Welcome to the weekly update in the Azure cloud world!

Jiadong Chen
2 min readOct 16, 2023
source: Microsoft tech community

From unleashing the potential of Generative AI and large language models to guide us into a new era of knowledge search, to simplifying the complex decisions around Azure Migration, optimizing cloud investments with Azure Advisor, fortifying our digital defenses with Microsoft Defender, and gaining deep insights into our tenant’s resources through Microsoft Graph Activity Logs. Stay tuned!

🎯 Build GenAI powered Smart Knowledge Search platform for enterprises

The use of #GenerativeAI and large language models is pivotal for innovation, with enterprises seeking to harness their capabilities for various tasks; the ideal solution involves building a comprehensive platform that integrates these technologies to enhance productivity, user experiences, and data accessibility while adhering to key principles like reusability, scalability, and governance.

🎯 How to decide which Azure Migrate appliance is right for your environment?

This guide aims to help customers choose the right Azure Migrate appliance for their specific source environment and #migration needs, whether it’s VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers, or servers hosted by other cloud providers, offering options such as agentless or agent-based approaches based on their requirements.

🎯 Optimize your Cloud investment with new Azure Advisor Workbooks

The ideal approach in times of economic flux is not just about cutting costs but continuously optimizing to drive innovation, productivity, and agility, facilitated by Azure Advisor’s new workbooks that provide best practices and actionable recommendations for optimizing Azure resources in terms of reliability, service retirements, and cost-effectiveness, ensuring improved visibility and control over your Azure environment.

🎯 Predict future attacks! Cloud Security Posture Management with Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers advanced cloud security protection by predicting and preventing potential security breaches, prioritizing security actions based on risk assessment, and providing actionable recommendations ranked by severity, enabling organizations to enhance their #cloudsecurity posture.

🎯 Microsoft Graph Activity Log is Now Available in Public Preview

Microsoft Graph Activity Logs, available in public preview, provide comprehensive visibility into HTTP requests accessing your tenant’s resources through the Microsoft Graph API, offering insights into application activities, compromised user detection, suspicious API usage, and client application behaviors, with configurability for storage and integration with Azure Monitor Logs.

🔽 Reference Diagram:

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If you found this post helpful, please share and follow for more insights into #CloudComputing and #Azure. Let’s keep learning together! 🔄🚀

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Jiadong Chen
Jiadong Chen

Written by Jiadong Chen

Microsoft MVP, MCT | Azure Certified Solutions Architect & Cybersecurity Architect Expert | Member of .NET Foundation | Packt Author

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