This newsletter is conceived so that in a few minutes you can get an overview of what has been going on in Azure last month, I put it here to have a Web-based repository.
Azure generic
- Azure for AWS Professionals (good summary with many resources)
Management
- Preview of Log Alerts feature for Application Insights
- Azure Go SDK generally available
- Enhancements to Cost Management APIs
- How to Make Deployment with Ansible Azure Modules
IaaS
- Compute
- Storage
- StorSimple Data Manager now generally available
- Introducing backup for Azure file shares
- Application consistent backup for Linux VMs using Azure Backup is generally available
- Public preview: Protect machines using managed disks between Azure regions using Azure Site Recovery
- OMS Monitoring solution for Azure Backup using Azure Log analytics
- Networking
- Azure Load Balancer to become more efficient (new SNAT algorithm)
- VNet Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database now generally available
- Monitor network connectivity to applications with NPM’s Service Endpoint Monitor – public preview
- ExpressRoute monitoring with Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is now generally available
- New in Marketplace: Cisco Tetration
- New in Marketplace: Arista vEOS Router
Containers
- B-series burstable VM support in AKS now available
- Patch Orchestration Application now available for Ubuntu Linux Service Fabric clusters
Security and IAM
Apps
- Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid
- Deploying WordPress application using VSTS and Azure – part 1
- New reference architecture for Jenkins on Azure
- Whats new on Durable Functions (video with Corey Sanders and Jeff Hollan)
Data
- New Azure Data Architecture Guide
- Databases
- Azure Redis Cache geo-replication is now generally available
- Unlock Query Performance with SQL Data Warehouse using Graphical Execution Plans
- Simplify cloud adoption with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Datometry
- Sync SQL data in large scale using Azure SQL Data Sync
- Public Preview: Azure SQL Database – Managed Instance Management Pack
- NoSQL
- HDInsight Tools for VSCode integrates with Ambari and HDInsight Enterprise Secure Package
- New in Marketplace: Kafka cluster with higher reliability
- Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage in Storage Explorer – public preview
- Azure #CosmosDB Graph API now generally available
- Azure Friday on Whats new in Cosmos DB
IoT
AI
- Using AI to automatically redact faces in videos
- Announcing new milestones for Microsoft Cognitive Services vision and search services in Azure
- Microsoft updates Cognitive Services terms
- Azure Search service upgrades: New hardware, unlimited document counts, and more!
- Brand Detection in Microsoft Video Indexer
- Bing Speech API extends its text to speech support to 34 languages
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