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:
- General availability: HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Introducing Premium Storage
- General availability: Spark on HDInsight
- Azure DocumentDB is available in Canada East and Canada Central
- Export API definitions from API Management developer portal
- Introducing appLens for Web Apps in Azure App Service
- Announcing: F-Series of compute-optimized virtual machines
- Retiring support for PHP 5.4
- General availability: Azure Redis Cache Premium tier in India and Canada
- Public preview: Apple FairPlay Streaming for Azure Media Services
- Log Analytics in Microsoft Operations Management Suite available in additional regions
- Azure Search S3 and S3 High Density tiers in public preview, and Basic tier generally available
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