Latest Cloud News: Azure Space, Pulumi IaC CI/CD Pipelines, and more!

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:

• Tip 293 – 5 Things you didn’t know about Azure Cognitive Services via Azure Tips and Tricks
• Using the ASP.NET Core Environment Feature to manage Development vs. Production for any config file type via Scott Hanselman
• Microsoft Azure Space – Innovation on Earth and Beyond via Chris Pietschmann
• Beginner’s Guide to Pulumi CI/CD Pipelines via Jim Counts
• Microsoft Teams now has 115 million daily active users via Surur
• Microsoft’s GitHub removes Open Source YouTube video download code via Surur
• Run Visual Studio Code on a Raspberry Pi via Jim Bennett 
• It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and there is still a lot to do via Lauren Goodwin

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

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

• Azure Automation is now available in Switzerland North region
• Public Preview: Application Insight in Australia Central, Brazil Southeast and Norway East
• Azure Sphere 20.10 Update 1 is now available for compatibility testing
• Azure Databricks Now Available in Switzerland North
• Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is now generally available
• Public Preview: Azure Log Analytics in Brazil Southeast and Norway East
• Public preview: Up to 10 read replicas for MySQL – Flexible Server
• We’re retiring Azure SQL DB Import-Export Direct Endpoints on 31 October 2023
• Register Your Azure SQL Virtual Machines with SQL Server IaaS Agent extension today
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Single Server now available in Brazil Southeast
• Public preview: Auditing of Microsoft support operations in Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL MI
• App Service Discount for Premium Plans
• Generate a new function app from an OpenAPI specification
• General Availability: Azure Spot on Azure Kubernetes Service
• General Availability: Azure Kubernetes Service support for proximity placement groups
• Preview: Azure Monitor for containers now support capacity monitoring of Persistent Volume (PV)
• Azure Red Hat OpenShift 3.11 will be retired on 30 June 2022
• Community support for PHP 7.4 is ending on 28 November 2022
• Legacy developer portal in Azure API Management will retire on 31 October 2023
• Action Required: Update to Data Science Virtual Machine Ubuntu 18.04
• Schema Registry for Azure Event Hubs public preview
• Policy to control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Storage now generally available
• Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in Taiwan
• Azure Backup Price and Meter ID Change – ZA North and ZA West regions of South Africa
• New VM series supported by Azure Batch
• Java 11 support for Azure Functions is now generally available
• Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL DB general purpose tier
• Change in verification code SMS content
• Azure Site Recovery update rollup 51 – October 2020
• Azure API Management updates- October 2020
• Log Analytics Linux Agent for Fall 2020 now available

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