Build5Nines Weekly - November 16, 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 is Building an AI Supercomputer with NVIDIA via Laurent Giret
• Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Landing zone accelerator via Thomas Maurer
• Use GitHub Codespaces for Azure PowerShell Function apps via Barbara
• HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent: Examining the State of Your Cloud Operating Model via Jared Ruckle
• NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization via Ashmi Chokshi
• The Latest from Azure Multivariate Anomaly Detection via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

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

• General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions
• Generally available: Azure SQL Managed Instance link for SQL Server 2022
• Public preview: Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave updates for November 2022
• General availability: Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave updates for November 2022
• General availability: Azure Sphere TKS updated; OS version 22.11 expected December 1
• General availability: TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway
• General availability: Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall
• General availability: Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall
• Public preview: Use Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quotas)
• Generally available: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
• Limited preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Platform Managed Keys
• Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols
• Public preview: Microsoft Azure Managed HSM TLS Offload Library
• 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%

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