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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Microsoft is Building an AI Supercomputer with NVIDIA via Laurent Giret
• Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Landing zone accelerator via Thomas Maurer
• Use GitHub Codespaces for Azure PowerShell Function apps via Barbara
• HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent: Examining the State of Your Cloud Operating Model via Jared Ruckle
• NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization via Ashmi Chokshi
• The Latest from Azure Multivariate Anomaly Detection via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube

Blog Articles

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

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• AI and the need for purpose-built cloud infrastructure via Sherry Wang
• Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Landing zone accelerator via Thomas Maurer
• Announcing new capabilities for Azure Firewall via Eliran Azulai

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Microsoft Teams now has Solitaire and Minesweeper in a games for work push via Tom Warren

DevOps / SRE

• How to avoid global.json version conflicts in Azure DevOps via Antti K. Koskela
• Azure DevOps client libraries migrated to MSAL via Lubomir Sokolovsky
• HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent: Examining the State of Your Cloud Operating Model via Jared Ruckle
• CDK for Terraform 0.14 Makes it Easier to Use Providers via Ansgar Mertens
• How IoT, AI, and Digital Twins are helping achieve sustainability goals via Joe Biron
• Use GitHub Codespaces for Azure PowerShell Function apps via Barbara

Data

• Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Landing zone accelerator via Thomas Maurer
• Azure Bicep — Deploy a web app with private connectivity to a database via Dave R – Microsoft Azure MVP☁️

Internet of Things (IoT)

• The industrial IoT is getting the IT treatment via Stacey Higginbotham
• Azure Sphere trusted keystore is updated; OS version 22.11 is now available for evaluation via AzureSphereTeam
• How IoT, AI, and Digital Twins are helping achieve sustainability goals via Joe Biron

Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Microsoft is Building an AI Supercomputer with NVIDIA via Laurent Giret
• AI and the need for purpose-built cloud infrastructure via Sherry Wang
• How IoT, AI, and Digital Twins are helping achieve sustainability goals via Joe Biron
• Introducing a new mini-series: How to Create an AI Social Listening Tool using Azure and the Twitter API via jamie_maguire

Blockchain / Smart Contracts

• 187: Google Blockchain Engine – A Day Late and a Bitcoin Short via Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Peter Roosakos

Security, Identity, and Privacy

• Microsoft contributes S2C2F to OpenSSF to improve supply chain security via Emma Jones
• 3 reasons to optimize your workloads with Azure Advisor. via AntonioOrtoll

Learning / Training / Certification

• HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent: Examining the State of Your Cloud Operating Model via Jared Ruckle

Other

• Microsoft will amp up its anti-harassment rules after investigation following Gates affair via Emma Roth
• Empowering ISVs to build and sell with the Microsoft Cloud via Anthony Joseph
• NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization via Ashmi Chokshi
• 5 Hidden Azure Cost Optimizations: How to Save on Azure via Hailey Austin
• Token tactics: How to prevent, detect, and respond to cloud token theft via Paul Oliveria
• Setting up ConsenSys’s Quorum Key Manager on Azure via Itay Podhajcer
• Logic App Standard CI/CD from zero to hero whitepaper via Sandro Pereira
• Microsoft reveals when it will deliver broad availability of Surface spare parts via Joe Rogun

Videos

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

• Is Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL suitable for relational workloads? via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Sharding Data in Production on Azure Friday via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• The Latest from Azure Multivariate Anomaly Detection via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• AzureML Registries – Enabling Better Collaboration and MLOps via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube

Podcast

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:

• Episode 447 – DDOS Protection on Azure via The Azure Podcast
• 160 – Azure Updates via Ctrl+Alt+Azure
• Donovan Brown: Microservices DevOps – Episode 219 via Azure DevOps Podcast
• Episode 446 – Security & L7 DDoS protection @ Edge, DNS Security, and Private DNS via The Azure Podcast

Azure Service Updates

Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:

• General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions
• Generally available: Azure SQL Managed Instance link for SQL Server 2022
• Public preview: Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave updates for November 2022
• General availability: Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave updates for November 2022
• General availability: Azure Sphere TKS updated; OS version 22.11 expected December 1
• General availability: TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway
• General availability: Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall
• General availability: Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall
• Public preview: Use Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quotas)
• Generally available: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
• Limited preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Platform Managed Keys
• Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols
• Public preview: Microsoft Azure Managed HSM TLS Offload Library
• Public preview: Azure Front Door integration with managed identities
• Public preview: Azure Maps Creator feature – Wayfinding
• Public preview: Azure Front Door zero downtime migration
• Public preview: Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier
• Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022
• Azure Percept DK Retirement Announcement
• Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for November 2022
• General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in new China regions
• General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection
• Public preview: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
• General availability: Retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
• Public preview: Intra-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB
• General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Gitlab and Bitbucket
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for stable URLs for preview environments
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for skipping API builds
• Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps now Supports Node 18
• Generally available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
• Public preview: Rotate SSH keys on existing AKS nodepools
• Generally available: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update
• General availability: Manage your Log Analytics Tables in Azure Portal
• General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones
• Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%

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