The Azure Podcast

Join Cale and Sujit in this exciting episode as they dive into the world of Azure Confidential Ledger with special guests Shubhra Sinha Kamath and Yagnesh Setti Subramanian from the Azure Product Team. Discover the latest updates and features of this auditable, tamper-proof ledger service, and learn how it integrates with Azure SQL and BLOB storage to ensure data integrity and confidentiality. Explore real-world applications in financial services, healthcare, AI, and more. Don't miss out on insights into server-side programming, multi-party capabilities, and upcoming previews. Tune in for a comprehensive look at how Azure Confidential Ledger is revolutionizing data security and compliance.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode518.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/scWpKSKLsGs Resources: https://aka.ms/ACL-Docs https://aka.ms/ACL2025Preview    Othwr updates: Creating better healthcare outcomes with Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Foundry https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/creating-better-healthcare-outcomes-with-azure-openai-service-and-azure-ai-foundry/   Learn more about what’s new with Microsoft Azure Storage at KubeCon Europe 2025 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/learn-more-about-whats-new-with-microsoft-azure-storage-at-kubecon-europe-2025/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/kubernetes-codeless https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/copilo

In this episode of the Azure Podcast, host Evan Basalik dives into the world of Azure ExpressRoute with special guest Duong Au. They discuss the benefits of ExpressRoute, its resiliency features, and the new validation tools available to ensure robust connectivity. Tune in to learn about the latest updates, practical applications, and how to optimize your network setup for maximum reliability. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode517.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/o_-NfWnYtxg Resources: Email to sign up for preview of the resiliency validation: exr-resiliency@microsoft.com Resiliency Validation: Azure ExpressRoute Gateway Resiliency Validation (preview) | Microsoft Learn   Resiliency Insights: Resiliency Insights for ExpressRoute virtual network gateway (preview) | Microsoft Learn   Other updates: SQL Server on Azure VM I/O Performance Analysis - Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Enhancements to Carbon Optimization APIs - Azure updates | Microsoft Azure 

In this episode, Sujit D'Mello and Cynthia Kreng are joined by special guest Mike Becker, an Azure Architect at Microsoft, to discuss how various Azure services can be combined to create a complex solution. Sujit covers the latest enhancements in AKS, including Azure CNI, load balancer support, network isolated clusters, cost recommendations, and GPU driver options. Mike shares insights into a comprehensive Azure cloud solution for collecting and analyzing economic data and media feedback about companies, highlighting the use of Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Power BI, and OpenAI for sentiment analysis. The discussion delves into the architectural decisions, technical challenges, and practical applications of these technologies in delivering robust and secure solutions.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode516.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/wG12eJymh54 Resources: ADF how it works https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/introduction#how-does-it-work Azure Data Factory- Best Practices https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1283307/azure-data-factory-best-practices Azure Data Bricks Medallion architecture https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/lakehouse/medallion Azure Data Bricks Best Practices https://dzone.com/articles/azure-databricks-best-practices-for-a-developer Sentiment Analysis with Azure AI services https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/machine-learning/tutorial-cognitive-services-sentiment Power BI recommendations https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/Power-BI-Development-and-Best-Practices/m-p/4632985/highlight/true#M1386307 Improve Power BI model's performance https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/best-practice-rules-to-improve-your-models-performance/ GitLab best practices - if you cannot use Azure DevOps https://about.gitlab.com/topics/version-control/what-are-gitlab-flow-best-practices/

In this episode of the Azure podcast, Sujit and the team, including Cale, Russell, and Cynthia, are joined by special guest Matteo Pagani, a Cloud Solutions Architect in the Tech Strategy team at Microsoft. Matteo provides insights into the agentic world of Co-pilot, explaining how agents can enhance business processes and improve efficiency. Tune in to learn about the practical applications of these technologies and how they can be integrated into existing workflows.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode515.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/qMJ88BLbTVo Resources:   Overview of Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/extensibility/ Building declarative agents with Visual Studio Code, Copilot Studio and Agent Builder: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/extensibility/overview-declarative-agent Building custom engine agents with Visual Studio Code and Copilot Studio: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/extensibility/overview-custom-engine-agent My blog with some fun experiments with multi-agents scenarios: https://www.developerscantina.com/   Other updates: Announcing GA for Azure Container Apps Serverless GPUs | Microsoft Community Hub   https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-deep-reasoning-agent-flows-copilot-studio-charles-lamanna-n1zxc/   Let's try GitHub Copilot Agent mode in VS Code to build a FULL app!

In this episode of the Azure Podcast, Sujit D'Mello and the team, including Cynthia, Evan, and Cale, are joined by special guest Mario Hewardt, an engineering manager on the Sysinternals team. Mario shares insights into the evolution of Sysinternals tools, their cross-platform journey, and their integration with Azure services. The discussion covers the development process, challenges faced, and the innovative features being added to these essential diagnostic tools. Tune in to learn about the latest updates and how Sysinternals continues to support both Windows and Linux environments.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode514.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/6TAJfqnScuI   Resources: Sysinternals (/Windows) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/ Email: syssite@microsoft.com ZoomIt is open source as part of PowerToys - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys   Sysinternals (/Linux) ProcDump for Linux - https://github.com/microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux Procmon for Linux - https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux Sysmon for Linux - https://github.com/microsoft/SysmonForLinux For help with Linux tools, please file issues/discussions on GitHub.   Social media Bluesky: @sysinternals  

Evan, Kendal and Sujit dive into the details of Azure Container Apps sharing thier own experiences designing, supporting and using the service. They share tips and tricks for utilizing the correct ACA options for your workloads.  Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode513.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/nuxBz8O05LU Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/overview   Other updates: Next generation Azure Databox - Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Azure HDInsight deprecates TLS1.1 - Azure updates | Microsoft Azure     MySQL Virtual Canary program - Scheduled Maintenance - Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server | Microsoft Learn   SQL MI Modernization Assistant - Modernization Advisor (Preview) - SQL Server on Azure VMs | Microsoft Learn   Private DNS Zones Internet fallback - Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Modern Data Movement library - Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/how-to-schedule-tests https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-data-studio/whats-happening-azure-data-studio https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/log-analytics-simple-mode https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/clean-rooms/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/synchronize-aws-gateway-apis?tabs=portal https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/sessions-tutorial-nodejs

Senthuran Sivananthan comes on the show to talk about the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and Well Architected Resiliency Review (WARA).   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode512.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/xTxG7X9RoWQ   Resources: Azure Pricing Calculator Azure Architecture Review Web Application Firewall Other Updates: Retirement of Azure Automation's Powershell runbooks using AzureRM modules TLS1.0/1.1 retirement for Azure Automation Customer Managed Unplanned Failover for ADLS and Storage+SFTP

Cale and Sujit discuss their current projects in Azure as 2024 comes to a close. They also cover a ton of AKS updates. Semantic Kernel makes it easier for developers to build Azure Open AI applications that can also include SLMs like Phi-4.  Azure has many options to use File Shares and Volumes, and we walk through the process of figuring out which one is right for your needs.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode511.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/dLfCJ6btKng Resources: Semantic Kernel - https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel Journey with SK on OpenAI and AzureOpenAI Ollama (running SLM local) - https://github.com/ollama/ollama Ollamazure (running SLM that looks like Azure OpenAI) - https://github.com/sinedied/ollamazure PhiSilica - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/apis/phi-silica   File Shares: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction    Other updates: Lots of AKS updates! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-network-isolated https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/azure-kubernetes/availability-performance/container-image-pull-performance https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/imds-restriction https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-windows-gpu https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/?id=471295 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/tutorial-restore-aks-backups-across-regions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/app-routing-nginx-configuration?tabs=azurecli#control-the-default-nginx-ingress-controller-configuration-preview https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/automated-deployments https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/aks-extension-ghcopilot-plugins https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/containers/container-insights-logs-schema#kubernetes-metadata-and-logs-filtering

The team meets with Stephane Erbrech to talk about Azure Kubernetes Fleet and learns why it is necessary and also why it isn't the same thing as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode510.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/h9rJNihhZPM Resources: The OSS bits powering Fleet Manager dataplane: https://github.com/Azure/fleet The service doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/kubernetes-fleet/   Other updates: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cynthiakreng_nbafoundation-nbaallstar-nbafpitch-activity-7269908869684830209-MJlS

In this episode of the Azure Podcast, co-hosts, Sujit D'Mello, Evan Basalik, Russell Young, Cynthia Kreng, and Cale Teeter welcome special guest Thiago Almeida from the Azure Functions team. They dive into the details of the new Azure Functions Flex Consumption Plan, discussing its features, benefits, and how it fits into the broader landscape of Azure's compute options. Thiago shares insights on the programming model, pricing, and the improvements in cold start times, as well as the integration with networking features. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in serverless computing and Azure Functions.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode509.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/WMdzxYy_tQ4   Resources: Ignite news from Functions https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/azure-functions-ignite-2024-update/4298757   Flex Consumption GA announcement https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/azure-functions-flex-consumption-is-now-generally-available/4298778 Azure Functions cold start improvements https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/our-latest-work-to-improve-azure-functions-cold-starts/4164500  

Cale, Evan, Russell and Sujit discuss the recent updates in Azure and specially cover the Azure-related announcements in the recent Ignite 2024 conference.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode508.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/DwSqEMjmcn0 Resources: https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2024-book-of-news/   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/mysql/flexible-server/concepts-business-continuity   https://aka.ms/configure-pon   olling upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft Learn   https://aka.ms/vmss-zonal-expansion   Azure Container Apps planned maintenance (preview) | Microsoft Learn   Release ProcDump-for-Mac 1.0 · microsoft/ProcDump-for-Mac   Workspaces in Azure API Management | Microsoft Learn Protect APIs in API Management with Defender for APIs | Microsoft Learn

Gabriel Monteiro Nepomuceno, a Software Engineer and Cloud architect in Microsoft's ISE team, explains the concept of Azure Verified Modules (AVM). These include both resource and pattern modules. These modules ensure consistency and compliance with best practices, making it easier for users to deploy secure and well-architected solutions. They are also supported by Microsoft, so customers get long-term stability for their deployments.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode507.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/BB5HQ_VkHG0 Resources: https://azure.github.io/Azure-Verified-Modules/   Other updates:   Empower innovation and transformation through AI and data-driven insights on Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/empower-innovation-and-transformation-through-ai-and-data-driven-insights-on-azure/ How higher education is reimagining student experiences with Azure OpenAI Service https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-higher-education-is-reimagining-student-experiences-with-azure-openai-service/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Cobalt-100-Arm-based-Virtual-Machines https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/VM-watch-on-Azure-VMs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Ermetro-ga-announcement https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/ExpressRoute-guided-configuration-experience https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Simulate-everyday-interactions-with-your-GenAI-App-Public-Preview  

The team meets up with Vaclav Jirovsky and Cody Hosterman from Pure Storage to learn about Pure's CBS solution and why Azure customers should consider using it.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode506.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/wCbd5vdcBPQ Resources:  https://www.purestorage.com/products/cloud-block-storage/cbs.html https://support.purestorage.com/bundle/m_cbs_for_azure/page/Pure_Cloud_Block_Store/CBS_for_Azure/topics/topic/t_cbs_for_azure_overview.html   Other updates: https://powerplatformconf.com/  

Willie Ahlers, Principal Architect, joins Cale, Cynthia and Russell to discuss the challenges and processes to get value from AI projects and make them successful in a live environment.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode505.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/1GsuH-YylP0   MAIVA - Microsoft AI Value Accelerator Playbook Data Science Toolkit - a collection of proven ML and AI implementation accelerators Other updates: Public Preview: Expanded GenAI Gateway capabilities in Azure API Management Azure AI Model Inference API Public Preview: Low-Code RAG ingestion with built-in document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard Public Preview – Templates Support in Azure Logic Apps Standard Public Preview – Out of box monitoring dashboards for Logic Apps Standard Generally Available: Java on Azure Container Apps Generally Available: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU Introducing o1: OpenAI’s new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure Advanced Container Networking Services: Enhancing security and observability in AKS

Sadaf Khan joins Evan and Russell to explain and talk about Service Reliability Engineering in the Azure engineering group.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode504.mp3 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNGdTnb1W90&t=1684s   Public Preview: Customer managed planned failover for Azure Storage Public Preview: Instance Mix on Virtual Machine Scale Sets Generally Available: Workspaces in Azure API Management Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files storage with cool access for all service levels Generally Available: Larger Enterprise tier cache instances for Azure Cache for Redis Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Supports Clusters Up to 250 Nodes Key Topics: Azure Reliability SRE: Evan introduced the episode's focus on Azure reliability SRE and mentioned a special guest, Sadaf, who would provide insights on the topic. 0:19 Azure Storage Public Preview Feature: Russell discussed a new public preview feature for Azure storage that allows customers to manage planned failovers, enhancing the service's reliability. 1:10 Virtual Machine Scale Set Update: Russell highlighted an update to virtual machine scale sets that allows mixing different instances, improving flexibility and scalability. 1:38 Azure API Management Workspace: Russell introduced a new feature in Azure API management that enables teams to have more autonomy in managing and publishing APIs. 2:08 NetApp Files Storage Update: Russell mentioned the general availability of cool access for NetApp files storage, allowing for more cost-effective data storage based on access patterns. 2:40 Redis Cache Update: Russell discussed a new tier for Redis Cache that supports larger enterprises with increased memory and compute capabilities. 3:02 Azure Red Hat Openshift Update: Russell shared an update on Azure Red Hat Openshift, which now supports up to 250 nodes, significantly increasing scalability. 3:29 SRE Role and Impact: Sadaf explained the role of SRE in improving service reliability and quality, detailing their engagement model with various Azure services. 4:52 SRE Engagement and Resistance: Sadaf shared insights on the initial resistance faced from service teams during SRE engagements and how trust is built over time to allow for more impactful changes. 7:49 SRE's Approach to Service Improvement: Sadaf outlined the SRE team's structured approach to service improvement, focusing on fundamentals, service health, operational efficiency, and scalability. 10:51 AI Initiatives in SRE: Sadaf discussed the SRE team's initiatives in leveraging AI to analyze incident data and generate insights, aiming to reduce the cognitive load on engineers. 30:27

In this episode of the Azure Podcast, Cale, Evan, and Sujit engage in a comprehensive discussion about the Secure Future Initiative at Microsoft. They explore how this initiative influences our use of Azure and why it's beneficial for customers to consider implementing similar strategies in their own Azure environments.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode503.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/TyvkKhdRR5k Resources: https://www.microsoft.com/en/microsoft-cloud/resources/secure-future-initiative#tabx6a6ce2c0327741938ac10b008d5cff64 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/security/design-patterns SFI Updates   Other resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Volume-enhancements https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Dedicated-log-analytics-tables-in-Application-Gateway https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/ANF-Double-Encryption-at-rest https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/FIPS-mutability-support-in-AKS https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/CNI-Powered-by-Cilium-Azure-CNI-Overlay-support-AKS https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/New-features-in-AKS-extension-for-Visual-Studio-Code https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Enable-multifactor-authentication-for-your-tenant-by-15-October-2024  (also below) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/generally-available-azure-chaos-studio-supports-a-new-network-isolation-fault-for-virtual-machines https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/High-Scale-mode-Container-Insights

Azure Open AI is widely used in industry but there are number of security aspects that must be taken into account when using the technology. Luckily for us, Audrey Long, a Software Engineer at Microsoft, security expert and renowned conference speaker, gives us insights into securing LLMs and provides various tips, tricks and tools to help developers use these models safely in their applications.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode502.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/64Achcz97PI Resources: AI Tooling: Azure AI Tooling Announcing new tools in Azure AI to help you build more secure and trustworthy generative AI applications | Microsoft Azure Blog Prompt Shields to detect and block prompt injection attacks, including a new model for identifying indirect prompt attacks before they impact your model, coming soon and now available in preview in Azure AI Content Safety.  Groundedness detection to detect “hallucinations” in model outputs, coming soon.  Safety system messagesto steer your model’s behavior toward safe, responsible outputs, coming soon. Safety evaluations to assess an application’s vulnerability to jailbreak attacks and to generating content risks, now available in preview.   Risk and safety monitoring to understand what model inputs, outputs, and end users are triggering content filters to inform mitigations, coming soon, and now available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service. AI Defender for Cloud AI Security Posture Management AI security posture management (Preview) - Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Microsoft Learn AI Workloads Enable threat protection for AI workloads (preview) - Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Microsoft Learn        AI Red Teaming Tool Announcing Microsoft’s open automation framework to red team generative AI Systems | Microsoft Security Blog AI Development Considerations:   AI Assessment from Microsoft Conduct an AI assessment using Microsoft’s Responsible AI Impact Assessment Template Responsible AI Impact Assessment Guide for detailed instructions Microsoft Responsible AI Processes Follow Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles: fairness, reliability, safety, privacy, security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability Utilize tools like the Responsible AI Dashboard for continuous monitoring and improvement Define Use Case and Model Architecture Determine the specific use case for your LLM Design the model architecture, focusing on the Transformer architecture   Content Filtering System How to use content filters (preview) with Azure OpenAI Service - Azure OpenAI | Microsoft Learn Azure OpenAI Service includes a content filtering system that works alongside core models, including DALL-E image generation models. This system uses an ensemble of classification models to detect and prevent harmful content in both input prompts and output completions The filtering system covers four main categories: hate, sexual, violence, and self-harm Each category is assessed at four severity levels: safe, low, medium, and high Additional classifiers are available for detecting jailbreak risks and known content for text and code. JailBreaking Content Filters Red Teaming the LLM Plan and conduct red teaming exercises to identify potential vulnerabilities Use diverse red teamers to simulate adversarial attacks and test the model’s robustness Microsoft AI Red Team building future of safer AI | Microsoft Security Blog Create a Threat Model with OWASP Top 10 owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/assets/PDF/OWASP-Top-10-for-LLMs-2023-slides-v1_1.pdf Develop a threat model and implement mitigations based on identified risks   Other updates: Los Angeles Azure Extended Zones Carbon Optimization App Config Ref GA OS SKU In-Place Migration for AKS Operator CRD Support with Azure Monitor Managed Service Azure API Center Visual Studio Code Extension Pre-release Azure API Management WordPress Plugin Announcing a New OpenAI Feature for Developers on Azure

In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of ARM processors on Azure. We're thrilled to have Arpita Chatterjee and Noah Wood, both Program Managers at Azure, join us. They share valuable insights into the new Microsoft ARM processor, currently in Preview, and discuss when and how customers can best leverage these innovative SKUs.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode501.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/z5GN4-WjiJo Resources:  https://aka.ms/Cobalt100-VM-Preview-Blog https://aka.ms/Cobalt100-VM-Preview-Signup   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/convert-to-azure-premium-ssd-v2 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Monitor-Basic-Logs-Updates https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/App-Service-Environment-Retirement-Update https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Functions-supports-NET8-using-in-process-model https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Redis-Extension-Azure-Functions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Pgvector-support-in-Azure-Database https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Update-Records-in-Kutso-Databases

The team catches up with Daniel Taylor and Bradley Ball of the Azure Fast Track team and learns about how Database Watcher can help customers better manage and debug their Azure SQL, Elastic Pools, SQL Managed Instances, and Hyperscale and the replicas.  Daniel and Bradley also share the really cool work they are doing helping Azure customers learn about Azure with their Tales from the Field YouTube channel, plus we hear about some upcoming events where you can see Daniel and Bradley in person!!!   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode500.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z_jBWLUBY9g   Resources:  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database-watcher-overview?view=azuresql https://youtu.be/qr1Qxwao68M?si=mO24KZF3PAvTnnmn   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Guest-OS-Family-Retirement https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/cmk-for-backup-vaults-ga/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Elastic-SAN-Feature-Updates Azure classic resource providers will be retired on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Prashant Nayak, a Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft, gives us a quick background on AVS and enlightens us with the latest updates in migration and licensing to support customers wanted to move to Azure.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode499.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ut-iUJZXtI4 Resources: Microsoft and Broadcom to support license portability for VMware Cloud Foundation on Azure VMware Solution | Microsoft Azure Blog Introducing the VMware Rapid Migration Plan | Microsoft Azure Blog Tutorial - Network planning checklist - Azure VMware Solution | Microsoft Learn Introduction to the Azure VMware Solution adoption scenario - Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn Enterprise-scale network topology and connectivity for Azure VMware Solution - Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn Run VMware resources on Azure VMware Solution - Training | Microsoft Learn Azure VMware Solution Documentation Hub - Azure VMware Solution | Microsoft Learn Azure VMware Solution Videos - YouTube (Videos)   Other updates: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-observability-blog/advanced-network-observability-for-your-azure-kubernetes-service/ba-p/4176736 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Databricks-Jobs-Serverless-Compute https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/interactive-serverless-compute-AU https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/DLT-Serverless-Compute  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Cross-Subscription-Load-Balancer

We get an update on the fascinating topic of Quantum Computing on Azure from Cloud Solutions Architect and Quantum enthusiast Delbert Murphy. He gives us the latest status on Quantum, Quantum Elements and the Q# programming language and provides guidance on the type of use-cases that can take advantage of these services. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode498.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/2bZD2Ns91O8 Resources: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/microsoft-has-demonstrated-the-underlying-physics-required-to-create-a-new-kind-of-qubit/  https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2024/04/03/how-microsoft-and-quantinuum-achieved-reliable-quantum-computing/  https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2024/05/30/in-collaboration-with-microsoft-photonic-demonstrates-quantum-entanglement-at-telecom-wavelengths/ https://www.qir-alliance.org/ https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/hybrid-computing-overview https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/experience/quantum-katas https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/design-fault-tolerant-quantum-computing-applications-with-the-open-source-resource-estimator/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-innovator-series/ https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum-elements/product-overview https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2024/06/18/introducing-two-powerful-new-capabilities-in-azure-quantum-elements-generative-chemistry-and-accelerated-dft/ https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2024/01/09/unlocking-a-new-era-for-scientific-discovery-with-ai-how-microsofts-ai-screened-over-32-million-candidates-to-find-a-better-battery/ https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2024/02/29/microsoft-and-1910-genetics-partner-to-turbocharge-rd-productivity-for-the-pharmaceutical-industry/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/06/18/empowering-every-scientist-with-ai-augmented-scientific-discovery/ https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum-elements/azure-quantum-elements  https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/experience/quantum-cryptography   Other Updates: Generally Available: az command invoke in AKS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/access-private-cluster?tabs=azure-cli   Public Preview: Cluster operation status for AKS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/manage-abort-operations?tabs=azure-cli   Public Preview: Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/service-bus-geo-replication   Public Preview: Force detach zone redundant data disks during zone outage  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-updates/week-of-june-20-2024-azure-updates/ba-p/4173016   How hollow core fiber is accelerating AI https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-hollow-core-fiber-is-accelerating-ai/

Rishabh Tewari, a Software Engineer on the Azure team, gives us insights into Project Sirius. This is an upgrade to the Azure software that lights up Accelerated Connections for any resource that uses a network interface. Using a specialized SDN, customers and ISVs can achieve very high number of connections per second throughput across all of their Azure and non-Azure resources.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode497.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZVgBBrRlZGQ Resources: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi23-bansal.pdf   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-audit-logging-in-azure-api-management-developer-portal/  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/log-analytics-simple-mode

Cale, Evan and Sujit have an insightful discussion with Niko Pamboukas and Siri Velauthapillai about the new Azure Boost feature that is being deployed into the Azure substrate for VMs. They explain the specialized FPGAs and ARM SoCs that provide extreme IOPs for storage and networking and almost no downtime for system upgrades.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode496.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/4FPQCAmYrzw Resources: Learn more about Azure Boost at https://aka.ms/AzureBoost Learn about accelerated networking with Boost at https://aka.ms/MANA Learn about accelerated storage with Boost at https://aka.ms/NVMe   Other updates: Public preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-bastion-premium/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/kubernetesmetadataandlogsfilteringpublicpreview/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-balancer-health-event-logs/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-chaos-studio-supports-a-new-pause-process-fault-for-windows-virtual-machines/

Hearing how our ISVs are using Azure in innovative ways is always eye-opening. So, we are fortunate to have Saquib Rashid, a Technical Strategist in the Azure partner organization, give us insights into how Backbase used APIM and the Azure Service Operator to integrate with their customers and backend systems.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode495.mp3  YouTube: https://youtu.be/qFwOoSNpDME Resources:   Backbase Grand Central Microsoft Customer Story-Backbase seeks to usher in a new era of engagement banking with its Grand Central platform and Azure API Management APIM links: Azure API Management - v2 tiers | Microsoft Learn ASO links: Azure/azure-service-operator: Azure Service Operator allows you to create Azure resources using kubectl (github.com) Azure Service Operator v2   Other updates: Public Preview - Azure Compute Fleet | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/copilot/#Usecases https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/gen-ai-simplified-the-azure-ai-extension-now-generally-available/ba-p/4146139 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/microsoft-copilot-in-azure-extends-capabilities-to-azure-sql/ba-p/4075408

We are fortunate to have Vlad Joanovic to give us the valuable insights into ARM. He shares the importance of ARM in Azure, provides details on performance and reliability investments and gives us tips on how to make effective use of it to deploy and manage your workloads in Azure.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode494.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/kaeXdi2khTc Resources: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-tools-blog/azure-cli-and-powershell-tools-build-2024-announcement/ba-p/4148584 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/resource-graph/changes/view-resource-changes https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-governance-and-management/what-s-new-across-azure-governance-services-microsoft-build-2024/ba-p/4150428 Other updates: Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure General availability: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-application-gateway-v2-basic-sku/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cloud-services-classic-retirement-announcement-may2024/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/gpt4-turbo-vision/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-sensitive-data-protection-for-azure-front-door-web-application-firewall/

The team catches up with Priyanka Khare to learn about recent advancements in Azure Advisor and how customers can use Advisor to help ensure their workloads are more stable. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode493.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y9LVYhSiGgE   Resources: Azure Advisor: Advisor - Microsoft Azure Advisor Workbooks: Advisor Workbooks Advisor WAF Assessments: Advisor WAF Assessments Advisor Recommendations: Advisor Recommendations Advisor Manage Reviews: Advisor Manage Reviews What's new on Azure Advisor: What's new in Azure Advisor - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn   Engage with Microsoft for a Resiliency Review: Azure Advisor resiliency reviews - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn  

Evan and Sujit catch up on a number of recent news items in the Azure space spanning Networking, Open AI and IBM Mainframes??? Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode492.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/WslylOKwXDM   Resources: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/announcing-app-service-multi-plan-subnet-join/ba-p/3971493 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-of-azure-logic-apps-connectors-for-ibm-mainframe-and-midranges/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-of-azure-openai-and-ai-search-inapp-connectors-for-logic-apps-standard/   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/alt-fairfax/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-backup-vm-disk-access-public-preview/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/write-to-delta-lake   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-high-performance-computing-leads-to-developing-amazing-products-at-microsoft-surface/ General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central. | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/expressroutemetro/   Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Using Azure OpenAI speech to create our intro/exit segments in the podcast https://speech.microsoft.com/portal

The team talks with Amit Bajaj about the new Retirement Workbook customers can use to keep track of services they are using that are being retired.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode491.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z83s9lhOUTg Resources: Prepare migration of your workloads impacted by service retirements. - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn Azure Service Retirement Workbook (microsoft.com)  Visualize Azure Service Retirements (microsoft.com)  3-Year Notification Subset - Microsoft Lifecycle | Microsoft Learn   Other updates: Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public Preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on VMware | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Russell and Evan discuss the preview Azure API Center with Julia Kasper, Microsoft's Product Manager.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode490.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/mJnaCqgnPSg Resources: Request features/raise issues on API Center functionality: Issues · Azure/api-center-preview (github.com) Video on API governance with APIC: Mastering API Governance with Azure API Center (youtube.com) Sign up for updates and news: Stay in touch with Azure API Center! (office.com) Other updates: Public Preview: Modernizing Azure Resource Manager Throttling Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

Kendall and Sujit talk to Tom Kerkhove again, now a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure team and still the maintainer of KEDA. He gives us insights into the new API Management Self Hosted Gateway V2 option, which allows customers to host API Management capabilities in other clouds and on-premises with many more deployment options. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode439.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/qgtnKyIeyqU Resources: https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/references/config https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/deploy/k8s/production-guidance https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/migration/v2 https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/releases https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/registry-portal https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/deploy/k8s/helm https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/deploy/k8s/yaml https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/deploy/k8s/arc https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/samples/container-apps https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/intro https://aka.ms/apim/gateway-overview   Other updates: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online   General availability: Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Virtual datacenter tour | Azure global infrastructure experience (microsoft.com)   Generally available: Resizing of peered virtual networks | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   API Server VNet Integration in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Learn Public preview: Operation abort | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team catches up with Aimee Littleton, PM on the Azure Networking team, to learn more about NAT Gateway and when customers should be using it. Short answer = whenever you have outbound network connectivity as part of your workload!   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode438.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/cmU5hNEISlg Resources: What is Azure Virtual Network NAT? | Microsoft Docs Dive deep into NAT gateway’s SNAT port behavior | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure   Other Updates: General availability: Azure Communication Services support for Teams identities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

James Tabor from the Azure CXP CRE (Customer Reliability Engineering) team shares how he improves team productivity by building Power Platform Apps and gives us tips and tricks to get us started on the same journey.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode437.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/_t6BIh-9vHI   Other Updates: Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Generally available: Live resize for Premium SSD and Standard SSD Disk Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure     Elevate your visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana—now generally available https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/elevate-your-visualizations-with-azure-managed-grafana-now-generally-available/   Microsoft Cost Management updates – August 2022 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-august-2022/   Azure private MEC—A thriving partner ecosystem https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-private-mec-a-thriving-partner-ecosystem/   Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm–based processors—generally available https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-virtual-machines-with-ampere-altra-arm-based-processors-generally-available/     Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache | Microsoft Docs Public preview: App Configuration references for App Service and Azure Functions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Generally available: Azure Functions extension for Event Grid blob trigger | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team catches up with Byron Tardif from the App Services team to learn about App Services' migration to Kestrel+YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy)   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode436.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/OuPj4RAGDLQ Resources: A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel + YARP to Azure App Services - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) gRPC support on App Service now in Public Preview - Azure App Service   Submit App Services ideas at Web Apps · Community (azure.com)    

The team catches up with Bill Paxson and Rob Futrick to learn about Azure HPC and the unique way in which the Microsoft Support team is supports HPC customers     Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode435.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/1y1iDUvx75A Resources: High-performance computing (HPC) on Azure - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Docs High Performance Computing – HPC | Microsoft Azure   Free MS Learn modules covering many HPC AI topics, from intro to HPC to advanced optimization: Run high-performance computing (HPC) applications on Azure - Learn | Microsoft Docs Overview from HPC AI Day conference earlier this year: (101) Azure HPC+AI Day: HPC + AI software - YouTube Great overview of the entire HPC platform, including CPU + GPU hardware, HPC Storage considerations + options, etc.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54kF0EZ9DM Azure CycleCloud specifically:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyrsXUwm0vA. It has a live demo 19 minutes in.   Other updates: Monday, August 15, 2022 9:00 PM Use Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for Azure Blob storage on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Docs     Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-explorer-log-and-telemetry-analytics-benchmark/   Announcing Microsoft Dev Box Preview   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-dev-box-preview/

Evan and Cynthia speak with Abhishek Tiwari, Director of Software Engineering about the diverse types of situations traffic manager can be used in, how Microsoft has built a service to support 100% SLA, and how traffic manager can even be leveraged as part of a cloud modernization effort in a hybrid scenario.  Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode434.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/NhuJlK_vOEs Resources: What is Traffic Manager? How Traffic Manager Works Traffic Manager routing methods Updates: Review and remove AAD inactive users in Public Preview Public preview: Azure Dedicated Host restart General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix  

Evan and Sujit discuss one of the earliest, yet least talked-about services in Azure, the Relay Service. They discuss how it works and the place it can play in various application deployment scenarios. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode433.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/hCR-BY8hf7E Resources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-relay/relay-what-is-it Samples: https://github.com/Azure/azure-relay/tree/master/samples/hybrid-connections   Other Updates:  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-kms-dns-in-azure-global-cloud/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-public-ipv6-offerings-are-free-as-of-july-31/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-firewall-premium-is-now-icsa-labs-certified/

Cale and Sujit discuss the little-known. but very important App Config Service which simplifies configurations for all applications on Azure. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode432.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/P6QsUY0zdQQ Resources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-app-configuration/overview   Other updates: Azure empowers easy-to-use, high-performance, and hyperscale model training using DeepSpeed https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-empowers-easytouse-highperformance-and-hyperscale-model-training-using-deepspeed/   Microsoft Cost Details API now generally available for EA and MCA customers https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-details-api-now-generally-available-for-ea-and-mca-customers/   Azure Confidential Ledger goes GA https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-confidential-ledger/#overview   Satya announced the general availability of Azure confidential ledger at INSPIRE

We chat with Nir Mashkowski, Principal PM Manager, about the evolution of PaaS since its inception 10+ years ago, some of the usage patterns that he has observed, the benefits and reasoning of using PaaS services, and the future of where Azure PaaS services is headed.  Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode431.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/b3zUtaCnhTE Resources: Overview - Azure App Service | Microsoft Docs Azure Functions Overview | Microsoft Docs What is Azure Static Web Apps? | Microsoft Docs Azure Container Apps documentation | Microsoft Docs Dapr - Distributed Application Runtime KEDA | Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling

Azure FastTrack Engineers John Downs and Arsen Vladimirskiy explain how multi-tenant architectures can be deployed on Azure. They talk about the various factors that should be considered when designing these types of applications.   Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode430.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/r4pePMf_Y28 Resources:  https://aka.ms/multitenancy https://aka.ms/multitenancy/live https://aka.ms/multitenancy/feedback   Other Updates: Generally available: HTTP proxy support for AKS clusters | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Custom certificate authorities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Generally available: Improved Try Azure Cosmos DB for free experience | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cale and Cynthia chat with Manju Ramanathpura about the Azure Native ISV program, the customer experience, the background of the initiative and the investments that are made to streamline various products that developers are using onto Azure.   Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode429.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/DEjJ6DJDjBc Resources: Extend Azure with solutions from partners Updates: Public preview: AKS release tracker Threat detection in airports, railways, and retail with Azure Percept NYC NFT Conference Infura NFT Service General availability: Azure Key Vault secrets provider on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes Azure Orbital Ground Station as Service extends life and reduces costs for satellite operators  

Our resident expert on all things Java on Azure, Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, gives us all the latest updates on running your Java workloads on various Azure services. He also dives into the newly renamed Azure Spring Apps service which now has more SKUs to address various use-cases.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode428.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/PaMaWij21N0 Resources: Start Enterprise - https://aka.ms/spring-apps-EnterpriseDevelop your first Spring Boot app - https://aka.ms/Start-SpringLearn using a self-paced workshop - https://aka.ms/Learn-SpringWatch bite-size demos - https://aka.ms/Spring-PlaylistLeverage best practices - https://aka.ms/Spring-BootBuild and deploy Java apps on Azure - https://aka.ms/LearnJavaInteract with Azure services using Spring - https://aka.ms/Spring-Cloud-Azure   Technical Case StoriesFedEx - https://aka.ms/FedExNational Life Group - https://aka.ms/National-LifeDigital Realty Trust - https://aka.ms/DLRSwiss Re - https://aka.ms/Swiss-ReRaley's - https://aka.ms/Raley'Liantis - https://aka.ms/LiantisKroger - https://aka.ms/Kroger-on-AzureMorgan Stanley - https://aka.ms/Morgan-StanleyBosch - https://aka.ms/Bosch.IO   Other Updates: See how 3 industry-leading companies are driving innovation in a new episode of Inside Azure for IT https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/see-how-3-industryleading-companies-are-driving-innovation-in-a-new-episode-of-inside-azure-for-it/   Responsible AI investments and safeguards for facial recognition https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/responsible-ai-investments-and-safeguards-for-facial-recognition/   Azure IoT increases enterprise-level intelligent edge and cloud capabilities https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-increases-enterpriselevel-intelligent-edge-and-cloud-capabilities/   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-databricks-available-in-new-regions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-sdk-for-go/   Various Load Testing updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-supports-splitting-input-data-across-test-engines/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-user-specified-jmeter-properties/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-customermanaged-keys/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-userassigned-managed-identities/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-supports-quick-start-tests-with-web-url/   General availability: Azure Data Explorer connector for Power Automate, Logic Apps, and Power Apps   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/power-platform-connector-ga/

The team catches up with Sarah Novotny and Xin Liu to learn about both the network switch SONiC and why Microsoft recently transferred control of it to the Linux Foundation. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode427.mp3  YouTube: https://youtu.be/hmyz4Qpp9e4 Resources: Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Moves to the Linux Foundation GitHub Repo Quick Start Updates: General availability: Updates for resource configuration changes  Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway Preview of Windows Admin Center for Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure - Microsoft Windows Server Blog

Audrey Long, a Senior Security Software Engineer in Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft, discusses the Defender for the Cloud service. She explains how the service plays an important part in securing our assets and apps in Azure and other clouds as well.  Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode426.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/w5wG6Bf2aQY Resources:  Overview: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction Microsoft Defender for Servers Microsoft Defender for Storage Microsoft Defender for SQL Microsoft Defender for Containers Microsoft Defender for App Service Microsoft Defender for Key Vault Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager Microsoft Defender for DNS Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB (Preview) Microsoft Defender for IoT https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/iot-defender/#overview   Other updates: General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics. | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability: New portal experience for Microsoft Artifact Registry | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure     Start skilling on Azure with these helpful guides   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/start-skilling-on-azure-with-these-helpful-guides/       Find out why your SQL Server data belongs on Azure   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/find-out-why-your-sql-server-data-belongs-on-azure/

Special guest Mark Eisenberg (Senior CSAM at Microsoft), co-hosts with Kendall, Evan and Sujit on this special edition of the Podcast to offer his insights into the various Azure announcements at BUILD 2022.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode425.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/1xoGKpDyRxs Resources: https://news.microsoft.com/build-2022-book-of-news/

Our very own Cynthia Kreng, who is a PM in the Worldwide Customer Success Unit focused on Developer acceleration, talks to us about one their first offerings in API Management.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode424.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/UusIj1ikvLM Resources: Repo: https://aka.ms/EnterpriseScale-APIM Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/app-platform/api-management/landing-zone-accelerator   Other resources: Manage Red Hat workloads seamlessly on Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-red-hat-workloads-seamlessly-on-azure/   Accelerating innovation in the diabetic foot market with Azure Health Data Services https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/accelerating-innovation-in-the-diabetic-foot-market-with-azure-health-data-services/   Join us and the developer community to celebrate Azure Static Web Apps https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/join-us-and-the-developer-community-to-celebrate-azure-static-web-apps/     Microsoft Build 5/24-5/26 https://mybuild.microsoft.com/  

Kyle Teegarden, a Senior PM in the DevDiv group, gets us re-acquainted with the Redis offering on Azure and discusses all the latest features including the Enterprise tier. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode423.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/xKA-w7Icn00 Resources: Azure Cache for Redis | Microsoft Azure How to Improve Your Azure SQL Performance by up to 800% - Microsoft Tech Community Cache-Aside pattern - Azure Architecture Center Implement Redis Pub/Sub and Streams in Azure Cache for Redis - Learn Optimize your web applications by caching read-only data with Redis - Learn  Quickstart: Use Azure Cache for Redis in .NET Core Updates: Generally available: Node pool snapshot Generally available: Scale-down mode in AKS Public preview: Static Web Apps now supports Gitlab and Bitbucket for CI/CD Public preview: Azure Storage as share in Windows Code in App Service  Intelligent application protection from edge to cloud with Azure Web Application Firewall Customize your secure VM session experience with native client support on Azure Bastion  

Thomas Stringer is a Software Engineering Lead in the Open Service Mesh team at Microsoft and he gives us insights into the OSM add-on for AKS and tells us why that makes applications on AKS so much more secure. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode422.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/DICsJmFSGCs Resources: https://openservicemesh.io/ Cloud Native Computing Foundation (cncf.io)   Other updates: General availability: App Service - Networking capabilities added to Basic pricing tier | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: App Service - Configure networking in Azure Portal during app creation | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team talks with Pujitha and Sidhanshu about Project Flash, an initiative to improve VM availability monitoring that allows for immediate actions and trend analysis at scale.   Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode421.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7vXz-tjQAA Resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-azure-virtual-machine-availability-monitoring-with-project-flash/  https://aka.ms/flashblog   Other updates: Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-sql-database-hyperscale-reverse-migration-to-general-purpose-tier/ General availability: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-zone-redundancy-for-azure-sql-database-general-purpose-tier/ Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-purview-is-now-microsoft-purview/ Getting rid of credentials in Azure (multi-part) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/getting-rid-of-credentials-in-azure-part-1/ba-p/3265205 Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2022  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-sql-public-preview-updates-for-midapril-2022/ Generally available: IBM WebSphere on Azure with evaluation licensing https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-ibm-websphere-on-azure-with-evaluation-licensing/      

Microsoft MVP, Director of Solution Architecture at WTW and all things Azure expert, Sam Cogan, joins us for an in-depth discussion on Infrastructure as Code. He shares his views and give us valuable tips for having a good IaC strategy.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode420.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/PlfAS6eUfzE Blog: https://samcogan.com   Other updates: Generally available: Azure storage table access using Azure Active Directory | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the Ebs/Ebds v5 memory optimized Azure VM series, that deliver up to 300% increase in remote storage performance compared to prior generation VMs.   Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure No need to expose public endpoints or expose data over public internet to enable access from ADX clusters.   Update: Azure AD Graph retirement date | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Extended retirement to move to Microsoft Graph - now 31 Dec 2022 (was 30 June 22).  Feature updates are going into MS Graph, not AD Graph   General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure More GB but cheaper overall, using vault-archive instead of vault-standard https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-future-is-on-fhir-for-sas-and-microsoft-azure/   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-metrics-and-alerts-support-in-azure-container-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-health-probes-support-in-azure-container-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-visual-studio-support-for-azure-container-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-visual-studio-code-extension-for-azure-container-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-managed-identities-support-in-azure-container-apps/

In this episode, we delve into a cornerstone service within Azure that is sometimes underestimated or missed in design discussions: the Azure Storage service. Our guest, Ben Hummerstone, a seasoned Cloud Solution Architect based in the UK, brings his expertise in storage and other infrastructure services to the forefront. Ben shares a valuable set of guiding principles to assist you in crafting the optimal storage architecture for your application.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode489.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/XIKxPRI1G-Y Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-government/azure-secure-isolation-guidance#high-level-azure-storage-architecture https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/scalability-targets https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/access-tiers-overview   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-support-for-http-streams-in-nodejs/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-kubernetes-129-support-in-aks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cloud-services-classic-retirement-announcement-feb2024/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-netapp-files-volume-enhancement-allow-the-same-file-path-for-volumes-in-different-availability-zones/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-os-sku-inplace-migration-for-linux-nodes/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/ga-istiobased-service-mesh-addon-for-azure-kubernetes-service/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-disable-network-policy-for-migration-in-aks/  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-capacity-reservations-support-in-aks/

Jose Moreno a Customer Engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team joins Sujit and Russell to talk about Networking, and more specifically discusses best practices for Express Route configuration and monitoring with an eye on resiliency and performance.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode488.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/KUhODMaQjEU Resources: FastTrack for Azure: FastTrack for Azure – Technical Enablement FAQ | Microsoft Azure Azure ER Locations (not to confuse with Azure Regions): Locations and connectivity providers for Azure ExpressRoute | Microsoft Learn Azure Connection Monitor: Connection monitor overview - Azure Network Watcher | Microsoft Learn Other updates: GA: Azure API Management Developer Portal Unveils Enhanced Features for Increased Developer Productivity Public Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS TLS/TCP Proxy Preview

Fabian Gonzalez and Azure escalation engineer and Jack Lichwa, a PM in the Azure Key Vault team, revisit the Key Vault service which forms the backbone of any deployment. They remind us of the features that Key Vault offers and give us valuable tips and tricks to configure and deploy them effectively in your workloads.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode487.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Pd5seEyqTzI   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-aks-cluster-control-plane-metrics-in-managed-prometheus/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-improvements-in-azure-key-vault/ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/accelerate-developer-onboarding-with-the-configuration-as-code/ba-p/4062416 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-blob-storage-cold-tier-support-on-change-feed-and-object-replication/   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-customer-managed-key-encryption-for-enterprise-tier-caches/

Technical Program Manager in the Azure Commerce team, Obinna Nwokolo explains exactly what the new Azure Savings Plan is all about and how you can easily take advantage of it via the Portal experience. He digs into the various options for cutting costs in Azure and when the Savings Plan makes sense for you. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode486.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qwt728PUz0U Resources: SP product page - Azure Savings Plan for Compute | Microsoft Azure SP Recommendations 101 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HV9GT9kX6A&list=PLlrxD0HtieHjd-zn7u09YoGJY18ZrN1Hq&index=2&t=15s&pp=iAQB SP Benefit application 101 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZOyh1rl3kU&list=PLlrxD0HtieHjd-zn7u09YoGJY18ZrN1Hq&index=3&t=2s&pp=iAQB   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generalavailabilityofazuremonitormetricsdataplaneapi/

Santosh Somayajula, a Principal Product Manager in Azure, breaks down the new Copilot for Azure service which is currently in Private Preview in the Azure Portal. Using this feature, administrators and management can perform operations in the Portal using simple verbal commands instead of navigating the UI.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode485.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gqv-qOOoK28 Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/copilot/overview  https://aka.ms/MSCopilotforAzurePreviewRequest   Other updates: General Availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General Availability: Azure MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server migrations | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure    Public Preview: Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure     https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-topology/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/mount-azure-storage-as-a-local-share-in-app-service-linux-now-supports-nfs/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-continuous-model-monitoring-in-azure-machine-learning/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-api-center-features/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-new-major-version-of-durable-functions-extension/   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-outbound-type-migration-in-aks/  

Sean Klein joins Evan, Sujit, and Cale to talk about the Production LiveSite Review (PLR) process used by Azure Engineering for modern incident analysis and learnings. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode484.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/EsRrxguRn2Y Resources: How Complex Systems Fail Etsy Engineering | Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture   Other updates: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/quickstart-create-and-run-load-test https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/how-to-parameterize-load-tests#secrets  

Azure Cloud Solution Architects Elena Krasteva and Sabine Blair help us understand what the Azure VMWare Solution is all about and how the Landing Zone Accelerator helps make it easier for customers looking to migrate VMWare workloads to Azure.     Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode483.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Onj876JxOaw Resources: 1) Product page: https://aka.ms/avs  2) LinkedIn: (20) Azure VMware Solution Pros | Groups | LinkedIn 3) Well Architected Workload Guidance: https://aka.ms/avswafdocs  4) Landing Zone Accelerator: https://aka.ms/avsaccelerator 4) TechCommunity Blog: Azure Migration and Modernization Blog - Microsoft Community Hub 5) Learn Modules: Run VMware resources on Azure VMware Solution - Training | Microsoft Learn 6) Discovery Assessment: Azure VMware Solution assessment calculations in Azure Migrate - Azure Migrate | Microsoft Learn   Other updates: Microsoft puts Azure Quantum Elements to work https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/microsoft-puts-azure-quantum-elements-to-work/ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-spring-apps-enterprise-is-now-eligible-for-azure-savings/ba-p/4021532

Cale, Evan and Sujit discuss the often-overlooked Network Watcher service in Azure and how it can be used for monitoring, troubleshooting and logging of network operations in your VNETs.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode482.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/CYLtFrbXGck Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-overview   Other updates: Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Service Bus | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Store and manage medical imaging data with Azure Data Lake Storage (Preview) | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-free-sql-managed-instance/

Cale and Sujit discuss the new Fleet Manager service which allows customers to better manage groups of AKS clusters and perform updates, deployments and network access.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode481.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/mpUfpRtqnEE Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kubernetes-fleet/overview https://github.com/Azure/fleet   Other updates: Public Preview: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, enhanced disaster recovery features | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Generally Available: Azure Functions support on Apple Silicon Macs | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Microsoft and Oracle announce that Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available | Microsoft Azure Blog

Mark Eisenberg joins Cale and Sujit to dissect the Azure-related updates announced at the Ignite Conference in November 2023.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode480.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/bbt4wTjo7G4 Resources: https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/ Mark Russinovich - Inside AI Innovations

Today the team chat to Keith Howling, a Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft, on the topic of Platform Engineering with Radius, an open source app deployment engine. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode479.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/JWCaXfTf77A Resources: Radius: RadApp Introducing Radius: A new open-source application platform for cloud-native apps Other news: General availability: Rate limit rules for Application Gateway web application firewall Export cost using focus Azure support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024 Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio General availability: Start and stop load testing faults in Azure Chaos Studio General availability: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model App Service end-to-end encryption for Linux multi-tenant (preview) Azure Monitor Logs archive provides up to 12 years of retention

The team catches up with Nithya Sivam and Joshua Min who explain how Azure is democratizing access to the self-help content accessible in the Azure Portal. The Help API makes it easier to integrate this self-help into your own workflow.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode478.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Depmijm4YUg Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/help/?view=rest-help-2023-09-01-preview   Other updates: Realize the full potential of your cloud investment with Azure optimization https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/realize-the-full-potential-of-your-cloud-investment-with-azure-optimization/   Building for the future: The enterprise generative AI application lifecycle with Azure AI https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-for-the-future-the-enterprise-generative-ai-application-lifecycle-with-azure-ai/   Join Microsoft at Azure Day & KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/join-microsoft-at-azure-day-amp-kubecon-north-america-2023-in/ba-p/3958610   Azure Elastic SAN updates: Snapshots, Security, and Usability | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Application Gateway IPv6 support | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure  General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Software Engineers Ian Jensen and Michael Litman from Microsoft's ISE group, explain the other 'clouds' in Azure. They dive into the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 suite and explain the use-cases for each of them and how you can use low-code or high-code to take advantage of these clouds without having to worry about specific resources in Azure.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode477.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/9EAl_tCAoMs Resources: Power Platform Terraform Provider: https://aka.ms/PowerPlatTerraformQuickstarts SolutionOps Playbook: https://playbook.microsoft.com Power Platform Pipelines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/pipelines ALM Accelerator for Power Platform: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/alm-accelerator/overview Updated ERP Development Experience: https://aka.ms/ERPDevDeploy , then https://aka.ms/ERPDevConfig ERP Git guidance: https://aka.ms/XppGit   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-update-channel-for-basic-standard-and-premium-caches/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-builtin-azure-monitor-alerts-for-azure-site-recovery/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-bastion-developer-public-preview/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-default-rule-set-21-for-regional-waf-with-application-gateway/

Balaji Sankaran, General Manager of Azure HDInsight, joins us to share the latest announcement from HDInsight - an updated, managed HDInsight service that runs on AKS, giving a better experience for hosting opensource analytics workloads in the cloud.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode476.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/RiQzpkZeT9c Resources: HD Insight on AKS: Manage your big data needs with HDInsight on AKS Enterprise scale open-source analytics on containers (Video) Get started with HDInsights on AKS Get in touch - Ask HDInsight Other news: Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

Alice Gibbons, Customer Success Engineer and Kendall Roden, Product Manager, both from Diagrid, talk about the companies SaaS offering that allows easier monitoring and management of DAPR installations on AKS and any Kubernetes service.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode475.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/iIjUs1Z-g4I Resources: Conductor links: 5 min intro: https://www.diagrid.io/conductor#video-section book a demo: https://www.diagrid.io/conductor Run Dapr in production with Confidence webinar: https://youtu.be/88VJZ0K09PM?feature=shared   Other Updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-data-explorer-addon-for-splunk/

A Program Manager in the Azure Chaos Studio team, Vikram Raju joins us to give us a refresher on the service and what latest updates have just been released. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode474.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/UJYhjFoM25U Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/testing/mission-critical-deployment-testing   Other updates: https://aka.ms/AIR/VVTQ-J98 - this the public-facing Azure Incident Retrospective that covers the Australia East outage.   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-web-pubsub-support-for-socketio/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-malware-scanning-in-defender-for-storage-2/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-timeline-view-for-azure-monitor-alerts/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/openai-whisper-model-in-preview-in-azure-openai-service-and-azure-ai-speech/

Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, talks to us about Azure Arc. He explains the history of the service, how it helps you develop, operate and secure your applications anywhere, and why it is deserves more attention from customers, even if you don't use Azure today. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode473.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/WTSoAThTJuI Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/managing-and-governing-hybrid-environments-with-azure-arc/hybrid-and-multicloud-resource-management-with-azure-arc https://azurearcjumpstart.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/r-word-starting-appear-cloud-conversations-its-time-set-vishwas-lele https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/   Other updates: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/announcing-javascript-sdk-v4/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-configure-customermanaged-keys-on-existing-cosmos-db-accounts/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-use-azure-key-vault-to-securely-store-and-retrieve-access-key-when-mounting-azure-storage-as-a-local-sha/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/configure-load-testing-in-your-cicd-pipeline-from-azure-portal/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-sensitive-data-protection-for-application-gateway-web-application-firewall-logs/ https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/1168

Farzad Sunavala, Senior PM in the Azure Cognitive Search team, reveals the details of the new Vector Search feature. He explains some of the concepts of Vector search and how developers can easily take advantage of this in their Open AI apps. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode472.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/jAvuVTUNZ2k Resources: https://aka.ms/IntroducingVectorSearch   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-app-configuration-public-preview-release-of-snapshots-feature/   https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-container-apps-supports-additional-tcp-ports/   https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-azure-container-apps-jobs/   https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-net-worker-cold-start-improvements/   https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-net-8-support-in-linux-plans/   https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-autoupgrade-scheduled-maintenance-for-aks/   https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-azure-sql-updates-for-lateaugust-2023/

We talk to Steve Selleny, a Global Partner Development Manager at Microsoft, about the AI and ML trends he has noticed in Financial Services ISVs.  Steve has been working in the technology sector for over 21 years in various roles including software development, systems architecture, consulting, sales, and partner management. For the past two years, he has been working with Financial Services Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to build and market solutions on the Microsoft Cloud that drive digital transformation for customers. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode471.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/6WDlqR34M48 Resources: https://news.microsoft.com/2023/06/29/moodys-and-microsoft-develop-enhanced-risk-data-analytics-research-and-collaboration-solutions-powered-by-generative-ai/    Other updates: Strengthening Your Defenses: Simulation Testing for Azure DDoS Protection - Microsoft Community Hub https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-ratelimit-rules-for-application-gateway-web https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-terraform-support-for-azure-cosmos-db https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-durable-functions-for-python-v2 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-99th-percentile-latency-metric-in-azure Upgrade to App Service Environment v3 today and unlock new capabilities | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cloud-services-retirement-announcement/  

Evan and Sujit cover a whole bunch of updates to various Azure services such as AKS, ACA, Functions, VMs, PostgerSQL, VNETs and Storage. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode470.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/eGsnmw5WjHI  Resources: VMs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-subscription-restore-for-azure-virtual-machines/ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/introducing-new-performance-tiers-for-azure-managed-lustre/ba-p/3900329   Storage https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-elastic-san-updates-private-endpoints-shared-volumes/   Functions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-sdk-type-bindings-in-azure-functions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-application-insights-integration-for-the-azure-functions-net-worker/   AKS/ACA https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-127-support-in-aks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-key-vault-references-for-secrets-in-azure-container-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-secrets-volume-mounts-for-azure-container-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-session-affinity-for-azure-container-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-init-containers-in-azure-container-apps/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-origin-resource-sharing-cors-in-azure-container-apps/   PostgreSQL https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-storage-autogrow-online-disk-scaling-for-azure-database-for-postgresql-flexible-server/ Major Version Upgrade of a flexible server - Azure portal | Microsoft Learn   VNET https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-vnet-flow-logs/

Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what is means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode469.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/k0DkkVkfw2o Resources:   Announcement for Fabric including the key dates and how to enable : Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Microsoft Power BI | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI Fabric Getting started : Get started with Microsoft Fabric - Training | Microsoft Learn Happy Paths : Introducing the end-to-end scenarios in Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric Cube in a Cube (2 Microsoft Employees with some great content, who are part of the Fabric Customer Advisory Team) : (488) Guy in a Cube - YouTube   Endjin : (488) endjin - YouTube Advancing Analytics :  (488) Advancing Fabric - YouTube   Other updates: Scale generative AI with new Azure AI infrastructure advancements and availability | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/azure-customer-stories-ai Chaos Studio updates  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-supports-new-faults-for-app-service-and-virtual-machines/  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-is-now-available-in-southeast-asia-region/  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-has-userassigned-managed-identity-and-custom-role-assignment/   Load Testing Updates https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-for-up-to-24-hours/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-create-and-manage-tests-and-test-runs-using-azure-cli/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-with-100000-virtual-users/

This week Cale talks to Radhika Bollineni, Engineering Manager for Wordpress on App Service, about how to easily create WordPress sites in your Azure subscription to publish your content, using just a few clicks in the Marketplace. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode468.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/rO8xicLKKow Documentation: https://github.com/Azure/wordpress-linux-appservice Marketplace offering: https://ms.portal.azure.com/#create/WordPress.WordPress Other links and resources referred to in this episode: Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available Announcing Azure Managed Lustre for your HPC and AI workloads Microsoft Cost Management updates—June 2023 Supercharge your skills with Microsoft CLX tracks for Azure Explore the benefits of Azure OpenAI Service with Microsoft Learn

After talking to Ryan Berry a little while back about OneStream's journey to Azure, the team catches back up with him to hear about how their architecture will evolve in the future to be more Cloud Native. In addition, they discuss the challenges of rearchitecting a pre-existing product when you cannot afford the have dual stacks running at the same time. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode467.mp3 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D4x7jDjs-8 Resources Corporate Performance Management Software | OneStream Software Links to updates mentioned at the top of the show Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID Public preview: Ingest events from Azure Event Hubs to Azure Monitor Logs General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL external tables Azure cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available Public preview: Azure Virtual Network encryption

Cloud Solution Architect, Dr. Linda Sheard, joins Russell and Sujit for a primer on Azure Open AI. Linda breaks down the service and provides context on how it can be used for the typical scenario where a customer wants to reason over their own data.  Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode466.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/nDcIWvHa43s Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/overview   Other updates: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/tutorial-registry-cache

Evan and Sujit talk to Principal PM Ramya Oruganti about the release of Functions as a first class managed service on Azure Container Apps. She tells us how this opens up possibilities for event-driven applications on ACA with full support for KEDA, Bindings, Dapr, GitHub Actions etc.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode465.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/0XR0PJuB_ko Resources: https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-on-container-apps https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-functions-for-cloud-native-microservices-public-preview/ba-p/3826800 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-deploy-container-apps?tabs=acr%2Cbash&pivots=programming-language-csharp   Other updates: Understanding Service Health communications for Azure vulnerabilities | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements workbook template in Azure Advisor | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cale and Russell talk to the Microsoft Program Manager for DevBox and Azure Deployment Environments, Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala, about how Azure Deployment Environments can enable rapid deployment of on-demand dev/test environments while providing governance, security and cost management - plus some more updates from Microsoft Build 2023! Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode464.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/IsgQVMIkhRc Sagar's links: GA blog - https://aka.ms/ade-ga-blog Sign up for Terraform support - https://aka.ms/ade-terraform-signup LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagarchandrareddy Other updates mentioned in this episode: Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator on Linux | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Explore the latest features for Datadog—An Azure Native ISV Service Microsoft Cost Management updates—May 2023 Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux Azure OpenAI Service - Documentation, quickstarts, API reference - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Learn Azure Deployment Environments | Microsoft Azure About Azure App Spaces | Microsoft Learn Introducing Azure API Center for Centralized API Discovery and Governance (microsoft.com) GitHub Advanced Security for Azure Devops

The team catches up with Ryan Berry to learn about OneStream's journey to Azure. They talk about both the benefits and pitfalls and why Ryan is happy OneStream in running in Azure.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode463.mp3  YouTube: https://youtu.be/Um4rg4eKRuU Resources:  https://www.onestream.com/blog/onestream-splash-dc-wows-attendees-with-ai-powered-cpm-capabilities/   Other updates: Public Preview – Data Migration for Oracle | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure  https://news.microsoft.com/build-2023-book-of-news/   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9265960

Jorge Palma, the Lead PM for Azure Kubernetes Services, talks to Evan and Sujit about the Long-Term Support (LTS) version Kubernetes which provides support for 2 years. He tells us how this model works and who may benefit from this option. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode462.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/zmrOegThyCE Resources: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-kubernetes-upgrades-and-long-term-support/ba-p/3782789 https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2023/04/18/join-microsoft-at-kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-europe-2023/  

Russell and Sujit talk to Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products at NVIDIA, about a new offering in Azure via the Marketplace that will make it easier to get NVIDIA's software onto the Azure platform to make it easier for customers to take advantage of their GPU accelerated instances.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode461.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/HcAjq8jAzqo  Resources: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-enterprise-ready-generative-ai Other Updates: Public preview: Azure Cold Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent supports Linux Hardening for CIS and SELinux | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure

Cale, Evan and Sujit talk to Neha Rathod, Garv Jasuja, Akshay Gupta and Vijay Chiluveru, who are Graduate Students at Penn State University that have developed a wireless monitoring device to detect cardiac arrest and alert the caretakers. We talk to them about how they developed the product and how Azure helped speed up the development.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode460.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/VQAVhLpzKCE Resources: https://alertheart.com/ https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/engineering-graduate-students-named-finalists-microsoft-imagine-cup/ Other updates: Microsoft Build May 23 - 25 https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure    

Evan and Sujit talk to Allison Jones, a Group PM for Azure's AIOps System Team. She gives us insights into how Microsoft uses AI/ML to analyze various signals from Azure to provide actionable information about the state of the platform.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode459.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ousa2qWQEiQ Resources:  Blogs Advancing Azure Service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps Advancing failure prediction and mitigation – introducing Narya Advancing safe deployment with AIOps – introducing Gandalf Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps – introducing AiDice    Webinars AIOps webinar @ Harvard in Tech Seattle by Dongmei Zhang, Marcus Fontoura, Murali Chintalapati, and Igal Figlin AIOps Distinguished Industry Lecture by Mark Russinovich at Carneige Mellon University In addition, the customer can learn more about cutting edge AIOps solutions across industry through participation of Cloud Intelligence / AIOps workshop.    Other updates: Generally available: Azure Monitor alerts now suggests signals to alert on | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-serverless-sql-for-azure-databricks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-event-hubs-dedicated-selfserve-scalable-clusters-for-mission-critical-kafka-amqp-and-https-workload/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-ebsv5-and-ebdsv5-nvmeenabled-vm-sizes/

Elizabeth Graham, a Senior Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering group at Microsoft, talks to Evan and Sujit about the various options we have for integrating external systems with Azure. She talks about how messages, files and other input forms can be ingested and processed with some of the services available in Azure. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode458.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/NekugFAh2x8 Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/integration/integration-start-here Data Mapper   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-service-fabric-91-third-refresh-release-2/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-crossregion-service-endpoints-for-azure-storage/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azurefilessmblinuxad/

The team talks to Ayush Agarwal, Davide Mauri, and Sean Leonard to learn about how the open-source Data API Builder can be used to quickly and easily create CRUD APIs on top of multiple database platforms in Azure for use in many types of applications and languages.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode457.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/pgvMa3tFg7s Resources:  https://aka.ms/dab   Other updates: Public Preview: In-place scaling for enterprise caches | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Hotpatch now available for Windows Server VMs on Azure with desktop experience | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Node Resource Group (NRG) lockdown | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure     https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-126-support-in-aks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-aks-service-mesh-addon-for-istio/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-long-term-support-version-in-aks/   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/app-service-environment-v1-v2-retirement/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/unleash-the-power-of-apis-strategies-for-innovation/  

Evan and Sujit talk to Ricardo Villarreal about the new ability to built network-aware applications in Azure. APC provides a unified abstraction layer for accessing network APIs—such as edge discovery, quality on demand, and device location—consistently across operators and connectivity methods. Ricardo offers compelling use-cases for these new APIs in Azure and tips to get started.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode456.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/2XWy2X0WXCQ Resources: https://aka.ms/apcblog   Other updates: New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Database connections support in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public Preview: Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure General Availability: Performance workbooks for Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public Preview: PgBouncer monitoring metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

In this episode we chat with Andrés Padilla and Meer Alam about practical use of AI and ML systems.  Examples of this are discussed around autonomous drone / delivery models and the various components in Azure that make this a seamless, scalable and sustainable experience.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode455.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/0Y_jeCWZn38 Resources: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1569428314103514552-drone-express-travel-transportation-azure-en-united-states https://github.com/Azure/KAN   Other updates: Azure Disks Standard SSD billable transaction cap blog (microsoft.com)   Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General Availability: Customer Initiated Storage Account Conversion | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI Service | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure Teams premium - conversation recap, chapters, etc.; Viva Sales, Bing Chat   Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Image captioning, customisation, improved learning, smaller datasets, higher quality.   Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Zero Trust segmentation; single holistic view of traffic with real time visibility of interaction and dependencies; test firewall changes before deploying; across all 3 skus of firewall   Public Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports querying PromQL | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Use promql to define alerts to view in the portal   Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Installs an agent to your VM through PS, triggered by the portal   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-to-showcase-purposebuilt-ai-infrastructure-at-nvidia-gtc/

Our guest this week, Paul Henwood joins Kendall and Russell to talk about many different aspects of sustainability, and how Azure embraces and supports customers with their sustainability goals.   Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode454.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/HSPeE6Hpmns Sustainability Resources: Microsoft Sustainability - Products for a Sustainable Future What is Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability? | Microsoft Learn Calculating My Carbon Footprint - Microsoft Sustainability Sustainability workload documentation - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn   Green Software Foundation | GSF Azure Update Links:   General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-February 2023 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure    

Ryan Bostelmann joins the Azure Podcast team to share how the Azure Support function use Azure and Power Platform to be more efficient and deliver a better customer service. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Edpisode453.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/mIYTsy6jwVQ Links: Power Apps: What is Power Apps? - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn Power Automate: Get Started with Power Automate Logic Apps: Overview - Azure Logic Apps Azure Functions: Azure Functions Overview Azure Pipelines: What are Azure Pipelines? Choose the right integration and automation services in Azure:

The team catches up with April Edwards to learn about the benefits of using Bicep to deploy Azure resources.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode452.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/FhniwXjDBe0 Resources:  IaC Blog: Infrastructure as Code - comparing tools (microsoft.com) MS Learn path for BIcep: Learn Live: Use Bicep to deploy your Azure infrastructure as code - Events | Microsoft Learn Learn Live: Building your first Bicep Template: Learn Live - Build your first Bicep template - YouTube Learn Live: Build Your First Bicep Deployment Workflow using GitHub Actions : Learn Live - Build your first Bicep deployment workflow by using GitHub Actions - YouTube   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-automation-extension/ Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-azure-openai-service-expands-access-to-large-advanced-ai-models-with-added-enterprise-benefits   Public preview: Capture Event Hubs data with Stream Analytics no-code editor in Delta Lake format | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure  

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

The team catches up with the developers of the Databricks Accelerator for Azure Purview to learn when, where, and why you might use it.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode441.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/W9Dyb6E5eKk Resources: The Databricks to Purview Solution Accelerator Repo: microsoft/Purview-ADB-Lineage-Solution-Accelerator: A connector to ingest Azure Databricks lineage into Microsoft Purview (github.com) Demo Deployment Quickstart: Purview-ADB-Lineage-Solution-Accelerator/deploy-demo.md at release/2.1 · microsoft/Purview-ADB-Lineage-Solution-Accelerator (github.com) YouTube Video overview: Demoing the Azure Databricks lineage solution accelerator in Microsoft Purview - YouTube The OpenLineage Repo: OpenLineage/OpenLineage: An Open Standard for lineage metadata collection (github.com) OpenLineage + Purview Blog: Microsoft Purview Accelerates Lineage Extraction from Azure Databricks | OpenLineage   Other updates: Public preview: 128 vCore option for Azure SQL Database standard-series hardware | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure - 415 GB of memory   Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025—upgrade to Standard Load Balancer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-int-deploy-ivaap-for-osdu-data-platform-on-microsoft-energy-data-services/   Azure Machine Learning—General availability updates for September 2022 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for September 2022 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure  designed for SMB ; cost effective SKU   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/strengthen-your-security-with-policy-analytics-for-azure-firewall/

The team catches up with Holger Bruchelt to get an update SAP and why we now say "SAP and Azure" and not "SAP on Azure"   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode440.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/T70PrDkSQvI Resources: https://microsoft.com/SAP - Overall picture at SAP on Azure https://aka.ms/acss - This is THE central entry point for Azure Center for SAP Solutions Overview and architecture of the SAP CDC capabilities (preview) - Azure Data Factory – this is the new SAP CDC Connector for ADF https://youtube.com/SAPonAzure - our YouTube channel for SAP on Azure    Other updates: Public preview: Customer initiated storage account conversion | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Microsoft Ignite - Oct 12-14th, UK will have some in person element in Manchester this year, and local events will also take place in France, Germany, Latin America, Japan and China;  Showcase of the latest innovations from Microsoft and partners.   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-netapp-files-new-regions-and-crossregion-replication/   Netapp Files now available in Korea South, Sweden Central Cross-region replication now in Korea Central/south, North Central US, East US 2, France Central and West Europe; Backup feature in public preview now expanded to SE Asia, UK South https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-unmanaged-disks-will-be-retired-on-30-september-2025/  Managed disks have now been available for several years (2017), and unmanaged discs are being retired - so you need to migrate before 30 sept 2025.  Advantages of managed discs include reliability, scalability, capacity, bursting, shared discs, etc.