Azure Weekly

Issue #30 - 13th June 2015

This week Web Apps were in the limelight. Web vulnerability scanning is now available for the Azure App Service. The service, from Tinfoil Security, can be accessed through the Web App settings in the Azure portal, and comes in several tiers from basic (est. $3 pcm) to enterprise (est. $500 pcm). The ability to configure intermediate certificates for a TLS/SSL endpoint was also announced. Web App users with MySQL apps can also now choose a new ClearDB tier which sits just above the free tier, and permits 250 MB of storage and up to 10 concurrent database connections.

Azure users were notified that the TLS/SSL cipher suites for Web Apps are being updated starting from 18 July 2015. Users can check whether clients that access Web Apps will still function correctly by testing that they get HTTP 200 status from https://testsslclient.trafficmanager.net/.

Stepping back into the wider Azure platform, the Azure Infrastructure Services Implementation Guidelines have been updated. The guidelines describe the steps for an Azure IT workload deployment, covering naming conventions, subscriptions and accounts, storage, virtual networks, Cloud Services, Availability Sets and Virtual machines.

⚖️ Management and Governance

🖥️ Compute

🌐 Networking

💡 Internet of Things

⚙️ Data and Analytics

📦 Storage

🎬 Media

  • On the Azure blog, Manling Zhang, Program Manager - Media Services, annouces custom origin support for Azure CDN. CDN endpoints can now be created for any origin, not just for your own Azure Services. Multiple CDN endpoints can be created for the same origin, and any folder path can be used as the origin path

⚙️ Hybrid Integration

⚙️ Identity and Access Management

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