Episode description

Lars Klint gives you all the important Azure news updates on Azure This Week! This week, new Azure Automation support, hopefully giving you more time for those projects you’re really interested in. There’s also another country to add to the growing Azure datacentre regions list – Malaysia! For locals this means you’ll have access to more azure services. And lastly some news on the Microsoft Azure Network Adapter driver and Linux – could this be the beginning of a beautiful relationship?

0:00 Introduction
0:33 New datacenter region in Malaysia
2:10 Automation for Managed Identities
3:09 Azure ‘MANA’ driver and Linux

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Microsoft announces plans to establish its first datacenter region in Malaysia
https://news.microsoft.com/en-my/2021/04/19/microsoft-announces-plans-to-establish-its-first-datacenter-region-in-malaysia-as-part-of-bersama-malaysia-initiative-to-support-inclusive-economic-growth/

Azure Automation support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/azure-automation-system-assigned-managed-identities/

Microsoft Adding Azure "MANA" Driver To Linux
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