Azure Updates: MongoDB; Cost Management; Blocking domain fronting

Microsoft CVP Jessica Hawk discussed key benefits of Microsoft’s partnership with MongoDB and their pay-as-you-go self-service database offering. Microsoft is continuing to expand its partnership with capabilities like Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Fabric, and Entity Framework Core. MongoDB Atlas is available over forty Azure regions, including the most recent addition of Doha, Qatar. Hawk wrote:

[W]e know that our customers like using MongoDB to build applications. In year one of our strategic partnership, we collaborated with MongoDB to make it even easier for our joint customers to do more with Microsoft services and MongoDB Atlas on Azure.

Hawk also noted that the two organizations are working together "to further improve GitHub Copilot’s performance using MongoDB schema, among other things."

Principal product manager Sameer Doultani shared key developments in Azure Cost Management throughout 2023. At the start of the year, Microsoft announced a partnership with the FinOps Foundation and adopted OpenCast cost visibility for AKS in April. New cost analysis features, plus Copilot for Azure appeared on the scene. Additionally, the Azure team added new pricesheet download, alerting, and export options.  

Microsoft announced that as a result of customer concerns about the upcoming enforcement of blocking domain fronting on existing Azure Front Door and Azure CDN Standard, Microsoft is postponing blocking domain fronting until January 24, 2024. “[We] will provide two ...