The Azure Podcast
Our guest this week, Paul Henwood joins Kendall and Russell to talk about many different aspects of sustainability, and how Azure embraces and supports customers with their sustainability goals.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode454.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HSPeE6Hpmns
Sustainability Resources:
Microsoft Sustainability - Products for a Sustainable Future
What is Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability? | Microsoft Learn
Calculating My Carbon Footprint - Microsoft Sustainability
Sustainability workload documentation - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn
Green Software Foundation | GSF
Azure Update Links:
General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-February 2023 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Sustainability
Filed Under: Podcast
Ryan Bostelmann joins the Azure Podcast team to share how the Azure Support function use Azure and Power Platform to be more efficient and deliver a better customer service.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/mIYTsy6jwVQ
Links:
Keywords: PowerApps
The team catches up with April Edwards to learn about the benefits of using Bicep to deploy Azure resources.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode452.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FhniwXjDBe0
Resources:
IaC Blog: Infrastructure as Code - comparing tools (microsoft.com)
MS Learn path for BIcep: Learn Live: Use Bicep to deploy your Azure infrastructure as code - Events | Microsoft Learn
Learn Live: Building your first Bicep Template: Learn Live - Build your first Bicep template - YouTube
Learn Live: Build Your First Bicep Deployment Workflow using GitHub Actions : Learn Live - Build your first Bicep deployment workflow by using GitHub Actions - YouTube
Other updates:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-automation-extension/
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-azure-openai-service-expands-access-to-large-advanced-ai-models-with-added-enterprise-benefits
Public preview: Capture Event Hubs data with Stream Analytics no-code editor in Delta Lake format | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: DevOps, Bicep
Jack Tracey, a Cloud Solutions Architect from the Customer Architecture and Engineering team talks to us about the work his team does to create the Landing Zones which can form the foundation for any well-designed Azure platform. He explains what they are and best practices to consume them in your cloud strategy.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode451.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Nfeaw9uELQ
https://aka.ms/alz
https://aka.ms/alz/tailoring
https://aka.ms/alz/tf
https://aka.ms/alz/bicep
Private Preview: Featured Clothing | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Tokyo version | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: Apache log4J2 sink to Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: compliance, security
In an Azure Podcast team first, we all got together on Twitter Live Spaces, with a handful of live listeners to see how well this medium works.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode450.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1SIRBCWR0YI
Public Preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate
Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Java 17
Generally Available: Durable Functions support for Java | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: Improved geo-replication for Azure Cache for Redis | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
->speed, metrics, one-click failover, global cache URL
Learn how Microsoft datacenter operations prepare for energy issues
Microsoft Azure CLX: A personalized program to learn Azure
Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS
Public preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate
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Reza Rahman, a Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure, talks to us about the work his team has done to enable customers using legacy Java frameworks to easily migrate to Azure or modernize in a variety of ways.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode449.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/OqjDtcT6c9E
https://speakerdeck.com/reza_rahman/why-jakarta-ee-developers-are-first-class-citizens-on-azure
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/java/ee/
https://aka.ms/migration-survey
Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Improve speech-to-text accuracy with Azure Custom Speech
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improve-speechtotext-accuracy-with-azure-custom-speech/
Microsoft and Isovalent partner to bring next generation eBPF dataplane for cloud-native applications in Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-isovalent-partner-to-bring-next-generation-ebpf-dataplane-for-cloudnative-applications-in-azure/
Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2022
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-november-2022/
Free Services | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Java
Sarah Novotny joins us on the show again, this time to tell us all about the collaboration that happens with Azure in Open Source Software.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode448.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/XwkyxBq0KL4
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/11/16/microsoft-contributes-s2c2f-to-openssf-to-improve-supply-chain-security/
https://github.com/microsoft/fluidframework
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/fluid-framework-is-now-open-source/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2022/10/12/microsoft-365-at-ignite-re-energize-your-workforce-in-the-office-at-home-and-everywhere-in-between/?culture=en-us&country=US
https://microsoft.github.io/CBL-Mariner/docs/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/kubernetes-service/#overview
https://github.blog/2022-10-25-why-were-excited-about-the-sigstore-general-availability/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/container-registry-tutorial-sign-build-push
Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Qualys SSL Labs - SSL Pulse
Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas) | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: OSS
Sujit and Evan are joined by Amir Dahan, Senior Product Manager for Networking at Microsoft, to discuss Azure DDOS protection.
Media File: Episode447.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/B_TNr6c2F9o
Keywords: DDOS, Networking
Azure Networking Engineering Manager Abhishek Tiwari joins us once again, this time to talk about all of the work his team has done to add L7 and DDOS protection at the Edge and the enhancements in the DNS Service to make it more secure.
Media: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode446.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/yTtchBGLsKg
General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Networking
Cynthia, Sujit and Russell discuss the SAP for Azure Land Zone Acclerator with Pankaj Meshram from the Microsoft Product team, and Matt Ely from Microsoft's Global Partner Solutions CSA team.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode445.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/m1FPIp0mWDo
SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework SAP on Azure Landing Zone Accelerator SAP Deployment Automation Framework
Public preview: Vertical Pod Autoscaler | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: New Azure Maps Creator feature - Dataset with GeoJSON | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Generally available: Logic Apps Standard Support for Functions Runtime V4 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: SAP S/4HANA events are now available on Azure Event Grid | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Generally available: Azure Communication Services short code functionality for SMS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sharing-the-latest-improvements-to-efficiency-in-microsoft-s-datacenters/
Keywords: SAP, Landing Zone
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