Category: AI + Machine Learning • 4 min read
We are excited to introduce Phi-3, a family of small open models with the capability of 10 times larger models, developed by Microsoft and optimized for Azure AI.
Published • 19 min read
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 163 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.
Azure Sphere, Internet of Things
Published • 3 min read
Each quarter, the Azure Sphere team works to open new scenarios to customers through new features on-chip and in the cloud. The Azure Sphere 19.05 release continues this theme by unlocking the real-time capable cores that reside on the MT3620.
Announcements, Azure Resource Manager, Management and Governance
Published • 2 min read
Azure Deployment Manager is a new set of features for Azure Resource Manager that greatly expands your deployment capabilities. If you have a complex service that needs to be deployed to several regions, if you’d like greater control over when your resources are deployed in relation to one another, or if you’d like to limit your customer’s exposure to bad updates by catching them while in progress, then Deployment Manager is for you.
Announcements, Azure Security Center, Security
Published • 1 min read
One of the biggest attack surfaces for workloads running in the public cloud is connections to and from the public internet. Our customers find it hard to know which network security group (NSG) rules should be in place to make sure that Azure workloads are only available to required source ranges.
Azure IoT Hub, Developer Tools, Internet of Things
Published • 2 min read
We just released a new capability that enables enriching messages that are egressed from Azure IoT Hub to other services. Azure IoT Hub provides an out-of-the-box capability to automatically deliver messages to different services and is built to handle billions of messages from your IoT devices.
Announcements, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Compute, Networking
Published • 5 min read
Calico policies lets you define filtering rules to control flow of traffic to and from Kubernetes Pods. In this blog post, we will explore in more technical detail the engineering work that went into enabling Azure Kubernetes Service to work with a combination of Azure CNI for networking and Calico for network policy.
Cost Management, Management and Governance
Published • 8 min read
Azure Cost Management helps you understand how and where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs, empowering you to do more with less. Let’s take a look at the latest set of improvements which will better enable you to manage your cloud costs, all in a single place.
Announcements, Azure Logic Apps, Integration, Management and Governance
Published • 2 min read
Innovation at scale is a common challenge facing large organizations. A key contributor to the challenge is the complexity in coordinating the sheer number of apps and environments.
Event Grid, Internet of Things, Serverless
Published • 6 min read
Event-driven architectures are increasingly replacing and outpacing less dynamic polling-based systems, bringing the benefits of serverless computing to IoT scenarios, data processing tasks or infrastructure automation jobs.
Azure SQL Database, Databases, Thought leadership
Published • 10 min read
Understand the underlying factors that can cause performance differences between Azure SQL Database managed instance and SQL Server and the steps you can take to make fair comparisons between SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.