Overview of updates of the Microsoft Azure platform for March 2015. Many Open Source

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Today's digest is ruled by the Open Source Ball.

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GA : Backup Virtual Machines with Azure Backup! - long awaited feature.

GA : DocumentDB is a managed NoSQL document database service. Used in various projects, including Microsoft - for example, MSN.
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GA : New sizes of virtual machines A10 / A11 - fast processors, more cores, more memory - 8 cores, 56 GB of RAM and 16 cores and 112 GB of RAM, respectively.

GA : Azure App Service is a cloud-based application service that helps you quickly and easily create powerful enterprise applications based on Internet and mobile technologies, streams and APIs.

GA : Azure Search is a Search-as-a-Service service that allows developers to embed advanced search tools in web and mobile applications.

GA: Transparent Data Encryption in SQL Azure Database!

GA: Azure Toolkit Support for Eclipse on Mac and Linux!

Preview : Azure Insights Library - a library for monitoring what is happening with resources in Azure. More details .

Preview : Disaster Recovery for VMware VMs in Azure using ASR

Release: Azure Resource Explorer is a useful utility for managing and using the Azure API.

Release: Get logs of virtual machine reboots

Release: New page about Open Source on Azure

Release : Row-level security in Azure SQL Database

Release: Now you can create RemoteApp images from VM gallery in Azure

Release: Python Development for Azure Machine Learning

Useful content

New free book for those who want to quickly learn about what is Azure

How to use a virtual machine image among several subscriptions - a popular request from users, one of the solutions is described in the article

The Java course in Azure - a lot of useful information on Java and other related things in Azure. The code used in the course is located on GitHub .

Machine learning on all devices - ML on RemoteApp , if you don’t go to machine learning, make it so that it goes to you - using RemoteApp to any devices.

A series of video recordings of the new Azure App Service from Scott Hanselman and more:
Integrate Facebook to Twitter and Dropbox using the Azure App Service Logic Apps
Azure App Service API Apps
Azure App Service Logic Apps
Azure App Service Mobile Apps
Azure App Service Web Apps
More about the differences App Service and other services.

Many updates to the new Microsoft Azure portal - the new portal is developing rapidly. Under the link - the description of updates.

How to use Chef - Chef is actively used by the community and companies in Azure. By reference - how to use Chef in different scenarios.

The DocumentDB MVA course is an interesting course about developing on DocumentDB.

How to choose by price - Azure SQL Database or SQL Server?

Scott Hanselman keeps track of some real errors on the Azure site, and then shows how using Application Insights can identify the cause of the problems. Watch the video .