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Code, test, and ship your next app quickly and securely with Microsoft developer tools

Welcome to Microsoft Build, the event that’s all about celebrating the developer community! The work you do has the power to transform entire industries and keep critical businesses and services running through innovative solutions and applications. I couldn’t be more honored to champion this entire dev community as you create the future.

Microsoft was founded as a developer company and almost 50 years later, nothing has changed in that regard. From our earliest products to the powerful developer tools available now through Visual Studio, GitHub, and Azure, we keep development teams top of mind. Today our full Microsoft Cloud stack brings an incredible platform for developers to use and build apps and solutions. I like to say, we’re the platform and you bring the innovation.

I take great inspiration from the innovative things you’re already building with our platform and tools. Development teams at companies big and small are choosing Microsoft to code and modernize. Gjensidige, the largest insurance company in Norway, is just one great example—they chose Azure and the combined capabilities of GitHub to modernize applications at enterprise scale. And I’m always amazed by the creativity and ingenuity that student developers are bringing to the platform.

The developer experience today

Whenever I talk to customers and my colleagues who code, a few themes emerge about what development teams need to be successful and how it’s evolved—especially in the last couple of years.

Security shifts left. The world’s reliance on technology continues to grow and so does the importance of security. With cyberattacks on the rise, we want to equip developers with the tools to shift security left, into code, so problems and concerns can be identified and fixed before a security breach even happens.

Collaboration, anywhere. In the age of hybrid work, it matters less where you sit and work. It could be in a home or traditional office setting or even in your local coffee shop. With dispersed development teams using different languages, devices, and networks, developers need to interact and connect with their teams—and have confidence they can deliver their best work from anywhere and that it will be secure.

Agility and productivity. With a hybrid work environment, teams need to stay agile and onboard new team members quickly and efficiently. Ideally, developers can focus on code instead of spending time setting up dev environments and managing infrastructure.

Today, I’m proud to share some news and updates designed to address these needs and improve the overall developer experience even further with our beloved tools and the Microsoft Cloud platform—all designed to help you quickly code and ship from anywhere with confidence.

Modern solutions and apps for hybrid teams

Through GitHub, we’re already delivering the developer environment of the future. GitHub Copilot is an AI programmer that empowers you to write code faster and with less work. Another way the development experience is changing is work moving to the cloud. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud development environment that works great for web app, cloud-native applications, APIs, or backend development. But what if you’re working on a different workload, like desktop, mobile, embedded, or game development? Or if you’re using a different version control system other than GitHub?

Enter Microsoft Dev Box. Microsoft Dev Box is a cloud solution that provides developers with self-service access to high-performance workstations preconfigured and ready-to-code for specific projects. Developers can get started coding quickly, without worrying about security, compliance, or cost control. It is tailored to meet the needs of today’s developers and integrated with Windows 365 so IT administrators can manage Dev Boxes and Cloud PCs together in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Microsoft Dev Box will soon be in preview.

With Microsoft Dev Box, leads can quickly create projects, configure images, and assign team members so they can get straight to code in seconds, from anywhere. No matter where in the world you’re working, the onboarding process for a new team has never been easier.

Start secure, stay secure

How we all work has forever changed after the last several years. Security is essential in a world of increasing cyberattacks, global uncertainty, and with distributed teams sitting in different locations using different platforms, languages, and devices.

As I mentioned, I’ve heard from many of my developer colleagues about the need to identify and fix problems before they result in a security breach. The push protection feature in GitHub Advanced Security proactively protects against secret leaks. For another layer of security and added peace of mind, today we’re announcing the general availability of GitHub OpenID Connect (OIDC) with Azure AD workload identity federation to minimize the need for storing and accessing secrets. With this integration, developers can manage all cloud resource access securely in Azure.

Increase your app resilience

As you build apps, you need to know the app can handle traffic and scale before it launches. We recently launched a preview of Azure Load Testing, an Azure service to help teams test and meet scale and performance goals with confidence. And since launch, we’ve seen customers of all sizes using the service to simulate high-scale load for apps running anywhere and catch performance bottlenecks early. We’ve heard you loud and clear about some additional features you’d like to see—testing private endpoints, using custom plugins, and more Azure regions. These features and more will be coming soon so be sure to visit Azure Updates frequently.

Start with Microsoft for an ideal developer experience

When you’re ready to take your next idea from code to the cloud, we want you to start with us. The session Rapidly code, test, and ship from secure cloud development environments is where you can learn more about these announcements and how we’re delivering a great developer experience to you—no matter where you’re working from or what you’re using to build. I also encourage you to view the session about Scaling cloud-native apps and accelerating app modernization to learn about what’s new to help you build cloud-native apps.

There’s no shortage of great content throughout the Microsoft Build experience this week; new innovations, technical demos, learning opportunities, and plenty of fun with our After Hours sessions. I encourage you to take it all in and keep sharing with us so we can deliver an even better experience for you.

On behalf of the Azure team here at Microsoft, thanks for inspiring us with what you build.

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Scale your cloud-native apps and accelerate app modernization with Azure, the best cloud for your apps

Developers are essential to the world we live in today, and the work you do is critical to powering organizations in every industry. Every developer and development team brings new ideas and innovation. Our ambition with the Microsoft Cloud and Azure is to be the platform for all of this innovation to really empower the entire community as they build what comes next.

Microsoft was founded as a developer tools company, and developers remain at the very center of our mission. Today, we have the most used and beloved developer tools with Visual Studio, .NET, and GitHub. We offer a trusted and comprehensive platform to build amazing apps and solutions that help enable people and organizations across the planet to achieve more.

Over 95 percent of the world’s largest companies today are choosing Microsoft Azure to run their business, in addition to thousands of smaller and mid-size innovative organizations as well. The NBA uses Azure and AI capabilities to turn billions of in-game data points into customizable content for its fans. Stonehenge Technology Labs has increased developer velocity through its fast-growing commerce enhancement software, STOPWATCH, using Azure, Live Share, and Visual Studio.

With the Microsoft Cloud and Azure, we meet you where you are and make it easy for you to start your cloud-native journey—from anywhere. That means developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy to the cloud and the edge, collaborating in a secure way and integrating different components in no time with low-code solutions.

Supporting all of this, here are some of the latest developments we’ll talk about at Microsoft Build this week. You can also view the Scaling cloud-native apps and accelerating app modernization session to learn more about these announcements. 

Build modern, cloud-native apps productively with serverless technologies and the best Kubernetes experience for developers

As new apps are built, you’ll want them to be cloud-native since they’re designed to take full advantage of everything the cloud offers. Using cloud-native design patterns helps achieve the agility, efficiency, and speed of innovation that you need to deliver for your businesses. The experience bar and what end users expect from apps is going up. Product launches, peak shopping seasons, and sporting events are just a few examples of highly dynamic usage demands that modern apps must be prepared to handle.

This is made possible through architectures and technologies like containers, serverless, microservices, APIs, and DevOps everywhere, which offer the shortest path to cloud value. With Azure, GitHub, and the Microsoft Cloud, we’re working to better enable you to easily leverage all these capabilities.

Azure Container Apps offers an ideal platform for application developers who want to run microservices in serverless containers without managing infrastructure. Today, Azure Container Apps is generally available and ready for you to use. It’s built on the strong open-source foundation of the Kubernetes ecosystem, which is core for cloud-native applications.

Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) was built to be a destination for all developers and provide the best-managed experience for Kubernetes, whether it’s your first time trying it or using it regularly and quickly for testing. It delivers elastic provisioning of capacity without the need to manage underlying compute infrastructure and is the fastest way to spin up managed Kubernetes clusters and configure a seamless DevSecOps workflow with CI/CD integration.

A great example of a customer taking advantage of AKS today is Adobe. Adobe evolved to cloud-native practices a few years ago and adopted a microservices architecture. They chose AKS because of its scalable, flexible, and multi-cloud capabilities, and it brought faster development, from onboarding to production, all while providing automated guardrails with DevSecOps practices.

Today, we have some great updates to enhance the developer and operator experience on AKS even further, making it faster and easier than ever before so you can spend more time writing code. We’re launching the Draft extension and CLI, the preview of a new integrated AKS web application routing add-on, and a KEDA extension (Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling extension). 

The power and scalability of a cloud-native platform

What makes the Microsoft Cloud particularly rich as a development platform and ecosystem is the services it delivers and the underlying cloud infrastructure that allows you to focus on writing and shipping code. You can build upon and leverage a complete cloud-native platform, from containers to cloud-native databases and AI services.

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully-managed and serverless developer database—and the only database service in the market to offer service legal agreements (SLAs) guaranteeing single-digit millisecond latency and 99.999 percent availability. These guarantees are available globally at any scale, even through traffic bursts.

Today, we’re improving Azure Cosmos DB elasticity with new burst capacity and increased serverless capacity to 1TB—while only paying for the storage and throughput used. In preview, this ability is ideal for workloads with intermittent and unpredictable traffic and allows developers to build scalable, cost-effective cloud-native applications.

We see customers innovating at a faster pace with cloud-native technologies. Azure Arc brings Azure security and cloud-native services to hybrid and multicloud environments, enabling you to secure and govern infrastructure and apps anywhere.

One example of a customer turning to Azure Arc is Canada’s largest bank, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). As a Kubernetes-based deployment, Azure Arc enables the company to leverage existing infrastructure investments, and skillsets to manage and automate database deployments. Arc-enabled Data services allowed RBC to accelerate their time to market and development of products—bringing more time and focus to innovation and integration of their products and capabilities.

We continue to innovate and add new capabilities to Azure Arc to enable hybrid and multicloud scenarios. Today, we’re excited to announce several new Azure Arc capabilities including the landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, offering customers greater agility for cloud-native apps and tools to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployments—all while strengthening security and compliance. The landing zone accelerator provides best practices, guidance, and automated reference implementations for a fast and easy deployment.

Azure Managed Grafana is part of our approach to provide customers with all the tools they need to manage, monitor, and secure their hybrid and multicloud investments. We recently launched this integration so you can easily deploy Grafana dashboards, complete with Azure’s built-in high availability and security.

I’m excited to share that the Business Critical tier of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now generally available to meet the most demanding critical business continuity requirements. This allows developers to build scalable, cost-effective cloud-native apps and add the same top-rated security and automated update capabilities they’ve trusted for decades.

Modernize Java applications

Java continues to be one of the most important programming languages, and we’re committed to helping Java developers run their Spring applications more easily in the cloud. As part of a long-time collaboration with Pivotal, now VMware, Azure Spring Cloud was created as a fully managed service for Spring Boot applications to solve the challenges of running Spring at scale. Azure Spring Cloud is a fully-featured platform for all types of Spring applications; to better reflect this, the service is now called Azure Spring Apps.

Azure Spring Apps Enterprise will be generally available in June, bringing fully managed VMware Tanzu components running on Azure and advanced Spring Runtime support. Customers like FedEx are already leveraging this collaboration on Azure Springs Apps to deliver an impactful solution for their end-customers, helping predict estimated delivery times for millions of packages globally.

Build with Microsoft Cloud

Developing with the Microsoft Cloud puts the latest technologies in your hands and empowers you with both control and productivity. It offers a trusted and comprehensive platform so you can build great apps and solutions.

Microsoft Build is all about celebrating the work you do and helping you build what comes next. Be sure to view the session Scaling cloud-native apps and accelerating app modernization to learn more about these announcements. I also encourage you to view the Rapidly code, test, and ship from secure development environments session for more depth on Microsoft’s developer tools. There’s an exciting week planned, so join in throughout the entire digital event for more announcements, customer stories, breakout sessions, learning opportunities, and technical demos. Enjoy the event experience. I can’t wait to see what you build.

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Watch all the sessions you loved, or catch up on any you missed after the event with Build on-demand.
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Read how to build productively, collaborate securely, and scale innovation—no matter where in the world with a comprehensive set of Microsoft developer tools and platform.
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Announcing Azure DNS Private Resolver: Now in preview

A quick overview of Azure DNS

We offer two types of Azure DNS Zones—private and public—for hosting your private DNS and public DNS records.

Azure Private DNS: Azure Private DNS provides a reliable and secure DNS service for your virtual network. Azure Private DNS manages and resolves domain names in the virtual network without the need to configure a custom DNS solution. By using private DNS zones, you can use your own custom domain name instead of the Azure-provided names during deployment.
Azure Public DNS: DNS domains in Azure DNS are hosted on Azure's global network of DNS name servers. Azure DNS uses anycast networking. Each DNS query is answered by the closest available DNS server to provide fast performance and high availability for your domain.

More information on additional services part of the Azure DNS offering can be found in the Azure DNS product page.

What is being announced today?

Azure Private DNS Resolver enables you to query Azure Private DNS Zones from an on-premises environment and vice versa without provisioning IaaS-based DNS solutions.

Azure DNS Private Resolver preview is being announced to all customers and will have regional availability in the following regions:

Australia East
UK South
North Europe
South Central US
West US 3
East US
North Central US
Central US EUAP
East US 2 EUAP
West Central US
East US 2
West Europe

All of these regions support Availability Zones and will help with the regional and global resiliency story of customer workloads!

What will customers be able to do today that they couldn’t do before?

Customers will no longer need to provision IaaS-based solutions on their virtual networks to resolve names registered on Azure Private DNS Zones and will be able to do conditional forwarding of domains back to on-premises, across multicloud providers, and public DNS servers.

This solution will also work with your existing Azure ExpressRoute, Azure VPN or Azure Bastion setup in a seamless way.

Customers will also be able to manage their DNS settings at a Virtual Network level in a very simplified way by linking rules to each of their Virtual Networks and enabling conditional forwarding at scale.

Private access to your Private DNS Zones

Conditionally forward from your virtual networks to any reachable DNS server and from on-premises to Azure Private DNS Zones.

Plus, the following benefits

Zero Maintenance: Fully managed service which does not require you to patch or plan for any downtime of your service.
Cost Reduction: Run at a fraction of traditional IaaS solutions which typically would require planning for high availability, resiliency, and backup of configurations.
Highly Available: Built-in high availability, zone redundancy. You will no longer need to plan for availability zones awareness nor how many instances to provision per region Azure availability zones are physically separate locations within each Azure region that are tolerant to local failures and are connected by a high-performance network with a round-trip latency of less than 2ms.
DevOps Friendly: Build your pipelines with Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, REST API support, Go, Typescript/Javascript. This will allow you to keep a consistent configuration and experience across regions and different instances of your service.

Get started and share your feedback

You can try Azure DNS Private Resolver today. For more information about the capabilities available, please visit the Azure DNS Private Resolver technical documentation. Post your ideas and suggestions on the networking community page. More information on additional services part of the Azure DNS offering can be found in the Azure DNS product page.
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Microsoft and AT&T demonstrate 5G-powered video analytics

In November 2021, Microsoft and AT&T announced the launch of Azure public MEC (multi-access edge compute) with a site in Atlanta, Georgia. The Azure public MEC solution enables low-latency applications at the edge of the mobile operator’s network, providing Azure compute services integrated with 5G connectivity. Azure public MEC is designed to run AI and machine learning workloads that require intensive compute and low latency network. The access to these resources is over high-quality 5G connections from phones, smart cameras, IoT devices, and other equipment. Enterprises and developers can build and run these low-latency applications and manage their workloads using the same tools they are using to run applications in the Azure public cloud. 

To light up new compelling applications with Azure public MEC that benefit from low latency 5G connectivity, we are making available a video analytics library under the umbrella of Edge Video Services.

Edge Video Services

Edge Video Services (EVS) is a Microsoft platform for developing video analytics solutions that can be deployed on Azure public MEC. For example, consider some smart city applications like our Vision Zero work with the City of Bellevue, which enabled a new generation of real-time traffic flows leading to substantial improvements in the day-to-day lives of commuters. Similarly, real-time video analytics can make cities safer by controlling traffic lights for situations such as allowing a person in a wheelchair to safely cross the street. A related application, which we demonstrated at Hannover Messe 2016, integrated an early version of EVS into traffic light cameras and those in self-driving cars to analyze videos to help reduce accidents and fatalities. Other new applications that are coming soon include improving transportation systems, monitoring air quality, street lighting, smart parking, crowd management, and emergency management. Beyond smart cities, EVS can provide modern smart enterprises with end-to-end experiences with video analytics for mixed reality as a natural component of 5G network solutions. Additional examples include managing machines and robots in connected factories, handling customer demands and services in retail stores and restaurants or tracking pedestrian traffic in sports arenas.

Figure 1: EVS architecture stack.

As shown in Figure 2 below, 5G compute infrastructure has a hierarchy of intelligent components including Azure Percept devices, Azure private MEC, and Azure public MEC. EVS integrates with all of these solutions and provides these features: 

Inter-edge orchestrator to manage network traffic involving multiple public MECs. It deploys application containers across the edge hierarchy for high availability and fault tolerance.   
Network monitoring and adaptation to continuously monitor the dynamic wireless and wired network connections, adapting application demands accordingly.  
Dynamic resource allocation for video machine learning containers. This adapts based on the load generated from the mobile network and the workloads deployed in the on-premises edge location.

Smart cities deployment at Azure public MEC with AT&T in Atlanta

Working with AT&T, Microsoft demonstrated the value of EVS on the Azure public MEC connected to the AT&T’s 5G network in Atlanta. The setup consisted of an on-premise edge device, managed by Azure IoT Hub and an Azure Kubernetes cluster as shown in the diagram below.

Figure 2: Azure public MEC and AT&T deployment.

The EVS orchestrator places the various containers across the on-premises edge and Azure public MEC. This split execution requires only lightweight compute power on-premises, and also removes the need to provision high bandwidth connectivity out of the on-premises edge. 

In our Atlanta deployment, we demonstrated EVS’s split architecture, with lightweight execution at the on-premises edge. It transferred 230MB of data over the 5G link out of the on-premise edge over 24 hours, by contrast, 9.5GB of data would have been sent if all the encoded video were transferred out. In other words, EVS reduced the network utilization by 42x. This network saving was obtained with a CPU-only edge on-premises with no loss in accuracy.  Our measurements also showed that network latencies to the Azure public MEC were about 6x lower at the median compared to the nearest Azure region, which translated to faster responses for the application. 

EVS is integrated with AT&T’s network APIs to obtain real-time information about the 5G network. As a result, EVS adapts the amount of traffic transferred between the edges, depending on any fluctuations to the latency and bandwidth of the 5G link. EVS uses Azure Traffic Manager to support automatic failover for the Azure public MEC to the nearest Azure region, thus ensuring no disruption to the video application. When failing over to the Azure region, EVS adapts to the changed and increased latency by adjusting the amount of traffic sent out of the on-premises edge via changes to the encoder and machine learning model parameters with minimal impact on application accuracy. EVS is also cognizant of other containers executing at the edges and can elastically scale up or down its compute requirements.

EVS on Azure public MEC: Try it out today

For your video scenarios, we encourage you to try out EVS on Azure public MEC with your own on-premises edge devices. The reference architecture and instructions are available in our GitHub repository. The repository also includes a sample video of cars entering a parking lot that you can use to test EVS for counting cars. To submit feedback about EVS, please email to evs-support@microsoft. Please note this is only for submitting feedback, you will not be contacted.
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Microsoft session highlights from SAP Sapphire 2022

It has been three years since SAP Sapphire last occurred in person, and I was thrilled to meet with our customers and partners again this week. As SAP Sapphire comes to a close, I am taking a moment to reflect on how the world has changed since the pandemic. Many organizations were not prepared for the impact such a change would have on their business, and they were forced to adjust in real-time—realizing that the digital transformation conversations of the past now needed to be put into action and accelerated.

Fast forward to SAP Sapphire 2022 and a new world, where in-person and hybrid experiences came together in Orlando, Florida and virtually across the globe. Microsoft and SAP are celebrating the one-year anniversary of RISE with SAP on the Microsoft Cloud, which helps organizations of all sizes modernize their SAP solutions in the cloud. We have made great progress on the various aspects of our product innovation, delivering new service offerings, frameworks, and tools, that have helped our customers and partners simplify and further accelerate their SAP modernization journey. We have summarized the most recent product announcements here: SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary—SAP Sapphire 2022.

SAP Sapphire 2022 gave us an opportunity to reconnect with customers and partners—celebrating our joint success, discussing new business priorities, and identifying areas where Microsoft can further help accelerate their growth. We were honored to see many customers and colleagues at Microsoft on stage to share their experiences and best practices. It is most rewarding and humbling to see the level of trust that SAP, our customers, and partners place on our technology platform and to see its impact across various industries and customer scenarios. Below are several session highlights in case you missed them.

SAP Sapphire 2022 session highlights

Spur innovation like the NBA with RISE with SAP on Azure (session ERP159)

The National Basketball Association (NBA) wanted to eliminate limitations of its on-premises data centers and moved its SAP applications and other IT resources to the cloud. The NBA’s Puneet Toteja, AVP, Business Systems Lead, discussed how using RISE with SAP with the AI, data warehouse, and personalization capabilities of Microsoft Azure has enabled the NBA to merge business, game, and fan data to deliver enhanced fan experiences. Learn more about the NBA’s journey with Microsoft and SAP.

Get insights into how Walgreens set up a best practice-based platform (session SE111)

David Durdan, Senior Director, Global Enterprise Architecture for Walgreens Company shares how the pharmacy chain embarked on a retail and finance transformation to deliver benefits to both customers and employees, using the SAP S/4HANA Retail solution and other SAP solutions hosted on Microsoft Azure. Learn more about Walgreens’ journey with Microsoft and SAP.

Jump-start your journey to becoming a demand-driven enterprise (session SCM157)

Microsoft’s Dhaval Desai, Principal Lead, SAP Supply Chain Engineering shared how Microsoft embraced RISE with SAP on Microsoft Cloud to transform its supply chain to a collaborative, digitally connected network that helps it sense and respond to demand changes quickly. Results from this joint Microsoft and SAP initiative include reduced latency in information sharing, improved forecast accuracy, and increased supply chain visibility, including visibility of supplier commitments.

Explore PEPCO’s “Smart” approach to converting to SAP S/4HANA (session ERP137)

Exelon-owned Electric Power Company, PEPCO, provides electricity and gas to two million customers. In this session featuring Exelon’s Manager of Customer Projects and System Support Walter Stefy and Accenture Managing Director Muthu Maran, discover how they designed and executed a journey to cloud transformation and upgraded to SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure in just eighteen months using Accenture’s Smart field approach.

Find out how your peers are optimizing their supply chains (session SCM125)

Microsoft’s Dhaval Desai, Principal Lead, SAP Supply Chain Engineering joined a panel of industry leaders from Blue Diamond Growers, Varidesk and SAP to share how their organizations have addressed diverse supply chain resiliency issues with SAP solutions, including the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution.

Automate sales ordering to improve compliance and the customer experience (session CX156)

Merck and Co.’s Ann Wallach, Director of SAP Delivery will share how this global pharmaceutical company modernized and automated its vaccine ordering process, which was previously handled through fax and phone and required manual entry of sales orders. Merck was able to modernize by leveraging the scalability of SAP Commerce Cloud on Microsoft Azure to improve the customer experience and payment-card industry compliance.

Learn more

I hope you’ve enjoyed SAP Sapphire in-person or virtually as much as we did. To learn more, check out the SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary. My team and I look forward to continuing our discussion and meeting many of you around the world as we hit the road with SAP visiting eight cities in the remaining 2022!
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Manage Red Hat workloads seamlessly on Azure

Every year, Red Hat Summit features inspirational and actionable content, industry-shaping news, and innovative practices from customers and partners. From hybrid cloud, containers, and cloud-native app platforms to management, automation, and more, speakers from around the world, across industries, and sectors join to share how they're using open tools to build better solutions for themselves and their customers. Microsoft is proud to sponsor and participate in Red Hat Summit 2022 which brings together communities who are passionate about open source in the enterprise.

Business is changing, and keeping up with fluctuations in markets and customer demands is not easy. Modernization is essential. Technologies like containers, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud architectures are key components that provide the scalability, innovation, and flexibility you need to maintain a competitive edge, grow market share, and increase margins. Microsoft and Red Hat offer you the tools to reduce complexity and simplify your environment, innovate faster, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and expand and scale your infrastructure in any direction so you can be a disruptor in your industry.

Today, we’re announcing multiple enhancements to our Red Hat on Azure offerings that help customers accelerate their digital transformation with the power of the cloud. This includes the broad availability of our Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure and Red Hat Open Shift Support for Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance.

Detailed updates include:

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure is now available to customers in North America with global availability coming soon. The Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 features are available for customers in the tech preview. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure enables IT organizations to quickly automate and scale in the cloud, with the flexibility to deliver any application, anywhere, without additional overhead or complexity. Achieve zero to automation in minutes by deploying the managed application directly from the Azure Marketplace.

Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now supported on Red Hat OpenShift. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers who need to run their data workloads outside Azure in their own datacenters or multicloud environments, we bring trusted Azure SQL and open-source software database services to meet them where they are. This database service unifies management and delivers mission-critical performance, high availability/disaster recovery at scale. With an evergreen SQL that has no end-of-support, customers can realize the best of Azure SQL on OpenShift, in any environment. Customers can enjoy fully automated updates and patches to innovate faster and be more secure. 

"Red Hat has been a strategic partner in our Azure Arc partner ecosystem in lighting up the next-gen Azure data services to run anywhere. With this support, organizations can run Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance across any environment without worrying about the infrastructure underneath. The combination of RedHat OpenShift and Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance allows customers to use the platform they know and trust to accelerate innovation with faster time to market with enterprise-grade support."—Peter Carlin, CVP Azure Database Platform

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 will be available on Azure from May 24. With demand for edge computing continuing to grow, RHEL 9 incorporates key enhancements specifically designed to address evolving IT needs at the edge. Edge management helps teams more securely manage and scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux on distributed devices from a single interface. RHEL 9 will include support for Red Hat Update Infrastructure 4 allowing for automatic updates.
Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux 3.0 will be broadly available from May 24. Through Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux 3.0, customers can migrate their on-premises RHEL servers to Azure by bi-directionally converting existing RHEL pay-as-you-go (PAYG) VMs on Azure to bring-your-own-subscription (BYOS) billing, resulting in cost savings. In its latest iteration, support for custom images has been included. Read more about how Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux for additional information.

Learn more

Visit the Microsoft Red Hat on Azure page to learn more about our offerings and join us at Red Hat Summit.
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Join us and the developer community to celebrate Azure Static Web Apps

Join us to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Azure Static Web Apps! Come connect with others in the developer community and increase your Azure Static Web Apps skills in a fun, collaborative way.

It's hard to believe that it was just under a year ago that we announced the general availability of Azure Static Web Apps.

Azure Static Web Apps service became generally available in May 2021, with support for many of the popular front-end frameworks and static site generators used for modern web app development.

A turnkey service for modern full-stack web apps with pre-built and pre-rendered static front-ends, and serverless API backends, Azure Static Web Apps focuses on making the developer experience—from build-to-deploy—effortless for modern web apps. Azure Static Web Apps is a power-packed solution to globally host websites, providing a seamless experience through features like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), preview environments, global scalability, customizable authentication integrations, managed Azure edge, custom domains, and much more.

Fast forward a year and we are days away from the one-year anniversary (#SWAanniversary), making this a perfect time to reflect on the journey so far and get excited about what's coming up next.

So join us on May 19, 2022, and hear from keynote speakers like Scott Hanselman and Donovan Brown, along with our product team and Microsoft MVPs, in a one-and-a-half-hour event streaming live on Learn TV. If you’re unable to catch the live event, it will be available on-demand to stream anytime.

Visit the event page to check out the speaker lineup and add the event to your calendar.

Learn with #30DaysOfSWA

New to Azure Static Web Apps? Do you want to learn the core concepts, see usage examples, explore developer tools, and understand best practices for building richer user experiences with Azure Static Web Apps?

Check out the 30DaysOfSWA series and jumpstart your learning journey with a whole month of short articles that provide a curated tour of Azure Static Web Apps as we go from code to scale.

We've organized the journey into four stages, each building on the previous one in a way that mimics the developer experience with any new technology:

Week 1: Focus on core concepts, learning terminology, and getting setup.
Week 2: Focus on usage examples with quickstarts and front-end technologies.
Week 3: Focus on dev tools to develop, debug, test, and deploy, the Azure Static Web Apps.
Week 4: Focus on best practices, from services to end-to-end experiences.

It is said it takes 30 days to form a habit and we hope these daily activities with #30DaysOfSWA will help you on the journey to becoming a seasoned Azure Static Web Apps developer.

Learn more

Sign up now for the Azure Static Web Apps anniversary event.

Here are a few links to kickstart your Azure Static Web Apps journey:

Azure Static Web Apps documentation.
Azure Static Web Apps learning path.
Azure Static Web Apps gallery.

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Accelerating innovation in the diabetic foot market with Azure Health Data Services

This blog post has been co-authored by Sharlene Jerome, Manager of Marketing and Communications, Sensoria Health

This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed exclusively to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud, is a new way of working with unified data—providing care teams with a platform to support both transactional and analytical workloads from the same data store and enabling cloud computing to transform how we develop and deliver AI across the healthcare ecosystem.

According to the World Health Organization, over 422 million people suffer from diabetes. Diabetes is an emergency of epidemic proportions, and diabetic foot complications have one of the most painful effects—every 20 seconds, someone in the world loses a lower limb due to diabetes. The total worldwide cost of diabetic limb complications is estimated to be $46 billion, and in the US, direct costs associated with these complications exceed the cost of each of the five most expensive cancers.¹

From these staggering numbers, it is now obvious that connected footwear will play a major role in the future of diabetic care. As one of the most innovative applications of IoT in healthcare, remotely monitoring patients is essential to ensuring effective treatment, improving patient care, and reducing hospital readmission rates. This requires data to flow smoothly from patient to clinician, and from clinician to clinician. However, the currently siloed healthcare industry with data stored on-premises and lack of interoperability among these on-premises systems makes it difficult for clinicians to access data in a timely manner to proactively treat patients. And when diabetic foot ulcers can potentially cause the loss of limbs, the stakes are remarkably high for all parties involved.

Making real-world data accessible

To help better manage data in the cloud and enable healthcare organizations to access patient data in a timely and secure manner, Microsoft released Azure Health Data Services, a PaaS offering that is built on the global open standards Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ®) and Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine (DICOM).

One of the biggest challenges in treating diabetic foot ulcers is the ability to monitor the patient’s progress when they are outside of the hospital. The inaccessibility of this data prevents clinicians from collaborating with patients to ensure they adhere to the clinical recommendations, thus reducing the effectiveness of treatment and care. With Azure Health Data Services, this data can now be accessed easily and in a timely manner by providers, giving patients the best chance to fight diabetic foot ulcers. Microsoft’s technology, alongside Sensoria’s innovative diabetic footwear, will enable the creation of a new category of solutions for podiatrists, which will not only provide valuable feedback to and from patients but also supply clinicians with the patient’s compliance and usage patterns for healing diabetic foot ulcers, supporting the goal of reducing the risk of occurrence.

As leaders in remote patient monitoring wearables and AI software solutions, Sensoria Health is already leveraging FHIR and Azure Health Data Services.

“There is no such thing as a "little" diabetes. Just like there is no such thing as a "little" cancer.”–Dr. David Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at Keck School of Medicine, USC and Director, USC Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (#C2SHiP)

Sensoria’s diabetic footwear is a wonderful example of how Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) health data can be leveraged to improve clinical workflows and process valuable data to support both patient and clinician while making individualized care plans. Supported by Microsoft’s Azure Health Data Services, IoMT health data can be ingested from the Sensoria footwear and compiled to attain a valuable holistic view of a patient’s at-home care, knowledge of self-care, and care plan compliance. The IoMT health data coming from the footwear can be de-identified, compiled, and stored in Azure Health Data Services. Microsoft Azure Health Data Services is HITRUST CSF certified and helps organizations store PHI in accordance with HIPAA and GDPR requirements and meet Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandates. Once stored in a standardized and interoperable format, the health data can be trended and tracked to visualize patterns and catch early warnings or allow for further analysis to support clinicians and treatment options. Sensoria Health leverages Azure IoT Central to connect the footwear and bring valuable IoMT data to the cloud—Azure Health Data Services helps manage IoMT data collected by the footwear to support the clinician for a more complete view of patient population, treatment compliance, daily treatment adherence scores, real-time behavioral feedback, and capture previous gaps in care and best practice.

Powered by Sensoria Core, a wearable sensor platform that is modular, self-contained, and fully integrated to provide highly accurate data, the Sensoria Diabetic Foot Ulcer Boot can measure adherence to whether the patient is wearing the boot, their level of activity, and adherence to the recommended clinician protocol. The clinician dashboard provided by the Sensoria Diabetic Foot Ulcer Boot offers a holistic view of their patient population. The dashboard is color-coded so that clinicians know which patients are at most risk due to non-adherence. In these cases, there is an escalation of care that can be identified, and the boot can be made irremovable.

Sensoria Health is excited to be a pioneer of this effort with global diabetic footwear partners such as Ossur, DARCO International, and Defender Operations.

“In the US, CMS is embracing remote patient monitoring and launching a new reimbursement model for remote therapeutic monitoring. Our partnership with Sensoria Health will place both of our companies in a leadership position for smart podiatry footwear products around the globe.”—Darrel Darby, CEO, DARCO International

“Combining Foot Defender® with the Sensoria ® Core is the marriage of modern manufacturing, advanced textiles, cutting edge engineering, and advanced electronics. Uniting these two leading-edge technologies produces a product that patients will want to wear and can assist them in monitoring activity and utilization, engaging patients in their care while empowering them to make changes in behavior.”—Dr. Jason Hanft, DPM, FACFAS, CEO and Founder, Defender

Do more with your data with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

Part of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Azure Health Data Services empowers health organizations to transform their patient experience, discover new insights with the power of machine learning and AI, and manage PHI data with confidence.

We look forward to being your partner as you build the future of health.

Learn more about Azure Health Data Services.
Learn more about Sensorial Health, or send a message to info@sensoriahealth.com.
Read our recent blog, “Microsoft launches Azure Health Data Services to unify health data and power AI in the cloud.”
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¹ WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Global report on diabetes. 1. Diabetes Mellitus – epidemiology. 2. Diabetes Mellitus – prevention and control. 3. Diabetes, Gestational. 4. Chronic Disease. 5. Public Health. I. World Health Organization. ISBN 978 92 4 156525 7 (NLM classification: WK 810) © World Health Organization 2016 9789241565257_eng.pdf;jsessionid=27AFE586B882A75AA68600E65BD3E049 (who.int)
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