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  • 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 AzureAzure ER Locations (not to confuse with Azure Regions): Locations and connectivity providers for Azure ExpressRoute | Microsoft LearnAzure Connection Monitor: Connection monitor overview - Azure Network Watcher | Microsoft Learn

    Other updates:

    GA: Azure API Management Developer Portal Unveils Enhanced Features for Increased Developer ProductivityPublic Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKSTLS/TCP Proxy Preview
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  • 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 AzureSP Recommendations 101 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HV9GT9kX6A&list=PLlrxD0HtieHjd-zn7u09YoGJY18ZrN1Hq&index=2&t=15s&pp=iAQBSP 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:

    RadAppIntroducing Radius: A new open-source application platform for cloud-native apps

    Other news:

    General availability: Rate limit rules for Application Gateway web application firewallExport cost using focusAzure support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos StudioGeneral availability: Start and stop load testing faults in Azure Chaos StudioGeneral availability: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker modelApp 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/PowerPlatTerraformQuickstartsSolutionOps Playbook: https://playbook.microsoft.comPower Platform Pipelines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/pipelinesALM Accelerator for Power Platform: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/alm-accelerator/overviewUpdated ERP Development Experience: https://aka.ms/ERPDevDeploy , then https://aka.ms/ERPDevConfigERP 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 AKSEnterprise scale open-source analytics on containers (Video)Get started with HDInsights on AKSGet in touch - Ask HDInsight

    Other news:

    Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web appsThe 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/