056 - News in Azure, November 2020

A look at the latest and greatest Azure announcements for November 2020. In this episode, we take a look at about 10 new announcements we feel are most useful to understand. Both small and large things!

Show Notes

• Enforce a minimum required version of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for incoming requests (Microsoft Docs)
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy (Microsoft Docs)
• Visual Studio Code extension diagnostics + periscope (Azure Updates)
• App Service Discount for Premium Plans (Azure Updates)
• Generate a new function app from an OpenAPI specification (Azure Updates)
• Grant permission to applications to access an Azure key vault using Azure RBAC (Microsoft Docs)
• Monitoring Key Vault with Azure Event Grid (Microsoft Docs)
• Get notified of changes in Azure Key Vault by using Event Grid (Zimmergren)
• Azure Modular Datacenter (Microsoft)
• New datacenter: Taiwan, and Greece (Microsoft)
• SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension (Microsoft Docs)
• Soft delete for Azure File Shares is now generally available (Microsoft)

Creators and Guests

Host

Jussi Roine

Bridging the gap between business and security 🛡 Senior Security Architect at Not Bad Security | Microsoft MVP/MCM

Host

Tobias Zimmergren

CTO, co-founder at pons.io | Co-host ctrlaltazure.com | Ex-Microsoft, ex-MVP.

What is Ctrl+Alt+Azure?

Weekly conversations for cloud architects, developers, CIOs, and CISOs navigating Microsoft Azure, cloud adoption strategy, security governance, identity, and agentic AI. Hosted by industry experts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine.