Azure Weekly

Issue #155 - 31st December 2017

Hello & Happy New Year! I was intending to publish the first new issue of Azure Weekly on the 14th of January, but there was such a torrent of updates over the festive break that I thought it would be worthwhile creating a bumper edition covering the last three weeks.

First off, possibly the #1 item on most organisations risk logs for 2018, GDPR. Microsoft France have released a detailed implementation guide:
GDPR How-to: Get organized and implement the right processes
. The second big noteworthy announcement was around pricing changes for Cosmos DB entry point for unlimited containers is now 60% cheaper and other improvements.

HDInsights had three big announcements: both integration with Azure Log Analytics and Apache Kafka for Azure HDInsight have reached General Availability, while Enterprise Security Package preview is available.

Other announcements include Azure Service Bus Geo-disaster recovery goes GA, while New Alerts in Azure Monitor and subscription level budgets via ARM APIs are available in preview.

Other content items of note are Serverless workflows with Durable Functions On .NET, another reference architecture and automation blueprint has been released, this time for for Financial Services web applications, and finally the new Channel 9 AI Show has an interesting episode focusing on Neuroscience with Azure Machine Learning.

Normal Azure Weekly service will resume on Sunday 14th of January.

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🛠️ Developer Tools

🔌 Integration

💡 Internet of Things

⚖️ Management and Governance

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