Azure Technical News (April 2018)
In the May blog post you will find a quick a succinct summary of what has been going on in the last month in Azure. As usual, the SQL teams delivering unparalleled innovations. Don’t miss however other important announcements, such as Azure Sphere or the GA of Azure Container Instances.
Management
Iaas
- Compute
- Storage
- AzCopy on Linux now generally available
- OS Disk Swap for Managed Virtual Machines now available
- Azure Backup now supports storage accounts secured with Azure Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks
- Write Accelerator for M-Series virtual machines now generally available
- Per disk metrics for Managed & Unmanaged Disks now in public preview
- Recovery Services vault limit increased to 500 vaults per subscription per region
- GDPR offers one more reason to focus on your disaster recovery strategy
- Offline media import for Azure
- Networking
Containers
Security and Identity
- How Azure Security Center helps detect attacks against your Linux machines
- Announcing new Azure Security Center capabilities at RSA 2018
- Azure Security Center Network Map
- Streamlining GDPR requests with the Azure portal
- Achieving GDPR compliance in the cloud with Microsoft Azure
Apps
- Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers
- Azure Service Fabric – announcing Reliable Services on Linux and RHEL support
- How to secure web communications in a Service Fabric cluster in Azure
- Azure Toolkit for Eclipse integrates with HDInsight Ambari and supports Spark 2.2
- Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ integrates with HDInsight Ambari and supports Spark 2.2
- Deploying Linked ARM Templates with VSTS
Data
- SQL
- Fast and easy development with Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Improvements to SQL Elastic Pool configuration experience
- SQL Database: Long-term backup retention preview includes major updates
- Transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys in Azure SQL Database generally available
- How to configure Azure SQL Database Geo-DR with Azure Key Vault
- Accelerate real-time big data analytics with Spark connector for Microsoft SQL Databases
- Adaptive caching powers Azure SQL Data Warehouse performance gains
- Enhanced capabilities to monitor, manage, and integrate SQL Data Warehouse in the Azure Portal
- Turbocharge cloud analytics with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Region expansion for the next generation of SQL Data Warehouse
- Blazing fast data warehousing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Replicated Tables now generally available in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Seamlessly upgrade Azure SQL Data Warehouse for greater performance and scalability
- Python, Node.js, Go client libraries for Azure Event Hubs in public preview
- Secure credential management for ETL workloads using Azure Key Vault and Data Factory
- HDInsight tools for VS Code now supports argparse and Spark 2.2
- Azure Analysis Services integration with VNets via On-Premises Data Gateway
- Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB: NoSQL data access on Azure
- Iterative development and debugging using Data Factory
IoT
- Introducing Microsoft Azure Sphere: Secure and power the intelligent edge
- Best practices for IoT-driven infrastructure transformation
- Azure IoT Hub SDK officially provides native iOS support
- New key capabilities that Azure Time Series Insights
- Automating Industrial IoT Security
AI
- Bing Custom Search: Build a customized search experience in minutes
- Using TensorFlow and Azure to Add Image Classification to Your Android Apps
- Azure Bot Function Step By Step
Have fun!
Daniel