Senior Product Marketing Manager Sonya Koptyev talks to us about the Azure AI Platform and give us some great pointers on how to get started with AI. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode224.mp3   Other updates: Following last month's announcement of zone-redundant database support, Azure SQL Database is further expanding the power of databases and elastic pools by including read scale-out support in the Premium and Business Critical service tiers.  This capability redirects the read-only client connections to one of the automatically provisioned HA replicas and effectively doubles the compute capacity of the database or elastic pool at no additional charge. This is ideal for load balancing of complex analytical workloads without affecting the primary OLTP workload. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-of-read-scale-out-support/ Azure DevTest Labs is now available in Azure Government. With this availability, US government agencies and their partners can modernize their legacy infrastructure to build fast, easy, and lean environments. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-source-volume-26/ Offline media import for Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/offline-media-import-for-azure/ Achieving GDPR compliance in the cloud with Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/achieving-gdpr-compliance-in-the-cloud-with-microsoft-azure/ Three common analytics use cases with Microsoft Azure Databricks https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/three-critical-analytics-use-cases-with-microsoft-azure-databricks/