The Azure Podcast Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young and Sujit D'Mello

Evan and Sujit talk to Ricardo Villarreal about the new ability to built network-aware applications in Azure. APC provides a unified abstraction layer for accessing network APIs—such as edge discovery, quality on demand, and device location—consistently across operators and connectivity methods. Ricardo offers compelling use-cases for these new APIs in Azure and tips to get started.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode456.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/2XWy2X0WXCQ Resources: https://aka.ms/apcblog   Other updates: New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Database connections support in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public Preview: Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure General Availability: Performance workbooks for Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public Preview: PgBouncer monitoring metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server  | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

In this episode we chat with Andrés Padilla and Meer Alam about practical use of AI and ML systems.  Examples of this are discussed around autonomous drone / delivery models and the various components in Azure that make this a seamless, scalable and sustainable experience.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode455.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/0Y_jeCWZn38 Resources: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1569428314103514552-drone-express-travel-transportation-azure-en-united-states https://github.com/Azure/KAN   Other updates: Azure Disks Standard SSD billable transaction cap blog (microsoft.com)   Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General Availability: Customer Initiated Storage Account Conversion | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI Service | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure Teams premium - conversation recap, chapters, etc.; Viva Sales, Bing Chat   Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Image captioning, customisation, improved learning, smaller datasets, higher quality.   Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Zero Trust segmentation; single holistic view of traffic with real time visibility of interaction and dependencies; test firewall changes before deploying; across all 3 skus of firewall   Public Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports querying PromQL | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Use promql to define alerts to view in the portal   Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Installs an agent to your VM through PS, triggered by the portal   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-to-showcase-purposebuilt-ai-infrastructure-at-nvidia-gtc/

Our guest this week, Paul Henwood joins Kendall and Russell to talk about many different aspects of sustainability, and how Azure embraces and supports customers with their sustainability goals.   Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode454.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/HSPeE6Hpmns Sustainability Resources: Microsoft Sustainability - Products for a Sustainable Future What is Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability? | Microsoft Learn Calculating My Carbon Footprint - Microsoft Sustainability Sustainability workload documentation - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn   Green Software Foundation | GSF Azure Update Links:   General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-February 2023 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure    

Ryan Bostelmann joins the Azure Podcast team to share how the Azure Support function use Azure and Power Platform to be more efficient and deliver a better customer service. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Edpisode453.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/mIYTsy6jwVQ Links: Power Apps: What is Power Apps? - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn Power Automate: Get Started with Power Automate Logic Apps: Overview - Azure Logic Apps Azure Functions: Azure Functions Overview Azure Pipelines: What are Azure Pipelines? Choose the right integration and automation services in Azure:

The team catches up with April Edwards to learn about the benefits of using Bicep to deploy Azure resources.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode452.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/FhniwXjDBe0 Resources:  IaC Blog: Infrastructure as Code - comparing tools (microsoft.com) MS Learn path for BIcep: Learn Live: Use Bicep to deploy your Azure infrastructure as code - Events | Microsoft Learn Learn Live: Building your first Bicep Template: Learn Live - Build your first Bicep template - YouTube Learn Live: Build Your First Bicep Deployment Workflow using GitHub Actions : Learn Live - Build your first Bicep deployment workflow by using GitHub Actions - YouTube   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-automation-extension/ Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-azure-openai-service-expands-access-to-large-advanced-ai-models-with-added-enterprise-benefits   Public preview: Capture Event Hubs data with Stream Analytics no-code editor in Delta Lake format | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure  

Jack Tracey, a Cloud Solutions Architect from the Customer Architecture and Engineering team talks to us about the work his team does to create the Landing Zones which can form the foundation for any well-designed Azure platform. He explains what they are and best practices to consume them in your cloud strategy.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode451.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Nfeaw9uELQ Resources: https://aka.ms/alz https://aka.ms/alz/tailoring https://aka.ms/alz/tf https://aka.ms/alz/bicep   Other updates: Private Preview: Featured Clothing | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Tokyo version | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability: Apache log4J2 sink to Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure