Build5Nines Weekly - November 10, 2022

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!

The Weeks Top Links

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

• Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the 6th year via Emma Jones
• GitHub CoPilot puts Microsoft in hot water due to a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit via Sharron Bennet
• GitHub introduces ‘Hey, GitHub!’ experiment to allow voice-based interaction with Copilot via Sharron Bennet
• Zero downtime migration for Azure Front Door—now in preview via Jessie Jia
• Blazing fast CI with MicroVMs via Alex Ellis
• Report: Elon Musk is Considering Putting Twitter Behind a Paywall via Laurent Giret
• Mass layoffs at Twitter begin now, thanks to Elon Musk via Joe Rogun
• .NET 7 is Now Available via Paul Thurrott
• Arm64 Visual Studio now officially available to entire developer community via Sharron Bennet
• Microsoft announces Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition via Joe Rogun

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

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

• Public preview: Azure Front Door integration with managed identities
• Public preview: Azure Maps Creator feature – Wayfinding
• Public preview: Azure Front Door zero downtime migration
• Public preview: Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier
• Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022
• Azure Percept DK Retirement Announcement
• Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for November 2022
• General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in new China regions
• General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection
• Public preview: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
• General availability: Retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
• Public preview: Intra-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB
• General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Gitlab and Bitbucket
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for stable URLs for preview environments
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for skipping API builds
• Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps now Supports Node 18
• Generally available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
• Public preview: Rotate SSH keys on existing AKS nodepools
• Generally available: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update
• General availability: Manage your Log Analytics Tables in Azure Portal
• General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones
• Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%
• Generally available: Block domain fronting behavior on newly created customer resources
• Generally available: Functions now supports .NET 7 in an isolated worker process
• Generally available: Azure Static Web Apps now fully supports .NET 7
• Generally available: New node sizing for Azure VMware Solution
• General availability: Virtual Machine software reservations
• Public preview: Exporting ISE and Consumption Logic Apps to Standard SKU
• General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall
• Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024
• General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

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