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New Azure Firewall capabilities now generally available<\/h4>\n
Azure Firewall is a cloud native Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offering that allows you to centrally govern and log all your traffic flows using a DevOps approach. The service supports both application and network level filtering rules and is integrated with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence feed for filtering known malicious IP addresses and domains.<\/p>\n
In June Microsoft announced two new features in Azure Firewall \u2013 forced tunneling, and SQL FQDN filtering. You can have a read about the new features here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Azure Firewall in forced\u00a0<\/span><\/i>tunneling<\/span><\/i>\u00a0mode. Source: Microsoft.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Azure Cost Management + Billing can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimise costs to empower you to do more with less. Here are a few of the latest improvements and updates based on your feedback:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>If you\u2019re interested in reading more about the above improvements and updates you can do so\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In May\u00a0<\/span>Microsoft and Docker announced their collaboration<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>In June, they announced<\/span>\u00a0the first release of the new Docker Desktop integration with Azure, enabling you to use native Docker commands to run your applications as serverless containers with Azure Container Instances.<\/span>\u00a0You can get started with the Docker Azure integration by installing the\u00a0<\/span>Docker Desktop edge release.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Selecting the right combination of VMs and disks is extremely important as the wrong mix can impact your application\u2019s performance. One way to choose which VMs and disks to use is based on your disk performance pattern, but it\u2019s not always easy. Over-provisioning can lead to higher costs, while under-provisioning can result in poor application performance and customer dissatisfaction. Azure Disk Storage now makes it easier for you to decide with <\/span>VM bursting support on your Azure virtual machines<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some of the benefits Microsoft have shared are:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Virtual Machine Bursting Flow. Source: Microsoft<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Have a read of the full announcement\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Last month Microsoft shared some strategies with us that can be leveraged on Azure to optimise our cloud-native application development process using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and managed databases, such as Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. You can have a read of their top tips\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In June Microsoft\u00a0<\/span>announced<\/span>\u00a0the availability of new general\u00a0<\/span>purpose and memory-optimised Azure Virtual Machines based on the 2nd generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL (Cascade Lake). 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Deploy to Azure Container Instances with Docker Desktop<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
Achieve higher performance and cost savings on Azure with virtual machine bursting<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nCost optimisation strategies for cloud-native application deployment<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
New general purpose and memory-optimi<\/span>s<\/span>ed Azure Virtual Machines with Intel now available<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Further Insights<\/h3>\n