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Breaking Change Notice: Virtual Machine Scale Set Default Orchestration Mode changing from Uniform to Flexible on PowerShell, Azure CLI
Starting November 2023, Virtual Machine Scale Sets created on PowerShell and Azure CLI will automatically default to...
Private Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS
Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional...
Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation...
General Availability: Azure Private Link for MySQL – Flexible Server
Use Azure Private Link for private connectivity with MySQL – Flexible Server.
General Availability: Universal cross-region read replica on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Provision up to 10 read replicas in universal regions on Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for early-October 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-October 2023.
Announcing Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2
We're thrilled to announce the public preview launch of our latest Azure API Management pricing tiers: Basic v2 and...
AWS releases Cloud Institute virtual program to train developers
In an effort to reduce the scarcity of trained cloud developers, AWS is releasing a new virtual program, dubbed Cloud...
When open source cloud development doesn’t play nice
Open source is a polarizing topic in IT and has been for most of my career. More emotions exist around using open...
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets
Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets.
Azul cloud service spots dead code in Java apps
Java software and services provider Azul has added a code inventory capability to identify “dead” code via its Azul...
Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.
Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023
Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024
On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks...
Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration
Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 30 September 2024
Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 30 September 2024.
Cloud infrastructure spending is growing
I hate to say, “I told you so,” but the significant downturn in cloud spending that many people anticipated has not...
What is Kubernetes? Your next application platform
Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from...
Docker ties up with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama to launch Gen AI Stack
Docker, the software platform for building applications based on containers, has partnered with Neo4j, LangChain, and...
App Service: Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected...