Azure HDInsight announcements: Significant price reduction and amazing new capabilities
Today, we are really happy to announce that we are reducing the prices for Azure HDInsight service and making several awesome capabilities generally available.
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Last week in Azure: Azure France regions, cost savings, and more
Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of December 11, 2017: Azure France regions available in preview with availability zones, new management & cost savings, and more
Announcing the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding, enabling developers to build better conversational bots
Conversational AI, or making human and computer interactions more natural, has been a goal since technology became ubiquitous in our society.
Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure Archive Storage
Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Archive Blob Storage.
Conversational Bots Deep Dive – What’s new with the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding
Microsoft brings the latest advanced chatbot capabilities to developers’ fingertips, allowing them to create apps that see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret users’ needs — using natural…
How cloud speed helps SQL Server DBAs
This blog post will review how engineering model transformations, driven by cloud requirements, resulted in several improvements in how we build, ship and service SQL Server.
Last week in Azure: OSBA, DevOps and Kubernetes, VM sizes, and more
Last week in Azure brought Open Service Broker for Azure, community projects and partnerships to extend what you can do with Kubernetes and Azure, and several storage-optimized and burstable VM sizes are now available in GA.
Connect your applications to Azure with Open Service Broker for Azure
I’m excited to announce today a preview of the Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA), an implementation of the Open Service Broker API for Azure services.
Announcing ONNX 1.0 – An open ecosystem for AI
Today we are announcing that Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) is production-ready. ONNX is an open source model representation for interoperability and innovation in the AI ecosystem that Microsoft co-developed.
Performance best practices for using Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Database services for PostgreSQL and MySQL at Build 2017 which is a simple, fully managed database service for PostgreSQL and MySQL that removes the…
ADL Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) supports Python & R Programming
We are excited to introduce the integration of Azure Data Lake (ADL) Python & R extensions into Visual Studio Code (VSCode), which allows you to easily edit Python or R scripts for your custom…
Azure Analysis Services integration with Azure Diagnostic Logs
We are pleased to announce that Azure Analysis Services is integrated with Azure Monitor Resource Diagnostic Logs. Diagnostic logging is a key feature for IT owned BI implementations.