Azure Weekly: Feb. 26, 2018 – The Best Azure News of the Week
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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- How to become a Microsoft MVP by Chris Pietschmann
- Introduction to Git Version Control Workflow by Chris Pietschmann
- VNet Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database now generally available by Dhruv Malik
- Getting started in Machine Learning: Google vs Databricks vs AzureML vs R by Jen Stirrup
- LUIS.AI: Automated Machine Learning for Custom Language Understanding by Joseph Sirosh, Riham Mansour
- Monitor network connectivity to applications with NPM’s Service Endpoint Monitor – public preview by Abhave Sharma
- Networking Features Recently Made Generally Available in Azure Government by Mike Ketchum
- Azure App Service Environment Available in Azure Government via Michael S. Hansen
- Migrating SQL Server databases from AWS EC2 to Azure SQL Database using the Azure Database Migration Service by Jim Toland
- Announcing Azure US Government regions on Azure Status page by Sachin K Dubey
- Cray in Azure for weather forecasting by Ben Colton
Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure Container Instances: February updates
- Using Azure Log Analytics and an OMS workspace to monitor Azure backups
- New option to try out Web App for Containers
- Seamlessly troubleshoot and tune query performance with SQL Data Warehouse
- Skip header rows on SQL Data Warehouse PolyBase load
- Analytics Platform System: Hardware refresh available for HPE appliances from May 2018
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