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

Reza Rahman, a Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure, talks to us about the work his team has done to enable customers using legacy Java frameworks to easily migrate to Azure or modernize in a variety of ways. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode449.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/OqjDtcT6c9E Resources: https://speakerdeck.com/reza_rahman/why-jakarta-ee-developers-are-first-class-citizens-on-azure https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/java/ee/ https://aka.ms/migration-survey   Other updates: Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Improve speech-to-text accuracy with Azure Custom Speech https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improve-speechtotext-accuracy-with-azure-custom-speech/   Microsoft and Isovalent partner to bring next generation eBPF dataplane for cloud-native applications in Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-isovalent-partner-to-bring-next-generation-ebpf-dataplane-for-cloudnative-applications-in-azure/   Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2022 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-november-2022/   Free Services | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Sarah Novotny joins us on the show again, this time to tell us all about the collaboration that happens with Azure in Open Source Software. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode448.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/XwkyxBq0KL4 Resources:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/11/16/microsoft-contributes-s2c2f-to-openssf-to-improve-supply-chain-security/ https://github.com/microsoft/fluidframework https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/fluid-framework-is-now-open-source/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2022/10/12/microsoft-365-at-ignite-re-energize-your-workforce-in-the-office-at-home-and-everywhere-in-between/?culture=en-us&country=US https://microsoft.github.io/CBL-Mariner/docs/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/kubernetes-service/#overview https://github.blog/2022-10-25-why-were-excited-about-the-sigstore-general-availability/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/container-registry-tutorial-sign-build-push   Other updates: Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Qualys SSL Labs - SSL Pulse   Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public Preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas) | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Sujit and Evan are joined by Amir Dahan, Senior Product Manager for Networking at Microsoft, to discuss Azure DDOS protection. Media File: Episode447.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/B_TNr6c2F9o Other Updates Use managed identities with Azure Front Door Standard/Premium (Preview) | Microsoft Learn Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Networking Engineering Manager Abhishek Tiwari joins us once again, this time to talk about all of the work his team has done to add L7 and DDOS protection at the Edge and the enhancements in the DNS Service to make it more secure. Media: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode446.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/yTtchBGLsKg   Other updates: General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cynthia, Sujit and Russell discuss the SAP for Azure Land Zone Acclerator with Pankaj Meshram from the Microsoft Product team, and Matt Ely from Microsoft's Global Partner Solutions CSA team.   Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode445.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/m1FPIp0mWDo   SAP on Azure Landing Zone Resources: SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework SAP on Azure Landing Zone Accelerator SAP Deployment Automation Framework Other updates:   Public preview: Vertical Pod Autoscaler | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public preview: New Azure Maps Creator feature - Dataset with GeoJSON | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Generally available: Logic Apps Standard Support for Functions Runtime V4 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Public preview: SAP S/4HANA events are now available on Azure Event Grid | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Generally available: Azure Communication Services short code functionality for SMS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sharing-the-latest-improvements-to-efficiency-in-microsoft-s-datacenters/

The team gets together with Mark Eisenberg, Cloud Solutions Architect and frequent guest on the podcast, to analyze the various Innovations in Azure that were announced my Mark Russinovich at the recent Ignite conference. The discussions range from data center hardware to quantum computing. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode444.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/8ycwq-PGl4g Ignite session: Inside Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich (microsoft.com)   Other updates: Public preview: Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Image Analysis 4.0 with new API endpoint and OCR model in preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/image-analysis-40-with-new-api-endpoint-and-ocr-model-in-preview/   Azure Scales 530B Parameter GPT-3 Model with NVIDIA NeMo Megatron https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-scales-530b-parameter-gpt3-model-with-nvidia-nemo-megatron/   App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024 App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure