Azure Technical News (February 2018)
Thanks for reading the second Azure technical news compilation of the year! Lots of innovation again, for example new continuity features such as backup for Azure files, or ASR support for managed disks, or plenty of networking innovation. Do not miss the good stuff in Data and Artificial Intelligence!
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
Have fun!
Daniel