Automated API deployments using APIOps -Edition 1

APIOps places the Azure API Management infrastructure under version control to achieve these goals. Rather than making changes directly in API Management, most operations happen through code changes that can be reviewed and audited. This approach supports the security principle of least-privilege access.

APIOps not only enforces policies within API Management, but also helps support security by providing feedback for proposed policy changes.

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Evolve JSON Schemas in Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with the AWS Glue Schema Registry

As applications, websites, and machines increasingly adopt data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, which serve as a highly available transport layer that decouples the data producers from data consumers, it can become progressively more challenging for teams to coordinate and evolve JSON Schemas

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Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends

In November, Microsoft mitigated a DDoS attack with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (pps), targeting an Azure customer in Asia.

Attack vectors were UDP reflection on port 80 using Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Time Protocol (NTP) comprising one single peak, and the overall attack lasted approximately 15 minutes.

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SAP deployment on Azure using an Oracle database

This example scenario demonstrates an SAP deployment on Windows or Linux virtual machines (VMs) on Azure, along with a High Availability (HA) Oracle database.

This example includes a high availability configuration for an Oracle database, SAP central services, and multiple SAP application servers running on different virtual machines.

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Microsoft launches landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled servers

The landing zone accelerator provides best practices, guidance, and automated reference implementations so that customers can get started with their deployments quickly and easily.

Azure Arc-enabled servers landing zone accelerator makes it easier for customers to increase security, governance, and compliance posture on servers that are deployed outside of Azure.

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