Azure Weekly

Issue #406 - 19th February 2023

There are a number of analytics based announcements this week. First off, the General Availability of Azure SSIS Integration Runtime in Azure Synapse Analytics, there's also an interesting article about Spatial analysis in Azure Synapse Analytics with ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine (I love this topic), there's also Native Support of Delta Lake in Azure Stream Analytics and you can now Use Azure Databricks in VS Code with the new Databricks extension.

Back on the topic of FinOps and Cloud Spend Reduction, there's a interesting post about Codename Project Bose: Calculate Azure Cost of an Enterprise by cost centers, divisions, projects, which provides a way to model you cloud spend in a way that reflects your org structure, and there's also a useful deep dive into Understanding Azure Savings Plans for Compute.

Finally, James Dawson has started a series charting our endeavour to migrate from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions in Adventures in GitHub Actions: Episode 1 - Goodbye Azure DevOps, Hello GitHub Actions.