Episode 393 - Behind the scenes

The Azure Podcast

You might not guess how Azure thinks about investing in continually improving customer experiences. We talk to Azure Partner PM Scott Hitch about the work his team does to improve the time in takes to remediate your applications and resources in Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode393.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/08mTqIr_-W0

Resources:

Azure Advisor: http://aka.ms/azureadvisor

Service Health: https://aka.ms/azureservicehealth

Other updates:

Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/guarantee-capacity-access-with-ondemand-capacity-reservations-now-in-preview">https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/guarantee-capacity-access-with-ondemand-capacity-reservations-now-in-preview

Public preview: Automatic scaling with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode -> Jerry Steele was on the show previously

Published date: September 07, 2021

We are announcing that we have enabled elastic virtual machine profile and automatic scaling for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration elastic profile and automatic scaling. The features are now in public preview, and provide:

• Up to 1000 instances in a scale set (general purpose virtual machine sizes only)

• Ability to manually add VM instances to the scale set

• The option to spread instances across fault domains automatically, or specify a fault domain

• Place on demand and Spot VMs in the same scale set

• (New) Define a VM profile and specify instance count

• (New) Automatically scale out and scale in based on metrics, schedule, or AI prediction (private preview)

• (New) In guest patching that respects high availability / FD constraints

• (New) Automatic extension updates

• (New) Automatic instance repair/replacement of unhealthy instances

• (New) Terminate notification for on demand and Spot VMs

• (New) Secure by default networking - customers must explicitly define outbound connectivity

• (New) Improved scale out and scale in reliability, latency, and elasticity

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/automatic-scaling-for-vms-with-azure-virtual-machine-scale-sets-flexible-orchestration-mode

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-app-service-support-for-availability-zones-reaches-general-availability/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/private-link/disable-private-endpoint-network-policy