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Azure Managed Grafana Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Managed Grafana, a managed service that enables customers to run Grafana natively within the Azure cloud platform. With the managed service, they can connect to existing Azure Services to enhance observability and cloud management.
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Azure Data Explorer Supports Native Ingestion from Amazon S3
Microsoft recently announced the ability to natively ingest data from Amazon S3 into Azure Data Explorer (ADX). The new feature simplifies multi-cloud data analytics deployments, bringing data from Amazon S3 to Azure, without relying on custom ETL pipelines.
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Extended VMware and Microsoft Collaboration with Major Updates to the Azure VMware Solution
During the recent VMware Explore 2022, VMWare announced it would strengthen its collaboration with Microsoft regarding the Azure VMWare Solution. In addition, the solution received several new updates, including extended availability.
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Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-Based Processors Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. In addition, the Arm-based virtual machines can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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Cloud Providers Target Middle East: AWS Adds Region in the United Arab Emirates, Microsoft in Qatar
Amazon recently announced a new region in the United Arab Emirates, its second one in the Middle East. Microsoft just opened its first global datacenter region in Qatar where Google plans to open a new region too.
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Microsoft Dev Box Now in Public Preview
Azure recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation in the cloud targeted to developers. Integrated with Windows 365, the new service supports any developer IDE, SDK, or tool that runs on Windows and simplifies onboarding of new developers.
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AWSGoat Open-Source Project for Pen Testing AWS Cloud Solutions
AWSGoat is a vulnerable-by-design infrastructure on AWS, featuring the latest released OWASP Top 10 web application security risks (2021) and other misconfiguration based on services such as IAM, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, and ECS. It mimics real-world infrastructure with additional flaws and uses a black-box approach, including multiple escalation paths.
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Azure Optimized Stack with DeepSpeed for Hyperscale Model Training
Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) now provides an optimized stack that uses the latest NVIDIA GPU technology with Quantum InfiniBand to efficiently train and fine-tune large models like Megatron-Turing and GPT-3.
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Microsoft’s New Azure Fluid Relay Service Now Generally Available
Recently, Microsoft announced its Azure Fluid Relay service's general availability (GA). This managed cloud offering enables web developers to use the Fluid Framework for building enterprise-grade collaborative applications.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Premium SSD V2 Disk Storage
Recently Microsoft announced the preview of Premium SSD v2, the next generation of Microsoft Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. This new disk offering provides, according to the company, the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies .
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Microsoft Introduces a New Way for Faster Building Cloud Apps with Azure Developer CLI
Recently Microsoft introduced the public preview of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) — a new, open-source tool that accelerates the time it takes to get started on Azure. It provides developer-friendly commands that map to essential stages in the developer workflow: code, build, deploy, monitor, and repeat.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Its Gateway Load Balancer in All Regions
Gateway Load Balancer is a fully-managed service enabling enterprises to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third-party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure. Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Gateway Load Balancer in all public regions, Azure China cloud regions, and Azure Government cloud regions.
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Azure Static Web Apps Introduces API Backend Options
Azure recently announced the preview of new API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps. Developers can now create an end-to-end authenticated application calling APIs hosted on Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, or Azure API Management.
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Microsoft Limits Public Access to AI-Powered Facial Analysis Features
Microsoft recently announced phasing out public access to AI-powered Facial Analysis features in several Azure services.
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SynLapse: Orca Security Publishes Details for Critical Azure Synapse Vulnerability
In a recent article, Orca Security describes the technical details of SynLapse, a critical Synapse Analytics vulnerability in Azure that allowed attackers to bypass tenant separation. The issue has now been addressed, but the timing and the disclosure process have raised concerns in the community.