Reading Time: 2 minutes Since Azure CLI version 2.11 you have the ability to enable automatic upgrades of the azure-cli and its installed extensions. Check how you can do that along with a couple of tips on the way.
Connection Monitor in Network Watcher goes GA
Reading Time: 2 minutes Azure Network Watcher’s Connection Monitor feature is now GA. It is a very handy feature that helps you identify any connection problems and diagnose network issues spanning from Azure to on-premises networks.
New constrained vCPUs capable VMs now available
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.
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.