Azure Updates: Outage; Enterprise-scale reference architecture; WebLogic Server; Power Fx

Microsoft experienced its second worldwide outage in recent weeks on Thursday, April 1. The issue affected Azure portal and even the Azure Status page. Reports began cropping up on the website Downdetector around 5 p.m. US Eastern Time. The outage also affected Skype, Bing, Teams and Office 365. Microsoft indicated the issues stemmed from DNS, reporting in the midst of the outage, "Microsoft rerouted traffic to our resilient DNS capabilities and are seeing improvement in service availability. We are continuing to investigate the cause of the DNS issue."

Microsoft senior cloud advocate Thomas Maurer shared details on how IT teams can leverage enterprise-scale reference implementations. Enterprise-scale landing zone architectures provide modular designs with reference implementations and ways to start off with landing zones. He highlighted hub and spoke and virtual WAN options, together with diagrams of potential architectures.

Among general updates, Backup supports backup and restore for Dedicated Host. Public previews include Monitor container insights support for Arc-enabled Kubernetes extension model, platform support migration of Cloud Services classic to Resource Manager, and backup and restore for VM Scale Sets with flexible orchestration. A variety of Security Center updates appeared in March such as Firewall management integration, recommendation data in Resource Graph, ...