Category: AI + Machine Learning • 11 min read
What was once a distant promise is now manifesting—and not only through the type of apps that are possible, but how you can build them. With Azure, we’re meeting you where you are today—and paving the way to where you’re going. So let’s jump right into some of what you’ll learn over the next few days. Welcome to Build 2024!
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.
Announcements, App Configuration, Developer Tools
Published • 2 min read
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Azure App Configuration, a new service aimed at simplifying the management of application configuration and feature flighting for developers and IT.
Azure HDInsight, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL Database, Hybrid + Multicloud
Published • 4 min read
Read how governments can benefit from Azure, get the latest on Azure Kubernetes service, and learn how IoT helps supply chains.
Announcements, Azure NetApp Files, Storage
Published • 3 min read
Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of Azure NetApp Files, the industry’s first bare-metal cloud file storage and data management service. Azure NetApp Files is an Azure first-party service for migrating and running the most demanding enterprise file-workloads in the cloud including databases, SAP, and high-performance computing applications with no code changes.
Best practices, Cost Management, Management and Governance
Published • 2 min read
It’s common for enterprises to run workloads on more than one cloud provider; however, adopting a multi-cloud strategy comes with complexities like handling different cost models, varying billing cycles, and different cloud designs that can be difficult to navigate across multiple dashboards and views.