The Azure Podcast
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/
Keywords: Key Vault
Filed Under: Podcast
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:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generalavailabilityofazuremonitormetricsdataplaneapi/
Keywords: Cost
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
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/
Keywords: Copilot, AI
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
How Complex Systems Fail
Etsy Engineering | Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
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
Keywords: Production
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
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
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
Keywords: VMWare
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
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-overview
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/
Keywords: Monitoring
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
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kubernetes-fleet/overview
https://github.com/Azure/fleet
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
Keywords: AKS
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
https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/
Mark Russinovich - Inside AI Innovations
Keywords: Ignite
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
Radius:
Other news:
Keywords: AKS, DevOps, Open Source
Filed Under:
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
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/help/?view=rest-help-2023-09-01-preview
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
Keywords: Diagnostics
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