Build5Nines Weekly - April 18, 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:

• Why HashiCorp Terraform is Essential for SREs and DevOps Engineers via Chris Pietschmann
• Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool v2.0 via Chris Pietschmann
• Building a secure Azure reference architecture with Terraform via David Wright
• New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings via Naga Surendran
• Announcing the new Terraform Associate 003 Certification exam via Ashley Norman

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Here are the Microsoft Azure updates from the week:

• Generally Available: Azure App Service – New Premium v3 Offerings
• Public Preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace
• Regional expansion: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview is now available in more regions.
• General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay
• Retirement notice: transition to the Authentication methods policy for Azure Active Directory
• Connect Azure Stream Analytics to Azure Data Explorer using managed private endpoint.
• Use Stream Analytics to process exported data from Application Insights
• Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL REST APIs
• Public Preview: Performance troubleshooting workbooks for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
• Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL cluster compute start and stop
• Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-April 2023
• Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for April
• Public preview: Node Resource Group (NRG) lockdown
• General Availability: Azure App Health Extension – Rich Health States
• General availability: Improved scaling model for Azure Functions with Target Based Scaling
• General availability: Azure DevOps 2023 Q1
• General availability: Read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
• Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2023
• Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in the Australia Central region.
• Generally Available: New burstable SKUs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• Public preview: Azure Container Apps offers new plan and pricing structure
• Public Preview of query performance insight for Azure Database for PostgreSQL- Flexible Server
• Hotpatch now available for Windows Server VMs on Azure with desktop experience
• Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB serverless container with 1 TB storage
• Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Python 3.10
• Public preview: Azure Functions V4 programming model for Node.js
• Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports user defined routes (UDR) and smaller subnets
• General Availability: App Configuration geo-replication
• Public Preview: Database-is-alive metrics for monitoring Azure Postgres Flexible Server database availability.

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