How can we be up-to-date with all the new or enhanced features on Azure if this is what Microsoft had been working on in the last 18 months.

Likely enough some of them I already started to working on, but there are a lot others that it will depend in the project that I will be assign. Let see what is the new year reserves for me. I might have to work on my New Year Resolutions and add all of those.

Infrastructure as a Services

Compute

  1. G Series
  2. SSD
  3. New VM Gallery
  4. Antimalware for VMs & Cloud Services
  5. A8/A9 Compute Intensive Instances
  6. SAP on Azure
  7. Agent Injection in VM’s
  8. Encrypted VM Disks
  9. VM- Basic Instance
  10. Hyper-V Replica
  11. Site Recovery Manager E2E
  12. Site Recovery Manager E2A
  13. Snapshot VM
  14. Scheduler
  15. Automation
  16. AutoScale
  17. Antimalware
  18. Oracle on Azure
  19. SQL, SharePoint, BizTalk Images
  20. Per Minute Billing
  21. Stop without Billing
  22. MSDN Dev/Test Integration
  23. Offline Operations
  24. Delete Disks
  25. Large Memory Skus
  26. VIP ACLs

Networking

  1. Express Route
  2. Network Security Groups
  3. Forced Tunneling
  4. Virtual Network: Point to Site
  5. Virtual Network: Site to Site
  6. Virtual Network: Cross VNET
  7. Loadbalance
  8. Instance Level public IP(Preview)
  9. Traffic Manager external endpoints
  10. IP reservation
  11. CDN v.2
  12. Subnet Migration
  13. Dynamic Routing

Storage

  1. Premium Storage
  2. Azure Site Recovery
  3. Read Only Secondary Storage
  4. Read Access Geo Redundant Storage
  5. Zone Redundant Storage
  6. Storage Import/Export Hard Drives
  7. Azure Files
  8. Storage Tiers (SSD, Disk, Tapes)
  9. CORS/JSON
  10. Storage Analytics
  11. Queue Geo Replication

Cheers,

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