The annual Microsoft Build conference for developers recently concluded for 2022. There were many interesting announcements about the general availability of new or improved products, as well as news around rebranded products.
Here is a quick summary of notable announcements, which will be useful to those companies that innovate using Microsoft technologies:
- Single-Node Azure Stack HCI – ideal for businesses with smaller budgets
- Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform – accelerate blending of data from disparate sources for actionable intelligence
- Azure Container Apps – Microsoft’s serverless container service, generally available
- .NET MAUI (multi-platform app UI) – the next-evolution cross-platform .NET model for developers
- Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code – helps developers quickly spin up Microsoft Teams apps for Web and mobile
- Azure DCsv3 VMs with Intel Software Guard Extensions – VMs designed specifically to keep data in the public cloud secure
- Azure Communication Services Mobile UI Library – APIs designed to reduce development time for developers of interactive or collaborative mobile apps that work with Microsoft Teams
- Azure App Service Landing Zone Accelerator – includes documentation and automation to simplify the migration of enterprise apps from on-premises to Azure App Service
- Service Bus Explorer in Azure Portal – more capabilities for sending and receiving messages
- MySQL Flexible Server ‘Business Critical’ Tier – replaces the ‘Memory Optimized’ tier and performs 1.5 times faster than MySQL Single Server deployment
