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Introducing the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework<\/h2>\n
Following industry standards and terms, the Azure Well-Architected Framework<\/a> provides a set of Azure architecture best practices to help you build and deliver great solutions.<\/p>\n The framework is divided into five pillars of architectural best practices: cost management, operational excellence, performance efficiency, reliability, and security. These pillars help you effectively and consistently optimise your workloads against Azure best practices and the specific business priorities that are relevant to you or your customers’ cloud journey.<\/p>\n The Azure Well-Architected Framework five pillars. Source: Microsoft<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Get started with the Azure Well-Architected Framework:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Each month Microsoft listen to their customers feedback on what\u2019s working, and what\u2019s not, in Azure Cost Management + Billing. Following last month’s feedback, the following improvements and updates have been announced:<\/p>\n Do a deeper dive into the new improvements and updates here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Azure SQL family of database services are designed to help businesses cost-effectively adapt and scale to rapidly changing conditions. Last month Microsoft shared their top 8 ways you can optimise your data spend<\/a>, with savings available wherever you are in your digital transformation journey.<\/p>\n Interested in more details around these 8 top tips? Have a read of their blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Security is a key priority for everyone, regardless of where you\u2019re at on your Azure journey, and the term \u2018undetected malware\u2019 sends shivers down all our spines. Incubated at Microsoft Research, Project Freta is a roadmap toward trusted sensing for the cloud that can allow enterprises to engage in regular, complete discovery sweeps for undetected malware.<\/p>\n Read the full announcement<\/a> for more details on Project Freta.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As of last month, Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available and includes Azure Firewall Policy, Azure Firewall in a Virtual WAN Hub (Secure Virtual Hub), and Hub Virtual Network. In addition, Microsoft have introduced several new capabilities to Firewall Manager and Firewall Policy to align with the standalone Azure Firewall configuration capabilities:<\/p>\n To find out more about the new capabilities click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In July, Microsoft announced the general availability of shared disks on Azure Disk Storage which enables you to more easily migrate your existing on-premises Windows and Linux-based clustered environments to Azure. They also announced important new enhancements for Azure Disk Storage to provide you with more availability, security, and flexibility on Azure.<\/p>\n You can have a read of the full announcement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Azure Databricks offers reduced costs, increased agility, and enhanced security and collaboration. To make it easier for customers to modernise their on-premises Spark and big data workloads to the cloud, Microsoft have announced a new migration offer with Azure Databricks. 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Azure Cost Management + Billing updates<\/h2>\n
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8 ways to optimise costs on Azure SQL<\/h2>\n
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Introducing Project Freta<\/h2>\n
Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available<\/h2>\n
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Announcing the general availability of Azure shared disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements<\/h2>\n
Save up to 52% when migrating to Azure Databricks<\/h2>\n
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IN OTHER NEWS:<\/h2>\n
Further Insights<\/h3>\n