Ctrl+Alt+Azure Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine

Today, we'll talk about cost management and FinOps, and we have Paola Annis from Microsoft as the expert on this. What's FinOps again? What are companies focusing on as part of FinOps? We consider the different aspects of FinOps, and reflect how it looked in the back compared to today. Also, Jussi asks Paola an unexpected question.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(02:42) - Show content starts.
Show links- https://data.finops.org/#11755- https://data.finops.org/#11757
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Today, we'll talk about GitHub Enterprise. This is based on a recent adventure in getting it to work for us, and the lessons learned are the essence of this episode. What are the plans? What do you need to configure? What got us confused? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:06) - Show content starts.
Show links- GitHub Enterprise Trial- Jussi's Whoop 4.0 (Jussi's referral code, if you want 1 month free and Jussi gets 1 month free: link) - Give us feedback!

We've discussed generative AI and Azure AI capabilities in a few past episodes. In this episode, we'll bring it all together and focus on Azure AI Studio—how do you build generative AI solutions using this service? We consider how to choose LLMs, cost, deployment, bringing your data, and what solutions companies are building with this. Also, Tobi asks Jussi an unexpected question.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:56) - Show content starts.
Show links- Ctrl+Alt+Azure: 199 - Refreshing our knowledge on Azure AI - Ctrl+Alt+Azure: 220 - When to use what with generative AI? - Ctrl+Alt+Azure: 223 - Understanding Azure AI Search
- Azure AI Studio
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In this week's episode, we look at Microsoft Security Exposure Management. What is it, and what can you do with it? We discuss the capabilities, our initial impressions of this capability, and licensing. Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(02:31) - Show content starts.
Show links- Microsoft Security Exposure Management documentation
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In this episode, we take a look at recent updates to Azure. What's new, what's in preview, and what's interesting? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(03:14) - Show content starts.
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- GA: Application Gateway for Containers
- Public preview: Application Gateway support for TLS and TCP
- GA: Elastic SAN
- Windows Server 2025
- Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor
- Migrate Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Cloud Services (extended support)
- Azure Storage Actions documentation
- What's new in Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Graph CLI
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In this week's episode, we take a first look at Azure Storage Actions. What is this new feature, and why should you use it? Does it differ from existing capabilities that do the same thing? Also, Jussi asks Tobi an unexpected question.
(00:00) - Intro and catching up.(04:11) - Show content starts.
Show links- Azure Storage Actions- Introducing Azure Storage Actions: Serverless storage data management
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