Hey all, welcome to another Azure This week.
I am back hosting because Lars is lost somewhere in the internet.
If you see him, let us know. This week, updates to Azure IoT Central,
new Microsoft security certifications and beta.
Updates to Azure Cost Management and billing.
And the month of Azure at ACG is happening right now. Also,
registration for Microsoft Ignite is still open,
this 100% online event of all things Microsoft is from
March 2nd through March 4th, and it's completely free.
Use the link in the show notes to register and we'll see you there.
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If you're not familiar with Azure IoT Central, it is a fully managed,
highly scalable Internet of Things software as a service
solution. It's also a mouthful. It lets you monitor device conditions,
create rules and manage millions of devices and their data throughout their life
cycle. While also offering top-notch security along with regional availability,
reliability,
and the global scale of Azure updates to IoT central include
documentation improvements.
There's no better way to learn the servers than by reading it's documentation.
IoT Central documentation now has articles on how to use location data,
how to use commands in a solution and how to export data.
The public API now lets you configure command time-outs.
This is great news for all of you who are using IoT Central in your apps via API
calls and you can now use any and all filtering with the data
export feature. Awesome, let's move on to some certification news.
Ah, security. So important yet, so overlooked. Luckily for us,
Microsoft has introduced a few new security certifications.
What a great time to learn ranging from entry-level to professional level,
no matter where you are at in your cloud learning,
there is a shiny new certification you can take to build that skillset.
Okay.
So these certifications don't have the AZ at the start of it like the AZ-900 or
the AZ-104.
That doesn't mean that the knowledge gained here won't help you with your Azure
career. We all know security is at the top of a list of,
for successful cloud environment and project. So a few days ago,
Microsoft released a few certifications,
including the SC-900 Microsoft security compliance and identity fundamentals.
The SC-200, the Microsoft security operations analyst. The SC-300,
the Microsoft identity and access administrator,
and the SC-400 the Microsoft information protection administrator.
Like I mentioned, they do not have Azure in their names.
But if we dive into the outlines of these, for example, the SC-300,
lists multiple skills measured on Azure AD. The SC-200 outlines,
Azure defender, Azure security center and Azure Sentinel.
And the SC 900,
it expects you to be able to describe security capabilities of Azure firewall,
Azure bastion, and more.
There is plenty of knowledge to gain when it comes to Azure.
If you plan on studying for any of these certifications, now do keep in mind,
these are all in beta.
So that means they are not scored immediately and are used to gather data on the
quality of the questions and the overall exam.
It does look like they are offering discounts for the first 300 people who
registered.
So I'll make sure to add links to these certifications in the show notes.
If you are going to take one of these, let us know in the comments.
Let's now we'll move on to some Azure cost management and billing updates.
Microsoft has provided us with a few updates to Azure costs,
management and billing,
which is the tool we use to manage our expenses in Azure.
It's very important and you should,
you'd be familiar with the tool unless you don't care about money. If so,
carry on. The updates include a new view called the resource groups view,
which breaks down our costs by resource group and has an option to view nested
resources and their charges.
Views are a great way to quickly access information grouped by some sort of
category. Uh, and the more views we have to pick from the better,
a small updates, but a very much welcomed one,
Cost Management will now remember the last scope you were using,
making it even easier to quickly, pick up where you left off. And finally,
several documentation and tutorials have been updated,
including how to cancel subscriptions,
how pricing works and what to do if you have unexpected charges.
Which you wouldn't have,
if you watched my ACG Fundamentals video on budgets and billing alerts in
Azure. Shameless plug, be sure to check out the link in the show notes,
to check out all of these updates and learn something new.
The ACG hearts Azure month, is still happening.
You can still take the AZ-900 course. Last week,
we did a walkthrough live stream on how to prepare for the AZ-900 exam,
including some practice questions and tips. If you missed it. No problem.
Check out the recording, using the link in the description.
Lars has also recently put out a Cloud Guru Challenge,
where you will get to build a continuously integrated global Azure app and use
services like Azure pipelines, ARM templates, Azure App service, and more.
We also have a few more Azure courses and we keep adding more and more Azure
goodies. Exciting time. Alrighty, God gurus. That's it for this episode.
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