🎉 What a fantastic day we’ve had at the Global Azure Bootcamp 2024 – Toronto edition!
Hosted at the Microsoft Canada HQ, the event was a roaring success with 15 enlightening presentations from speakers who, collectively, hold over 300 years of experience.
This event truly embodied our mantra: “From the community, for the community.”
🎂 Coincidentally, we also celebrated Microsoft’s 49th birthday in April and our own Toronto Azure Community’s 20th anniversary. Milestones like these make the journey all the more memorable!
🙏 A massive thank you to Microsoft and Centrilogic (Jeff Zado Denise Faustino Vineet Sharma Erin Scott John Lily) for sponsoring this community event. Your support plays a vital role in making these events possible.
👏 A round of applause for our speakers: Max Yermakhanov, Eli Robillard, Ricardo Covo, Hisham Qaddoumi, Ashraf Ghonaim 🍁, Krishna Venkataraman, Alex Rostan, Alex Pshul, Tamir Al Balkhi, Pooyan Fekrati, Roy Kim, Rishab Kumar Callon Campbell Nehal Bhandari . Your presentations were nothing short of extraordinary!
👍 Last but not least, a big shout-out to Alixia Blanc, Luca Gobbi, Arash Danesh, Surbhi Chouhan, David Rodela, and Chris Coulson for your unwavering support throughout the event.
✨ Looking forward to seeing everyone at our next event – the Global Copilot Summit on May 2nd. Can’t wait to continue this journey of learning and growth together. See you there! hashtag#AzureCommunity hashtag#GlobalAzureBootcamp2024“
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Toronto AI Meetup Presentation Resource: Application Landing Zone for Azure Open AI
It was a wonderful experience sharing insights on Azure Open AI Application Landing Zone and architecture patterns for deploying Azure Open AI using Azure API management at the Toronto AI meetup earlier this week. We conducted a thorough review of all deployment patterns aligned with Azure’s Well Architected Framework WAF, and detailed a specific use case for implementing a charge-back model, logging, and security for enterprise-grade deployment.
Will publish the resource soon.
Some photos here:
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Toronto Azure Community: Resources April 4, 2024 session
We had a great session on April 4th 2024 with a few topics in our monthly Azure Community in Toronto.
Like to share resources here:
Topic 1: Copilot for Microsoft 365
Speaker: Ahmed Saif Muntaseer
Topic 2:Security Operation, Winning the Security and Data Estates of the Enterprise
Speakers: Seyed Nouraie
Other resources:
https://github.com/seyed-nouraie
https://modernsecops.com/
https://socautomators.substack.com/
Topic 3: Powering your Cloud-native applications with Azure Cosmos DB
Speaker: Keyur Patel
Slides:
Thanks for joining us and looking forward to see you on the next one.
Cheers,
Ehsan
Custom path for blob inventory report would be a nice feature
In previous post we talked about a great feature of Azure Storage Account when it comes to cost management.
In this post I would like to propose an enhancement to blob inventory and share my experience with this feature.
Lately, a client assigned me to collaborate with a 3rd party vendor to review all their data assets. Initially, the task appeared straightforward, but it became complex when handling over 500 storage accounts and massive data volumes, such as hundreds of petabytes!
Here is how you can create a blob inventory rule:
This interface, does not accept a custom path for inventory report, for instance if you are working with a container and like to get the report for that particular container, the report gets generated to the directory within your container with year/month/day/Rule-Name structure. This is great until you work with a 3rd party vendor where you don’t want to give them full access to all 500 storage accounts in production.
In scenarios like this it would be great to have some flexibility to export the report to a separate storage account and container.
I would like to propose this to the azure storage account team and if you see this feature please vote for this feature to see this sooner than later.
What is Blob Inventory feature in azure storage account?
Recently with one of my clients, I’ve been tasked to work with a 3rd party vendor to go through all data assets for my client. at first it seems an easy task but not when you deal with more than 500 storage accounts and huge data volume e.g. hundreds of petabytes!
In this post I would like to explain one great feature in azure storage account and in another post will share some required feature that needs to be added to this to make life easier in such scenarios
Azure Blob Storage Inventory is a functionality within the Azure Storage Account that gives a comprehensive view of the items in your blob storage. It generates a CSV file that catalogs all your blobs along with their related metadata. Depending on your setup, this file is produced daily or weekly and is saved in a designated blob storage container.
It is under Data Management section of you azure storage account on Azure Portal.
More on this on Microsoft Docs
The Inventory is beneficial for a variety of applications such as tracking data growth over periods, data analysis, confirming encryption status, audit inspections, among others. It facilitates effective management and examination of your blob storage, particularly when dealing with substantial data volumes.
The inventory report incorporates information such as the blob’s name, the name of the blob container, the type and tier of the blob, the last time it was modified, when it was created, its content length, and other blob attributes. It offers high levels of customization, enabling you to add or remove specific blobs or containers as per your needs.
After creating your first inventory rule, you will have your inventory report file generated for each storage account. You can then process all of these files in a warehouse and generate nice report about your data assets using power bi.
Storage Account 500 request limit
In this post I would share a limitation with azure storage account when pulling data using api.
IaaC: Azure Verified Modules
In this post, I’m thrilled to present Azure Verified Modules (AVM), a groundbreaking venture that the AVM Team, Community, and Product Groups have been tirelessly developing. This initiative is set to revolutionize the deployment of Infrastructure-as-Code modules.
Welcome to My New Blog
Welcome to my new blog. I decided to change the old layout to something new and different. I still need to migrate the old posts here which will do very soon.
Ehsan Eskandari 