The whole gang talks to Amit Bapat, a PM in the Azure team about perhaps the most important and least known Azure service of all - Key Vault.   Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode153.mp3 Docs  http://aka.ms/kvdocs Blog http://aka.ms/kvblog Feedback [email protected] Community https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/azure/en-US/home?forum=AzureKeyVault   Other updates: Azure Backup already supports backup and restore of virtual machines created through the classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models, along with Azure Premium Storage VMs. Azure Backup now supports backup and restore of virtual machines encrypted through Azure Disk Encryption. Azure functions GA'd this week Bot as a service (uses functions + Bot framework to provide serverless compute). We're excited to introduce a public preview of the DocumentDB Emulator, which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service. Today, Microsoft announced a new partnership with OpenAI, a nonprofit AI research organization co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.