Evan and Sujit talk to Jared Ross, an Azure Consultant who specializes in Networking, Compliance and Security, on why customers should be aware of the network within Azure and tips on how to protect their resources. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode176.mp3 Yousef Khalidi's great 7-part blog post is Jared's recommended reading. The first part is listed below and you can follow along.  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/networking-innovations-that-drive-the-cloud-disruption/ Another favorite is Olivier Martin https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/networking-to-and-within-the-azure-cloud/   Other resources and updates: https://thebitcoinnews.com/microsoft-drives-forward-with-the-blockchain-btcmanagers-week-in-review-april-24/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-time-series-insights/ Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Time Series Insights, a fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service that makes it incredibly simple to interactively and instantly explore and analyze billions of events from sources such as Internet of Things. Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new, simplified Azure management libraries for .NET for Compute, Storage, SQL Database, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault, Redis, CDN and Batch services. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-management-libraries-for-net-generally-available-now Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new, simplified Azure management libraries for Java for Compute, Storage, SQL Database, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault, Redis, CDN and Batch services. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-management-libraries-for-net-generally-available-now/   Back in November, we announced the general availability of the Azure IoT Gateway SDK. We’ve already heard from a number of customers who are leveraging the open source Gateway SDK to connect their legacy devices or run analytics at the edge of their network. It’s great to see quick adoption! With the Gateway SDK’s modular architecture, developers can also program their own custom modules to perform specific actions. Thanks to its flexible design, you can create these modules in your preferred language – Node.js, Java, C#, or C. (NuGet, Maven etc. packages) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-gateway-sdk-packages Azure Billing Reader role and preview of Invoice API Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Today, we are pleased to announce the addition of a new in-built role, Billing Reader role. The new Billing Reader role allows you to delegate access to just billing information with no access to services such as VMs and storage accounts. Users in this role can perform Azure billing management operations such as viewing subscription scoped cost reporting data and downloading invoices. Also, today we are releasing the public preview of a new billing API that will allow you to programmatically download subscription’s billing invoices. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-billing-reader-role-and-preview-of-invoice-api/