What’s New In Azure?
This session was led by Michael Collier. He talked about some of the new features in the Azure portal. The following are my notes from the session:
- Storage Service Encryption
- Data encrypted at rest
- Can have automatic key management
- Automatically encrypted on save and read
- Vulnerability Assessment in SQL
- Runs scans on your databases
- Lists risks and possible ways to fix
- Virtual Network Service Endpoints
- Restrict access to an endpoint to your virtual network
- The endpoint is not available to the public
- Availability Zones
- Help protect from data center level failures within a region
- Azure Storage
- Easier way to get storage metrics for blob storage and files
- Tiered storage can save you money if you do not need super fast access to your data
- Hot
- Cold
- Archive
- Storage Add-ons
- Storage and compute can be scaled at different rates and are not tied together as before
- Intelligence on performance – Helpful on databases to improve query level performance
- Azure Container Instance
- Supports Windows and Linux containers
- No need to manage the underlying virtual machine
- Per second billing – can be cheaper than a full virtual machine for a full week of usage
- Can be created from the Azure CLI
- Azure Functions
- Process events with server-less code
- Per second billing
- Used for very short-lived processing
- Event Grid
- Backbone for event-driven computing
- Manage all events in one place
- Send it data, it sends the event to handlers
- Azure Cloud Shell
- Bash and PowerShell access to virtual machines
- Browse Azure resources like a file system
- Save scripts in Azure as files
- Azure Cost Management
- Track cost of resources
- Optimize spending on virtual machines
- Azure Search
- Performance upgrades especially for Sitecore
Find the rest of my notes from Sitecore Symposium 2017
