Azure updates #5 : The number of Azure regions (announced) to 65.

Continuing Azure’s big expansion into Europe, they just announced a data center being built in Austria!

 

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/20/microsoft-azure-announces-its-first-region-in-austria/

 

This brings the number of Azure regions (announced) to 65. Good to see Europe getting extensive local cloud coverage.

Azure updates #4 - Azure Data Explorer now support Compute Isolated SKUs - published on 13th October 2020

What that mean is? 

Azure Data Explorer provides support for isolated compute using SKU Standard_E64i_v3. 

Isolated compute virtual machines (VMs) enable customers to run their workload in a hardware isolated environment dedicated to single customer. 

Who can use this? 

Clusters deployed with isolated compute VMs are best suited for workloads that require a high degree of isolation for compliance and regulatory requirements.

Isolated compute support is available in the following regions:

West US 2

East US

South Central US

Note -  compute SKU(s) offer isolation to secure data without sacrificing the flexibility in configuration

Azure updates #3 - Row Level Security now generally available for Azure Data Explorer -Published on 12th October 2020

 What that mean is?

You can now prevent specific users from viewing certain rows in a table, and you can also mask the data they see.

Where this can be used?

Projects or companies use this to implement GDPR - Right to object article and Anonymization 

What is the right to object?

You have the right to object to an organization processing (using) your personal data at any time.

What is Anonymization?

Anonymization is the process of masking data.

In that case, we can restrict the user or group to access the data by allowing Row-level Security. This works the similar way as we use Apache Ranger to restrict the user or group to access the data by applying Row-level filtration and Masking Policy. 

Azure updates #2 - Azure Files premium tier is now available in more regions with LRS, ZRS, and NFS support -Published on 9th October 2020

 With 60+ announced regions, more than any other cloud provider, Azure makes it easy to choose the datacenter and regions that are right for our customers.

The premium tier is now available in 32 Azure regions

This is a useful link if anyone would like to explore Products available by region

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/services/?products=storage&regions=all

Azure updates #1 - Azure Blob Storage -Soft Delete for Containers preview region expansion -Published on 8th October 2020

For quick reference, when we create a Azure Storage account, we can see following options - Containers(for blob), Files, Tables and Queues.

When container soft delete is enabled for a storage account, any deleted container and their contents are retained in Azure Storage for the period that you specify. During the retention period, you can restore previously deleted containers and any blobs within them.

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Azure Cloud Use Case : Big data analytics with optimized Apache Spark 3.0 (Azure Databricks) - 3 hours

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Here in this session, we are going to cover Big data analytics with optimized Apache Spark (Azure Databricks).

 

Unlock insights from all your data and build solutions with Azure Databricks, 

Azure Databricks supports Python, Scala, R, Java, and SQL, as well as data science frameworks. 

In this 3 hr of the session, we are going to discover

1.     About Microsoft Azure

2.     Azure Portal Tour

3.     Architecture overview and services

4.     About Storage Accounts

5.     About Blob Storage account

6.     Setup Blob Storage account

7.     Upload data into Azure Blob Storage and apply permissions so that other Azure services can access this data.

8.     Overview on Spark Framework

9.     Supporting languages – Python, Java, and Scala

10. About Azure Databricks

11. Setup Databricks cluster [Latest Apache Spark™ 3.0]

12. Which Free tool can be used to prepare an Architecture diagram? 

 

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