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Overview of Microsoft Azure platform updates for September

The news digest of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform contains key announcements and content for developers, IT professionals, and all professionals interested in cloud technologies and the Azure platform. Previous editions of the digest can always be found at the following link .

In this digest - interesting announcements and content. The next digest will be even more interesting, because we will soon have Connect () and TechEd , where there will be even more news.



Announcements


Not about Azure, but important: JTC 1 announced two key standards for cloud computing, in the development of which we took an active part:

Partnership with Docker . In the same series - Mark Russinovich explains why Docker.
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Partnership with Cloudera and CoreOS - more partners - more choices.

New virtual machines of level G, according to the news the most powerful, which in general is in the cloud market. From 1 to 16 vCores, 3.5 to 112 gigabytes of RAM and 800 gigabytes of SSD.

Premium Storage — Storage on SSDs up to 32 terabytes.

GA : SQL Azure DB , modes of operation. After the global rethinking and changes in SQL Azure DB, new modes have become publicly available.

GA: Redis Cache Service - besides the fact that Redis is a popular caching mechanism, it is fully accessible and is the recommended caching solution for Azure applications.

GA : Site Recovery - a service for disaster recovery (including high availability, replication, security, and automation of the entire process) for virtual infrastructures has been released to full availability. After the acquisition of Microsoft company InMage, engaged in activities in the related field, the functionality of their product was integrated into Site Recovery. More details .

GA: Web Sites Web Jobs - the function of performing background tasks when hosting sites in the Azure cloud is now available.

Document Explorer for DocumentDB - we just started a series of articles on DocumentDB here. From updates - Document Explorer came out, with which you can view the status of your JSON-documents in DocumentDB.



GA: public IP for virtual machines - the function of using public IP for virtual machines and the roles of cloud services has become available to the public. Now you can, for example, raise an FTP server in the cloud or watch directly over IP what is happening with the virtual machine.

GA: API Management - a service for creating and managing APIs based on cloud infrastructure has become publicly available.

GA: Mobile Services .NET - Development support for .NET for Azure Mobile Services has become publicly available.

Preview: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for subscriptions is previewed. Now it is possible to regulate access to services in more detail, rather than just “administrator-co-administrator”.

Preview: SQL Azure Elastic Scale - some time ago for SQL Azure there was a federation service, the support of which it was decided to refuse. ES is a new incarnation of service for using sharding in a project. This extremely interesting service is still in the preview, but it is already causing great demand. More details .



Preview: Live Streaming, Content Protection - in Media Services you can now do Live Streaming and content protection. Protection: static, dynamic encryption, PlayReady DRM, Clear Key Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit.

Azure Backup : retention period extended to 9 years.

RavenDB is available in the Azure Store .

Open Source News


OSS on Azure - a selection of useful materials

We answer questions about Open Source and Microsoft

Useful content


Monitor the performance of an ASP.NET MVC application in the cloud using Azure features

Like monitoring with Azure features, whether throttling of your solution occurs at the Azure storage level — there are limits in Azure Storage, for example, 20,000 IOPS per storage account. To understand if you have not gotten under trotting, this link will help.

A series of posts about Event Hubs is a service with which you can collect small events from millions of devices or simple senders:
Getting started Azure Service Bus Event Hubs: building a real-time log stream ;
IoT with Azure Service Bus Event Hubs: authenticating and sending from any type of device .

How Azure SQL DB Standard Geo Replication works

Microsoft Azure Active Directory Architecture

How to schedule a web site migration to Microsoft Azure

Learn more about DocumentDB

Build links and articles on how to work with SQL Server in Azure

Useful details about SQL Azure DB

Docket and Kubernetes - how to use on Azure?

AzureConf 2014 entries :


About Point in Time Restore in SQL Azure DB

Mark Russinovich - about the 5 most important cloud security hazards

Azure networking capabilities FAQ : SLA, bandwidth, performance, SLB, DNS, DMZ, VNET, IPv6, etc.

History of the new management portal azure.com

useful links


Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/241589/

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