Episode 412 | Another Huge Acquisition, New Windows, and What's New in Azure

In this episode, AC & CJ restart their “What’s new in Microsoft Azure” bi-weekly segment, talk about the upcoming Windows announcement, and tackle more Azure and Microsoft 365 news!

• Azure announces general availability of scale-out NVIDIA A100 GPU Clusters: the fastest public cloud supercomputer
• Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – May 2021
• General availability: Azure API Management Premium tier price reduction for incremental purchased units
• Azure Storage Blob inventory public preview is now available in all public regions
• Event Hubs Premium now available in public preview
• General availability: Logic Apps with new hosting options

• Azure at Microsoft Build recap: build amazing things on your terms, anywhere
• New Azure capabilities to simplify deployment and management
• Azure is the home for your enterprise Java applications
• Public preview: Log Analytics workspace insights from Azure Monitor
• Public preview: Export Azure Monitor logs to multiple destinations
• Migrate content from Box, Dropbox, and Google Workspace into Microsoft 365 - release update
• Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th
• Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox
• Backbone
• Microsoft Teams Calls will soon include end-to-end encryption
• Kinda a big announcement

AC’s Pick

• Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds

CJ’s Pick

• Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing