Azure Weekly

Issue #316 - 21st March 2021

It's a slightly quieter week, but there's still plenty to read. First off there's a limited-time free quantities offer for Azure Synapse Analytics. Next, Prevent exceeding Azure budget with forecasted cost alerts, and Dynamic data masking granular permissions for Azure SQL and Azure Synapse Analytics is generally available.

Azure Communication Services is one of the lesser known offerings, and covers some of the same features as Twilio. Bicep is a new higher level abstraction over ARM, John Reilly integrates Bicep with Azure Pipelines. Another overlooked service is Azure Cognitive Search, if you're interested in Knowledge Management, it something to take a look at, and it features in the latest AI Show: find meaningful insights using semantic capabilities in Azure Cognitive Search. Investments in Azure Storage keep adding great features, this week Directory scoped shared access signatures SAS is generally available.

And finally, my favourite post from this week, where Jon Gallant shows just how much effort went into the deciding whether the Azure SDK should use Iot or IoT in their naming conventions in A behind the scenes look at how we decided to capitalize the T in Azure.IoT.