Latest Cloud News: Let’s Get Back at This! (July 20, 2022 – Build5Nines Weekly)

Here's your weekly dose of the latest cloud and enterprise news and other community content for the week! Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within this newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week.

Now let's get to the weeks top news, blog articles, videos, podcasts, and more within the Cloud & Enterprise space!

Let’s Get Back at This!

After a LONG hiatus and break from things, I’m back at dedicating time to Build5Nines.com again, and as a result I’m resurrecting the Build5Nines Weekly Newsletter. This week I’m continuing the same format of the newsletter as I bring it back. I’m not sure if I’ll keep the same format going forward, or if I’ll change it up. I need to put more thought into it, but for now let’s get back to the Build5Nines Weekly!

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The Weeks Top Links

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

• Deploy C# Script Function App using Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline via Chris Pietschmann
• What is IP Address of Azure DevOps Build Agent and Set Firewall to Allow it via Chris Pietschmann
• Azure IoT Development Tools for Visual Studio Code via Chris Pietschmann
• AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Certification Exam via Chris Pietschmann
• Azure CLI: Get Private Link Service Alias / DNS Name via Chris Pietschmann
• What is the Internet of Things? via Chris Pietschmann
• Azure CLI: Add/Remove IP Addresses on Azure Synapse Firewall via Chris Pietschmann
• Azure Functions: Copy Blob Between Azure Storage Accounts in C# via Chris Pietschmann

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• General availability: Azure confidential VMs (DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs)
• Public preview: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
• Generally available: CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central
• Public preview: Azure Marketplace for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI
• Public preview: Remote support for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI
• Public preview: Arc-enabled guest VMs with extensions for Azure Stack HCI
• Public preview: Azure Stack HCI version 22H2
• Generally available: Tag filtering in Azure Advisor
• Public preview: Azure Spring Apps feature updates
• Public preview: Azure Load Testing – additional metrics for pass/fail criteria
• Public preview: Azure Load Testing now displays load engine health metrics
• Generally available: Calico for Windows on AKS
• Public preview: API Server VNet integration
• Generally available: Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2
• Generally available: Bring your own Container Network Interface plugin
• Pubic preview: .NET 7 support for Azure Functions in isolated process model
• Generally available: Azure Event Grid partner events
• Public preview: Microsoft Azure Web PubSub Premium Tier
• General availability: Azure Confidential Ledger
• Generally available: Azure SignalR Service Premium Tier
• Generally available: Premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance
• General availability: Citus 11 support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
• General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server – On demand backups
• Public preview: Cross-region read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
• Generally available: Basic tier updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
• Generally available: vCore compute options for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
• Generally available: New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• Generally available: PostgreSQL 14 with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• Generally available: Same-zone high availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server data encryption with CMK
• Generally available: Virtual machine restore points
• Public preview: TLS 1.3 support on Application Gateway
• Public preview: Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
• Public preview: OVN-Kubernetes network provider for Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
• Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62 – July 2022
• Generally available: Exporting device customizations and cloud properties in Azure IoT Central
• Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer

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