The Azure Podcast
Evan and Sujit talk to Ricardo Villarreal about the new ability to built network-aware applications in Azure. APC provides a unified abstraction layer for accessing network APIs—such as edge discovery, quality on demand, and device location—consistently across operators and connectivity methods. Ricardo offers compelling use-cases for these new APIs in Azure and tips to get started.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode456.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/2XWy2X0WXCQ
Resources:
https://aka.ms/apcblog
Other updates:
New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Database connections support in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General Availability: Performance workbooks for Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: PgBouncer monitoring metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Networking
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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
The team catches up with Brian Lehr to take a look at the range of IP services available in Azure.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode442.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/weTl6r63qYo
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ip-services-overview (IP Services Overview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/custom-ip-address-prefix (BYOIP)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/routing-preference-overview (Routing Preference)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ipv6-overview (IPv6 Overview)
Generally available: Backup and restore updates for App Service | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Automatic backup for App Service Environment V2 and V3 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Distributed PostgreSQL comes to Azure Cosmos DB - Azure Cosmos DB Blog (microsoft.com)
Public preview: Azure Resource Topology | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
The team catches up with Aimee Littleton, PM on the Azure Networking team, to learn more about NAT Gateway and when customers should be using it. Short answer = whenever you have outbound network connectivity as part of your workload!
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode438.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/cmU5hNEISlg
What is Azure Virtual Network NAT? | Microsoft Docs
Dive deep into NAT gateway’s SNAT port behavior | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure
Other Updates:
General availability: Azure Communication Services support for Teams identities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Evan and Cynthia speak with Abhishek Tiwari, Director of Software Engineering about the diverse types of situations traffic manager can be used in, how Microsoft has built a service to support 100% SLA, and how traffic manager can even be leveraged as part of a cloud modernization effort in a hybrid scenario.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode434.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/NhuJlK_vOEs
What is Traffic Manager?
How Traffic Manager Works
Traffic Manager routing methods
Updates:
Review and remove AAD inactive users in Public Preview
Public preview: Azure Dedicated Host restart
General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix
Keywords: Networking, Traffic Manager
The team catches up with Sarah Novotny and Xin Liu to learn about both the network switch SONiC and why Microsoft recently transferred control of it to the Linux Foundation.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode427.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/hmyz4Qpp9e4
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Moves to the Linux Foundation
GitHub Repo
Quick Start
General availability: Updates for resource configuration changes
Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets
Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway
Preview of Windows Admin Center for Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure - Microsoft Windows Server Blog
The team talks to Azure specialists Jeff Mitchell and Rob Kuehfus about the Enterprise Scale Landing Zones that are part of the Cloud Adoption Framework. These architectural templates allow enterprises to lay down an Azure footprint that is consistent with best practices in terms of security, governance, networking and identity and can be leveraged by new and existing Azure customers.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode367.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/5xshifBaj1E
Review the Enterprise-scale landing zones Architecture guidance
Review the Enterprise-scale landing zones implementation guidelines
Review and deploy a reference implementation
MS Learning Path - Create an enterprise-scale architecture in Azure
Try out the reference implementation on your own: Introduction to Enterprise Scale ‘in-a-box’ tutorial (Github)
Check out the Channel 9 series for ESLZ and WAF here
· Azure Defender for App Service introduces dangling DNS protection - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/azure-defender-for-app-service-introduces-dangling-dns-protection/· Prevent dangling DNS entries and avoid subdomain takeover - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/subdomain-takeover
Demystifying cloud economicshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/demystifying-cloud-economics/E-commerce on Azure increases security with Payment Card Industry Three-Domain Secure compliancehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/e-commerce-on-azure-increases-security-with-payment-card-industry-three-domain-secure-compliance/Automating quota management with Azure Quota REST APIhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automating-quota-management-with-azure-quota-rest-api/Microsoft plans to establish first datacenter region in Indonesiahttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/microsoft-plans-to-establish-first-datacenter-region-in-indonesia/
Keywords: Security, Governance, Networking
Russell, Sujit, and Cynthia chat with Michael Collier about different considerations regarding Azure Functions ranging from virtual networking, hosting, common use cases and some of the existing limitations to be aware of.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode364.mp3
Availability Zones now available in South Central US and Germany West Central
Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available
Support for more workloads, tag based policies now in Backup Center public preview
Azure Security Center—General availability updates for January 2021
Azure API-Management Updates Jan 21
More Resources:
Michael's Blog
@michaelcollier
Keywords: Functions, PaaS, Networking
Cale, Cynthia, Evan, Kendall, and Sujit chat with Michael Zoller from Barracuda Networks about software defined wide area network and how it was built on Azure.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode345.mp3
Simplify financial reporting with cost allocation—now in preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/simplify-financial-reporting-with-cost-allocation-now-in-preview/
View your Azure Cache for Redis data in new Visual Studio Code extension
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/view-your-azure-cache-for-redis-data-in-new-visual-studio-code-extension/
Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/automatic-vm-guest-patching-now-in-preview/
Azure Marketplace: CloudGen WAN Service:
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/barracudanetworks.barracuda_cloudgenwan?tab=Overview
Blog post CloudGen WAN:
https://blog.barracuda.com/2020/07/16/what-is-barracuda-cloudgen-wan/
Barracuda CloudGen WAN Announcement:
https://www.barracuda.com/news/article/810#.X1oEvYtS-Co
Barracuda main website:
https://www.barracuda.com/products/cloudgenwan?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=40855
Blog Post Microsoft: Yousef Khalidi Corporate Vice President, Azure Networking
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/running-sdwan-virtual-appliances-natively-in-azure-virtual-wan/
NVA-in-the-hub Announcement:
https://www.microsoft.com/azure/partners/videos/azure-networking-services
Barracuda Campus: technical documentation for CloudGen WAN
https://campus.barracuda.com/product/cloudgenwan/doc/91980633/overview
Keywords: Networking, Networking;Hybrid
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