Azure Weekly
Issue #367 - 10th April 2022
The big news this week is that Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra ARM-based processors are now in preview. Why is this big news? Because they offer up to 50 percent better price-performance than comparable x86-based VMs. Other notable GA announcements this week include: Azure storage table access using Azure Active Directory and Azure Virtual Machines increase storage throughput by up to 300%.
Dapr v1.7 is now available, and includes new resiliency features (retries, timeouts, circuit breakers), and a number of components have reached the "stable" designation. There's an interesting video about Azure Resource Manager ARM Template Specs, and two good comparison articles: Azure Functions V4 Versus V3 and Price Differences for Azure Cosmos DB Provisioned or Serverless Throughput Cost. Finally a fascinating article about Empowering space development off the planet with Azure.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure blog, Aimee Garcia discusses Azure delivers strong MLPerf inferencing v2.0 results from 1 to 8 GPUs
- Kevin Raines provides A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: MLPerf Inferencing v2.0
- Steve DeMarco talks about Form Recognizer Solution Accelerator
- Foteini Savvidou explains how to Build an AI web app with Azure Cognitive Services and Flask
🔎 Analytics
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availabilty of: Apache Spark 3.1.2 in Azure HDinsight and Apache Kafka 2.4 in Azure HDinsight
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints and Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template
- Ron L'Esteve blogs about Getting Started with Databricks Delta Live Tables
- ashokanms talks about Performance Optimizations for Applications using Azure Data Explorer
- Vincent-Philippe Lauzon covers ARM Deploy Azure Data Explorer DB with Event Hub connection
- On SQL Server Central, Arindam Mondal discusses Understanding Azure Data Factory Pricing
- Dany Hoter talks about Sampling the results of a query to be visualize in a line chart
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) discusses Azure SQL April 2022 New Updates Data Exposed
- Guy Reginiano writes about Multiple databases per data connection Multi DB data connection
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Arm64-based Azure VMs can deliver up to 50% better price-performance and Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 available in Switzerland and West US
- Paul Nash writes about Now in preview: Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors
- Jerry Morey explains how to Deploy Multi-Region HPC clusters in Azure with CycleCloud
- Priya Shan announces that Increase remote storage performance with Azure Ebsv5 VMs - now generally available and Pam Lahoud announces general availability of the Ebdsv5 series Azure VMs
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Azure Virtual Machines increase storage throughput by up to 300%
- Mengyang Chen talks about Azure Functions V4 Versus V3
🚢 Containers
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Capacity reservation support in AKS
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) talks about Bring your own Container Network Interface CNI plugin with Azure Kubernetes Service AKS PREVIEW
- The Dapr Maintainers (@daprdev) announce Dapr v1.7 is now available
- On Dapr Blog, Javier Vela & Adolfo Gonzalez explains How Dapr helped Dedalow accelerate development on AWS and Azure
🗄️ Databases
- On the Azure podcast Episode 419 Abhishek Tiwar chats about Azure Front Door
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) discusses Snowflake vs Azure SQL Database
- Rajendra Gupta (@rajendragupta16) blogs about Price Differences for Azure Cosmos DB Provisioned or Serverless Throughput Cost
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) blogs about Azure SQL News Update: April 2022
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) describes Lesson Learned 195: Performance Best Practices for Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance.
- Mustafa Ashour covers Tips & Tricks 2: SQL Server Profiler xEvents for Azure SQL DB
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) explains how to Develop applications faster with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Data Exposed
- Danimir Ljepava (@danimir) blogs about Online Database Move and Copy for SQL Managed Instance Private Preview
- Sabrin Alsahsah describes How to avoid VA alert VA1219: Transparent data encryption should be enabled and describes How to mitigate VA alert VA1219: Transparent data encryption should be enabled
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Azure blog, Tom Keane (@tomwkeane) walks through Empowering space development off the planet with Azure
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) talks about ESLint your C# in VS Code with Roslyn Analyzers
- On the Visual Studio blog, Nik Karpinsky blogs about CPU Usage Tool Improvements
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) writes about Favorite Visual Studio Code extensions
🔩 DevOps
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) describes Fix for Azure DevOps deployment to an environment stuck in Job is pending state
- Nitin Garg explains How to Create a Test Plan Using Azure DevOps
- Devops Dojo discusses Lean Product – Part 2
- Jack Roper describes Setting up Scalr with Azure DevOps—Picking a workflow and Setting up Scalr with Azure DevOps—Add Azure credentials
- Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) talks about Azure DevOps Tips – Create bulk Variables to Variable Groups using Azure DevOps CLI
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) blogs about Azure DevOps incoming webhook just wont fire Easy stupid fix
- Akshay Attota covers CI-CD for Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool using YAML templates
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about Azure Resource Manager ARM Template Specs
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) talks about Co-hosting in an Azure Hybrid Cloud Study Hall Series and Thomas Maurer explains how to Learn Live: Azure Hybrid Cloud Study Hall
- On the Azure Medium blog, Andre Camillo explains How to achieve End-to-End encryption in times of Hybrid environments
- On Code Project, Ben Hallio covers Deploying to Azure Arc via Azure Application Services Part 1: Getting Started with Azure Application Services, and Part 2: Running Azure Functions Anywhere and Part 3: Deploying a Multi-cloud Azure App Service Web App
🎭 Identity
- The Azure Updates Team announces Update: Azure AD Graph retirement date
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) describes Implementing OAuth2 Client credentials flow APP to APP security using Azure AD non interactive
- Anuraj Parameswaran discusses Block Azure B2C Users with Microsoft Graph and ASP.NET Core
- Alex Weinert writes about Holistic compromised identity signals from Microsoft
- Dilip Radhakrishnan writes about Remote help: enterprise-grade assistance tool now available
- Kristina Hotz explains how to Understand the state of devices across your organization in seconds
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) explains how to Create Azure credentials for use in GitHub Actions
- Monojit Datta explains how to Automate Secret Rotation in Key Vault
🔌 Integration
- Simon Waight (@simonwaight) explains How to consume GraphQL APIs from Azure Logic Apps
- Sander van de Velde talks about Event Grid custom Event Source and Handler
- Stefan Georgiev (@stg3orgi) blogs about Azure API Management networking explained
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Support for copying tiles added to Azure IoT Central and Generally available: Support for Private Link in Azure IoT Central
- Sander van de Velde walks through Adding context using EventData properties in Azure Stream Analytics
- Anthony Chen announces Public Preview for NXP i.MX 8M on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise
- Howard Ginsburg talks about Batch Integration for Azure Digital Twins with Azure Data Factory
- Ramit Malhotra delves into The Azure IoT Java Device SDK just got in shape for the summer Update Now
- Taylor Anderson talks about Creating Dashboards with Azure Digital Twins, Azure Data Explorer, and Grafana
📚 Learning
- Gita Sharma writes about Ready to renew your Microsoft Certification Get started with our top FAQs.
- Nancy Tandy describes Microsoft Power Platform lights up a young learners passion for tech
- Sonia Cuff (@soniacuff) blogs about The top technical skills for the modern IT Pro
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Diagnostic audit logs for Automation accounts
- Debpriya Bose explains how to Achieve cost-effectiveness using vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
- Edoardo Zonca provides A Starting Point for Monitoring Azure
- Rahul Bagaria talks about Azure Monitor Tech Community rebranded to Azure Observability
- Roy Gal blogs about Log Analytics results upgrade
- Shravana Mukherjee talks about The journey to cloud-based device management
- Zachary Cavanell discusses Updates to Windows management with Endpoint Manager Cloud attach, remote help, drivers & more
- Aria Carley writes about Seamless update experience for organizations on Windows 11
- Lior Bela discusses Windows Autopatch FAQ
- Martin Pankraz writes about Of Kings & Queens and SAP scans to identify the right lineage for a marriage proposal
- Yvette O'Meally explains how to Update 2203 for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager current branch is now available
🚌 Migration
- Yi Yang explains How To Migrate Cloud Services Classic Across Subscriptions
📱 Mobile
- Chris Palmer describes Checklist for advanced calling experiences in mobile web browsers
🌐 Networking
- Jose Varela talks about Optimizing Azure Application Gateway with the Well-Architected Framework
🔐 Security
- Liana Tomescu covers Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Cloud- which dashboard should you use?
- TJ Banasik writes about Next Evolution of the Microsoft Sentinel Zero Trust TIC 3.0 Solution
- The Azure Updates Team describes Public preview: Azure Bastion support for Kerberos authentication
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Azure storage table access using Azure Active Directory
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure Backup supports metrics and metric alerts for Azure Blobs
- Jerome Liu covers Guidance for copy blobs between storage accounts with network restriction
- Shruti Pathak talks about Azure Cache for Redis TLS: Upcoming migration to DigiCert Global G2 CA Root
🔗 Web
- Hanli Ren discusses Use php-fpm log to troubleshoot PHP 8 Linux Azure App Service
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) talks about Azure Apps Autopilot 2 - Deployment Script
- Aaron Powell (@slace) blogs about Accessing a Static Web Apps Url From GitHub Actions
- John Metzger walks through Migrating Active Server Pages applications to Azure App Services
- Xinyu Shan writes about ASEv3 VS ASEv2 - Difference Overview
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Tristan Scott covers Whats next in Windows 365 for hybrid work
- Eugenie Burrage describes The endpoint manager's guide to what's coming in Windows 11
- Zachary Cavanell talks about Windows 365 updates