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computing. All right, onto the news.
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The newest sustainable datacenter region is West US 3.
Microsoft has placed it in Arizona due to lots of sun,
which can power all your VMs and secret AI robot...The
announcement of the new region was pretty much copy paste from
previous region announcements,
but it is good to see that existing geographies such as the US
is getting some much needed extra capacity.
Microsoft also points out the investment into the local community,
which a large new datacenter will bring with it,
as well as the local companies already planning to migrate to West US
3. You can start using the new region right away.
So go do it.
Have you ever looked through all the updates Azure every week?
You might not have. I mean,
after all you are here watching this show possibly because
I sort through the news and weed out the most interesting parts.
But there are a lot of small updates, changes to existing services,
monthly recaps, retired services, and so much more.
Now, just this week, I didn't mention all these updates:
Azure Virtual Machines DCSV2-Series are now available in Australia.
General availability: Azure IOT central new and updated features from May 2021.
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Arizona.
Azure Monitor Agent and data collection rules now generally available.
General availability of support for SQL server in data flows using Azure Data
Factory and Azure Synapse. Azure dev spaces retired on May 15th, 2021.
Call recording for Azure communication services coming soon.
Direct routing for Azure communication services coming soon.
Azure maps elevation API is now in general availability.
Azure IOT edge integration with Azure monitor is now in public preview.
General availability of the confidential computing price reduction on DCSV2
Virtual Machines. General availability of Azure Sphere OS version 21.06,
which is expected on June 23.
General availability of six new locales added to speech service to support
speech transcription.
Yes, that's a lot. And I've probably left something out too,
but that is my gift to you because we really want you to be excited about Azure
too,
but sometimes the amount of stuff going on in the cloud computing world can just
be so overwhelming. Yeah.
Anything else that happened this week in Azure world that I missed?
Let me know in the comments and give us a thumbs up.
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You'll find a link below in the description. As we say on the A Cloud Guru team,
when sorting through pages and pages and pages of cloud news to pick
out the most delicious parts, "Seek and you shall cloud".
So see you next week and keep being awesome Cloud Gurus. Okay.
Have fun editing that one.
Bye.