Monthly Azure news roundup as delivered by Dan Toomey at the Brisbane Azure User Group meetup.

1. @BrisbaneAzureUG
meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group

2. Microsoft Azure News
April 2019

3. sponsorship

5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
December 2018 Various UNCONVENTION 2018.1
January 2019 Heinrich Braasch Low-and-slow Weber control from anywhere in the world using Azure IOT
February 2019 Troy Hunt Clouds, Codes and Cybers
March 2019 Ryan Davis How not to translate a videogame
April 2019 Errol Leboydre SignalR as a Service
May 2019 Adam Stephensen TBA
June 2019 Dan Toomey ISE: Integration Service Environments
July 2019
August 2019
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
Got Topic?
Send message on Meetup or email baug@outlook.com.au

7. Azure Function Premium Plan – (Preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/announcing-the-azure-functions-premium-plan-for-enterprise-serverless-workloads/
• Can specify instance size
• EP1 (210 ACU, 3.5GB RAM)
• EP2 (420 ACU, 7GB RAM)
• EP3 (840 ACU, 14GB RAM)
• Can specify max/min number of
instances
• Can limit the scale out
• Can pre-scale ahead
• VNET connectivity
• No need of an ASE!
• Pre-warmed instances
• Avoid the cold start!

8. Azure Search – New Storage Optimized
service tiers – (Preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-search-new-storage-optimized-service-tiers-available-in-public-preview/
Standard S1 Standard S2 Standard S3 Storage Optimized L1 Storage Optimized L2
Storage 25 GB/partition
(max 300 GB
documents per
service)
100 GB/partition
(max 1.2 TB
documents per
service)
200 GB/partition
(max 2.4 TB
documents per
service)
1 TB/partition
(max 12 TB
documents per
service)
2 TB/partition
(max 24 TB
documents per
service)
Max indexes per
service
50 200 200 or 1000/partition
in high density2 mode
10 10
Scale out limits Up to 36 units per
service
(max 12 partitions;
max 12 replicas)
Up to 36 units per
service
(max 12 partitions;
max 12 replicas)
Up to 36 units per
service
(max 12 partitions;
max 12 replicas)
up to 12 replicas in
high density2 mode
Up to 36 units per
service
(max 12 partitions;
max 12 replicas)
Up to 36 units per
service
(max 12 partitions;
max 12 replicas)
• New L-Series storage tiers with significantly more storage I/O bandwidth and memory
• Can support much large indexes overall (up to 24 TB total on a fully scaled out L2) for applications

9. Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL
Data Warehouse – (Preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-data-discovery-classification-for-microsoft-azure-sql-data-warehouse/
Auto-discovery and recommendations – Underlying
classification engine automatically scans your data
warehouse and identifies columns containing
potentially sensitive data. It also provides you an easy
way to review and apply appropriate classification
recommendations through the Azure portal.
Classification/Labeling – Sensitivity classification labels
tagged on the columns can be persisted in the data
warehouse itself.
Reporting – Data classification can be centrally viewed on a dashboard in the Azure portal. In addition, you can
download a report in Microsoft Excel format for compliance and auditing purposes.
Monitoring/Auditing – Auditing has been enhanced to log sensitivity classifications or labels of the actual data
that were returned by the query. This would enable you to gain insights on who is accessing sensitive data.

10. Azure Front Door Service is now GA
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-front-door-service-is-now-generally-available/
Application and API acceleration with anycast and
using Microsoft’s massive private global network
to directly connect to your Azure deployed
backends means your app runs with lower latency
and higher throughput to your end users.
Global HTTP load balancing enables you to build
your application resiliently across regions, fail-
over instantly and offer your users an “always-on”
web site availability experience either at a domain
or microservice (URL path) level.
SSL offload at a massive scale enables you to
maintain security and scale to a rapidly growing
or expanding user base, all while reducing
latency.
WAF @ Edge offering application security against
DDoS attacks or malicious users at the edge
providing protection at scale without sacrificing
on performance.

11. Azure Backup for SQL Server IaaS (GA)
• Enterprise scale, zero-infrastructure solution
• Centrally manage & monitor backups on standalone SQL instances and Always On Availability Groups
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-backup-for-sql-server-in-azure-virtual-machines-now-generally-available/

12. Windows Server 2019 Container support in
App Service Plan – (Preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/windows-server-2019-support-now-available-for-windows-containers-on-azure-app-service/
• Reduced container size enables running more applications/slots within
your App Service Plan
• Windows Server Core 2019 LTSC : 4.28 GB vs Windows Server Core
2016 LTSC : 11GB
• Decrease of 61 percent in image size!
• Faster startup time for your application because the container images will
be smaller
• Faster app startup times with new, cache-based images
• Available in West US, East US, West Europe, North Europe, East Asia, and
East Australia regions

13. Premium Blob Storage is now GA
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-premium-block-blob-storage-is-now-generally-available/
Premium Blob Storage is available with Locally-Redundant Storage (LRS) and comes with High-Throughput Block Blobs
(HTBB), which provides very high and instantaneous write throughput when ingesting block blobs larger than 256KB.

14. Larger Managed Disks for Azure VMs
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/larger-more-powerful-managed-disks-for-azure-virtual-machines/
Premium SSD Disks:
Standard SSD Disks:

15. 1st Azure Blueprint: ISO 27001 Shared Svcs
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/simplifying-your-environment-setup-while-meeting-compliance-needs-with-built-in-azure-blueprints/
• Free service that helps customers deploy and update cloud environments in a repeatable manner using
• composable artifacts such as policies, deployment templates, and role-based access controls.
• Helps you deploy production ready, secure end-to-end solutions in one click

16. Migrate to Service Bus Premium
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/unlock-dedicated-resources-and-enterprise-features-by-migrating-to-service-bus-premium/
Built-in tool makes it easy to migrate to Premium Tier with minimal downtime and no configuration changes required
on the sender and receiver applications

18. Global Azure Bootcamp!
http://brisbane.azurebootcamp.net/

19. Integration Down Under
http://www.integrationdownunder.com/
11 April 2019 Meeting
Dan Toomey, Microsoft Azure MVP
Building Event-Driven Integration Architectures with Azure Event Grid

20. INTEGRATE 2019
https://www.biztalk360.com/integrate-2019/

22. Azure Australia Slack Team!
http://bit.ly/az-aus-slack

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25. On Demand Training - Updates
mva.microsoft.com
•Dev/Test in the Cloud
•Getting Started with the Internet of Things (IoT)
www.pluralsight.com
•Designing a Hybrid Cloud in Azure
•Docker for Web Developers
•Azure AD for Developers
www.opsgility.com
•Azure For AWS Experts
•Deploying Hybrid Identitity Solutions Using Azure AD
•Monitoring Apps with Application Insights

28. SignalR as a Service
Errol is the principle of the successful company WyldLynx, which is
based in Brisbane Australia and specializes in the delivery of IM
services and solutions to the SME and Government markets.
Before starting WyldLynx Errol had over 20 years’ experience in the
IT industry with various management, solution architecture,
development and consultation roles.
Errol Leboydre