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Protect your web applications using WAF with Azure Front Door

Sharad Agrawal and Teresa Yao join Scott Hanselman to introduce Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Front Door. They show how to configure and block malicious attacks against web applications at the edge of Microsoft's network. WAF with Azure Front Door is the best solution to help protect your web applications without compromising on delivery speed.[05:18] DemoAzure Front Door overviewAzure Front Door docsWhat is Azure web application firewall for Azure Front Door?Azure Front Door pricingCreate a free account (Azure)

• Azure Front Door
• Web Apps

Azure API Management updates - serverless, schemas, and a new dev portal

Mike Budzynski is back to share the latest Azure API Management updates with Scott Hanselman.[01:25] Building serverless APIs with Azure Functions & API Management Consumption tier[03:40] Generating object schemas[06:30] New developer portal (now in preview) Azure API Management developer portal (azure/api-management-developer-portal)Azure API Management overviewAzure API Management docsAzure API Management resourcesCreate a free account (Azure)

• API Management

An introduction to Azure Dedicated Hosts

Ziv Rafalovich joins Donovan Brown to introduce Azure Dedicated Host, which is a service that provides physical servers - able to host one or more virtual machines - dedicated to one Azure subscription.Dedicated hosts are the same physical servers used in our data centers, provided as a resource. You can provision dedicated hosts within a region, availability zone, and fault domain. Then, you can place VMs directly into your provisioned hosts, in whatever configuration best meets your needs.[04:48] DemoIntroducing Azure Dedicated Host (blog)Azure Dedicated Host overivewPreview: Deploy VMs to dedicated hosts using the Azure CLIPreview: Deploy VMs to dedicated hosts using the portalPreview: Deploy VMs to dedicated hosts using the Azure PowerShellAzure Dedicated Host pricingPreview: Azure Dedicated Hosts (docs)Create a free account (Azure)

• Virtual Machines

An introduction to decentralized identities

Danny Strockis joins Scott Hanselman to discuss decentralized identity, which gives users ownership of their digital identities and data by leveraging permissionless distributed ledgers.[04:07] Authentication concept[10:30] DemoDecentralized identity – Own your own identityDecentralized Identity Developer DocsDIF – Decentralized Identity Foundationdecentralized-identity GitHub repoCreate a free account (Azure)

• Azure Blockchain Service

Debugging and optimizing Azure Cosmos DB performance

Deborah Chen joins Scott Hanselman to share some best practices on how to debug and optimize Azure Cosmos DB for better performance. Watch as they go through the common issues newcomers to Azure Cosmos DB run into with respect to performance and how to solve them by tuning Request Unit (RU) cost and choosing a good partition key.Azure Cosmos DB - Globally distributed, multi-model database service for any scaleOptimize provisioned throughput cost in Azure Cosmos DBOptimize query cost in Azure Cosmos DBPartitioning in Azure Cosmos DBRequest Units in Azure Cosmos DBCreate a free account (Azure)

• Azure Cosmos DB

Testing in production with Azure App Service

Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to show how to leverage Azure App Service features to empower your DevOps to achieve sophisticated scenarios like testing in production using deployment slots with just a few clicks.Azure App Service overviewSet up staging environments in Azure App ServiceAzure App Service docsCreate a free account (Azure)

• App Service