Using a bastion host can help limit threats such as port scanning and other types of malware targeting your VMs. Ashish Jain joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Bastion gives you secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines. Now you can securely access your VMs over SSL from the Azure portal and without exposing public IP addresses.[05:20] Demo Azure Bastion overviewAzure Bastion docsDeploy Azure Bastion in an Azure Virtual Network (sample ARM template)Create a free account (Azure)

Geoff Staneff joins Donovan Brown to show how Data Accelerator for Apache Spark simplifies everything from onboarding to streaming of big data. It offers a rich, easy-to-use experience for creating, editing, and managing Apache Spark jobs on Azure HDInsight while enabling the full power of the Apache Spark engine.[01:21] Demo Microsoft open sources Data Accelerator for Apache SparkData Accelerator for Apache Spark (microsoft/data-accelerator) on GitHubAzure HDInsight overviewAzure HDInsight docsCreate a free account (Azure)

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can run your Azure Machine Learning (AML) service pipelines as a step in your Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines. This enables you to run your machine learning models with data from multiple sources (85+ data connectors supported in ADF). This seamless integration enables batch prediction scenarios such as identifying possible loan defaults, determining sentiment, and analyzing customer behavior patterns.[0:02:18] DemoAzure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory docsAzure Machine Learning overviewAzure Machine Learning docsCreate a free account (Azure)

Orin Thomas joins Donovan Brown to show how you can use Azure File Sync to tier unused files from file shares to the cloud, and to simplify replication of files and folders to different file servers in your organization.[00:01:32] - DemoDeploy Azure File SyncPlanning for an Azure File Sync deploymentCloud Tiering OverviewAbout Azure File SyncCreate a free account (Azure)

Are you tired of managing your multiple public IP addresses in Azure? Anavi Nahar joins Donovan Brown to show how Public IP Prefix enables you to use one prefix to manage your public endpoints in Azure. You can have predictable, contiguous public IP addresses that don't change as you scale. With a prefix, you can give your customers in Azure one range to simplify firewall management with predictable public IP addresses.[00:01:57] DemoPublic IP address prefixCreate, change, or delete a public IP address prefixPublic IP addressesPublic IP Address pricingCreate a free account (Azure)

The performance of your applications is central to the success of your IT organization. Many factors can affect the performance of your applications including network latency which is impacted by, among other things, the physical distance between the deployed virtual machines. Ziv Rafalovich joins Donovan Brown to show how Proximity Placement Groups help you co-locate your Azure infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources and achieve lower network latency.[00:03:25] DemoIntroducing proximity placement groupsCo-locate resources for improved latencyPreview: Deploy VMs to proximity placement groups using Azure CLIAzure Virtual Machines overviewCreate a free account (Azure)

Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to show how to run Jupyter Notebook and Apache Spark in Azure Cosmos DB. Now you can use the interactive experience of Jupyter Notebook and analytics powered by Apache Spark with your operational data. Run analytics and ML on your operational data in real time without data movement, and without the need to split into transactional and analytical silos.[00:02:18] Jupyter Notebook demo[00:05:41] Jupyter Notebook + Apache Spark demoAzure Cosmos DB overviewAzure Cosmos DB pricingAzure Cosmos DB docsCreate a free account (Azure)

Sydney Smith joins Scott Hanselman to show the rich editing experience provided by the PowerShell extension in Azure Data Studio by creating a SQL Server in a Linux Docker container with external storage—all using PowerShell Core in Azure Data Studio.To get started with the notebook used in the episode check out: PowerShell/vscode-powershell[00:01:36] Demo - Getting started - installing modules[00:04:45] Demo - Creating a new editor filePowerShell Editor Support for Azure Data StudioThe PowerShell Extension is now in the Azure Data Studio MarketplaceWhat is Azure Data Studio?Create a SQL Server on Linux Container with 5 Lines of CodeBuild Docker Containers with External Storage on Your DesktopCreate a free account (Azure)

Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate a sample CI/CD pipeline implemented using Azure DevOps and Azure API Management DevOps resource kit. The sample follows the suggested approach that was introduced in Build a CI/CD pipeline for API Management, Part 1.Azure API Management overviewAzure API Management docsAzure API Management DevOps Resource KitAzure DevOps SolutionsCreate a free account (Azure)

Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman to walk through a conceptual framework for building a CI/CD pipeline to automate the deployment of APIs into Azure API Management. Learn about common automation challenges with API Management and how the suggested approach addresses these challenges. For a demonstration, see: Build a CI/CD pipeline for API Management, Part 2.Azure API Management overviewAzure API Management docsAzure API Management DevOps Resource KitAzure DevOps SolutionsCreate a free account (Azure)