Latest Cloud News: Apple on K8s, IoT, Microsoft Pluton 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:

• Apple Plans to Run Most of Its ‘Compute Management’ on Kubernetes via Joab Jackson
• Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs via Eric Avena
• Tip 295 – What database should you use in your next Azure Functions app via Azure Tips and Tricks
• Microsoft releases new Git experience in Visual Studio 2019 via Pradeep
• Azure App Service now supports NAT Gateway via workinghardinit
• Connecting urban environments with IoT and Digital Twins via Miriam Berhane Russom
• Control holiday lights with Python, Azure IoT and Power Apps via Jim Bennett
• Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker via Ben De St Paer-Gotch

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

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

• Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows
• Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available
• Azure Shared Image Gallery–New features are now generally available
• Azure Site Recovery – Support for increased disk size in Azure VM disaster recovery is now generally available
• Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines Guest Health is in public preview
• A new version of Text Analytics is now in public preview
• Performance tiers for Premium SSDs is now generally available
• Node.js 14 for Azure Functions is now available in public preview
• SMB Multichannel preview is now available on Azure Files premium tier
• HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available
• Azure Backup for SAP HANA backup – User management improvements
• Cognitive Services Speech adds new Neural TTS voices and general availability of Neural TTS in containers
• Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases now supports Incremental backups – Public preview
• Azure Kubernetes Service updates for November 2020
• General availability: VPN over ExpressRoute private peering
• Public preview: Application Insight in UAE North
• Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, and Switzerland West
• General availability: Application Insight in Australia Central, Brazil Southeast, and Norway East
• General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Brazil Southeast and Norway East

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