by Evan Basalik
January 18, 2018
Evan is back after a couple of stressful weeks dealing with the fallout from "Meltdown". He shares some of his learnings and things customers can do to be better prepared for such situations.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode212.mp3
Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/1c1d95469e/
Resources:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-business-continuity
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sql/virtual-machines-windows-portal-sql-availability-group-overview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sql/virtual-machines-windows-sql-high-availability-dr
Other updates:
NPR's Market-Blockchain-place
General availability: Service tags for NSGs
Service tags simplify security for Azure virtual machines and Azure virtual networks by enabling you to easily restrict network access to just the Azure services that you use.
You can use service tags in your network security group (NSG) rules to allow or deny traffic to a specific Azure service globally or per Azure region. Azure provides the maintenance of IP addresses underlying each tag. This preview includes Storage, Sql, and AzureTrafficManager tags.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/service-tags-nsgs-ga
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/expanded-options-for-accessing-cloud-shell/