Build5Nines Weekly - May 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:

• Microsoft Fabric: Microsoft’s family of data products to get the suite treatment via mjfoley@directionsonmicrosoft.com
• Apache Spark DataKickstart: First Spark SQL Application via dustinvannoy
• Terraform Cloud updates plans with an enhanced Free tier and more flexibility via Melar Chen
• Reduce the cost of running AKS cluster by leveraging Azure Spot VMs| 70% and more via Martin Gjoshevski
• Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI is now open to everyone, with plug-ins coming soon via Tom Warren
• Azure DevOps Achieves ISO 26262 ASIL D level of Certification via Jorge Minana

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Here are the Microsoft Azure updates from the week:

• Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features – Edit Volumes
• Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 67 – May 2023
• General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
• General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs
• Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads
• Public preview: Optimize your workloads for reliability using new workbook template in Azure Advisor
• General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy
• App Service now supports Custom Error pages in public preview
• Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026
• Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025
• Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
• Public preview: Azure Container Storage
• General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
• Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
• Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
• General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions
• We’re retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
• General Availability: Azure Automation supports Python 3.8 runbooks
• Alert processing rules fields update
• General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates

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