The Azure Podcast
Evan and Sujit catch up on a number of recent news items in the Azure space spanning Networking, Open AI and IBM Mainframes???
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode492.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/WslylOKwXDM
Resources:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/announcing-app-service-multi-plan-subnet-join/ba-p/3971493
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-of-azure-logic-apps-connectors-for-ibm-mainframe-and-midranges/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-of-azure-openai-and-ai-search-inapp-connectors-for-logic-apps-standard/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/alt-fairfax/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-backup-vm-disk-access-public-preview/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/write-to-delta-lake
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-high-performance-computing-leads-to-developing-amazing-products-at-microsoft-surface/
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central. | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/expressroutemetro/
Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Using Azure OpenAI speech to create our intro/exit segments in the podcast https://speech.microsoft.com/portal
Keywords: News
Filed Under: Podcast
The team talks with Amit Bajaj about the new Retirement Workbook customers can use to keep track of services they are using that are being retired.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode491.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z83s9lhOUTg
Prepare migration of your workloads impacted by service retirements. - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn
Azure Service Retirement Workbook (microsoft.com)
Visualize Azure Service Retirements (microsoft.com)
3-Year Notification Subset - Microsoft Lifecycle | Microsoft Learn
Other updates:
Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on VMware | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Lifecycle
Russell and Evan discuss the preview Azure API Center with Julia Kasper, Microsoft's Product Manager.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode490.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/mJnaCqgnPSg
Keywords: API Management, APIM, APIs, API
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In this episode, we delve into a cornerstone service within Azure that is sometimes underestimated or missed in design discussions: the Azure Storage service. Our guest, Ben Hummerstone, a seasoned Cloud Solution Architect based in the UK, brings his expertise in storage and other infrastructure services to the forefront. Ben shares a valuable set of guiding principles to assist you in crafting the optimal storage architecture for your application.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/XIKxPRI1G-Y
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-government/azure-secure-isolation-guidance#high-level-azure-storage-architecture
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/scalability-targets
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/access-tiers-overview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-support-for-http-streams-in-nodejs/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-kubernetes-129-support-in-aks/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cloud-services-classic-retirement-announcement-feb2024/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-netapp-files-volume-enhancement-allow-the-same-file-path-for-volumes-in-different-availability-zones/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-os-sku-inplace-migration-for-linux-nodes/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/ga-istiobased-service-mesh-addon-for-azure-kubernetes-service/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-disable-network-policy-for-migration-in-aks/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-capacity-reservations-support-in-aks/
Keywords: Storage
Jose Moreno a Customer Engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team joins Sujit and Russell to talk about Networking, and more specifically discusses best practices for Express Route configuration and monitoring with an eye on resiliency and performance.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode488.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/KUhODMaQjEU
Keywords: Networking, Networks, Networking;Hybrid, ExpressRoute
Filed Under: Blog | Podcast
Fabian Gonzalez and Azure escalation engineer and Jack Lichwa, a PM in the Azure Key Vault team, revisit the Key Vault service which forms the backbone of any deployment. They remind us of the features that Key Vault offers and give us valuable tips and tricks to configure and deploy them effectively in your workloads.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode487.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Pd5seEyqTzI
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-aks-cluster-control-plane-metrics-in-managed-prometheus/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-improvements-in-azure-key-vault/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/accelerate-developer-onboarding-with-the-configuration-as-code/ba-p/4062416
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-blob-storage-cold-tier-support-on-change-feed-and-object-replication/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-customer-managed-key-encryption-for-enterprise-tier-caches/
Keywords: Key Vault
Technical Program Manager in the Azure Commerce team, Obinna Nwokolo explains exactly what the new Azure Savings Plan is all about and how you can easily take advantage of it via the Portal experience. He digs into the various options for cutting costs in Azure and when the Savings Plan makes sense for you.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode486.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qwt728PUz0U
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generalavailabilityofazuremonitormetricsdataplaneapi/
Keywords: Cost
Santosh Somayajula, a Principal Product Manager in Azure, breaks down the new Copilot for Azure service which is currently in Private Preview in the Azure Portal. Using this feature, administrators and management can perform operations in the Portal using simple verbal commands instead of navigating the UI.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode485.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gqv-qOOoK28
Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/copilot/overview
https://aka.ms/MSCopilotforAzurePreviewRequest
General Availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General Availability: Azure MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server migrations | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-topology/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/mount-azure-storage-as-a-local-share-in-app-service-linux-now-supports-nfs/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-continuous-model-monitoring-in-azure-machine-learning/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-api-center-features/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-new-major-version-of-durable-functions-extension/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-outbound-type-migration-in-aks/
Keywords: Copilot, AI
Sean Klein joins Evan, Sujit, and Cale to talk about the Production LiveSite Review (PLR) process used by Azure Engineering for modern incident analysis and learnings.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode484.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/EsRrxguRn2Y
How Complex Systems Fail
Etsy Engineering | Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/quickstart-create-and-run-load-test
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/how-to-parameterize-load-tests#secrets
Keywords: Production
Azure Cloud Solution Architects Elena Krasteva and Sabine Blair help us understand what the Azure VMWare Solution is all about and how the Landing Zone Accelerator helps make it easier for customers looking to migrate VMWare workloads to Azure.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode483.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Onj876JxOaw
1) Product page: https://aka.ms/avs
2) LinkedIn: (20) Azure VMware Solution Pros | Groups | LinkedIn
3) Well Architected Workload Guidance: https://aka.ms/avswafdocs
4) Landing Zone Accelerator: https://aka.ms/avsaccelerator
4) TechCommunity Blog: Azure Migration and Modernization Blog - Microsoft Community Hub
5) Learn Modules: Run VMware resources on Azure VMware Solution - Training | Microsoft Learn
6) Discovery Assessment: Azure VMware Solution assessment calculations in Azure Migrate - Azure Migrate | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft puts Azure Quantum Elements to work
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/microsoft-puts-azure-quantum-elements-to-work/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-spring-apps-enterprise-is-now-eligible-for-azure-savings/ba-p/4021532
Keywords: VMWare
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