Microsoft named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
We’re excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.
Announcements
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Microsoft Cost Management updates—August 2024
We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.
Introducing o1: OpenAI’s new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure
We are excited to add OpenAI’s newest models o1-preview and o1-mini to Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Studio, and GitHub Models.
Advanced Container Networking Services: Enhancing security and observability in AKS
Advanced Container Networking Services is a new product offering, designed to address the observability and security challenges of modern containerized applications.
Microsoft and Oracle enhance Oracle Database@Azure with data and AI integration
Together with Oracle, we’re announcing upgrades to Oracle Database@Azure, giving customers the ability to run or build new cloud applications that combine Oracle Database services with native Microsoft Azure services and benefit from extremely low latency and high performance.
Azure Public IPs are now zone-redundant by default
Announcing that Azure Public IPs are zone-redundant by default. Yes, automatically.
Check out what’s new in Azure VMware Solution
I’m writing to you today from VMware Explore in Las Vegas, where my team and I are thrilled to present the latest updates for Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
Boost your AI with Azure’s new Phi model, streamlined RAG, and custom generative AI models
We’re excited to announce several updates to help developers quickly create AI solutions with greater choice and flexibility leveraging the Azure AI toolchain.
Microsoft Cost Management updates—July 2024
We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.
Announcing mandatory multifactor authentication for Azure sign-in
Learn how MFA can protect your data and identity, and get ready for the upcoming MFA requirement for Azure.
Elevate your AI deployments more efficiently with new deployment and cost management solutions for Azure OpenAI Service including self-service Provisioned
We’re excited to announce significant updates for Azure OpenAI Service, designed to help our 60,000+ customers manage AI deployments more efficiently and cost-effectively beyond current pricing.
GitHub scales on demand with Azure Functions
Flex Consumption delivers fast and large scale-out features on a serverless model and supports long function execution times, private networking, instance size selection, and concurrency control.