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This Week I Learned -  * Azure Cost Management + Billing aids in increasing organizational accountability by implementing governance policies for effective enterprise cloud cost management, and increase accountability with budgets, cost allocation, and chargebacks. Chargebacks are internal charges assigned to various departments. Showback is an analysis of technology usage across the board. Microsoft offers a  Cloud Adoption Framework Governance Benchmark Tool to assess and aid in designing a governance strategy. It also offers governance guides based on the complexity of the enterprise *  Every tenant is linked to a single Azure AD instance, which is shared with all tenant's subscriptions . Resources from one subscription are isolated from resources in other subscriptions. An owner of a tenant can decide to have multiple subscriptions: when Subscriptions limits are reached to use different payment methods to isolate resources between different departments, projec...

*  You can now configure Azure Backup while you're creating a virtual machine * Brand Detection is a new capability in Microsoft Video Indexer, which enables you to index brand mentions in speech and visual text, based on a large built-in brands catalog as well as with customization. Brands are disambiguated from other terms using context. * Speech recognition systems are composed of several components. The most important components are the acoustic and language models. Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech API gives developers access to state of the art speech models.  Custom Speech Service enables acoustic and language model adaptation with zero coding. * Azure Active Directory supports Oauth and other authentication protocols but not Kerberos, Hadoop supports only Kerberos for strong network authentication. To support applications/technologies that require Kerberos authentication, and in conjunction with Azure Active Directory for identity and access management (IAM...