April 2022

Azure Serverless Monthly

Your Serverless digest!

Azure Serverless Monthly is a quick read version that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Serverless Updates like blog articles, podcasts and videos from Microsoft Azure and the rich ecosystem built around this community.

It is aimed at Developer, Architect working in your Enterprise Application Integration projects involving Azure Serverless components trying to keep on top of the latest Azure serverless developments.

Capacity reservation support in AKS

Posted on 05 April 2022

Capacity reservation enables you to reserve compute capacity in an Azure region or an availability zone for any duration of time. Unlike reserved instances, you do not have to sign up for a one-year or a three-year term commitment. You can create…Read more

Customize application text labels in Azure IoT Central

Posted on 11 April 2022

You can now customize the application text labels in your Azure IoT Central application. With this new capability, you can replace the ‘Device’ label in your application to your preferred text. To customize the text labels in your application, navigate…Read more

Azure Monitoring Agent supports custom and IIS logs

Posted on 13 April 2022

Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA) is a native way to collect log files for Log Analytics. This new custom and IIS log capability is designed for you to collect text-based logs generated in your service…Read more

Azure Monitor and Azure Managed Grafana integrations

Posted on 18 April 2022

Along with the announcement of Azure Managed Grafana, we are introducing new Grafana integrations with Azure Monitor. Using Azure Managed Grafana, you can now view your Azure monitoring…Read more

Rehydrate an archived blob to a different storage account

Posted on 20 April 2022

You can now rehydrate an archived blob by copying it to a different storage account, as long as the destination account is in the same region as the source account. Rehydration across storage accounts…Read more

Azure Container Apps built-in authentication Microsoft Azure Container Apps

Posted on 27 April 2022

Azure Container Apps, a service for building and deploying modern applications and microservices using serverless containers, now supports built-in authentication. When enabled, end users can sign in to…Read more

Azure Functions now supports PowerShell 7.2

Posted on 27 April 2022

Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2 is now supported in public preview. This enables developing and deploying Azure Functions Apps for production scenarios using the latest version…Read more

Unique partial indexes in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB

Posted on 27 April 2022

The unique partial indexes feature allows you more flexibility to specify exactly which fields in which documents you’d like to index, all while enforcing uniqueness of that field’s value. This feature…Read more

Azure SQL Database storage limits increase for selected compute sizes

Posted on 27 April 2022

Data storage limits in Azure SQL Database have increased from 1.5 TB to 2 TB for single databases and elastic pools configured with 8 and 10 vcores. Workloads requiring up to 2 TB storage can now reduce costs…Read more

Azure Synapse Link now supports existing Azure Cosmos DB containers

Posted on 27 April 2022

Enable Azure Synapse Link for your existing Azure Cosmos DB containers to trigger the initial sync of the data from transactional store to analytical store. There is no cost or performance…Read more

Community Content

Here's a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted by community enthusiast over the last month.

1. Working with Queues and Topics in Azure Service Bus
   By Will Velida
2. Storing Growing Files Using Azure Blob Storage and Append Blobs
   By David Whitney
3. Infrastructure as Code - Deploy an Azure Function using Bicep
   By Manuel Kanetscheider
4. How to Build and Deploy a Serverless React App on Azure
   By Okta
5. Generating Pre-Signed URLs for Azure Cloud Storage with Python
   By Braden Riggs
6. Azure Functions - Creating a new function
   By Flavio Campelo
7. Building an event streaming app with Azure Functions, Event Hubs and Azure Cosmos DB
   By Will Velida
8. CI/CD for Cloud-Native Applications
   By Boris Zaikin
9. Logic App CI/CD from zero to hero whitepaper
   By Sandro Pereira
10. Power Automate Best practices, Tips and Tricks: #6 Error handling… configure run after settings
    By Sandro Pereira
11. Power Automate Best practices, Tips and Tricks: #7 Delete notes
    By Sandro Pereira
12. Power Automate Best practices, Tips and Tricks: #8 Learn from failures
    By Sandro Pereira