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Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup
General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.
Execute Azure Monitor Logs connector on exact time range provided dynamically (preview)
Azure Monitor Logs connector lets you query data in your Log Analytics workspace or Application Insights components...
General Availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in China regions
Azure China cloud regions now support Trusted Launch Virtual Machines to improve security posture of an Azure Virtual...
Mainframes are dead! Long live cloud computing!
One of the things that has often driven me nuts with the rise of cloud computing is the assumption that the demise of...
Oracle Autonomous Database adds AI conversation support
Oracle has updated its Autonomous Database offering in an effort to maintain its lead over competing cloud-based...
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication
Azure Blob Change Feed and Object Replication now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-February 2024
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-February 2024.
General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches
Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys.
Public preview: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Easily migrate PostgreSQL to Azure with a managed service supporting full schema and data migrations, without...
Public preview: Azure SQL migration assessment enabled by Azure Arc
With SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc you can now begin your migration journey from directly within the Azure Arc...
Microsoft kicks off .NET 9
Microsoft’s upcoming .NET 9 release, a planned major update to the company’s cross-platform development platform, will...
5 things to consider before you deploy an LLM
If the screwdriver were invented by the tech industry today, then it would be widely deployed for a variety of tasks,...
Microsoft Graph Toolkit 4.0 boosts search, developer experience
Microsoft is shipping version 4.0 of its Graph Toolkit, a set of components for working with the Microsoft Graph. The...
Azure Firewall: Flow Trace Logs and Autoscaling based on number of connections are now generally available
Flow Trace Logs provide more visibility into the TCP handshake, providing insight into whether traffic is properly...
Azure Firewall: Parallel IP Group update support is now in public preview
Parallel IP Group support enables administrators to simultaneously update multiple IP Groups in a firewall,...
Sending a log search alert to unauthorized target resources will no longer be supported
When a log search alert rule is configured with a target resource for which the alert process does not have access or...
Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available
Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available, the industry’s first fully managed and cloud-native SAN offering that...
Public preview: Upgrade policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets using Flexible Orchestration
Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets using Flexible Orchestration provide a safe and consistent method to...
3 killer apps for cloud-based generative AI
I’ve been working with artificial intelligence systems since the 1980s. Back then, AI was considered a revolution in...
Laying the groundwork for cost-conscious coding
Every cloud-consuming company is concerned about runaway cloud costs. To address those concerns, the big three cloud...