Azure Weekly

Issue #317 - 28th March 2021

Let's start with a couple of posts about the Cloud Adoption Framework and Enterprise Scale - two very useful approaches for building out your Azure estate. We've been using them for the past 9 months and they provide a great framework and foundation: Cloud Adoption Framework Enterprise-Scale Series and Livestream, and Scale cloud adoption with modular designs for enterprise-scale landing zones. Mark Russinovich also highlights the latest innovations inside Azure Datacenter Architecture. If you missed his Ignite session, it's worth a watch just to see the DNA storage demo.

In the data and analytics space, Get a 360-degree view of data sharing lineage with Azure Data Share and Purview and in compute there are New VM series supported by Azure Batch are General availability.

Command Line tools are undergoing a bit of a renaissance at the moment. I find that I'm spending more of my day in VS Code and my "inner dev loop" either involves the inbuilt Terminal or Windows Terminal, in this area there are a couple of good posts: The Windows Terminal made better with the Command Palette plus Multiple Actions in one Command, Getting Started with the Azure CLI and How to Install the Azure CLI Windows, Linux, macOS, Azure Shell. Combining Windows Terminal and Azure Cloud Shell is a powerful combo.

There are three interesting posts in the area of security and identity this week: Azure AD at Ignite 2021 Recap: Securing your application ecosystem, Azure Custom Roles Following Least Privilege Best Practices and How to take over and kill a viral AAD tenant.

Finally, an interesting post about how you can collaborate with the Azure Product Groups in Microsoft Customer Co-Creation: How You Can Help Influence the way Products and Services are Built.