Thanks for reading this huge edition of the Azure technical compilation with the latest news on Azure. The Build conference was a success, and the innovation that has been introduced there is just amazing. Even if it is difficult highlighting one area over the rest, my favorite this month is the whole AI block, make sure you don’t miss it.
Azure Stack
- New Azure Stack developer features to build intelligent, hybrid applications
- Microsoft Azure Stack expands availability to 92 countries
Management
- Introducing the Azure Terraform Resource Provider
- Create enterprise subscription experience in Azure portal public preview
- Private Offers on Azure Marketplace (only VMs today)
- Azure Marketplace is reaching new audiences: Private Offers, containers, consulting services
- Use Azure Monitor to integrate with SIEM tools
- Do more with Chef and Microsoft Azure
- Changes coming to PowerShell (preview) in Azure Cloud Shell
IaaS
- Compute
- Networking
- Announcing Microsoft's own Content Delivery Network
- Azure Networking May 2018 announcements: Azure DDoS GA, Vnet Service Endpoints news, DNS Private Zones, Connection Monitoring in Network Watcher, improved performance in Traffic View, Global Vnet Peering GA, ASGs GA, App Gateway and WAF enhancements, Azure CDN by Microsoft and Standard LB
- New Azure Network Watcher integrations and Network Security Group Flow Logging updates
- Cisco Solution Support for ExpressRoute
- VNet service endpoints for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL in preview
- Storage
- Azure AD Authentication for Azure Storage now in public preview
- General availability: Azure Storage metrics in Azure Monitor
- Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs generally available
- Shared Image Gallery now in limited preview
- (Preview) Standard SSD Disks for Azure Virtual machine workloads: at a lower price than HDDs!
- New updates for Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
Containers
- Announcing first-class support for CloudEvents on Azure
- OpenShift on Azure: The easiest, fully managed OpenShift in the cloud
- Monitoring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure Monitor container health (preview)
- Kubernetes on Azure: Industry’s best end-to-end Kubernetes experience
- Microsoft syndicates container catalog (mcr.microsoft.com)
- Azure Container Registry makes geo-replication generally available, adding lifecycle management capabilities
- New container images in Azure Marketplace
Security and IAM
- Detect malicious activity using Azure Security Center and Azure Log Analytics
- Protect virtual machines across different subscriptions with Azure Security Center
- Why developers should enable Azure Security Center’s Just-in-Time VM Access
- Azure Security Center can identify attacks targeting Azure App Service applications
- New capabilities to enable robust GDPR compliance:
Apps
- Enhancements in Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger
- App Service: Adding multi-container capabilities and Linux support for App Service Environment
- Better integrations and higher productivity with Azure Event Grid
- Azure mobile app is now generally available
- New Integrations for GitHub Developers: App Center and Outlook
- Azure SignalR Service, a fully-managed service to add real-time functionality
- Receiving and handling HTTP requests anywhere with the Azure Relay
- Blue-Green deployments using Azure Traffic Manager
Data
- SQL
- Data Warehouse
- Accelerate your cloud data warehouse with automation tools
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports automatic creation of statistics
- Extract management insights from SQL Data Warehouse with SQL Operations Studio
- Accelerate data warehouse modernization with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services for Azure
- Cosmos DB
- Announcing new Async Java SDK for Azure #CosmosDB
- Introducing the #Azure #CosmosDB Bulk Executor library
- Sharing provisioned throughput across multiple containers in Azure #CosmosDB
- Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure #CosmosDB is now generally available
- Serverless real-time notifications in Azure using Azure #CosmosDB
- Enhance productivity using Azure Data Factory Visual Tools
- 4 new features now available in Azure Stream Analytics
- 10 great things about Kafka on HDInsight
- Azure Event Hubs for Kafka Ecosystems in public preview
- Gain application insights for Big Data solutions using Unravel data on Azure HDInsight
- Control Azure Data Lake costs using Log Analytics to create service alerts
Blockchain
IoT
- Digging in with Azure IoT: Interactive developer guide
- Azure IoT Reference Architecture update
- Developing an Azure Sphere experience with Visual Studio
- Enabling more device management scenarios with new features in IoT Hub
- Manage Azure IoT Edge deployments with Kubernetes
- Using the Azure IoT Python SDK: make sure you check the version!
AI
- Speech services now in preview
- Azure AI Platform announcements: New innovations for developers: news on cognitive services, cognitive search and updates to Azure ML
- Microsoft empowers developers with new and updated Cognitive Services
- Microsoft extends AI support to PyTorch 1.0 deep learning framework
- Accelerating AI on the intelligent edge: Microsoft and Qualcomm create vision AI developer kit
- Build 2018: Video Indexer updates
- Announcing Azure Maps
- Microsoft Conversational AI tools enable developers to build, connect and manage intelligent bots
- Spark + AI Summit: Data scientists and engineers put their trust in Microsoft Azure Databricks
- Full-integrated experience simplifying Language Understanding in conversational AI systems
- Announcing Cognitive Search: Azure Search + cognitive capabilities
- Build 2018: What's new in Azure video processing and video AI: new Azure Media Services API v3 and updates to Azure Media Indexer
Have fun!
Daniel