Justin Luk, a PM on the Azure Compute team, breaks down ACI for us, giving advice on why and when you should consider this new service for your container workloads.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode244.mp3 Product page = https://aka.ms/aci  Docs = https://aka.ms/aci/docs  Samples = https://aka.ms/aci/samples  Pricing = https://aka.ms/aci/price  Virtual-kubelet project = https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet   Other updates: NPR's Ask Me Another - https://www.npr.org/player/embed/640342676/640343477 https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/32747/Microsoft-Azure-IAAS-platform-SMTP-Restrictions-and-Alternatives.html Cross-subscription disaster recovery for Azure virtual machines Monday, August 27, 2018 Azure Site Recovery now supports cross-subscription disaster recovery (DR) for Azure virtual machines. You can configure DR for Azure IaaS applications to another region in a different subscription within the same Azure Active Directory tenant. For more information, see the detailed blog post. From Microsoft Azure Data welcomes attendees to VLDB 2018 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-data-welcomes-attendees-to-vldb-2018/ Helping Go developers build better cloud apps faster https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/helping-go-developers-build-better-cloud-apps-faster/ Turn your whiteboard sketches to working code in seconds with Sketch2Code https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/turn-your-whiteboard-sketches-to-working-code-in-seconds-with-sketch2code/ Azure.Source - Volume 46 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-source-volume-46/ OMS portal moving to Azure portal https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/oms-portal-moving-to-azure-portal/