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General availability: Mexico Central region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available in Mexico Central. Azure HDInsight is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source...
Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 7 new regions
Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in seven new regions - East US 2 EUAP, West US, Japan East,...
How cloud cost visibility impacts business and employment
In its latest The State of Cloud Cost in 2024 report, CloudZero illuminates the serious implications of cloud cost...
Public preview: Azure Monitor pipeline (at edge)
We are announcing public preview Azure Monitor pipeline (for edge). With this, we are now extending our Azure Monitor...
Infrastructure and quality enhancements for Azure Container Registry
ACR now supports expanded registry capacity of up to 40TiB and optimized geo-replication performance.
Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host – Redeploy
Introducing redeploying capability for Azure dedicated hosts
DBOS: A better way to build applications?
At the end of March 2024, Mike Stonebraker announced in a blog post the release of DBOS Cloud, “a transactional...
Updated Retirement Notice: Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024
Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024 – migrate to Microsoft Purview
The temptation of AI as a service
Back in the early days of the cloud, I had a nice little business taking enterprise applications and reengineering...
Do you need to repatriate from the cloud?
Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data...
Using Inspektor Gadget for Kubernetes observability
Platform engineering is becoming a compelling concept for enterprises, as they’re devoting increasingly large amounts...
OpenAI ramps up enterprise support with a focus on security, control, and cost
OpenAI, known for its large language model ChatGPT, is making a strong push for the enterprise market. In what could...
Snowflake’s open-source Arctic LLM to take on Llama 3, Grok, Mistral, and DBRX
Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has developed an open-source large language model (LLM), Arctic, to take...
General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over...
Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries
Reduce RU-costs and improve query speeds with Index Advisor!
General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain!
Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB improves its vector search capabilities with filtered vector search, now in preview.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features
Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore
Store cluster backup in another region. Restore cluster in the primary or another region.
General availability: Virtual network flow logs
Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks