The document provides information about upcoming presentations for the Brisbane Azure User Group (BAUG) from February 2021 to December 2021. It also includes announcements about new Azure services and capabilities like Azure Static Web Apps going generally available, NVIDIA A100 GPU clusters on Azure, and Azure Cosmos DB features. Opportunities with Deloitte related to cloud integration skills are mentioned. Links to blog posts about new Azure capabilities like Bicep and Azure application services running on Azure Arc are provided.

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

2. Microsoft Azure News
June 2021

3. Our Sponsors

5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
February 2021 Joe Albahari What's New in C# 9 - The Best Parts
March 2021 Martin Cairney Exploring the World of Azure Data Explorer
April 2021 Robert Crane All About Azure Sentinel
May 2021 Rory Braybrook The Microsoft Identity Jigsaw – Putting the Pieces Together
June 2021 Michael Smith Azure AD & Identity
July 2021 Wayne Hoggett What is Azure Virtual Desktop?
August 2021 Todd Whitehead “Azure Arc and PaaS Anywhere”
September 2021
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
Got Topic?
Send message on Meetup or email baug@outlook.com.au

7. Our team in Deloitte Platform Engineering are interested to talking to people with a passion for Azure
and that wishing to further their career with a specialisation in cloud integration solutions!
Key skills of interest:
- Highly proficient in the Microsoft Enterprise Suite - C#, .NET, and Visual Studio;
- A background in Java and interested in exploring integration, using middleware platforms such as
MuleSoft or DellBoomi.
- Software development experience with Microsoft Azure, including App Service, Service Fabric, Logic
Apps, Service Bus, API Management and Azure DevOps.
- Solution delivery with Agile methodology and CICD;
- Previous experience in consulting or developing and engaging with teams and building client
relationships.
If you’re passionate about exploring Cloud Integration and interested in opportunities with Deloitte,
please reach out to Rebecca McDonald (remcdonald@deloitte.com.au) here in Brisbane!

9. Azure with Bicep
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/new-azure-capabilities-to-simplify-deployment-and-management/
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are extremely powerful; however, they can be complex.
Bicep, an open-source, domain-specific language (DSL), further simplifies developers’ declarative
deployment experience in Azure.
Bicep makes it much easier to both read and write infrastructure-as-code in Azure.
Storage account example:

10. Azure Static Web Apps (GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/develop-production-scale-modern-web-apps-quickly-with-azure-static-web-apps/
Azure Static Web Apps was first announced in preview in May 2020 now Static Web Apps is GA.
This includes 2 plans, free and standard, with built in serverless functions support.

11. NVIDIA A100 GPU Clusters
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-announces-general-availability-of-scaleup-scaleout-nvidia-a100-gpu-instances-claims-title-of-
fastest-public-cloud-super/
Each NVIDIA A100 GPU offers 1.7 to 3.2 times the performance of prior V100 GPUs

12. Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/power-your-business-applications-data-with-analytical-and-predictive-insights/
Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse, which enables Dataverse integration with Azure Synapse
Analytics.
With a few clicks, you can bring your Dataverse data to Azure Synapse, visualize data in your Azure
Synapse workspace

13. Azure Cosmos DB features
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/harness-the-power-of-data-and-ai-in-your-applications-with-azure/
For developers with read-heavy workloads, you now
have new options to optimize costs and latency with
Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache (Preview)
For developers building apps with spiky and often-
idle traffic, serverless for all APIs (Core SQL, API for
MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin and Table) is now
generally available. (GA)
You can now encrypt data in your client application
before storing with Always Encrypted for Azure
Cosmos DB (in preview).
Role-based access control via AAD for users or device
identities. (GA)

14. Azure SQL Database ledger (Preview)
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql/announcing-azure-sql-database-ledger/ba-p/2200401
The power of blockchain, the simplicity of SQL
Azure SQL Database ledger provides a simpler
solution for these centralized systems where
strengthening trust between parties is required.

15. Azure application services via Azure Arc (preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/build-cloudnative-applications-that-run-anywhere/
With Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes in GA and Azure Arc Data serves in preview.
The Azure arc application services consist of the following azure services:
• Azure App Service
• Azure Functions
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure Event Grid
• Azure API Management

16. Elastic integration with Azure (Preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/search-made-simple-native-elastic-integration-with-azure-now-in-preview/
The Elastic SaaS offering integrates the deployment, billing, and support into a simple experience.

17. 100th compliance offering
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/compliance/
With the latest EU Cloud Code of Conduct (EU Cloud CoC) Azure now has 100 legal or regulatory
standards certifications.
Most relevant for Australia is the IRAP certification
This certifies the Azure in-scope services for the processing of government data in
Australian regions up to and including the PROTECTED level.
For further details check out.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/compliance/offerings/offering-australia-irap

18. AI assisted PowerApps development with GPT-3
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-power-apps-ideas-ai-powered-assistance-now-helps-anyone-create-apps-using-
natural-language/
One of the most advanced natural language AI models on the planet, a model known as OpenAI
GPT-3, can now automatically generate Power Fx formulas.

19. Space Ground processing 5x faster
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/ground-processing-with-space-data-5x-faster-with-azure/
Speed, scale, resilience: In the majority of test scenarios, data was captured, processed, and re-
deployed, on average, 5x faster to either tactical datacenters, Data Box Edge appliances or Azure
enabling ML an analytics to deliver responses to tactical units in the field or command centres.

23. Azure Australia Slack Team!
http://bit.ly/azure-au-slack

24. BAUG You-Tube Channel
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!
http://bit.ly/BAUGYouTubeChannel

25. On Demand Training - Updates
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/30-days-to-learn-it
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

26. http://www.hanselman.com/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/bg-p/ITOpsTalkBlog

28. Azure AD & Identity
Michael Smith started working in
Identity in 2014 and since then has worked on
projects across finance, government, utilities,
and healthcare. He is passionate about identity
and trust.