Episode 379 – Azure Verified Modules

Welcome to Episode 379 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott take a look at Azure Verified Modules, a new initiative from Microsoft to consolidate and set the standards for what a good Bicep and/or Terraform module looks like.

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Episode 378 – Azure Compute Fleet

Welcome to Episode 378 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode we discuss Azure Compute Fleet, a new Preview service announced at Microsoft Build 2024. Azure Compute Fleet is a new Azure infrastructure service that lets you deploy Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine SKUs, availability zones, and pricing models. It’s all about acquiring VM capacity at scale. If you’re familiar with AWS EC2 and Spot fleet, this is effectively the equivalent in Azure.

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Episode 374 – Azure Trusted Launch Virtual Machines

Welcome to Episode 374 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast where Ben and Scott break down Azure Trusted launch virtual machines – what they are, how they’re different from Gen 1 Azure VMs, and how you can enable them for your new and existing workloads.

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Episode 366 – Old Man Yells At Cloud

Episode 366 – Old Man Yells At Cloud

In this episode, Ben and Scott touched on some updates on their social media presence due to some recent happenings in the social media services space. As they transition into the Microsoft cloud world, they discuss updates to cloud computing software and user experience design. They also provided some insight into conditional access policies and break-glass accounts and examined strategies for managing these elements for optimal efficiency. They wrapped up their conversation on a contemplative note about the future of native apps versus progressive web apps (PWAs), and some frustrations about the increasing trend towards PWAs.

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Episode 364 – Microsoft Designer, Azure Updates, and Enterprise IoT Security changes

Episode 364 – Microsoft Designer, Azure Updates, and Enterprise IoT Security changes

In Episode 364, Ben and Scott discuss the recently announced Microsoft Designer, cover a handful of updates to Azure including Azure Automation and Azure Container Storage. Then they close out with some updates to the licensing model for Enterprise IoT Security.

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