Microsoft Azure - News - October 2014
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The monthly news roundup as presented at the Brisbane Azure User Group.
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Microsoft Azure - News - October 2014
- 2. Windows Azure News October 2014
- 4. leaders Mehdi Khalili Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks @MehdiKhalili Programmer, architect, team leader, mentor, agile practitioner. Damien Berry Delivery Lead at Sunsuper Damien.Berry@gmail.com Team manager, project manager, architect, developer Dan Toomey Senior Consultant at Mexia @Daniel2Me Integration specialist, Pluralsight author, Azure Advisor, BizTalk UG leader
- 5. sponsorship
- 6. give aways
- 8. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-sql-databases-api-management-media-services-websites-role-based-access-control-and-more • Grant access to resource groups as well as individual resources • Based on Azure Active Directory • Three built-in roles: Owner, Contributor, Reader http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/02/disaster-recovery-to-azure-using-azure-site-recovery-is-now-ga/ • Disaster Recovery (DR) to Azure • ASR Recovery Plans and Azure Automation integration
- 9. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-redis-cache-disaster-recovery-to-azure-tagging-support-elastic-scale-for-sqldb-docdb • Azure Management platform and Azure Preview Portal • Categorisation via name/value pairs • Used for filtering / searching
- 10. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/new-d-series-of-azure-vms-with-60-faster-cpus-more-memory-and-local-ssd-disks • Up to 112 GB memory • Up to 800 GB SSD Drives http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-redis-cache-disaster-recovery-to-azure-tagging-support-elastic-scale-for-sqldb- docdb • Assign public IP addresses to VMs and web or worker roles • No need to map a virtual IP endpoint for access
- 11. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-sql-databases-api-management-media-services-websites-role-based-access- control-and-more • 99.99% SLA • Guarantee of consistent performance level • Point-in-Time Restore • Auditing • Active Geo-Replication • Per-Hour Billing http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/02/introducing-elastic-scale-preview-for-azure-sql-database/ • Enhanced sharding capabilities thru .NET libraries and Azure templates • Great for High-Volume OLTP, Multi-tenant SaaS, & Continuous Data Collection
- 12. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-sql-databases-api-management-media-services-websites-role-based-access-control- and-more http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/09/15/azure-websites-virtual-network-integration/ • Virtual Network Integration in Preview Portal • Scalable CMS with WordPress • Improvements to Backup
- 13. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-redis-cache-disaster-recovery-to-azure-tagging-support-elastic-scale-for-sqldb- docdb • Recommended distributed cache solution, managed as a service by Microsoft • Two editions (Basic, Standard) and multiple sizes (250MB 53GB) • High-performance data types • Built-in monitoring & alerting
- 14. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-sql-databases-api-management-media-services-websites-role-based-access-control- and-more http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/09/18/azure-media-services-rtmp-support-and-live-encoders/ • Public preview of Live Streaming (RTMP) • DRM Content Protection • Faster and More Cost Effective Media Encoding • Media Indexer • More Media Partners
- 15. http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/02/custom-login-scopes-single-sign-on-new-asp-net-web-api-updates-to-the-azure- mobile-services-net-backend/ • Custom scopes for social authentication providers • Single sign-on support for Windows Store applications • Updated dependency to Web API 5.2
- 16. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-redis-cache-disaster-recovery-to-azure-tagging-support-elastic-scale-for-sqldb-docdb • Support for Android devices in China
- 18. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-sql-databases-api-management-media-services-websites-role-based-access-control- and-more • Formal SLA for Standard tier services • OAuth support in Developer Portal
- 19. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-sql-databases-api-management-media-services-websites-role-based-access-control- and-more • Send email when alert threshold is crossed • Configured via Management Services • Preview: Create alerts on Operational Events
- 20. http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/09/25/microsoft-offers-price-reductions-on-select-azure-services/ Current Prices New Prices ExpressRoute NSP (1 Gbps) $12K/month $8.7K/month BizTalk Services (Standard) $4.03/hour $2.93/hour Mobile Services (Standard) $199/month $139.99/month Cache (Basic) $25/month $18/month
- 23. Windows Azure Area on http://channel9.msdn.com/WindowsAzure
- 27. TechEd Australia 2014 Melbourne: 7 - 8 October Sydney: 27 - 28 October http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/teched/teched-2014/default.aspx
- 28. Azure Conf 2014 21 October 2014 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST https://www.azureconf.net/
- 29. INTEGRATE 2014 Microsoft, Redmond + BizTalk360 (Kovai Ltd), London Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - Friday, December 5, 2014 Redmond, WA http://integrate2014.com/
Editor's Notes
- ASR Recovery Plans & Azure Automation integration: - Robust & simplified one-click orchestration of your recovery plans
- Can use for SQL Server 2014 “Buffer Pool Extensions” - much faster read operations With Instance-Level Public IPs, you can enable scenarios like running FTP servers in Azure and monitoring VMs directly using their IPs
- Basic, Standard, and Premium. Compelling database-as-a-service offering that enables you to quickly stand up and run SQL databases without having to manage or operate VMs or infrastructure.
- Can connect to on-prem resources in you VPN Choose the exact destination of your backups, including the specific Storage account and blob container you wish to store your backups within. Choose to backup SQL databases or MySQL databases that are declared in the connection strings of the website. On the restore side, you can now restore to both a new site, and to a deployment slot on a site. This makes it possible to verify your backup before you make it live.
- Not just your typical key/value pair caching
- The same Internet scale streaming solution that leading international broadcasters used to live stream the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and 2014 FIFA World Cup to tens of millions of customers globally is now available in public preview to all Azure customers. PlayReady license delivery and an AES 128-bit key delivery service Azure Media Encoder billed only on output GBs Automatically analyze your media files and index the audio and video content in them Telestream Wirecast, Newtek’s Tricaster, Cires21, JW Player
- You can get the latest updates to your project via the NuGet Package Explorer (mobileservices, v1.0.402)
- Pushing notifications to an Android device via Google Cloud Messaging Service (GCM) does not work, as most Android devices in China are not configured to use GCM.
- First public cloud offering of Hadoop in China
- API publishers can register their OAuth Authorization Servers for use in the console
- WebJobs SDK: Bug fixes only Mobile Services: Support for accessing Table Storage when using a .NET backend Mobile Service. - Includes breaking change to offline SDK (type definition MSReadQueryBlock)
- Streamed live from Channel 9 Speakers: Michael Collier, Mike Martin, Rick Garibay, and Chris Auld