Azure App Service Automatic Scaling is a new feature that intelligently manages the number of instances of a web application. It analyzes real-time HTTP traffic and scales out (adds instances) or scales in (removes instances) to match demand. The most significant advantage of Automatic Scaling is that it simplifies web application management, offering a less complex approach than services like Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which often require detailed rule definitions.

Azure Storage Actions is a new serverless framework that facilitates functional automated operations on storage accounts. The preview release allows you to set up storage tasks that automatically execute operations on blobs within Azure Storage accounts, controlled by user-defined conditions. With storage tasks, objects in storage accounts can automatically be managed without relying on additional automation services such as Azure Functions or Azure Logic Apps.

Managed identities provide secure authentication for resources accessing other resources in Azure without requiring sensitive information such as secrets, credentials, and certificates to be handled. Microsoft Entra ID manages these identities, enabling applications to obtain tokens for authentication. In this post, I will provide an example that illustrates how to use system and user-assigned managed identities with PowerShell.