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[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Ultra disks
Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for Virtual Machines with Ultra disks. ASR provides...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Version 4.17 Now Available with Enhanced Features
Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.17 is now available as an installation option. This latest release brings enhanced...
[Launched] General Available: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Chile
The first cloud region in Chile is now available with Azure Availability Zones and provides organizations across the...
Retirement: Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— transition to a new method of internet access
After September 30, 2025, new virtual networks will default to requiring explicit outbound connectivity methods...
Better together: Developing web apps with Astro and Alpine
Astro is a stable server-side platform for launching web applications. Alpine is the go-to minimalist front-end...
Get started with Python type hints
Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things,...
OpenAI’s o3 price plunge changes everything for vibe coders
On June 10, OpenAI slashed the list price of its flagship reasoning model, o3, by roughly 80% from $10 per million...
Retirement: Support for .NET 9 (STS) ends on May 12, 2026
On May 12, 2026, support for .NET 9 (STS) will end. Your apps that are hosted on App Service will continue to run, but...
[Launched] Public Preview: Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Linux VMs to Enhance VM Troubleshooting
Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, is expanding its...
Malicious PyPI package targets Chimera users to steal AWS tokens, CI/CD secrets
A malicious Python package posing as a harmless add-on for the Chimera sandbox environment, an integrated machine...
Design a better customer experience with agentic AI
Whereas large language models (LLMs) attracted consumers well before enterprise users, SaaS platforms are driving the...
Amazon Bedrock faces revamp pressure amid rising enterprise demands
Amazon’s flagship generative AI platform, Bedrock, could be in for a significant overhaul as customer expectations...
A developer’s guide to AI protocols: MCP, A2A, and ACP
Unlike traditional AI models that respond to single prompts (like ChatGPT’s basic Q&A mode), AI agents can plan,...
Navigating the rising costs of AI inferencing
In 2025, the worldwide expenditure on infrastructure as a service and platform as a service (IaaS and PaaS) reached...
Java 25 to change Windows file operation behaviors
As part of a quality outreach, some changes are coming in the planned Java 25 release with regard to file operations...
Retirement: DCsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on June 30, 2026
On June 30, 2026, DCsv2-series Azure virtual machines (VMs) will be retired. After that date, they will no longer be...
Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025: Five takeaways for data professionals, developers
At Databricks’ Data + AI Summit 2025 last week, the company showcased a variety of generative and agentic AI...
The key to Oracle’s AI future
Oracle’s stock is finally catching up with its talk about cloud, fueled by surging infrastructure and AI demand. In...
Top 6 multicloud management solutions
Multicloud is increasingly common in today’s enterprises. The use of multiple public clouds, even spreading...
Rethinking the dividing lines between containers and VMs
The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are...