- A CPU vulnerability has been found and disclosed by Google Project Zero team. This vulnerability will affect many CPUs, including those from AMD, ARM and will allow unauthorized party to access contents of memory that would be otherwise unavailable. This vulnerability will allow attackers to a virtual machine to gain access to other virtual machines hosted on the same physical machine. Read more here.
- The Azure classic portal will be officially decommissioned on January 8th 2018. Migrating features from the old portal has been a huge ongoing effort from Microsoft but now it’s time to fully switch to the new portal. Classic portal users do not need to take any action and services will be available in the new Azure portal. Previously, it was announced that the plug will be pulled on 30th of November. Read more here.
- Azure now lets you prepay one year or three years worth of virtual machine usage at reduced cost using Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs). The idea is that you would save costs by making a one-year or three-year commitment to using the resource at reduced costs.
- Often when you deal with a number of accounts in Azure portal, it is easy to lose track of resources, why they were created, who owns them and how is a typical resource justified in terms of costs. This calls for implementing a strategy to keep the resources tidy. The way resources are created in different subscriptions and different resource groups plays should be governed by an enterprise-wide set of instructions. I found a good article here describing what you need to consider when implementing a naming convention and best practices.
- Late last year, Microsoft announced the general availability of Bash in Cloud Shell. This is an attempt to give users the ability to manage and deploy Azure resources from virtually anywhere. Bash in Cloud Shell comes equipped with commonly used CLI tools, including Linux shell interpreters, Azure tools, text editors, source control, build tools, container tools, database tools, and more. A browser version of the shell can be accessed here. To read more on the subject here.
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Vahid Ghattavi 