Monthly news roundup as delivered to the Brisbane Azure User Group by Damien Berry

1. @BrisbaneAzureUG
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3. Microsoft Azure News
March 2021

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6. 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
May 2021 Rory Braybrook The Microsoft Identity Jigsaw – Putting the Pieces Together
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
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8. Azure Defender for App Service (GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-defender-for-app-service-introduces-dangling-dns-protection/
Azure Defender:
Azure Defender for App Service uses the scale of the cloud to identify attacks targeting applications
running over App Service. For example, consider an attack methodology that demonstrates
widespread scan which originated from distributed sources. This type of attack typically comes from
a wide set of IPs and shows patterns of crawlers, while the attackers search for a vulnerable page or
plugin. This type of attack cannot be identified from the standpoint of a single host.
Dangling DNS (subdomain takeover prevention):
Dangling DNS starts when custom DNS from your domain's DNS zone is mapped to a DNS CNAME
record of an Azure resource that is no longer provisioned, leaving the associated domain "dangling".
This dangling DNS entry, also known as a dangling domain, leaves the domain vulnerable to a
malicious action known as a subdomain takeover.

9. Azure ISS SBC-2
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/connecting-azure-to-the-international-space-station-with-hewlett-packard-enterprise/
Partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to connect Azure directly to space using HPE’s
upcoming launch of its Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2).
SBC-2 is built on the HPE Edgeline Converged Edge system that is purposely engineered for harsh
edge environments and will also enable additional capabilities to connect Azure workloads to the
ultimate edge.

10. Azure Firewall Premium (preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-firewall-premium-now-in-preview-2/
TLS Inspection
- terminates outbound and east-west TLS connections.
- Inbound TLS inspection is supported with Azure Application Gateway
IDPS
- signature-based intrusion detection and prevention
Web Categories
- outbound user access to the internet based on categories.
For example, social networking, search engines, gambling, and so on
URL Filtering
- filter outbound access
to specific URLs,
not just FQDNs

11. Spark 3.0 compatible connector for Azure SQL
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/apache-spark-connector-for-sql-server-and-azure-sql-now-compatible-with-spark-30/
Preview release of the Apache Spark 3.0 compatible Apache Spark
Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL, available through Maven.
The Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is based
on the Apache Spark DataSourceV1 API and SQL Server Bulk API and
uses the same interface as the built-in Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC) Spark-SQL connector. This allows you to easily integrate the
connector and migrate your existing Spark jobs by simply updating
the format parameter.

12. Azure Front Door Premium & Standard (GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/azure-front-door-enhances-secure-cloud-cdn-with-intelligent-threat-protection/
• Simplified Front Door creation - guided experience
• Simplified management - Azure DNS integration
• TLS certificate management – BYO TLS certificates
• Private origin support - Azure Private Link
• WAF enhancements - CRS 3.2 signatures and Bot Manager
• Enhanced analytics capabilities - traffic and security reports
• Health probe log - debug unhealthy origins

13. Azure (GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/automating-quota-management-with-azure-quota-rest-api/
Granular and programmatic control for managing quotas that need to be adjusted.
Managing events when quota checks fail without resulting in creating a support ticket for a quota increase.
Automating quota usage validation end-to-end and requesting quota increases with the Azure Quota API.
Managing organic and inorganic growth of virtual machines efficiently.

14. Azure Arc machine learning (GA)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/innovate-across-hybrid-and-multicloud-with-new-azure-arc-capabilities/
Azure Arc enables customers to run Azure services in any Kubernetes environment, whether it’s on-
premises, multicloud, or at the edge. The first set of services enabled to run in any Kubernetes
environment was Azure data services.
Azure Arc enabled services is expanding to include Azure Machine Learning.
By using Azure Arc to extend machine learning (ML) capabilities to hybrid and multicloud
environments, customers can train ML models directly where the data lives using their existing
infrastructure investments.

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20. 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

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

23. Exploring the World of
Azure Data Explorer
Martin Cairney is the Associate Capability Lead for Data
at Telstra Purple. A Microsoft MVP & MCT, Martin has
over 15 years of experience in SQL Server technologies.
This introductory session will give you a taste of the
power and flexibility of ADX and the Kusto Query
Language.