Are you having difficulty keeping up to date on all the frequent changes and updates in the Microsoft Azure space? Then the Build Azure Weekly has the solution you’re looking for. Build Azure Weekly is a weekly blog post that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Service Updates from the week in addition to links to many other blog articles, podcasts and videos from all over the Internet.

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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

General Availability

These services are now released GA (General Availability):

Preview

These services are now available in Preview:

Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

Azure Infographic: Cloud Design Patterns by Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft Professional Degree in Data Science by Chris Pietschmann
Rethinking Paradigms in Networking: Firewalls in the Public Cloud by Steve Ross
Premium Messaging GA by Justin Conway
Blockchain as a Service update #9 by Marley Gray
Azure SQL Data Warehouse supports SSMS, higher DWUs and additional T-SQL features by Kevin Ngo
Azure Media Services Motion Detector adds detection zones, sensitivity levels and more by Richard Li
Azure audit logs UX refresh by Rajesh Ramabathiran
Announcing the release of the Azure Usage and Billing Portal by Chris Risner
Create the roadmap for your enterprise cloud strategy by James Staten
Microsoft Certification: 98-369 Cloud Fundamentals by Chris Pietschmann
Contribute to Women’s Health Outcomes Via New Data Science Competition via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Microsoft to release Azure Stack as an appliance in mid-2017 by Mary Jo Foley
Cloud Platform Release Announcements for July 12, 2016 via Cloud Platform Team
Facebook signs deal to use some Microsoft Office 365 services by Mary Jo Foley
New Microsoft innovations and programs help partners and customers transform. Now. by Takeshi Numoto
Growing the Azure Ecosystem with Microsoft Azure Stack by Mark Jewett
Microsoft Azure Stack: Delivering cloud infrastructure as Integrated Systems by Mike Neil
Why does my SQL Server Availability Group Need a Load Balancer in Azure? by Paul Burpo
Disaster Recovery with Azure Virtual Machines by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure Service Bus – Canceling Scheduled Messaged by Sean Feldman
Machine Learning Careers at Microsoft by Jennifer Marsman
Create and Deploy .NET Core WebApp to Azure from Linux by Frank Boucher
Create your first botframework bot in Azure! by Robin Osborne
Migrate database to Azure SQL Database using SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor by Mohammad Moinudheen

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

DockerCon 16: Windows Server & Docker – The Internals Behind Brining Docker & Containers to Windows – Black Belt by Matt McSpirit
Azure SQL Data Warehouse General Availability Announcement with Rohan Kumar | SQL Unplugged via Channel 9
Tuesdays with Corey: RedHat announcements and WPC via Channel 9

Audio / Podcasts

To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:

General Cloud

Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

IoT and problems: The issues that bedevil any new tech by Amanda Razani
MPI and Scalable Distributed Machine Learning by Nicole Hemsoth
Is the GPL the right way to force IoT standardization? by Matt Asay
IoT and development platforms: Focusing on connecting the world by Matthew Pierson
Getting Started with Node.js in Windows – Node Modules by Adam Anderson
Moving to Lets Encrypt SSL Certificates by Rick Strahl

About the Author

Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.