Relevant Azure News

April - 2021 

Simon J.K. Pedersen, CTO, skp@delegate.dk

Topics

• Cost management
• Communication Service
• Bicep
• Azure Logic Apps 
• Quick bits

Azure Cost Management

• More features
• Better overview per subscription
• Ability to create alerts based on forecast
• https://azure.microsoft.com/da-dk/blog/azure-cost-management-and-billing-updates-march-2021/

Do you use cost alerts?

Azure Communication Service

• Twilio competitor (sms, phone)
  • Just US right now
• White labeled Microsoft Teams service 
  • Chat, voice, screen sharing
• Ready to use SDK for many language 
• Nice react templates to use
• Possible to integration with Microsoft Teams

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/communication-services-web-calling-tutorial

Azure Bicep

• New DSL for authoring ARM templates
• Really good extensions for VSCode
• More compact syntax
• Easier to modularize
• Better debugging
• Zero day ARM support all the time
• Fully support by Microsoft and production ready

Example and thoughts

Azure Logic Apps Preview

• Rebuilt logic apps version that runs on-top of Azure Functions
• Access to many of the same connectors
• Can run anywhere (using Docker technology)
• Can run in Azure (no longer a multi-tenant solution)

Azure Logic Apps Preview

• Is it useful? 
• Have anyone tried it?
• Does anyone want to try it?

Quick bits

• CosmosDB now with Backup and restore........ WOW
• More on the Cloud Adoption Framework
• Free SSL certificates (no-longer preview)

Your favorite Azure news?