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Important Notice: Azure Product Retirement: End of Life Announcement of Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service Versions 31 March 2025
Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service will be retired on 31 March 2025.
Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027
We encourage users to explore our new offering Azure AI Content Safety that offers both new and updated capabilities...
Basic and Standard A-series VMs on HDInsight will retire on 31 August 2024
On 31 August 2024, Azure will retire Basic and Standard A-series VMs as announced earlier on 24 August 2021. Before 31...
Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025
The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service will be retired on 31 March 2025. By that date, please consider...
Is Kubernetes worth it?
I’ll go ahead and say it: When looking closer at the total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with Kubernetes, more...
Building a smarter Azure Kubernetes for developers
With KubeCon Europe taking place this week, Microsoft has delivered a flurry of Azure Kubernetes announcements. In...
General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.
General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using...
Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance
The next generation of general purpose service tier brings improved performance, 32 TB storage and higher database...
Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope
Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover...
Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL
Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.
Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support
Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible...
How to deploy software to Linux-based IoT devices at scale
The internet of things (IoT) has transformed the way we interact with the world, connecting a myriad of devices to the...
JetBrains unveils CI/CD service for smaller teams
JetBrains has launched a public beta version of TeamCity Pipelines, a cloud-based CI/CD (continuous...
General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.
Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage
With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over...
Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from...
Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform
The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking...
A change in the machine learning landscape
Federated learning marks a milestone in enhancing collaborative model AI training. It is shifting the main approach to...
Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS
You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs