Azure Weekly

Issue #327 - 6th June 2021

This week, Sarah Lean provides a round up from MS Build and Michael Crump discusses 3 very cool projects with demos released at Microsoft Build, including Azure Bicep. And, on the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo provides a Microsoft Build Recap.

The updates team has also announced identity-based connections in Azure Functions with latest Azure SDK triggers and bindings and an Azure API Management Premium tier price reduction for incremental purchased units. Carissa Broadbent discusses the new pricing changes to Azure Sentinel and Azure Monitor Log Analytics to help you save costs. Neta Haiby runs through how to extract values and line items from invoices with Form Recognizer (now GA).

Disha Agarwal highlights a really interesting service for quickly extracting knowledge from your data in Question Answering is now in Public Preview. Mark Kromer discusses the new connector in Azure Data Flows: SQL Server as Source and Sink. Aaron Powell runs through local development With CosmosDB and devcontainers. Vijai Kannan walks through accelerating labeling productivity by using AML Data Labeling. Finally, Raymond Meng-Ru Tsai describes Running NCBI BLAST on Azure, enabling improved performance, scalability and best practice.