Azure Weekly

Issue #290 - 6th September 2020

We've been busy this week here at endjin with many of our endjineers recording talks which they'll be presenting at SQLBits in a few weeks time! I definitely recommend registering if you haven't already - it's going to be a great event!

This week the updates team have announced that you can now manage your Azure & Amazon Web Services (AWS) spending in a single location with Azure Cost Management and Billing. Also, that Azure Blob versioning is now general available, which is huge news for recoverability and reliability in Blob Storage!

Elsewhere, on Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump lists the top 10 Azure resources that you can use today. And, on the DEV site, Chloe Condon walks through building a Heart Rate Monitor with Azure IoT Hub, and Aaron Powell explores Serverless CosmosDB.

Finally, for any of you who are interested in learning about how to make the most of the Azure Marketplace, we'd like to highlight two new Webinars. Firstly, there is a session around the Commercial Marketplace, which will take place on the second Tuesday of every month and provide an overview of updates, the roadmap, and new resources. Secondly, there are also "office hours" aimed at Marketplace Developers, which will help you integrate with the marketplace as quickly and easily as possible!

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On Channel 9, on the AI Show, Anna Roth (@AnnaSRoth) discusses What's New with Form Recognizer and Andreas Müller talks about Scikit-Learn

🔎 Analytics

On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) walks through how to Build a pipeline to join streams of real time data
On the Microsoft BI Tools blog, Joost van Rossum (@ssisjoost) explains how to Execute pipelines from another Data Factory asynchronously
The Azure updates team highlights some necessary upgrades: Azure S8 and S9 Analysis Services SKUs retiring on 31 August 2023 and Migrate your Azure Data Factory version 1 to 2 service
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Lena Hall (@lenadroid) writes about Large-scale Data Analytics with Azure Synapse - Workspaces with CLI

🖥️ Compute

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Dedicated Hosts now support new Azure Virtual Machines series, that Durable Functions v2.3 is now available and that New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now available
On the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) continues his series on GraphQL on Azure: Part 4 - Serverless CosmosDB
Also on the DEV site, Nitya Narasimhan lists 5 Things You Need to Know (ServerlessSeptember)

🚢 Containers

The Azure updates team has made a few announcements: Azure Container Registry now available in Switzerland West region, Azure Container Registry now available in UAE Central region, and Log Analytics Agent for Windows August 2020 release is now available, and escalates two vulnerabilities: Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster in Azure Kubernetes Service and Node disk DOS by writing to container /etc/hosts in Azure Kubernetes Service
On Channel 9, Anna Hoffman and Anthony Nocentino discuss Deploying SQL Server 2019 in Kubernetes
Also on Channel 9, Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) talks about Serverless containers with Azure Container Instances (ACI)

🗄️ Databases

Mariano Gomez blogs about how to Transfer records from SharePoint list to Azure SQL database using Power Automate
On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner (@JohnMiner3) covers Azure Database for MySQL
The Azure updates team highlights that you should Update your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDKs by 31 August 2022 and announces New regions in Brazil Southeast for Azure Database for MySQL
On the DEV site, Davide Mauri (@mauridb) writes about Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers
Also on the DEV site, Davide Mauri (@mauridb) talks about Azure SQL & .bacpac the easy way
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Marisa Brasile highlights that you can Join the Azure SQL/ SQL Server Experts at Microsoft Ignite 2020 and covers some of the Azure Data Sessions You Won't Want to Miss at SQLBits 2020

🛠️ Developer Tools

The Azure updates team announces that the Azure Cache for Redis Visual Studio Code extension now in preview
On the SQL Server Blog, the SQL Server Team (@SQLServer) highlights that The release of the Azure Data Studio extension generator is now available
On the DEV site, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) describes Provisioning Azure VM as a Streamer Machine with Chocolatey
Also on the DEV site, Lucas Santos discusses how you can Code Anywhere With Codespaces
Also on the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) talks about Azure Cloud Shell

🔩 DevOps

On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses DevOps on Azure with Donovan Brown
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Steven Murawski (@StevenMurawski) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community
Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) provides a GitHub Actions 101
On the DevOps podcast, Derek Comartin talks about Migrating to .NET Core
James van Den Berg covers how to Start your DevOps pipeline in the Azure Cloud
On Channel 9, Abel Wang and Neil Peterson discuss Linked and Nested ARM Templates
Also on Channel 9, Damian Brady (@damovisa) talks about Repeatable Build Automation with Cake
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, James van Den Berg explains how to Start your DevOps pipeline in the Azure Cloud

🧬 Hybrid

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) discusses Windows Server Hybrid and Azure IaaS VMs
The Azure updates team announces that Stream Analytics now can be run on Azure Stack Hub and and that User-initiated failover for application fault resiliency in Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Danimir Ljepava (@danimir) covers User initiated manual failover on SQL Managed Instance

🎭 Identity

Pixel Robots. explains How to build an Azure Kubernetes Cluster using Managed Azure Active Directory Integration
On his blog, Joonas Westlin (@JoonasWestlin) discusses Azure AD v2 and MSAL in 2020

🔌 Integration

On the Azure podcast, Ashish Chhabria (@ashishc1) discusses Service Bus JMS 2.0
Gyanendra Kumar Gautam provides the Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS

💡 Internet of Things

On Channel 9, Vasiya Krishnan talks about Azure SQL Edge: Industry Use Cases & Customer Success
On the DEV site, Chloe Condon (@ChloeCondon) describes Building a Heart Rate Monitor with Azure IoT Hub

📚 Learning

Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) discusses his Azure Certification Prep
On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) lists the Top 10 Azure resources that you can use today

⚖️ Management and Governance

Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) discusses Microsoft Azure Announces Project Bicep, an ARM DSL
The Azure updates team announces that you can now Manage your Azure & Amazon Web Services (AWS) spending in a single location with Azure Cost Management +Billing and on the Azure blog, Raphael Chacko delves more into the Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management + Billing that is now generally available
On the DEV site, Frank Boucher (@FBoucheros) continues his series on demystifying ARM templates, covering: Template Functions, Controlling Deployment,Parameters, Variables and Template Output
Alongside this, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) discusses Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – August 2020
The Azure updates team have also made a load more announcements:
Visualize and Manage your AWS costs in Azure Cost Management,
View Designer in Azure Monitor is retiring on 31 August 2023,
Improvements to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts,
Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules Public Preview,
Public preview: Automated deployment of Always On availability groups through the Azure portal,
Azure Storage classic metrics will be retired on 31 August 2023
and Azure API Management will retire 5 legacy metrics in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2023
Also on the DEV site, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) discusses Power Platform for Ad-hoc Azure Resource Provisioning
June Castillote (@junecastillote) describes How to Create Azure VM Scheduled Startup with Azure Automation and Tags
Aditya Balaji lists 5 ways to optimize your backup costs with Azure Backup
Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) discusses Advancing a culture of reliability at the pace of Azure
Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) highlights that The live stream recording ARM templates basics for Microsoft Azure is now available
Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) talks about Azure Update Management with AWS Virtual Machines
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) discusses Audit Tags on Azure Subscriptions

🚌 Migration

The Azure updates team announces Migrate to Azure Availability Zones
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) discusses Azure Migration Services – Easy Cloud Migration Services Azure Cloud ASR Migrate azops VMware Database
Mark Brimble (@BrimbleMark) walks through Migrating To Azure – BizTalk Cross Referencing Functoids
On Channel 9, Brian Blanchard (@BrianBlanchard) talks about how to Establish cloud governance using Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team have made a few announcements:
Azure Private Link support in Azure Data Factory now available,
Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers,
Azure DNS: Introducing automatic child zone delegation,
Azure Private Link for Azure Cache for Redis now in preview
and Upcoming billing changes to Azure Bastion
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Automate Stop and Start of Azure Application Gateway
Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) walks through Accessing restricted blob storage from virtual networks and Azure CDN

🔐 Security

The Azure updates team discusses the Azure Security Center news and updates for August 2020
Jaliya Udagedara (@JaliyaUdagedara) explains how to Consume Secrets in an Azure Key Vault from an Azure Function App

📦 Storage

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Blob versioning is now general available and the Public Preview of Azure NetApp Files Cross Region Replication CRR capability

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Spring Cloud is now generally available and on the Azure blog, Julia Liuson delves further into Azure Spring Cloud: a fully managed service for Spring Boot apps
On the DEV site, Jen Looper (@jenlooper) covers the Azure Maya Mystery Part III: Ascent to the Summit
Also on the DEV site, Suzanne Chen (@suzannechen) talks about Microsoft Create:Serverless - Conversations with Community and Industry Experts
On Code Project, Nitin Sawant walks through Implementing an SMS API using Azure Serverless Functions

💻 Windows Virtual Desktop

Freek Berson (@fberson) covers Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 running in Windows Virtual Desktop
The Azure updates team announces that Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure Government cloud in preview
Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) talks about Multiple AD forests architecture with Windows Virtual Desktop