Rishabh Tewari, a Software Engineer on the Azure team, gives us insights into Project Sirius. This is an upgrade to the Azure software that lights up Accelerated Connections for any resource that uses a network interface. Using a specialized SDN, customers and ISVs can achieve very high number of connections per second throughput across all of their Azure and non-Azure resources.
 
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode497.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZVgBBrRlZGQ
Resources:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi23-bansal.pdf
 
Other updates:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-audit-logging-in-azure-api-management-developer-portal/ 
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/log-analytics-simple-mode