Software — Azure — March 31st, 2025
Azure AI Foundry Supports NVIDIA NIM and AgentIQ for AI Agents
In collaboration with NVIDIA, Microsoft has announced the integration of NVIDIA NIM microservices and the NVIDIA AgentIQ toolkit into Azure AI Foundry. This strategic move aims to significantly accelerate the development, deployment, and optimization of enterprise-grade AI agent applications, promising streamlined workflows, enhanced performance, and reduced infrastructure costs for developers.
March 31, 2025 — Source
Software — Azure — March 13th, 2025
Microsoft Enhances Azure Elastic SAN with Auto Scale, Snapshot Support, and CRC Protection
Microsoft recently announced several new updates to its iSCSI-based Azure Elastic SAN, a fully managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN) offering.
March 13, 2025 — Source
Quarkus 3.19 Prepares for LTS Release 3.20
One month after the release of Quarkus 3.18.0, version 3.19.0 was released in February 2025. This is the last release before the next long-term support (LTS) version, 3.20.0, which is now feature complete and scheduled to be released on March 26th according to the Release Planning guide. The new release uses the new @ConfigMapping infrastructure, UBI 9 images and Mockito's inline strategy.
March 13, 2025 — Source
Software — Azure — February 3rd, 2025
Managing Distributed System Locks With Azure Storage
Locks in distributed systems give processes exclusive access to resources. Timeout and lease-based locks help prevent deadlocks and resource contention.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source
Software — Azure — January 17th, 2025
Azure AD Graphs Will Finally Be Retired in February
Microsoft on Thursday announced that Azure AD Graph APIs will stop processing application requests after Feb. 1.
January 17th, 2025 — Source
Software — Azure — January 13th, 2025
Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions
It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday
January 13th, 2025 — Source
Software — Azure — January 10th, 2025
Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping
Struggling to connect to the cloud? You're not alone
January 10th, 2025 — Source
Software — Azure — January 2nd, 2025
Optimizing Performance in Azure Cosmos DB: Best Practices and Tips
Optimize performance, minimize costs, and ensure scalability in Azure Cosmos DB with practices like selecting the right partition key and tuning queries.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source
Software — Azure — December 31st, 2024
Microsoft Introduces Serverless GPUs on Azure Container Apps in Public Preview
At the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, the company announced the public preview of Azure Container Apps with serverless GPUs powered by NVIDIA. This feature allows customers to utilize NVIDIA A100 GPUs and NVIDIA T4 GPUs in a serverless environment, providing scaling and flexibility for real-time custom model inferencing and other machine-learning tasks.
December 31st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — December 30th, 2024
Microsoft issues urgent dev warning to update .NET installer link
Microsoft is forcing .NET developers to quickly update their apps and developer pipelines so they do not use 'azureedge.net' domains to install .NET components, as the domain will soon be unavailable due to the bankruptcy and imminent shutdown of CDN provider Edgio.
December 30th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — December 25th, 2024
Azure Boost DPU: Microsoft's New Silicon Solution for Enhanced Cloud Performance
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the Azure Boost DPU, its first in-house DPU designed for efficient, low-power, data-centric workloads. According to the company, this single piece of silicon combines high-speed Ethernet and PCIe interfaces, network and storage engines, data accelerators, and security features into a fully programmable system on a chip.
December 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — December 10th, 2024
How to Automate Blob Deletion in Azure Storage Using PowerShell
Learn how to automate daily blob deletion in Azure storage accounts using PowerShell, effectively manage timestamped reports, and optimize storage efficiency.
December 10th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 21st, 2024
Azure Local: The Secret to Affordable Cloud Computing Anywhere
Azure Local, powered by Azure Arc, is reshaping the landscape of distributed computing by bringing cloud capabilities to affordable hardware at remote locations. This innovative approach addresses light computing needs while maintaining cost-effectiveness, making it an attractive solution for a wide range of industries and applications.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 16th, 2024
Native Vector Support in Azure SQL Database in Public Preview
Microsoft recently launched a public preview of native vector support for the Azure SQL Database. With this update, the database can now store and process vector embeddings directly within it.
November 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 15th, 2024
High-Level AI with Azure AI Services
This course focuses on leveraging Azure's high-level AI services to solve real-world business problems. You'll explore pre-built solutions for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), content moderation, and other Azure AI offerings, understanding their apps and trade-offs compared to custom-built solutions.
November 15th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 12th, 2024
LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally
Knowing how your cloud application will behave in production usually requires significant development and testing in the environment in which it will be deployed, be that AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or wherever. But this can be a resource-intensive endeavor, particularly with issues relating to latency (the time it takes to constantly send data) and the costs associated with this.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 7th, 2024
Microsoft announces Azure Linux 3.0 for AKS preview
Microsoft has just announced the availability of Azure Linux 3.0 for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which is now available as a preview on AKS version 1.31. Azure Linux 3.0 was made generally available a few months ago on GitHub; you can see the full release notes here.
November 7th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 5th, 2024
Microsoft Azure Cheat Sheet: Key Services & Commands Guide
The rise of cloud computing provides businesses the ability to quickly provision computing resources without the costly and laborious task of building data centers, and without the costs of running servers with unutilized capacity due to variable workloads.
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 3rd, 2024
Hacked TP-Link routers at center of massive botnet used to attack Azure customers
The network is probably still operational and likely acquiring new infrastructure
November 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — November 2nd, 2024
Microsoft confirms Azure Virtual Desktop black screen and Office app issues in Windows 10
Microsoft has updated the official Windows Health Dashboard website with a new known issue for those still rocking the good-old Windows 10. According to Microsoft, version 22H2 with recent updates may experience issues logging in to Azure Virtual Desktop and other problems.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — October 18th, 2024
Microsoft is terminating Azure OpenAI service for individual developers in China
Earlier this year, OpenAI stopped offering its products and services to developers in China. At that time, Microsoft said it would continue to offer its Azure OpenAI Service in China and would continue to provide access to eligible customers in the country via models deployed in regions outside of China. Since then, Microsoft's Azure OpenAI was the only way for developers to access OpenAI's latest models.
October 18th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — October 16th, 2024
Microsoft announces general availability of Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs
During last year's Ignite conference, Microsoft first revealed that it was working on an ARM processor named Microsoft Cobalt 100 for general-purpose computing workloads on the Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft mentioned that the purpose of developing Cobalt 100 was to have an energy-efficient ARM chip for cloud-native offerings with an optimized performance-per-watt ratio in data centers.
October 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — October 13th, 2024
Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes
While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distribution.
October 13th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — October 12th, 2024
Microsoft Azure is the first hyperscaler to have NVIDIA's Blackwell system with GB200
Back in March, NVIDIA announced the new NVIDIA Blackwell platform, which offers up to 25 times lower cost and energy consumption than its predecessor for large language model training. Major cloud providers and leading AI startups, including Amazon Web Services, Dell Technologies, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, Tesla, and xAI, are expected to adopt Blackwell when it becomes available.
October 12th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 25th, 2024
Google accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations over Azure cloud platform
Complaint cites "steep penalties" for Microsoft customers using other providers.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Google files EU complaint over Microsoft cloud services
Google said Wednesday that it had filed a complaint against Microsoft at the European Commission, accusing its rival of "anticompetitive" licensing practices to force customers to use its cloud service.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
How to Minimize Latency and Cost in Distributed Systems
The microservices architectural approach has become a core factor in building successful products. It was made possible by adopting advanced cloud technologies such as service mesh, containers, and serverless computing.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Simplifying Multi-Cloud Observability With Open Source
As cloud workloads become increasingly sophisticated, adopting an open-source and vendor-agnostic approach is key to streamlining organizational operations.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 19th, 2024
Microsoft's Customer Managed Planned Failover Type for Azure Storage Available in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new failover type for Azure Storage with customer managed planned failover. This new failover type allows a storage account to failover while maintaining geo-redundancy, with no data loss or additional cost.
September 19th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 10th, 2024
Oracle-Microsoft 'Database@Azure' Service Getting Fabric, Sentinel Hooks
A year after it was first unveiled, the Oracle Database@Azure infrastructure-as-a-service offering from Oracle and Microsoft is getting significant new capabilities.
September 10th, 2024 — Source
We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?
Analyst suggests Redmond's internal distro may one day fly the coop
September 10th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 3rd, 2024
Workspaces in Azure API Management GA: Runtime Isolation and Federated Model of Managing APIs
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Workspaces in Azure API Management, a feature designed to enable developers to manage multiple API services from a single location. This allows them to easily view and modify all their API services in one place.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — September 2nd, 2024
Microsoft launches Mv3 High Memory virtual machines with improved price performance
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Mv3 (third version of M-series) High Memory (HM) virtual machines (VM) powered by 4th generation Intel Xeon processors (Sapphire Rapids) for customers of its Azure public cloud platform.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — August 27th, 2024
LinkedIn Migrates Their Servers From CentOS To Azure Linux
LinkedIn has replaced CentOS as their default server operating system choice with Azure Linux to power all of their server needs.
August 27th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft has LinkedIn ditch CentOS for Azure Linux
According to a recent blog post, back in April 2024, LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) transitioned nearly all its servers, virtual machines, and containers to Azure Linux. This migration was a strategic move to modernize LinkedIn's compute stack and enhance its ability to serve over 1 billion users.
August 27th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — August 21st, 2024
Azure Kubernetes Services Vulnerability Exposed Sensitive Information
A vulnerability in Azure Kubernetes Services could have allowed attackers to escalate privileges and access sensitive information on the clusters.
August 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — August 16th, 2024
Mandatory Multifactor Authentication for Azure Coming Soon
Starting in October, Microsoft will require multifactor authentication (MFA) for all Azure sign ins.
August 16th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Azure will start pushing mandatory multi-factor authentication from October
Microsoft has announced that it will begin the first phase of its mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) push this October to help reduce the likelihood of account compromise attacks. Microsoft said that MFA can block more than 99.2% of these account compromise attacks, so the measure is mandatory.
August 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — August 8th, 2024
Microsoft and Palantir partner to boost AI for U.S. national security
Microsoft and Palantir today announced an expanded partnership to bring cloud, AI, and analytics services to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. This new suite will allow critical national security missions to leverage Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms (AIP) in Microsoft's government and classified cloud environments.
August 8th, 2024 — Source
OpenAI's latest model GPT-4o-2024-08-06 now available on Microsoft Azure
Yesterday, OpenAI announced its newest frontier model, officially named GPT-4o-2024-08-06. This new model comes with Structured Outputs support in the API, which ensures that model-generated outputs will exactly match JSON Schemas provided by developers. Along with the Structured Outputs support, OpenAI also reduced the API usage price.
August 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — July 31st, 2024
'Error' in Microsoft's DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage
A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation
July 31st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft: Yesterday's Azure and 365 server outage was caused by a DDoS attack ... at least at first
Denial of service was on the menu for Microsoft's server infrastructure.
July 31st, 2024 — Source
The cause of Microsoft's global cloud services outage revealed
Yesterday, Microsoft services connected to Azure experienced disruptions worldwide. We now know why: a targeted DDoS attack.
July 31st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — July 19th, 2024
Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change
Microsoft says an Azure configuration change caused a major Microsoft 365 outage on Thursday, affecting customers across the Central US region.
July 19th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — June 28th, 2024
Microsoft's Azure AI Speech services add more voices and more chat avatars
Microsoft has been adding more AI-based realistic voices for customers of its Azure AI Speech services over the past year. Today, the company announced it is offering those customers even more additions and improvements for AI voices.
June 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — June 26th, 2024
High HTTP Scaling with Azure Functions Flex Consumption: Q&A with Thiago Almeida and Paul Batum
Microsoft has introduced a significant enhancement to its Azure Functions platform with the Flex Consumption plan, designed to handle high HTTP scale efficiently. This new plan supports customizable per-instance concurrency, allowing users to achieve high throughput while managing costs effectively. In practical tests, Azure Functions Flex demonstrated the ability to scale from zero to 32,000 requests per second (RPS) in just seven seconds.
June 26th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — June 20th, 2024
Inside today's Azure AI cloud data centers
At Build, Microsoft described how Azure is supporting large AI workloads today, with an inference accelerator, high-bandwidth connections, and tools for efficiency and reliability.
June 20th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — June 8th, 2024
Introducing New SKUs for Microsoft Azure Bastion: Developer and Premium Options Now Available
Microsoft recently announced new SKUs for its Azure Bastion service: a Developer SKU that is now generally available (GA) after its public preview last year and a premium SKU being rolled out in a public preview.
June 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 30th, 2024
General Availability of Deployment Stacks for Azure Resource Management Replacing Blueprints
Deployment Stacks, a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit, is now generally available (GA). It allows for faster updates and deletions while also preventing unwanted changes to those resources.
May 30th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 25th, 2024
Microsoft Introduces the Public Preview of Flex Consumption Plan for Azure Functions at Build
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the flex consumption plan for Azure Functions, which brings users fast and large elastic scale, instance size selection, private networking, and higher concurrency control.
May 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 23rd, 2024
Azure Copilot: An AI assistant for Azure ops and troubleshooting
Microsoft has added new skills to its LLM-powered Copilot in Azure and opened up access to everyone.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source
Devs Can Now Sign Up for Private Preview of GitHub Copilot for Azure
During this week's Build 2024 developer conference, Microsoft announced a private preview of GitHub Copilot for Azure, which lets developers use the AI pair programming tool in the cloud.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source
Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia
Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source
Microsoft's Azure AI Speech lets Truecaller users create an AI assistant with their own voice
The assistant can screen calls for them.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source
Truecaller Is Partnering With Microsoft To Introduce A Voice Clone Feature To Answer Calls Using Azure AI's Personal Voice
Truecaller is a caller ID company that has recently partnered with Microsoft to bring a truly customized experience for its users with the help of an AI assistant. The company will use Microsoft's Azure AI to create a digital clone of the user's voice to help get back to calls using the AI-generated version of the voice. This new personalized voice feature gives us another glimpse of the AI advancements and the role it will play in how we communicate.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source or Source or Source
Software — Azure — May 21st, 2024
AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators Power Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Workloads and New Azure ND MI300X V5 VMs
Today at Microsoft Build, AMD showcased its latest end-to-end compute and software capabilities for Microsoft customers and developers. By using AMD solutions such as AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerators, ROCm™ open software, Ryzen™ AI processors and software, and Alveo™ MA35D media accelerators, Microsoft is able to provide a powerful suite of tools for AI-based deployments across numerous markets.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Azure AI Studio Now Generally Available, Sporting New Models Both Big and Small
Azure AI Studio is now generally available, emerging from preview on day one of the Microsoft Build 2024 developer conference.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Azure Copilot: An AI assistant for Azure ops and troubleshooting
Microsoft has added new skills to its LLM-powered Copilot in Azure and opened up access to everyone.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Azure AI gains new LLMs, governance features
At Build 2024 Microsoft also announced that the Azure AI Studio toolkit for building generative AI applications is generally available.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Azure gets 'Models as a Service,' enhanced RAG offerings for enterprise generative AI
The annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, saw a slew of upgrades to Azure AI Services - with many in preview already.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Build 2024: What GPT-4o can do on Azure AI
GPT-4o is now available on Azure AI.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft releases upgrades to Azure AI Speech at Build 2024
The company announced a slew of improved features to Azure AI services that support building with generative AI.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft upgrades its AI app-building platforms
Microsoft"s big focus at this year"s Build conference is generative AI. And to that end, the tech giant announced a series of updates to its platforms for building generative AI-powered apps and experiences: Azure AI Studio and Copilot Studio.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Microsoft will make Khan Academy"s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in cloud shift
Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced Tuesday morning.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 17th, 2024
Microsoft to start enforcing Azure multi-factor authentication in July
Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users signing into Azure to administer resources.
May 17th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 7th, 2024
Enhance Cloud-Based Monitoring with Azure Monitor Pipeline
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
May 7th, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 3rd, 2024
Microsoft to law enforcement: No using Azure OpenAI for facial recognition
Cops can't use its services to find suspects, body cams and phone footage included.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — Azure — May 1st, 2024
Azure Virtual Network Flow Logs for Enhanced Network Monitoring and Security Analysis
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Network flow logs, a new capability of the Network Watcher service in Azure.
May 1st, 2024 — Source