Azure Technical News (October 2017)
Welcome to the Azure Technical News blog series, conceived so that in a few minutes you can get a quick overview of what has been going on in Azure last month, with a strong technical focus. Even though Ignite is the time of the year where many announcements are made, October has been a very intense month as well. My personal highlights are the new Azure Kubernetes Services, the blockchain-related news and the innovation around Azure SQL. Which ones are yours?
Azure generic:
- Payment Processing Blueprint for PCI DSS-compliant environments
- Announcing Azure Building Blocks (simplified ARM templates)
- Watch Ignite 2017 videos in Youtube or myignite.microsoft.com
- Cloud Service Map for AWS and Azure Available Now
- Announcing new Azure Government capabilities for classified mission-critical workloads
- Great Ebooks about App Modernization posted
- Azure is certified to meet strict UK Government Cyber Essentials PLUS requirements
- Microsoft Azure set to triple its capacity in China in next six months
- Cloud Service Map for AWS and Azure
- Microsoft Azure is growing faster than AWS and big brands are behind the expansion
- New learning paths with free Pluralsight trainings:
Management:
- Get started with Monitoring in Azure (new dashboard)
- .NET SDK v1.3: Manage availability zones and more
- Get alerts faster with near real-time alerting for Azure platform metrics
- Announcing CSV format support for Usage Details API for Enterprise Azure customers
- Updated Documentation for Managed Applications
- Log Analytics: Send your Azure alerts to ITSM tools using Action Groups
Azure Stack:
IaaS:
- Compute:
- Network:
- Storage:
Containers:
- Introducing AKS (managed Kubernetes) and Azure Container Registry improvements
- Ready for JavaOne: Bringing Java and Kubernetes together in Azure
- Unifying monitoring and security for Kubernetes on Azure Container Service (with Sysdig)
- Migration tips from IaaS to Web App for Containers on Azure
Security and IAM:
- Azure GDPR resources: Unmatched focus on customer compliance needs
- ADAL.NET 3.17.0 released
- Quarterly Microsoft Azure SOC reports: Compliance at warp speed (6 new SOC reports)
- Improving access control with three new Azure AD public previews (Privileged Identity Management, Access reviews for attestation, Terms of use)
- Security Center
- Azure Security Center previews new threat detections for Linux
- Detect the latest ransomware threat (aka Bad Rabbit) with Azure Security Center
- How Azure Security Center uses machine learning to enable adaptive application control
- How Azure Security Center unveils suspicious PowerShell attack
- How Azure Security Center automates the detection of cyber attack
Apps:
- Azure Functions:
- Event Management:
- Web Apps:
- Blockchain:
Data:
- SQL:
- Data Lake:
- Cosmos DB:
- Data Factory:
- Azure Data Factory V2: visual monitoring added to public preview
- Highlighting 3 New Features in Azure Data Factory V2 (Control Flow, Parametrized Pipelines and Flexible Scheduling)
- Other:
IoT:
- Deep dive into Azure IoT Hub notifications and Device Twin
- Announcing support for X.509 CA on Azure IoT Hub
- Monitor your Azure IoT solutions with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health
- Securing the Intelligent Edge
- Azure powers the industrial Internet (Satya Nadella and GE)
AI:
- Bing Search API v7 and Bing Custom Search are now generally available
- Microsoft Cognitive Services - How Content Moderator helps to boost online safety
- Scale up your deep learning with Batch AI preview
Have fun!
Daniel