Azure Flash Friday
Up-Coming Events
Minnesota Azure Users Group
Thursday, April 6th
@Microsoft office 3601 W 76th, Edina, MN
For more information:
https://aka.ms/mplsazug
Announcing Storage Optimized Virtual Machines, L Series
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-storage-optimized-virtual-machines-l-series/
The L Series for Storage optimizes workloads that require low latency, such as NoSQL databases (e.g.
Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloudera and Redis). This new series of VMs offers from up to 32 CPU cores, using
the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 family, similar to the CPU performance of the G-Series that is currently
available.
L Series offers 4 new VM sizes from 4 cores, 32 GiB of memory, and 678 GB of fast local SSD, scaling up
to 32 cores with 256 GiB of memory, and over 5.6 TB of local SSD. Please refer to the Azure VM pricing
page for pricing details.
At general availability, L Series VMs are available in the following regions:
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West US
Southeast Asia
Canada Central
Canada East
Australia East
Notice for developers using Azure AD B2C tenants configured for Google
sign-ins
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-ad-b2c-google-signin-issue/
On April 20th 2017, Google will start blocking OAuth requests from embedded browsers, called "webviews". If you are using Google as an identity provider in Azure Active Directory B2C, you might need to
make changes to your applications to avoid downtime. For more information about Google's plans, see
Google's blog post.
Now Supported in Cloud Foundry: Azure Blob Storage and Managed
Disks
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cloud-foundry-integrating-with-azure-blob-storage-andmanaged-disks/
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Cloud Foundry on Azure keeps getting better. We now support the use of Azure Blob Storage and
Managed Disks with Cloud Foundry.
These enhancements come on the heels of the launch of Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure and a series of
Azure Service Broker releases. We continue to invest in deeper integration of Azure’s enterprise grade
services with the open source Cloud Foundry platform.
Planet scale aggregates with Azure DocumentDB
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/planet-scale-aggregates-with-azure-documentdb/
We’re excited to announce that we have expanded the SQL grammar in DocumentDB to support
aggregate functions with the last service update. Support for aggregates is the most requested feature
on the user voice site, so we are thrilled to roll this out everyone that's voted for it.
Whether you’re building a mobile game that needs to calculate statistics based on completed games,
designing an IoT platform that triggers actions based on the number of occurrences of a certain event,
or building a simple website or paginated API, you need to perform aggregate queries against your
operational database. With DocumentDB you can now perform aggregate queries against data of any
scale with low latency and predictable performance.
Aggregate support has been rolled out to all DocumentDB production datacenters. You can start running
aggregate queries against your existing DocumentDB accounts or provision new DocumentDB accounts
via the SDKs, REST API, or the Azure Portal. You must however download the latest version of the SDKs
in order to perform cross-partition aggregate queries or use LINQ aggregate operators in .NET.
Portal Preview of Azure Resource Policy
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/portal-preview-of-azure-resource-policy-2/
Many customers requested the ability to manage policies through the Azure portal. Using the portal
reduces the learning curve for creating policies and makes managing the policies easier. It is now
available in Azure preview portal.
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