I'm back after a week of sun, bike riding,
palm trees and not many clouds.
I am ready to get back into the clouds. Yeah.
This week Azure Quantum gives you qubits entanglement and superposition with the
click of a button. Some new enhancements and updates to Azure Security Center,
and the month of Azure at ACG is happening right now. This week,
the registration for Microsoft Ignite opened.
This hundred percent online event of all things Microsoft is on from 2-4th
March, and is completely free.
Use the link in the description to register and we'll see you there.
This week,
the world's first full-stack public cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions opened
up its doors. Azure Quantum lets developers, researchers, system integrators,
and supervillains learn quantum computing by using familiar tools.
What Microsoft calls,
the Unified Azure Quantum Ecosystem will give access to the goodies
inside Azure using the quantum development kit with Q sharp,
the quantum programming language,
you can tap into the quantum intermediate representation,
which is an open-source interface to quantum computing platforms. Yeah.
Might not be that straightforward to get started,
but at least quantum computing is here. Yeah. Now,
if you have access to Honeywell,
quantum solutions or ion Q who you have to go through and use the
trapped ion quantum systems. Yeah.
Uh, eh, uh, Azure Quantum is out in public preview.
Azure Security Center is an integral part of maintaining a robust and safe cloud
infrastructure say from super villains.
Security Center also includes Azure Defender,
which is used to protect hybrid cloud workloads. Now in January,
a bunch of features were released to general availability.
Azure Security Benchmark is now the default policy initiative for Azure Security
Center, vulnerability assessment for on-premise and multicloud machines,
secure score API.
The secure score is a number indicating how secure your infrastructure is.
Your manager will love it,
and most likely ask you to put it on his screen saver.
And my favorite dangling DNS protections added to Azure defender for app
services. This protects deep permissioned sub domains on eight DNS level,
but there were also a bunch released in public preview.
Secure score for management groups,
exempt entire recommendations from your secure score for subscriptions and
management groups.
Users can now request tenant wide visibility from that global administrator.
35 preview recommendations added to increase coverage of security,
benchmark export weekly snapshots of secure score and
regulatory compliance data with continuous export.
I think that's a good one. Anyway, that's a lot.
Make sure you use security center frequently adequately to stop those
supervillains.
The ACG hearts Azure month is in full swing.
Not only is my AZ-900 certification course completely free to all
students,
but we have also just completed a YouTube live stream on how to prepare for the
AZ-900 exam, including some practice questions and tips.
If you missed it, check out the recording. Using the link in the description.
My co-host Gwyn has hosted the first Azure AMA on Twitter.
And I am currently working on an Azure A Cloud Guru challenge for all of you
lovely viewers.
As well as a complete Azure certification guide that gives the real story on how
to use certs in the real world and that is very exciting.
We also have several other free Azure causes this month and we keep adding new
Azure magic every week. ACG truly loves Azure.
So much Azure and it is only growing.
It's an exciting world to be part of.
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when there's much more content to make than you can possibly find the time for.
Seek and you shall cloud.
So see you next week and keep giving us thumbs up Cloud Gurus.