Azure Friday

Yashesvi Sharma joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to significantly reduce costs up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go prices with one-year or three-year terms on Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs). When you combine the cost savings gained from Azure RIs with the added value of the Azure Hybrid Benefit, you can save even more.Jump To:[04:59] Demo Start For more information:Prepay for Virtual Machines with Azure Reserved VM Instances (docs)Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs)Azure Virtual Machine pricingAzure Hybrid BenefitGet Reserved Instance purchase recommendations based on usage pattern (blog)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureBilling

Xiaokai He joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure SignalR Service. See how easy it is to start building your real-time web application without setting up your own SignalR server.Jump To: [01:05] Demo Start For more information, see:Azure SignalR Service product pageAzure SignalR samples (GitHub)ASP.NET SignalRWhat is Azure SignalR Service (docs)Azure SignalR Service pricingCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @XiaokaiHe Follow @signalr

Kiran Madnani chats with Scott Hanselman about Azure Monitor, where you can set up alerts to monitor the metrics and log data for the entire stack across your infrastructure, application, and Azure platform. Learn about the next generation of alerts in Azure, which provides a new consolidated alerts experience in Azure Monitor. Plus, new metrics-based alerts platform that is faster and leveraged by other Azure services.Jump To:[02:15] - Demo Start For more information, see:Unified alerts in Azure Monitor (docs)Azure Monitor product pageAzure Monitor pricing pageThe next generation of Azure Alerts has arrived (blog post)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Kmadnani

Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure App Service Web Apps, the best way to build and host web applications in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. It offers auto-scaling and high availability, supports both Windows and Linux, and enables automated deployments from GitHub, Visual Studio Team Services, or any Git repo.Jump To:[01:45] Demo #1 [09:10] Demo #2For more information:Learn more about App ServiceApp Service Web Apps docsAzure App Service Best Practices for Large Scale ApplicationsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @bktv99

Arturo Lucatero joins Donovan Brown to discuss Azure AD Managed Service Identity, which can be used to authenticate to any service that supports Azure AD authentication.For more information, see:What is Managed Service Identity (MSI) for Azure resources? (docs)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @ArLucaID

James Baker joins Lara Rubbelke to introduce Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, which is redefining cloud storage for big data analytics due to multi-modal (object store and file system) access and combining the best qualities of a dedicated analytics file system with those of a cloud-scale object store.For more information:Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Preview (docs)Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Public Preview signupAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2 product pageAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2 pricing pageCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday

Vinod Kurpad joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how Azure Cost Management APIs provide critical cost management features like budgets and data APIs to enable granular analysis of your cloud spending. In this episode, you'll see how to control what happens in your subscription when you reach budget limits you define using the Azure Budgets API with Action Groups in Azure Monitor.[05:30] - Azure Budgets APIs and Action Groups demoFor more information:Enhancements to Azure Budgets API supporting Resource Groups and Usage Budgets (blog post)Manage costs with Azure Budgets (docs)Create and manage action groups in the Azure portal (docs)Azure Consumption REST API (docs)Azure billing and cost management (docs)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kurpad

Kit Merker, VP of Business Development at JFrog shows how you can easily build and release software using popular DevOps tools including Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). JFrog Artifactory is a universal package management binary repository that enables DevOps teams to go seamlessly from Code to Cloud, and support your build, push, and deployment to AKS. You'll also learn the importance of having a Kubernetes registry and the role of JFrog Artifactory to expedite your software releases with security, reliability, and greater transparency.For more information, see:Get a free trial of Artifactory on AzureWhy you need a Kubernetes Registry: JFrog ArtifactoryFrom Git to Cluster with JFrog Artifactory and AKSAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kitmerker

Aaron and Scott check out the latest extensions for Azure CLI. Azure CLI Extensions provide new, exciting features, and the Alias Extension is the first of many user-centric extensions that make Azure automation simple and easy.For more information, see:Azure CLI DocsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @twitchax

Aaron and Scott check out the latest updates in Azure PowerShell, from simplified scenarios to -AsJob backgrounding support. This new functionality is now available on Mac, Linux, and Windows with PowerShell Core 6.For more information:Azure PowerShell docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @twitchax