Azure Weekly

Issue #519 - 15th June 2025

This week, ending what has been a 12 year journey (with much of their content being shared here in Azure Weekly!), here's the final episode of the Azure Podcast. The hosts all get together to share anecdotes, and discuss how the Azure space has changed over the years.

Elsewhere, on the Fabric blog, RK Iyer runs through an example of PII detection and anonymization with PySpark and the Azure Incubations team is proud to share that Drasi has been accepted into CNCF sandbox for change-driven solutions.

There's a useful post about Azure Verified Modules: Support Statement & Target Response Times Update, Simona Liao announces that next edit suggestions are now available in Visual Studio, and Mindy Rosenthal highlights the new Data and AI courses and updates, the next iteration on Microsoft Learn.

Finally there's a great post on Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership of Cloud. We've written a series of posts about TCO: What is it?, How to calculate it, Putting it into action, and finally A simple toolkit for IT budgeting and planning.