Hi, and welcome to Azure this Week. This time,
the collection of curated cloud news includes.
.NET 5 is here and you can use it on Azure.
Double encryption with VPN, ExpressRoute and private peering.
And Azure reaches new supercomputer heights. Now,
speaking of supercomputers, the first one was to CDC, 6,600 1964.
It ran at roughly 1 megaflop (floating points per second).
An iPhone 11 runs at about 800 giga flops. Yeah.
Now let's get into the news.
The .NET Conf was on this past week. This event of all things, .NET,
the development framework from Microsoft, was the launch of .NET 5.
This is the latest version,
although not the fifth one and brings a ton of new features.
Such as language updates for C sharp and F sharp and many performance
improvements. At the same time,
Microsoft announced that .NET 5 is also available to use on your App Service
instances. Yes, from day 1 the new version was available on Azure.
Often this has not been the case,
but there is now a new early access feature for language runtimes,
which has made this possible.
Node JS and Python will also reap the benefit of this feature for new
versions coming up. Yay!
You can try out .NET today, and bask in the new features,
then push it all to your App Service on Azure. Enjoy!
What's better than encryption? Well double encryption of course! For Azure,
this means using ExpressRoute private peering with a VPN.
ExpressRoute is a direct link from your on-premises set up to an Azure data
center. And private peering is an encrypted channel. Add a VPN to that,
and you get encryption squared.
This is a key compliance requirement for many financial and healthcare
businesses and great to see Azure offering it.
You can configure a site-to-site VPN to a Virtual Network Gateway over
an ExpressRoute private peering using an RFC 1918
IP address. That's a standard. This encrypts, the traffic twice,
this encrypts, the traffic twice.
One of the really amazing benefits of cloud computing is the instant
availability of compute power. No buying servers, storage,
plugging in network cables and installing operating systems.
And this goes for supercomputers too.
And who doesn't want their own supercomputer with the click of a button like
that one?
Azure calls this High-Performance Computing or HPC. And for this purpose,
there is the HBv2 VM for your cloud computing pleasure.
This week,
Microsoft announced it had managed to create a cluster of 720
HBv2 VMs with 86,400 cores. Which,
which is that, that meant that many, that many.
This made it the 17th, most powerful supercomputer in the world.
I should probably mention that,
that it costs around two and a half million dollars per month to run.
So don't just go make one.
That's all I have for this week.
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