Senior Azure PM Varun Shandilya talks to the team about Spot VMs and gives us some great tips on tricks on when and how to leverage these low-cost VM SKUs.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode315.mp3 Transcript:   Other updates: Azure Key Vault—Private endpoints now available in preview Updated: February 07, 2020 Establish a private connection between Azure Key Vault and other Azure services by using Azure Private Link, now available in preview for all public regions. From   Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment analysis v3 now supports Korean Updated: February 07, 2020 The sentiment analysis v3 feature of Cognitive Services Text Analytics now supports Korean in addition to English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Dutch.  From Backup Explorer is now in preview Updated: February 07, 2020 Azure Backup now offers a new solution called Backup Explorer (in preview). Backup Explorer is a built-in Azure Monitor Workbook enabling you to have a single pane of glass to perform real-time monitoring across your entire backup estate on Azure. From Azure Stream Analytics—Machine learning–based anomaly detection functions Updated: February 06, 2020 Easily add anomaly detection capabilities to your Stream Analytics jobs without the requirement to develop and train your own machine learning models. Ready-to-use unsupervised learning ML models are provided within the SQL language From Advancing safe deployment practices https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-safe-deployment-practices/ Check out Azure for Education.   Build, deploy, and manage applications with comprehensive Azure cloud services. Whether you’re a student getting started, an educator teaching advanced workloads, or just interested in building cloud-based skills in your community, we’ve got the cloud development resources you need.   Azure for Students https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/   Azure for Students FAQ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/free-account-students-faq/   Azure for Students Starter FAQ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students-starter-faq/