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Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) retirement moving up to 31 May 2024
Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 31 May 2024.
Build or buy cloud-based generative AI?
Generative AI is pushing some critical decisions and doing so very fast. Every organization faces the crucial decision...
InfoWorld’s 2023 Technology of the Year Award winners
The arrival of ChatGPT in late 2022 and the ensuing cascade of large language models ensured that 2023 will forever be...
Fortifying confidential computing in Microsoft Azure
One of the biggest challenges facing any enterprise using the public cloud is the fact that it’s public. Yes, your...
Public preview: Intel TDX based confidential VMs now available in the Azure portal, Azure CLI and ARM templates
The DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Azure portal and via the CLI...
Delaying Domain Front Block on AFD and CDN services
Azure Front Door and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) are postponing the domain fronting blocking...
Companies aren’t ready to succeed with AI
How ready are we to harness AI, be it in the cloud or elsewhere? Pluralsight, the technology workforce development...
General Availability – Snapshots feature of Azure App Configuration
Assure stable production configuration, get efficient rollbacks, and a comprehensive configuration audit trail for...
Azure Event Grid releases public preview support for events from services like Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams.
Support for Microsoft Graph API events helps you automate actions in response to Microsoft resource changes.
Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Vancouver version
The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues...
Generative AI is off to a rough start
It’s been a rough month for generative AI (GenAI). First, AWS launched Amazon Q, its answer to Microsoft’s Copilot,...
Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview
Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before...
Why your cloud database performance sucks
“My cloud application is slow,” is a common complaint. However, nine times out of ten the cause does not lie with the...
Can cloud computing be truly federated?
Reporters often call me about whatever newfangled buzzword is out there and what it means to the typical enterprise....
Accelerating cloud native development in Microsoft Azure
One big advantage of developing cloud native applications is that you can often leave all the tedious infrastructure...
AWS finally gets serious about genAI
Love him or hate him, Duckbill Group chief economist and AWS snarkologist Corey Quinn is often right in his...
AWS re:Invent 2023: 7 takeaways from the big annual event
At the AWS re:Invent conference last week, the spotlight was focused on artificial intelligence, with the new...
General availability: Encryption with customer-managed keys in Azure Health Data Services
The ability to encrypt health data in the cloud with customer-managed keys using Azure Health Data Services is...
Azure Event Grid system topics support for resource management and health resources now in Public Preview
Health resources and resource management alerts available through Event Grid system topics
Migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints
If you are using VNet injection to secure your Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster, you may face some challenges such as...