Build5Nines Weekly - February 7, 2023

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:

• Top 12 Most In-demand IT Jobs (DevOps, SRE, and More) via Chris Pietschmann
• What are the Microsoft Certified Expert Certifications? via Chris Pietschmann
• AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification Exam via Chris Pietschmann
• Blockchain Technology is Revolutionizing Enterprises and Shaping the Future Beyond Cryptocurrency via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform Init Command Overview via Chris Pietschmann
• Is this Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing? via James Vincent

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Here are the Microsoft Azure updates from the week:

• Azure Digital Twins Control-Plane Preview API Retirement (2021-06-31)
• Azure Digital Twins Control-Plane Preview API Retirement (2020-03-31)
• General Availability: Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now Generally Available
• Public Preview: Azure Digital Twins
• Generally available: Azure Digital Twins in West US 3, Qatar, Japan, and Korea
• Generally available: New storage backend for Durable Functions — Microsoft Netherite & MSSQL
• Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Node.js 18
• Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard
• Now Available: Azure Databricks is generally available in China North 3
• Public preview: User-assigned managed identities for routing events for Azure Digital Twins
• Generally available: Azure Digital Twins in West US 3, Qatar, Japan, and Korea
• General availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in Azure for US Government regions
• Azure Web PubSub Premium tier reaches General Availability
• Azure Red Hat OpenShift on Azure Government is now Generally Available
• Azure SQL Gen 4 hardware approaching end of life 31 March 2023

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