The Azure Podcast

Azure Security Specialist, Sarah Young, gives us the low-down on the new Azure Sentinel service which gives you a SIEM in Azure that watches over all of your enterprise.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode301.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/2ad7063764/  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-sentinel/   Other updates: For the first time ever, you can register your self-installations of SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with Resource Provider to unlock features and functionality previously only available with our Azure Marketplace images. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) managed identities integration is now available in preview. With managed identities, AKS now supports creating and using system-managed identities instead of service principals. Managed identities are essentially wrappers around service principals, making their management simpler. From Private Preview - Azure Spring Cloud service https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/private-preview-azure-spring-cloud-service/ New output options in Azure Stream Analytics—SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on VM https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-output-options-in-stream-analytics-managed-instance-and-sql-server-on-vm-as-output-targets-for-stream-analytics/ Measuring your return on investment of Azure as a compliance platform https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/measuring-your-return-on-investment-of-azure-as-a-compliance-platform/ Infura Now Natively Supported in the Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum https://blog.infura.io/infura-now-natively-supported-in-the-azure-blockchain-development-kit-for-ethereum-430fb02f1c9b Discover, develop, and deploy smart contracts faster with Blockchain Dev Kit updates https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/08/microsoft-azure-blockchain-dev-kit-updates-ethereum-devcon/ Azure Monitor adds Worker Service SDK, new ASP.NET core metrics https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-monitor-adds-worker-service-sdk-new-asp-net-core-metrics/

The team celebrates the 300th episode by speaking with Albert Greenberg, the director of development for all of Azure Networking and someone who was around when Azure was just 5 clusters of servers. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode300.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/0fcb9185e4/?location=EUS2  Updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-azure-private-link/

Harold Wong, a Principal Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering team, gives us the scoop on the popular Azure Redhat OpenShift service (ARO) which gives customers a fully managed OpenShift cluster in Azure. He gives us use-cases for this service as well as tips and advice on moving to ARO.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode299.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/9aeef77764/?location=EUS2 Resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/openshift/   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-storage-explorer-1-10-0/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-swift-extend-partnership-to-make-native-payments-a-reality/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/12-tb-vms-expanded-sap-partnership-on-blockchain-azure-monitor-for-sap-solutions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-preview-of-direct-upload-to-azure-managed-disks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cosmos-db-recommendations-keep-you-on-the-right-track/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/analyze-and-visualize-your-data-with-azure-cosmos-db-notebooks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/windows-virtual-desktop-is-now-generally-available-worldwide/

Senior Azure Storage PM Art Khlobystin talks to Cynthia, Evan and Sujit about the new HA/DR features in Azure Storage. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode298.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/45e0433f0c/?location=EUS2 Towards the end of the show, Art briefly talks about the new upcoming Object Replication Service which would give customers the flexibility of replicating data across any regions of choice and not just the paired regions. He asks for any feedback/questions to be send to his email [email protected] or you can post to our Twitter handle @AzurePodcast and we will route it to the team. Thank you!   Other updates: Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping, and recognition of characters in animated content. Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview From Public Preview - Video Indexer Multilingual identification and transcription https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-video-indexer-multilingual-identification-and-transcription/ Public Preview - Video Indexer Animated Character Detection https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-video-indexer-animated-character-detection/ Azure CLI support for Azure HDInsight is now generally available. This enables administrators to easily manage their HDInsight clusters using simple Azure CLI commands.  

Matt Small talks to the team about KeyVault and talks about use cases and some common problems customers see. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode297.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/5927fd922a/?location=EUS2 Matt's Blog: https://azidentity.azurewebsites.net     Other updates: Azure Files premium tier gets zone redundant storage https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-files-premium-tier-gets-zone-redundant-storage/ Announcing user delegation SAS tokens preview for Azure Storage Blobs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-user-delegation-sas-tokens-preview-for-azure-storage-blobs/  

Azure Sphere is a set of hardware, software, and cloud services that provide an security and management platform for the IOT ecosystem.  In this episode, the Josh Nash, the Principal Product Planner walks us through the platform concepts, the components, and how customers and partners are leveraging this. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode296.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/fdcd8c138e/?location=EUS2   Building cloud-native applications with Azure and HashiCorp https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-cloud-native-applications-with-azure-and-hashicorp/ Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Germany https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-available-from-new-cloud-regions-in-germany/ Microsoft acquires Movere to help customers unlock cloud innovation with seamless migration tools https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-acquires-movere-to-help-customers-unlock-cloud-innovation-with-seamless-migration-tools/ Microsoft’s connected vehicle platform presence at IAA, the Frankfurt Auto Show https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-s-connected-vehicle-platform-presence-at-iaa-the-frankfurt-auto-show/ Satellite connectivity expands reach of Azure ExpressRoute across the globe https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/satellite-connectivity-expands-reach-of-azure-expressroute-across-the-globe/

Azure Backup PM Geetha Lakshmi gives us a great update on the Backup Service. She gives us a refresher and focuses on the many new features in the Restore process that make it faster and easier for customers to get files recovered.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode295.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/82c61e28cf/?location=EUS2   Other updates: https://azurecosmosdb.github.io/CosmicNotes/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/microsoft-azure-available-from-new-cloud-regions-in-switzerland/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-data-factory-mapping-data-flows-adds-sql-scripts-to-sink-transformation/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/application-insights-variable-retention-preview/ Microsoft and Qualcomm accelerate AI with Vision AI Developer Kit https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-qualcomm-accelerate-ai-with-vision-ai-developer-kit/ Azure Cost Management updates – August 2019 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cost-management-updates-august-2019/  

Shaloo Garg, a Managing Director in Microsoft Startups, explains to us how Startups can leverage valuable technical and business resources from Microsoft to help make them successful in the marketplace. Resources: https://Startups.microsoft.com https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode294.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/c101319a3b/?location=EUS2   Other updates: Now available is a set of APIs that primarily helps increase efficiency in copying data from any URL to Azure or inside Azure. The APIs include: • Put Block From URL • Put Page From URL • Append Block From URL These APIs enable server-side synchronous copy of data from any URL source into either a block blob, page blob or as an append blob. The benefits of these APIs include: • Server-side data transfer. The data transfer is performed server-side, meaning the data is read directly from the source by the destination server in Azure. The data is not flowing through the caller, so you do not need a VM with CPU, memory and network capacity to move the data. You can get away with using a relatively small VM that just orchestrate the data transfer. • Synchronous data transfer.  Each call is performed synchronously, meaning the data transfer is complete when the call returns. This is unlike the existing asynchronous cross-account copy blob API, which is a scheduled background process where you need to regularly check if its complete. • Any data source. The data source can be any data addressable by a URL, meaning you can copy data from inside or outside of Azure. Further it can be from any blob type to any blob, e.g. reading from a page blob and writing to a block blob. From https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-SQL-Database/Unified-Azure-SQL-experience/ba-p/815368 Work more efficiently with the updated Azure Blockchain Development Kit by using our new interactive debugger.  

Faith Xu, a Senior PM in the Microsoft ML Platform team, brings us up to speed on the Open Neural Network eXchange (ONNX) specification and it's associated Runtime which can be used for running interoperable ML models in Azure. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode293.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/77672a62af/?location=EUS2 Resources: ONNX: https://github.com/onnx/onnx ONNX Runtime: https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime ONNX Tutorials: https://github.com/onnx/tutorials ONNX Runtime Tutorials: https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime#examples-and-tutorials ONNX Converters: https://github.com/onnx/onnxmltools/tree/master/onnxmltools ONNX Ecosystem Docker Image: https://github.com/onnx/onnx-docker/tree/master/onnx-ecosystem ONNX Runtime in AzureML: https://aka.ms/onnxnotebooks Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availablility-of-managed-identity-for-linux-in-app-service-and-functions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-of-user-assigned-managed-identities-for-app-service-and-azure-functions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/update-to-azure-sql-database-serverless-increases-compute-scale-limits-by-4x/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-azure-ultra-disk-storage/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-resource-manager-arm-application-and-service-deployment-is-now-ga/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-of-managed-identity-for-azure-service-fabric-applications/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-powershell-scripts-available-for-azure-monitor-logs-query-and-data-collection/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/updates/new-tool-for-automating-load-testing-of-power-bi-embedded-capacities-now-available/

Veteran guest of the show, Logic Apps Lead PM Kevin Lam is back to talk about their latest offering, Logic Apps ISE. He gives us the low-down on the unique features of this offering and when it makes sense to use it and off course, tips and tricks on how to use it. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode292.mp3 Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/37d7ca1e9d/?location=EUS2   Other updates: The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) service is now available for preview in the Azure Goverment (Fairfax, VA) region. We're excited to announce that IoT Edge support in Azure DevOps Project and Azure Pipelines is generally available. Developers can easily set up CI/CD pipelines for IoT Edge projects with best practices. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-environments-and-tools Service Tag Discovery API is in preview. It's now possible to programmatically retrieve global IP address information for Azure and its services using the Discovery API. Announcing new AMD EPYC™-based Azure Virtual Machine https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-amd-epyc-based-azure-virtual-machines/ Your single source for Azure best practices https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/your-single-source-for-azure-best-practices/ New for developers: Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 now available https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-for-developers-azure-cosmos-db-net-sdk-v3-now-available/ Announcing the preview of GitHub Actions for Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-preview-of-azure-actions-for-github/