Azure Flash Friday
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Contacts
Rick Weyenberg email: [email protected] twitter: @codeboarder
Mark Garner email: [email protected] twitter: @mgarner
website: www.azureflashfriday.com twitter: @azureflashfri
Up-Coming Events
Minnesota Azure Users Group
Aug 3rd, 2017
@Microsoft office 3601 W 76th, Edina, MN
For more information:
https://aka.ms/mplsazug
Azure Public Roadmap
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/
As Azure continues to grow, we want to keep you informed—so that we can plan for the future
together. This product roadmap is the place to find out what’s new and what’s coming next. Let us know
what you think by providing feedback and voting on items. You can also subscribe to notifications, so
you’ll always be the in the know.
Azure Product Availability by Region
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/
Azure is generally available in 34 regions around the world, with plans announced for 6 additional
regions. We place a high priority on geographic expansion to enable higher performance and to support
your requirements and preferences regarding data location.
"Secure transfer required" is available in Azure Storage account
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/secure-transfer-required-is-available-in-azure-storage-account/
The "Secure transfer required" feature is now supported in Azure Storage account. This feature
enhances the security of your storage account by enforcing all requests to your account through a
secure connection.
This feature is disabled by default. For more details, see the article "Require secure transfer".
How we built it: Next Games global online gaming platform on Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-we-built-it-next-games-global-online-gaming-platform-onazure/
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Today on Microsoft Mechanics, we are joined by the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Finnish
mobile gaming company Next Games, Kalle Hiitola, for the next episode of "How we built it."
Next Games has built a successful global connected gaming platform on Azure with users spanning 166
countries and growing.
Their popular Walking Dead No Man's Land game is aligned to the popular Walking Dead TV series. The
game releases a rapid cadence of new chapters and characters to compliment the release of each new
episode.
Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication in Public Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-redis-cache-geo-replication-in-public-preview/
We are pleased to announce a public preview of the geo-replication functionality in the Azure Redis
service. Geo-replication gives you the ability to link Redis caches across different Azure regions to form a
primary-replica relationship. It provides an ingredient necessary for any disaster recovery design in your
application. Geo-replication preview is available now for all premium Azure Redis caches. At present, we
support having one primary cache and one replica in a geo-redundant configuration.
Gain business insights using Power BI reports for Azure Backup
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-backup-reports/
Azure Backup announced the support for alerting and monitoring in August 2016. Taking it a step
further, we are excited to announce preview of Azure Backup Reports using Power BI. Azure Backup
Reports provide the ability to gauge backup health, view restore trends, and understand storage usage
patterns across subscriptions and across vaults. More importantly, this feature provides complete
power to you to generate your own reports and build customizations using Power BI.
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