[Launched] Generally Available: The credcheck extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 3, 2025 | Cloud

Now you can install the credcheck extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. The credcheck extension helps you to enforce password and credential validation policies directly within PostgreSQL. Learn more

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Load Balancer bandwidth metrics now support Protocol dimension

by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 3, 2025 | Cloud

Bandwidth metrics for Azure Load Balancer are now published with metric dimension Protocol. When retrieving or viewing Byte, Packet, and SYN Count metrics in the Azure portal, you will now see the dimension Protocol. TCP traffic is denoted by...

Mistral targets lightweight processors with its biggest open model yet

by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 3, 2025 | Cloud

Mistral AI’s latest batch of LLMs, officially released Tuesday, includes Mistral Large 3, a 675-billion-parameter model. It’s the company’s first mixture-of-experts model since the Mixtral series released at the end of 2023, and already ranks among the top open-source...

Amazon Bedrock adds reinforcement fine-tuning simplifying how developers build smarter, more accurate AI models

by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 3, 2025 | AWS

Organizations face a challenging trade-off when adapting AI models to their specific business needs: settle for generic models that produce average results, or tackle the complexity and expense of advanced model customization. Traditional approaches force a choice...

New serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI accelerates model fine-tuning

by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 3, 2025 | AWS

Today, I’m happy to announce new serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI for popular AI models, such as Amazon Nova, DeepSeek, GPT-OSS, Llama, and Qwen. The new customization capability provides an easy-to-use interface for the latest fine-tuning techniques...