Jack Tracey, a Cloud Solutions Architect from the Customer Architecture and Engineering team talks to us about the work his team does to create the Landing Zones which can form the foundation for any well-designed Azure platform. He explains what they are and best practices to consume them in your cloud strategy.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode451.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Nfeaw9uELQ

Resources:

https://aka.ms/alz

https://aka.ms/alz/tailoring

https://aka.ms/alz/tf

https://aka.ms/alz/bicep

Other updates:

Private Preview: Featured Clothing | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Tokyo version | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Apache log4J2 sink to Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

In an Azure Podcast team first, we all got together on Twitter Live Spaces, with a handful of live listeners to see how well this medium works.  

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode450.mp3 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1SIRBCWR0YI

Public Preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate

Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Java 17

Generally Available: Durable Functions support for Java | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Improved geo-replication for Azure Cache for Redis | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

  ->speed, metrics, one-click failover, global cache URL

Learn how Microsoft datacenter operations prepare for energy issues

Microsoft Azure CLX: A personalized program to learn Azure

Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS

Public preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate

Reza Rahman, a Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure, talks to us about the work his team has done to enable customers using legacy Java frameworks to easily migrate to Azure or modernize in a variety of ways.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode449.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/OqjDtcT6c9E

Resources:

https://speakerdeck.com/reza_rahman/why-jakarta-ee-developers-are-first-class-citizens-on-azure

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/java/ee/

https://aka.ms/migration-survey

Other updates:

Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Improve speech-to-text accuracy with Azure Custom Speech

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improve-speechtotext-accuracy-with-azure-custom-speech/

Microsoft and Isovalent partner to bring next generation eBPF dataplane for cloud-native applications in Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-isovalent-partner-to-bring-next-generation-ebpf-dataplane-for-cloudnative-applications-in-azure/

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2022

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-november-2022/

Free Services | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Sarah Novotny joins us on the show again, this time to tell us all about the collaboration that happens with Azure in Open Source Software.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode448.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/XwkyxBq0KL4

Resources: 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/11/16/microsoft-contributes-s2c2f-to-openssf-to-improve-supply-chain-security/

https://github.com/microsoft/fluidframework

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/fluid-framework-is-now-open-source/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2022/10/12/microsoft-365-at-ignite-re-energize-your-workforce-in-the-office-at-home-and-everywhere-in-between/?culture=en-us&country=US

https://microsoft.github.io/CBL-Mariner/docs/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/kubernetes-service/#overview

https://github.blog/2022-10-25-why-were-excited-about-the-sigstore-general-availability/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/container-registry-tutorial-sign-build-push

Other updates:

Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Qualys SSL Labs - SSL Pulse

Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas) | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Sujit and Evan are joined by Amir Dahan, Senior Product Manager for Networking at Microsoft, to discuss Azure DDOS protection.

Media File: Episode447.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/B_TNr6c2F9o

Other Updates

• Use managed identities with Azure Front Door Standard/Premium (Preview) | Microsoft Learn
• Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
• General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Networking Engineering Manager Abhishek Tiwari joins us once again, this time to talk about all of the work his team has done to add L7 and DDOS protection at the Edge and the enhancements in the DNS Service to make it more secure.

Media: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode446.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/yTtchBGLsKg

Other updates:

General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cynthia, Sujit and Russell discuss the SAP for Azure Land Zone Acclerator with Pankaj Meshram from the Microsoft Product team, and Matt Ely from Microsoft's Global Partner Solutions CSA team.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode445.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/m1FPIp0mWDo

SAP on Azure Landing Zone Resources:

SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework
SAP on Azure Landing Zone Accelerator
SAP Deployment Automation Framework

Other updates:

Public preview: Vertical Pod Autoscaler | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: New Azure Maps Creator feature - Dataset with GeoJSON | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Logic Apps Standard Support for Functions Runtime V4 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: SAP S/4HANA events are now available on Azure Event Grid | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Azure Communication Services short code functionality for SMS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sharing-the-latest-improvements-to-efficiency-in-microsoft-s-datacenters/

The team gets together with Mark Eisenberg, Cloud Solutions Architect and frequent guest on the podcast, to analyze the various Innovations in Azure that were announced my Mark Russinovich at the recent Ignite conference. The discussions range from data center hardware to quantum computing.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode444.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/8ycwq-PGl4g

Ignite session: Inside Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich (microsoft.com)

Other updates:

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Image Analysis 4.0 with new API endpoint and OCR model in preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/image-analysis-40-with-new-api-endpoint-and-ocr-model-in-preview/

Azure Scales 530B Parameter GPT-3 Model with NVIDIA NeMo Megatron

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-scales-530b-parameter-gpt3-model-with-nvidia-nemo-megatron/

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team talks to Cesar De la Torre Llorente, a Principal Architect in the Azure team, about the new style of applications that leverage the 5G wireless network and are managed by Azure. This enables new scenarios running apps on factory floors, smart buildings, stadiums etc. and opens up new microservice style architectures that are all controlled via Azure.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode443.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ghgionI4GZg

Resources: 

Link created especially for our Azure Podcast listeners https://aka.ms/AzurePodcast5G

Other updates:

Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure Resource Topology | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Enable flow logging using Azure ExpressRoute Traffic Collector (Preview) | Microsoft Learn

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-storage-blog/azure-elastic-san-in-preview/ba-p/3643414

General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure savings plan for compute | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

In development: Introducing ExpressRoute Metro | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team catches up with Brian Lehr to take a look at the range of IP services available in Azure.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode442.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/weTl6r63qYo

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ip-services-overview (IP Services Overview)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/custom-ip-address-prefix (BYOIP)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/routing-preference-overview (Routing Preference)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ipv6-overview (IPv6 Overview)

Other updates:

Generally available: Backup and restore updates for App Service | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Automatic backup for App Service Environment V2 and V3 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Distributed PostgreSQL comes to Azure Cosmos DB - Azure Cosmos DB Blog (microsoft.com)

Public preview: Azure Resource Topology | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure