternate US Gov regions, located in Virginia, Texas and Arizona, for your Azure resources. We recommend the US Gov Virginia region, as it has the greatest number of available Azure services.
 2. Follow this comprehensive guidance to migrate to that region.
We encourage you to review the migration guidance at your earliest convenience and plan accordingly.

Monitoring enhancements for VMware and physical workloads protected with Azure Site Recovery
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/monitoring-enhancements-vmware-physical-azure/

Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray ClusterStor
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/supercomputing-in-the-cloud-announcing-three-new-cray-in-azure-offers/
Azure.Source - Volume 80
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-source-volume-80/
Serverless automation using PowerShell preview in Azure Functions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/serverless-automation-using-powershell-preview-in-azure-functions/

General availability: Azure Log Analytics in CENTRAL US, EAST US 2, EAST ASIA, WEST US and SOUTH CENTRAL US
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-log-analytics-in-central-us-east-us-2-east-asia-west-us-south-central-us/

Ryan Berry, an Azure Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft, talks about his own YouTube Channel where they distill down complex topics into bite sized chunks to make it easy for you to quickly leverage these features to address similar requirements you may have for moving something into Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode276.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/aa1007987f/ 

http://cloudsimplified.io/

Other updates:

Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 connectivity with full IPv6 support for Virtual Networks is now available. This lets you bring your private IPv6 space into Azure and enables connectivity over IPv6 within your Virtual Networks. With this, you’re able to address IPv4 depletion, meet regulatory requirements, and expand into the growing mobile and IoT markets with your Azure-based applications.
Dual stack Virtual Network also:
 · Builds on long-established Azure VM-to-internet IPv6 connectivity.
 · Enables fully IPv6 architectures to be hosted in Azure with IPv6 connectivity between virtual machines (VMs) in a virtual network, using IPv6 network security group rules, IPv6 user-defined routes, and load balancing across VMs. 
 · Allows Azure you to define your own IPv6 address space to meet the needs of your applications or customers.
 · Provides “dual stack upgrade-in-place” where you can add IPv6 connectivity to your existing applications without re-deploying.
 · Provides maximum service deployment flexibility, so a single service instance can connect with both IPv4 and IPv6-capable internet clients.
Dual Stack connectivity will preview globally in all Azure Public cloud regions—try it out in a region that’s convenient for you.
IPv6 is used by:
 · Government or customers in highly regulated industries.
 · Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications that use the enormous number of IPv6 addresses available.
 · Customers who want native (not translated) connectivity from their Azure applications to IPv6 mobile devices. 
 · Customers who deploy service instances in Azure with dedicated per customer connectivity.
 · Customers moving to the cloud (or hybrid) struggling with the exhaustion of their IPv4 space and the inability or expense of acquiring more IPv4. 

5 tips to get more out of Azure Stream Analytics Visual Studio Tools
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/5-tips-to-get-more-out-of-azure-stream-analytics-visual-studio-tools/

AI for Good: Developer challenge!
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ai-for-good- developer-challenge/

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cost Management features for all Pay-As-You-Go and Azure Government customers that will greatly enhance your ability to analyze and proactively manage your cloud costs. 
These features will allow you to analyze your cost data, configure budgets to drive accountability for cloud costs, and export pre-configured reports on a schedule to support deeper data analysis within your own systems. This release for Pay-As-You-Go customers also provides invoice reconciliation support in the Azure portal via a usage csv download of all charges applicable to your invoices.

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cost-management-now-generally-available-for-pay-as-you-go-customers/>

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cost-management-now-generally-available-for-pay-as-you-go-customers/>