Reading Time: < 1 minute Azure offers various VM sizes for which you can constrain the VM vCPU count to reduce the cost of software licensing while maintaining the same memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth.
Premium tier for Azure Data Lake Storage goes GA
Reading Time: < 1 minute Premium tier for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) complements the existing hot, cool, and archive tiers for ADLS. You can now take advantage of the lower storage latencies offered by this new performance tier and additionally get cost savings for workloads that are transaction heavy.
Azure AD Domain Services replica sets
Reading Time: 4 minutes Create an architecture design leveraging Azure Active Directory Domain Services and replica sets for a resilient backward compatible solution.
Azure HDInsight now supports Private Link in preview
Reading Time: < 1 minute Azure HDInsight now supports private link integration in preview, in all Azure regions.
Many new features for Azure VPN Gateway
Reading Time: 3 minutes Microsoft announced a number of new and exciting features for Azure VPN Gateway resource. A couple of them, at least to me, are very important and will make our life easier in the trenches.