Russell and Sujit have a great chat with Daniel Baker (a.k.a. @AzureDan), a Partner Development and Learning Specialist at Microsoft, about the resources available to ramp up and get certified on Azure. Cloud and Proud www.cloudandproud.info Tuesdays with Corey https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Tuesdays-With-Corey Azure Fridays https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/videos/azure-friday/ All of the following links are under https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/community/training/ along with the Pluralsight videos. Azure Skills Initiative https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=847447&clcid=0x409 Learn about Azure Certification https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/browse-all-certifications.aspx?technology=Microsoft%20Azure Explore Certification Offers https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/learn/skills/ Learning Partners https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/azure-learning-partner-offers.aspx Microsoft IT Pro Career Center https://www.itprocareercenter.com/ Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials https://www.itprocloudessentials.com/ Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode182.mp3   Other updates: New language support for Azure Media Indexer v2 Russian, British English, and Mexican Spanish support in Azure Media Indexer v2 HDInsight tools for IntelliJ May updates The primary focus for our May updates is to make the Spark development work easier for you in IntelliJ! In this release, your spark remote debugging experience is significantly improved. Scala SDKs… Diagnose sudden changes in your app behavior with a click! Spikes or steps in the telemetry of your app can now be easily diagnosed. When you use Application Insights Analytics to explore app metrics over time, sudden changes, such as spikes or dips, are highlighted. With one click, Smart Diagnostics will find a pattern (a series of data with common values) that correlates with the change, and explain the reason behind it. Azure Security Center adds Context Alerts to aid threat investigation In two recent articles Greg Cottingham and Jessen Kurien described investigation processes triggered by a security alert. If you haven't already done so, please read “How Azure Security Center helps… V2 VPN Gateway SKUs available https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-about-vpngateways#a-namegwskuagateway-skus Azure SQL Data Sync Refresh https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-get-started-sql-data-sync Higher database eDTU limits for Standard elastic pools in Azure SQL Database Spark Connector for #CosmosDB - seamless interaction with globally-distributed, multi-model data