Build Azure Weekly is a series that offers a single source for a consolidated view on the weeks news, service updates, blogs, as well as other links surrounding the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. The links shared include those both from Microsoft and other members of the community. The goal of Build Azure Weekly is to help keep you up-to-date in the ever changing Microsoft Azure ecosystem.

Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates that have been announced this past week from Microsoft:

Blog Articles

Here’s a list of some of the blog articles posted by members of the community as well as Microsoft:

Free eBook: Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure by Chris Pietschmann
Azure Marketplace: FreeBSD 10.3 by Chris Pietschmann
Move Resources via ARM Portal by Edward Dake
Cloud War: Microsoft vs Amazon – Feature 2 Feature Comparisons by Chris Pietschmann
Why your customer-facing apps need to shift to intelligent apps by James Staten
New service-level disaster recovery guidance by Adam Glick
Running Docker Container on Azure Batch by Yiding Zhou
What’s in the Azure Security Information Site on Azure.com – June 2016 by Thomas W Shinder
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer preview: June update by Cristy Gonzalez
Microsoft Recognized in Leader Quadrant for Identity and Access Management as a Service by Thomas W Shinder
IntelliJ: Deploy Java Web Apps to Azure by Asir Selvasingh
Check out all the Azure sessions planned for Microsoft Ignite via Microsoft Azure Blog
End-to-End Data Science Using Spark on Azure HDInsight via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
How to use DateTime in a Service Bus SqlFilter with .NET via John Taubensee
New F-Series VM Sizes by Drew McDaniel
New Azure Search tiers and Basic and Standard S2 general availability via Microsoft Azure Blog
Azure Managed Cache compatibility issue by Pranav Rastogi
FreeBSD now available in Azure Marketplace by Jason Anderson
Building & Understanding Predictive Maintenance Solutions for the Aerospace Industry via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
Azure SQL Database query performance improvements for newly created databases by Guy Haycock
How to get moving in your migration to the cloud by Eduardo Kassner
Opt for detailed analysis in “Abnormal rise in failed request rate” alert by Yossi Yossifon
VM Scale set scale command is now available in the 0.10.1 Azure CLI release via Azure Linux Team Blog
Upload files from devices with Azure IoT Hub by Nicole Berdy
30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 30: Catching Up by Adrian Hall
Azure Infrastructure Security Book Coming Soon by Thomas W Shinder
Azure Media Services is now available in the new Azure Portal by Mingfei Yan
Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight now generally available by Oliver Chiu
Microsoft expands its commitment to Apache Spark big-data framework via ZDNet

Videos

Here are some videos that have been posted on Azure topics over the past week:

Work on Your ARM Strength by Michael S. Collier
Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Scale Sets via Azure Friday
Data Discovery with Azure Data Catalog | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
Azure Data Factory – Monitoring and Managing Big Data Pipelines by Azure Friday

Audio / Podcasts

Here are some of the audio / podcasts that have been posted on Azure topics over the past week:

Mapping the Google Cloud Platform capabilities to Azure – Episode 130 via The Azure Podcast
Listener Question, Azure and Google News, New Azure Regions, Renamed Azure Services and More | Episode 132 via Microsoft Cloud Show

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.