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-Enterprise
Develop your first Spring Boot app - https://aka.ms/Start-Spring
Learn using a self-paced workshop - https://aka.ms/Learn-Spring
Watch bite-size demos - https://aka.ms/Spring-Playlist
Leverage best practices - https://aka.ms/Spring-Boot
Build and deploy Java apps on Azure - https://aka.ms/LearnJava
Interact with Azure services using Spring - https://aka.ms/Spring-Cloud-Azure

Technical Case Stories
FedEx - https://aka.ms/FedEx
National Life Group - https://aka.ms/National-Life
Digital Realty Trust - https://aka.ms/DLR
Swiss Re - https://aka.ms/Swiss-Re
Raley's - https://aka.ms/Raley'
Liantis - https://aka.ms/Liantis
Kroger - https://aka.ms/Kroger-on-Azure
Morgan Stanley - https://aka.ms/Morgan-Stanley
Bosch - 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/