Get Started with Azure Bicep - Alternative to ARM Templates

Pentagon stays with Microsoft for $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Sorry Not Sorry Amazon

Microsoft Killing Visual Studio Codespaces; Moving to GitHub Instead

Microsoft has announced it is killing it’s Visual Studio Codespaces cloud-based IDE for developers. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the new GitHub Codespaces experience and that left use a little confused as to why there were going to be two different Codespaces experiences. Well, as it turns out, Microsoft has decided to consolidate the two Codespaces experiences into having just one GitHub Codespaces experience.

With the consolidation of Codespaces experiences into GitHub Codespaces, there are a couple key dates to be aware of during this transition and eventual retirement of Visual Studio Codespaces:

• September 4, 2020 – Current users can begin transitioning to the GitHub private beta.
• November 20, 2020 – Creation of new plans and Visual Studio Codespaces will be disabled, although existing Codespaces may continue to be used. New users will only be able to sign up for GitHub Codespaces.
• February 17, 2021 – Visual Studio Codespaces portal will be retired. All plans and codespaces remaining in the service will be deleted, so be sure to migrate to GitHub Codespaces by this date!

The Weeks Top Links

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

• Get Started with Azure Bicep – Alternative to ARM Templates via Chris Pietschmann
• Pentagon stays with Microsoft for $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Sorry Not Sorry Amazon via Chris Pietschmann
• Synology DS1520+ is the sweet spot for a home NAS and a private cloud via Scott Hanselman
• View your Azure Cache for Redis data in new Visual Studio Code extension via Carolina Uribe-Gosselin
• Microsoft is killing Visual Studio Codespaces via Pradeep

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Microsoft Azure Service Updates

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

• Azure SQL Database Gateway with IP address 23.99.160.139 in Central US will be deactivated on 15th September 2020
• Azure Monitor for containers agent (ciprod08072020) update
• Azure Data Explorer Kafka Connector – Improved delivery guarantees, schema registry support, and Confluent certification
• Begin migrating your codespaces to GitHub Codespaces
• Migrate to Azure Availability Zones
• Azure API Management will retire 5 legacy metrics in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2023
• Azure S8 and S9 Analysis Services SKUs retiring on 31 August 2023
• Azure Storage classic metrics will be retired on 31 August 2023
• Migrate your Azure Data Factory version 1 to 2 service
• Azure Security Center—News and updates for August 2020
• Improvements to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts
• Public preview: Automated deployment of Always On availability groups through the Azure portal
• User-initiated failover for application fault resiliency in Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available
• New regions in Brazil Southeast for Azure Database for MySQL
• Durable Functions v2.3 is now available
• Azure Spring Cloud is now generally available
• Azure Cache for Redis Visual Studio Code extension now in preview
• Log Analytics Agent for Windows August 2020 release is now available
• Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules Public Preview
• Azure Cache for Redis Visual Studio Code extension now in preview
• Azure Kubernetes Service: Node disk DOS by writing to container /etc/hosts (CVE-2020-8557)
• Azure Kubernetes Service: Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster (CVE-2020-8559)
• Azure DNS: Introducing automatic child zone delegation
• Manage your Azure & Amazon Web Services (AWS) spending in a single location with Azure Cost Management +Billing
• Visualize and Manage your AWS costs in Azure Cost Management
• View Designer in Azure Monitor is retiring on 31 August 2023
• Update your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDKs by 31 August 2022
• New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now available
• Azure Dedicated Hosts now support new Azure Virtual Machines series
• Start using Power BI Embedded to access, share and distribute content easily

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