Public preview: Azure Route Server

What is Azure Route Server (Preview)?

Azure Route Server simplifies dynamic routing between your network virtual appliance (NVA) and your virtual network. It allows you to exchange routing information directly through Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing protocol between any NVA that supports the BGP routing protocol and the Azure Software Defined Network (SDN) in the Azure Virtual Network (VNET) without the need to manually configure or maintain route tables. Azure Route Server is a fully managed service and is configured with high availability.

Azure Route Server to enable dynamic routing between your network appliances and gateways in Azure, instead of using static routing. Azure Route Server provides Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) endpoints using standard routing protocol to exchange routes.

Easily use Azure Route Server with existing deployments or new deployments with support for any network topology, such as hub and spoke, full mesh, or flat virtual network).

After Enabling it publishes all routes to Express Route, making management easier.

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Google GCP – New Tau VMs

T2D, the first instance type in the Tau VM family, is based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYCTM processors and leapfrogs the VMs for scale-out workloads of any leading public cloud provider available today, both in terms of performance and workload total cost of ownership (TCO). The x86 compatibility provided by these AMD EPYC processor-based VMs gives you market-leading performance improvements and cost savings, without having to port your applications to a new processor architecture. 

As illustrated below, Tau VMs offer 56% higher absolute performance and 42% higher price-performance (est. SPECrate2017_int_base) compared to general-purpose VMs from any of the leading public cloud vendors.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-cloud-introduces-tau-vms

Free – PostgreSQL

Azure Free offer coming soon

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server is available for free with an Azure Free Account starting in June 2021. It is now easier than ever to get started with developing Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server on Azure. Use it to develop and test your applications and run small workloads in production for free. The Azure free offer will provide you with up to 750 hours of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server B1ms and 32GB of storage and 32GB of backup storage for free for the first 12 months. After 12 months, you will be charged the standard pay-as-you-go rates.

Starting in June 2021 – Cheers!