Azure Weekly

Issue #393 - 30th October 2022

To start with, there's a podcast featuring Isaac Abraham talking about Farmer for Azure Deployments. We've featured Farmer in the Useful Links section for a couple of years now, so it's good to see it getting more attention. Another interesting announcement this week was Introducing Vision Studio: a UI-based demo interface for Computer Vision.

In the analytics space there were a number of interesting posts: Techniques for populating a Synapse Analytics Database Template, and Customizing Lake Databases in Azure Synapse Analytics. Scott Bell shares a nice sample: Handling UK Bank Holidays in Azure Data Factory & Synapse, and ADX, which doesn't get as much attention as it deserves, has a new MS Learn module: Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer.

Two interesting posts about making your apps more secure by using Managed Identities: Deploy from GitHub to Azure without any secrets using managed identities and Use managed identity instead of AzureWebJobsStorage to connect a function app to a storage account.

Finally, two posts about reducing Cloud TCO: Estimating Azure Diagnostics Cost and Forrester Total Economic Impact study: Azure Arc delivers 206 percent ROI over 3 years.