ACA Dynamic Sessions - The best Azure service you've never heard of

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Jordan Selig to learn about resiliency on Azure App Service and discover how quick and easy it is to add intelligent, connected agents to new and existing Azure App Service apps. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:14 - Zone redundancy on Azure App Service 04:24 - Add agents to your apps 08:17 - Demo 14:58 - Wrap up Recommended resources Blog Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Jordan Selig | LinkedIn: /in/jordan-selig/ Azure App Service | Twitter/X: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Discover ACA Dynamic Sessions, a versatile, container-based, low-latency compute platform that allows you to execute LLM-generated code securely and with low cold-start latency. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:44 - Background 02:03 - Introduction to Dynamic Sessions 04:15 - Demo: using LangChain with Dynamic Sessions 07:30 - Demo: using Dynamic Sessions with Small Language Models 10:35 - Demo: bring your own container to Dynamic Sessions 14:55 - Demo: MCP 17:26 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Nir Mashkowski | @nirmsk | LinkedIn Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Nick Greenfield to learn about the Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler. The Durable Task Scheduler is a fully managed backend for orchestrating stateful workflows across Azure compute environments. It powers Durable Functions and Durable Task SDKs with built-in reliability, automatic retries, and persistent state management, which is powerful for long-running, distributed, or event-driven applications. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Durable Functions overview 05:10 - Introduction to the Durable Task Scheduler 06:41 - Start of Demo 10:51 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Samples Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

We will see how the new popular PostgreSQL extension for VSCode multiplies productivity of PostgreSQL developers with the power of Copilot. In the live demo we will design database schema, visualize it, find a performance issue in the PostgreSQL query and fix it with the help of Copilot. Finally, we'll build an app to compare breweries between Washinton and Oregon! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:48 - Demo - Connect to Azure PostgreSQL database with EntraID 04:26 - Demo - Design and visualize database schema 07:36 - Demo - Adding geospatial column 10:48 - Demo - Optimizing performance of the PostgreSQL query 15:48 - Demo - Creating an app Recommended resources PostgreSQL extension for VSCode Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Maxim Lukiyanov | LinkedIn: Maxim Lukiyanov Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

In this video Minnie talks about the Metadata Security Protocol security feature on Azure Instance Metadata Service that helps mitigate security risks by only allowing authenticated applications to communicate with the Host endpoints. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:46 - How Metadata Security Protocol works with Azure Instance Metadata 02:49 - Start of demo 02:54 - Register for feature in portal 03:11 - How to use the feature in portal 04:08 - Inside the virtual machine to check IMDS communication 04:37 - How to check which applications are communicating with different endpoints 05:26 - How to use the allowlist tool 10:02 - Where to download the allowlist tool 10:22 - Where to leave feedback Recommended resources Metadata Security Protocol on Azure Instance Metadata Service Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Vamshi Kommineni and Eitan Bremler to explore and demo how Microsoft is helping organizations protect cloud storage data at the core of their applications—by embedding intelligent, built-in posture management, threat protection, and malware scanning directly into Azure Blob Storage through its deep integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:37 - Azure Blob Storage overview 02:15 - Storage Security philosophy - Start Secure and Stay Secure 03:30 - Demo part 1 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Storage Security - Start Secure 09:28 - Demo part 2 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Storage Security - Stay Secure Recommended resources Introduction to Azure Blob Storage What is Microsoft Defender for Storage? What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud? Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Eitan Bremler | Twitter/X: @EBremler | LinkedIn: Eitan Bremler Vamshi Kommineni | Twitter/X: @VamshiKommineni | LinkedIn: Vamshi Kommineni Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Anusha Subramanian to demo Azure Databox and Azure Storage Mover, learning how to demystify storage migrations. See how these Azure tools can help you move petabytes of data easily and quickly to Azure Storage. Moving large amounts of data can be complex, but with the right tools and AI you can further simplify the process. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:07 - Guided storage migration experience 04:26 - Next Gen Azure Data Box for offline migrations 06:39 - Azure Storage Mover for online migrations 07:26 - Demo of AWS S3 to Azure blob storage migrations using Storage Mover 09:53 - Copilot for storage migrations 11:44 - Learn more about storage migrations Recommended resources Check this comparison matrix on the functionality for different tools Documentation Azure Storage Migration Solutions Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

The video describes the new Logic Apps Hybrid deployment model that allows customers to run their integration workloads in their own Kubernetes environments. This is ideal for customers initiating their journey to the cloud and hosting multiple on-premises workloads, who need to meet industry regulations, who wants to reuse their own Kubernetes infrastructure, or to avoid the natural latency introduced in hybrid configurations. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:50 - Creation of a Logic Apps with hybrid deployment model 06:25 - Creation of a workflow 08:15 - The power of the Workflow Designer 09:00 - Open telemetry in Logic Apps 10:05 - Zip deploy 10:45 - Rules engine 14:12 - Core concepts of Hybrid 14:52 - Wrap up Recommended resources Set up your own infrastructure for Standard logic apps using hybrid deployment Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Harold Campos | Twitter/X: @hcampsosu | LinkedIn Harold Campos | YouTube Harold Campos Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Jan Kalis to demo Azure Code Optimizations for .NET. See how Azure’s AI-driven capabilities help you find real-world performance issues in your apps, ground Copilot suggestions with production data, and even help auto-generate PRs with benchmarked code fixes with GitHub Copilot software agent. Watch the live demo and learn how to level up your .NET performance using insights for your running .NET applications on Azure! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - See how Code Optimizations helps improve app performance 03:00 - Demo – part 1 – Review your Code Optimizations on Azure portal 06:20 - Demo – part 2 – Optimize code with GH Copilot for Azure in VS Code 10:16 - Demo – part 3 – Move faster from insights to PR with GH Copilot software agent Recommended resources Check your Code Optimizations recommendations Documentation Feedback Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Jan Kalis | LinkedIn: Jan Kalis Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Daya Patil drops in on Scott Hanselman to chat about getting started with Azure Business continuity Center, a single pane of glass for all your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) needs across solutions and platforms for various key pillars like manage, monitor, Govern and audit compliance along with ability to perform core actions from centralized place. Recommended resources Azure Business Continuity Center Business Continuity with ABCC Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/x: @SHanselman Azure App Service | Twitter/x: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/x: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/x: @Azure