The Azure Podcast

By Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young and Sujit D'Mello

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What's The Azure Podcast about?

Short podcasts on various topics related to the Microsoft Cloud platform.

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The Azure Podcast episodes:

04.09.2024
Episode 491 - Azure Service Retirement Workbook
The team talks with Amit Bajaj about the new Retirement Workbook customers can use to keep track of services they are using that are being retired. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode491.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z83s9lhOUTg Resources: Prepare migration of your workloads impacted by service retirements....
03.26.2024
Episode 490 - Azure API Center
Russell and Evan discuss the preview Azure API Center with Julia Kasper, Microsoft's Product Manager. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode490.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/mJnaCqgnPSg Resources: Request features/raise issues on API Center functionality: Issues · Azure/api-center-preview (github.com) Video on API governance with APIC: Mastering API Governance with Azure...
03.07.2024
Episode 489 - Storage Revisited
In this episode, we delve into a cornerstone service within Azure that is sometimes underestimated or missed in design discussions: the Azure Storage service. Our guest, Ben Hummerstone, a seasoned Cloud Solution Architect based in the UK, brings his expertise...
03.01.2024
Episode 488 - Express Route Resiliency and Monitoring
Jose Moreno a Customer Engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team joins Sujit and Russell to talk about Networking, and more specifically discusses best practices for Express Route configuration and monitoring with an eye on resiliency and performance. Media...
02.27.2024
Episode 487 - Tales from the field with Azure Key Vault
Fabian Gonzalez and Azure escalation engineer and Jack Lichwa, a PM in the Azure Key Vault team, revisit the Key Vault service which forms the backbone of any deployment. They remind us of the features that Key Vault offers and give us...
02.14.2024
Episode 486 - Azure Savings Plans
Technical Program Manager in the Azure Commerce team, Obinna Nwokolo explains exactly what the new Azure Savings Plan is all about and how you can easily take advantage of it via the Portal experience. He digs into the various options...
02.09.2024
Episode 485 - Copilot for Azure
Santosh Somayajula, a Principal Product Manager in Azure, breaks down the new Copilot for Azure service which is currently in Private Preview in the Azure Portal. Using this feature, administrators and management can perform operations in the Portal using simple...
01.16.2024
Episode 484 - Production LiveSite Review
Sean Klein joins Evan, Sujit, and Cale to talk about the Production LiveSite Review (PLR) process used by Azure Engineering for modern incident analysis and learnings. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode484.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/EsRrxguRn2Y Resources: How Complex Systems Fail Etsy Engineering | Blameless PostMortems and...
01.10.2024
Episode 483 - Azure VMware Solution Landing Zone Accelerator
Azure Cloud Solution Architects Elena Krasteva and Sabine Blair help us understand what the Azure VMWare Solution is all about and how the Landing Zone Accelerator helps make it easier for customers looking to migrate VMWare workloads to Azure. ...
12.21.2023
Episode 482 - Network Watcher
Cale, Evan and Sujit discuss the often-overlooked Network Watcher service in Azure and how it can be used for monitoring, troubleshooting and logging of network operations in your VNETs. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode482.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/CYLtFrbXGck Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-overview Other updates: Application Insights...
12.18.2023
Episode 481 - AKS Fleet Manager
Cale and Sujit discuss the new Fleet Manager service which allows customers to better manage groups of AKS clusters and perform updates, deployments and network access. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode481.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/mpUfpRtqnEE Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kubernetes-fleet/overview https://github.com/Azure/fleet Other updates: Public Preview: Accelerated logs...
12.01.2023
Episode 480 - Ignite 2023 Updates
Mark Eisenberg joins Cale and Sujit to dissect the Azure-related updates announced at the Ignite Conference in November 2023. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode480.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/bbt4wTjo7G4 Resources: https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/ Mark Russinovich - Inside AI Innovations
11.16.2023
Episode 479 - Radius.- radapp.IO
Today the team chat to Keith Howling, a Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft, on the topic of Platform Engineering with Radius, an open source app deployment engine. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode479.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/JWCaXfTf77A Resources: Radius: RadApp Introducing Radius: A new open-source application platform...
11.10.2023
Episode 478 - The Azure Help API
The team catches up with Nithya Sivam and Joshua Min who explain how Azure is democratizing access to the self-help content accessible in the Azure Portal. The Help API makes it easier to integrate this self-help into your own workflow....
11.02.2023
Episode 477 - Azure cloud within a cloud
Software Engineers Ian Jensen and Michael Litman from Microsoft's ISE group, explain the other 'clouds' in Azure. They dive into the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 suite and explain the use-cases for each of them and how you can use...
10.20.2023
Episode 476 - Azure HDInsight on AKS
Balaji Sankaran, General Manager of Azure HDInsight, joins us to share the latest announcement from HDInsight - an updated, managed HDInsight service that runs on AKS, giving a better experience for hosting opensource analytics workloads in the cloud. Media...
10.09.2023
Episode 475 - Diagrid on AKS
Alice Gibbons, Customer Success Engineer and Kendall Roden, Product Manager, both from Diagrid, talk about the companies SaaS offering that allows easier monitoring and management of DAPR installations on AKS and any Kubernetes service. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode475.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/iIjUs1Z-g4I Resources: Conductor...
10.03.2023
Episode 474 - Azure Chaos Studio
A Program Manager in the Azure Chaos Studio team, Vikram Raju joins us to give us a refresher on the service and what latest updates have just been released. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode474.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/UJYhjFoM25U Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/testing/mission-critical-deployment-testing Other updates: https://aka.ms/AIR/VVTQ-J98 - this...
09.19.2023
Episode 473 - Azure Arc
Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, talks to us about Azure Arc. He explains the history of the service, how it helps you develop, operate and secure your applications anywhere, and why it is deserves more attention from customers,...
09.07.2023
Episode 472 - Azure Vector Search Unveiled
Farzad Sunavala, Senior PM in the Azure Cognitive Search team, reveals the details of the new Vector Search feature. He explains some of the concepts of Vector search and how developers can easily take advantage of this in their Open...
08.30.2023
Episode 471 - AI Trends in Financial Services
We talk to Steve Selleny, a Global Partner Development Manager at Microsoft, about the AI and ML trends he has noticed in Financial Services ISVs. Steve has been working in the technology sector for over 21 years in various roles...
08.23.2023
Episode 470 - News Roundup
Evan and Sujit cover a whole bunch of updates to various Azure services such as AKS, ACA, Functions, VMs, PostgerSQL, VNETs and Storage. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode470.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/eGsnmw5WjHI Resources: VMs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-subscription-restore-for-azure-virtual-machines/ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/introducing-new-performance-tiers-for-azure-managed-lustre/ba-p/3900329 Storage https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-elastic-san-updates-private-endpoints-shared-volumes/ Functions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-sdk-type-bindings-in-azure-functions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-application-insights-integration-for-the-azure-functions-net-worker/ AKS/ACA https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-127-support-in-aks/...
08.11.2023
Episode 469 - Microsoft Fabric
Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what is means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode469.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/k0DkkVkfw2o Resources: Announcement for...
07.28.2023
Episode 468 - WordPress on Azure App Service
This week Cale talks to Radhika Bollineni, Engineering Manager for Wordpress on App Service, about how to easily create WordPress sites in your Azure subscription to publish your content, using just a few clicks in the Marketplace. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode468.mp3...
07.14.2023
Episode 467 - OneStream's plans for becoming more cloud native on Azure
After talking to Ryan Berry a little while back about OneStream's journey to Azure, the team catches back up with him to hear about how their architecture will evolve in the future to be more Cloud Native. In addition, they...
07.07.2023
Episode 466 - Open AI
Cloud Solution Architect, Dr. Linda Sheard, joins Russell and Sujit for a primer on Azure Open AI. Linda breaks down the service and provides context on how it can be used for the typical scenario where a customer wants to...
06.28.2023
Episode 465 - Functions on Azure Container Apps
Evan and Sujit talk to Principal PM Ramya Oruganti about the release of Functions as a first class managed service on Azure Container Apps. She tells us how this opens up possibilities for event-driven applications on ACA with full support...
06.08.2023
Episode 464 - Azure Deployment Environments
Cale and Russell talk to the Microsoft Program Manager for DevBox and Azure Deployment Environments, Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala, about how Azure Deployment Environments can enable rapid deployment of on-demand dev/test environments while providing governance, security and cost management -...
06.05.2023
Episode 463 - OneStream's journey to Azure
The team catches up with Ryan Berry to learn about OneStream's journey to Azure. They talk about both the benefits and pitfalls and why Ryan is happy OneStream in running in Azure. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode463.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Um4rg4eKRuU Resources: https://www.onestream.com/blog/onestream-splash-dc-wows-attendees-with-ai-powered-cpm-capabilities/ Other...
05.25.2023
Episode 462 - AKS LTS
Jorge Palma, the Lead PM for Azure Kubernetes Services, talks to Evan and Sujit about the Long-Term Support (LTS) version Kubernetes which provides support for 2 years. He tells us how this model works and who may benefit from this...
05.23.2023
Episode 461 - Azure ML with NVIDIA AI Acceleration
Russell and Sujit talk to Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products at NVIDIA, about a new offering in Azure via the Marketplace that will make it easier to get NVIDIA's software onto the Azure platform to make it easier...
05.20.2023
Episode 460 - Alert Heart
Cale, Evan and Sujit talk to Neha Rathod, Garv Jasuja, Akshay Gupta and Vijay Chiluveru, who are Graduate Students at Penn State University that have developed a wireless monitoring device to detect cardiac arrest and alert the caretakers. We talk...
05.10.2023
Episode 459 - AIOps
Evan and Sujit talk to Allison Jones, a Group PM for Azure's AIOps System Team. She gives us insights into how Microsoft uses AI/ML to analyze various signals from Azure to provide actionable information about the state of the platform....
04.28.2023
Episode 458 - Integration Patterns
Elizabeth Graham, a Senior Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering group at Microsoft, talks to Evan and Sujit about the various options we have for integrating external systems with Azure. She talks about how messages, files and other input...
04.25.2023
Episode 457 - Data API Builder
The team talks to Ayush Agarwal, Davide Mauri, and Sean Leonard to learn about how the open-source Data API Builder can be used to quickly and easily create CRUD APIs on top of multiple database platforms in Azure for use...
03.25.2023
Episode 456 - Azure Programmable Connectivity
Evan and Sujit talk to Ricardo Villarreal about the new ability to built network-aware applications in Azure. APC provides a unified abstraction layer for accessing network APIs—such as edge discovery, quality on demand, and device location—consistently across operators and connectivity...
03.20.2023
Episode 455 - Azure ML in the real world
In this episode we chat with Andrés Padilla and Meer Alam about practical use of AI and ML systems. Examples of this are discussed around autonomous drone / delivery models and the various components in Azure that make this a...
02.22.2023
Episode 454 - Sustainability and Azure
Our guest this week, Paul Henwood joins Kendall and Russell to talk about many different aspects of sustainability, and how Azure embraces and supports customers with their sustainability goals. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode454.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/HSPeE6Hpmns Sustainability Resources: Microsoft Sustainability - Products for...
02.07.2023
Episode 453 - In the Real World - How Azure Networking Support uses Azure to support Azure customers
Ryan Bostelmann joins the Azure Podcast team to share how the Azure Support function use Azure and Power Platform to be more efficient and deliver a better customer service. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Edpisode453.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/mIYTsy6jwVQ Links: Power Apps: What is Power Apps?...
01.26.2023
Episode 452 - Streamlining DevOps with Bicep
The team catches up with April Edwards to learn about the benefits of using Bicep to deploy Azure resources. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode452.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/FhniwXjDBe0 Resources: IaC Blog: Infrastructure as Code - comparing tools (microsoft.com) MS Learn path for BIcep: Learn Live:...
01.13.2023
Episode 451 - Landing Zones
Jack Tracey, a Cloud Solutions Architect from the Customer Architecture and Engineering team talks to us about the work his team does to create the Landing Zones which can form the foundation for any well-designed Azure platform. He explains what...
12.20.2022
Episode 450 - Twitter Live Spaces Discussion
In an Azure Podcast team first, we all got together on Twitter Live Spaces, with a handful of live listeners to see how well this medium works. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode450.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/1SIRBCWR0YI Public Preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate...
12.09.2022
Episode 449 - Java Jakarta EE Applications
Reza Rahman, a Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure, talks to us about the work his team has done to enable customers using legacy Java frameworks to easily migrate to Azure or modernize in a variety of ways. Media...
12.01.2022
Episode 448 - Azure and OSS
Sarah Novotny joins us on the show again, this time to tell us all about the collaboration that happens with Azure in Open Source Software. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode448.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/XwkyxBq0KL4 Resources: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/11/16/microsoft-contributes-s2c2f-to-openssf-to-improve-supply-chain-security/ https://github.com/microsoft/fluidframework https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/fluid-framework-is-now-open-source/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2022/10/12/microsoft-365-at-ignite-re-energize-your-workforce-in-the-office-at-home-and-everywhere-in-between/?culture=en-us&country=US https://microsoft.github.io/CBL-Mariner/docs/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/kubernetes-service/#overview https://github.blog/2022-10-25-why-were-excited-about-the-sigstore-general-availability/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/container-registry-tutorial-sign-build-push Other updates:...
11.16.2022
Episode 447 - DDOS Protection on Azure
Sujit and Evan are joined by Amir Dahan, Senior Product Manager for Networking at Microsoft, to discuss Azure DDOS protection. Media File: Episode447.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/B_TNr6c2F9o Other Updates Use managed identities with Azure Front Door Standard/Premium (Preview) | Microsoft Learn Azure...
11.13.2022
Episode 446 - Security & L7 DDoS protection @ Edge, DNS Security, and Private DNS
Azure Networking Engineering Manager Abhishek Tiwari joins us once again, this time to talk about all of the work his team has done to add L7 and DDOS protection at the Edge and the enhancements in the DNS Service to...
11.03.2022
Episode 445 - SAP for Azure Landing Zone Accelerator
Cynthia, Sujit and Russell discuss the SAP for Azure Land Zone Acclerator with Pankaj Meshram from the Microsoft Product team, and Matt Ely from Microsoft's Global Partner Solutions CSA team. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode445.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/m1FPIp0mWDo SAP on Azure Landing Zone...
10.31.2022
Episode 444 - Azure Innovations
The team gets together with Mark Eisenberg, Cloud Solutions Architect and frequent guest on the podcast, to analyze the various Innovations in Azure that were announced my Mark Russinovich at the recent Ignite conference. The discussions range from data center...
10.25.2022
Episode 443 - 5G Modern Connected Apps
The team talks to Cesar De la Torre Llorente, a Principal Architect in the Azure team, about the new style of applications that leverage the 5G wireless network and are managed by Azure. This enables new scenarios running apps on...
10.19.2022
Episode 442 - Azure IP Services
The team catches up with Brian Lehr to take a look at the range of IP services available in Azure. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode442.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/weTl6r63qYo Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ip-services-overview (IP Services Overview) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/custom-ip-address-prefix (BYOIP) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/routing-preference-overview (Routing Preference) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ipv6-overview (IPv6 Overview) Other updates:...

What's The Azure Podcast about?

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The Azure Podcast episodes:

Episode 491 - Azure Service Retirement Workbook

Episode 490 - Azure API Center

Episode 489 - Storage Revisited

Episode 488 - Express Route Resiliency and Monitoring

Episode 487 - Tales from the field with Azure Key Vault

Episode 486 - Azure Savings Plans

Episode 485 - Copilot for Azure

Episode 484 - Production LiveSite Review

Episode 483 - Azure VMware Solution Landing Zone Accelerator

Episode 482 - Network Watcher

Episode 481 - AKS Fleet Manager

Episode 480 - Ignite 2023 Updates

Episode 479 - Radius.- radapp.IO

Episode 478 - The Azure Help API

Episode 477 - Azure cloud within a cloud

Episode 476 - Azure HDInsight on AKS

Episode 475 - Diagrid on AKS

Episode 474 - Azure Chaos Studio

Episode 473 - Azure Arc

Episode 472 - Azure Vector Search Unveiled

Episode 471 - AI Trends in Financial Services

Episode 470 - News Roundup

Episode 469 - Microsoft Fabric

Episode 468 - WordPress on Azure App Service

Episode 467 - OneStream's plans for becoming more cloud native on Azure

Episode 466 - Open AI

Episode 465 - Functions on Azure Container Apps

Episode 464 - Azure Deployment Environments

Episode 463 - OneStream's journey to Azure

Episode 462 - AKS LTS

Episode 461 - Azure ML with NVIDIA AI Acceleration

Episode 460 - Alert Heart

Episode 459 - AIOps

Episode 458 - Integration Patterns

Episode 457 - Data API Builder

Episode 456 - Azure Programmable Connectivity

Episode 455 - Azure ML in the real world

Episode 454 - Sustainability and Azure

Episode 453 - In the Real World - How Azure Networking Support uses Azure to support Azure customers

Episode 452 - Streamlining DevOps with Bicep

Episode 451 - Landing Zones

Episode 450 - Twitter Live Spaces Discussion

Episode 449 - Java Jakarta EE Applications

Episode 448 - Azure and OSS

Episode 447 - DDOS Protection on Azure

Episode 446 - Security & L7 DDoS protection @ Edge, DNS Security, and Private DNS

Episode 445 - SAP for Azure Landing Zone Accelerator

Episode 444 - Azure Innovations

Episode 443 - 5G Modern Connected Apps

Episode 442 - Azure IP Services