Azure Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory Series offering up to 192vCPU and 4TB memory configurations and running on Cascade Lake processor are now generally available.
Microsoft announces plans to establish first datacenter region in Malaysia
The new datacenter region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia.
Open source API Portal now generally available
API Portal is a no-code option to create, manage, and publish API documentation – for free.
General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.04 expected on April 29, 2021
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service now generally available
Leverage user data to customize your VM instance provision and configuration.
General availability: Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2
The new event source start options feature in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 gives you flexibility when configuring an event source.
Congratulating Our Top MSRC 2021 Q1 Security Researchers!
We’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2021 First Quarter (Q1)! Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s leaderboard and thank you to everyone who continues to help secure our customers and the
Azure Automation support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview
Use managed identities now to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication.
Apache Spark 3.0 is now available for public preview in HDInsight 4.0.
Apache Spark 3.0 public preview in HDInsight 4.0 is a major update to Apache Spark and brings significant improvements including better performance and better support for ANSI SQL.
Modern Apps Live: Learn Serverless, Containers and More in May
Modern Apps Live is a series of events about modern application development that will be live-streaming on Twitch in May. Session topics include serverless, containers, and mobile and front-end development.
If you’re not familiar, modern applications are those that:
- Can scale quickly to millions of users.
- Have global availability.
- Manage a lot of data (we’re talking exabytes of data).
- Respond in milliseconds.
These applications are built using a combination of microservices architectures, serverless operational models, and agile developer processes. Modern applications allow organizations to innovate faster and reduce risk, time to market, and total cost of ownership.
Modern Apps Live is a series of four virtual events:
- Container Day x Kubecon (May 4)
- Serverless Live (May 19)
- Mobile and Front-end Live (May 25)
- Container Day x DockerCon (May 26)
If you’re a developer, solutions architect, or IT and DevOps professional who wants to build and design modern applications, these sessions are for you, no matter if you’re just starting out or a more experience cloud practitioner. There will be time in each session for Q&A. AWS experts will be in the Twitch chat, ready to answer your questions.
If you cannot attend all four events, here are some sessions you definitely shouldn’t miss:
- Keynotes are a must! AWS leadership will share product roadmaps and make some important announcements.
- There are security best practices sessions scheduled on May 4 and May 19, during the Container Day x Kubecon and Serverless Live events. Security should be a top priority when you develop modern applications.
- If you’re just getting started with serverless, don’t miss the “Building a Serverless Application Backend” on May 19. Eric Johnson and Justin Pirtle will show you how to pick the right serverless pattern for your workload and share information about security, observability, and simplifying your deployments.
- On May 25, in the “API modernization with GraphQL” session, Brice Pelle will show how you can use GraphQL in your client applications.
- Bring any burning questions about containers to the “Open Q&A and Whiteboarding” session during the Container Day x DockerCon event on May 26.
For more information or to register for the events, see the Modern Apps Live webpage.
I hope to see you there.
— Marcia
