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)