Hello, Cloud Gurus! They let me back on the show. I know!
Now did you know that firewalls were named after the physical firewalls that
separate buildings or compartments digital firewalls also separate
assets, but in this case networks,
making sure they don't contaminate each other.
This week on the show Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available,
blob storage puts on out a lot of weight,
and those refreshing data lakes get some new features.
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The show built on top of every great wall since 1984.
Do you ever buy a new firewall only to forget where you put it?
One minute you have a great setup and the next firewalls are just all over the
place.
With the new Azure Firewall Manager,
you can wrangle them all in unison and also take advantage of these
new features. Centralized management of Azure Firewall deployment,
and configuration, that's the wrangling part.
Hierarchcal policy architecture to fine tune your network
security,
third party integration and automated secure traffic routing.
The Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available.
I like big blops on, I cannot lie. Massive blobs,
in fact.
And Azure has heard my please where the maximum size of a single blob before
was 5 terabytes that has now been dialed way
up to 200 terabytes.
That would fit 67 billion standard pages from a book 4100 4K
movies,
or at least six instances of Sam Kroonenberg's favorite VMs.
Microsoft says the increase in blob size,
better supports use cases from seismic data processing to genomics that
requires support for multiple terabyte objects sizes.
They probably store the high-def movies on there too.
I wonder what blob scientists watch?
The new size is available in preview for hot, cool and premium storage tiers.
Three new features for Azure Data Lake was released from the bowels of Microsoft
this week. The archive tier is now generally available.
It provides an ultra low cost for long term retention of data.
How low can you go Azure? Well, per gigabyte,
it is zero button zero zero one 0 million cents $1,
which is 10th of a cent, which is low. It's not much though.
Fall snapshots are not available in preview.
Use these to take an unlimited number of point in time, snapshots of your files.
These snapshots can be used to revert a file back to that snapshot in the case
of accidental or inadvertent updates, such as Stephen editing,
the wrong file of the show. Static websites are now also in preview.
User static website to directly host static content from Azure Data Lake
storage and view that site content from a browser by using the public
URL of that website. Stephen there's water, Stephen?
A feature that standard Azure storage has had for quite a while, now.
That
was the end of the show.
I am pretty sure I'll be back next week unless Daniel's magic 8
ball says something different. The 8 ball is our new master.
[Inaudible].
As we say on the A Cloud Guru team where the references to 1990s rap songs get
out of hand, seek and you shall Cloud.
So see you next week and keep staying calm Cloud Gurus
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