The rapid rate of development in Azure
1 min readAug 29, 2022
The rate of tech innovation in the cloud is a real challenge for organizations. Since the beginning of this year alone, Azure has made 127 feature preview announcements and 130 feature GA announcements. I got this number by doing a rough analysis of update announcements on this site — https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/.
I wrote this quick script to do this:
for ( $i = 1; $i -lt 9; $i++ ) {# Store update URIs in variables
$previewuri = "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/2022/0$i/?status=inpreview"
$gauri = "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/2022/0$i/?status=nowavailable"$AzurePreviewUpdates = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $previewuri
$AzureGAUpdates = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $gauri# Count preview and GA update announcements
$previewcount = ($AzurePreviewUpdates.Links | Where-Object {($_.href -like '/en-us/updates/public?*') -or ($_.href -like '/en-us/updates/azure?*')} | Select-Object -Property data-event-property, href | Sort-Object -Property href, data-event-property -Unique).Count$gacount=($AzureGAUpdates.Links | Where-Object {($_.href -like '/en-us/updates/general?*') -or ($_.href -like '/en-us/updates/azure?*')} | Select-Object -Property data-event-property, href | Sort-Object -Property href, data-event-property -Unique).Count# Write the output to the console
Write-Output "2022-0$i-preview-count = $previewcount"
Write-Output "2022-0$i-ga-count = $gacount"
}
With this rapid rate of development, how quickly are security teams understanding the security implications of all these releases? How are they managing this in their organizations?
