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Since November 15, 2023, Microsoft Copilot for Azure is available in preview. Microsoft Copilot for Azure is an AI companion for IT that simplifies day-to-day IT administration. More than just a tool, it is a unified chat experience that understands the user’s role and goals, and enhances the ability to
Introducing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cost Views Effective November 14, 2023, the preview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cost Views is available. While the shared computing model is excellent for cost savings, it poses challenges in gaining visibility into granular costs based on Kubernetes entities. This is, where Cost Views
On November 7, 2023, Microsoft has achieved the FinOps Certification for Microsoft Azure, marking a milestone in optimizing cloud spending. Microsoft’s certification marks them as a FinOps Certified Service Provider. What is a FinOps Certification? A Financial Operations (FinOps) Certification is a recognition that an individual or organization has
Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety, a new service that helps you detect and filter harmful user-generated and AI-generated content in your applications and services. Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety is a content moderation platform that uses AI to keep your content safe. Create better
How can you best protect your cloud deployments from attacks? How do you incorporate security practices for cloud systems that may be different from on-premises systems and different between cloud service providers? That’s where the power of a managed platform as a service (PaaS) with integrated cloud security comes in.
Effective October 2, 2023, Microsoft announced that Azure Container Apps is eligible for Azure savings plan for compute. With Azure Container Apps you can build and deploy fully managed, cloud-native apps and microservices using serverless containers. All Azure Container Apps regions and plans are eligible to receive 15% savings (1
In October 2022, Microsoft announced that the ability to exchange Azure compute reservations would be deprecated on January 1, 2024. This policy’s start date remains January 1, 2024. However, through a grace period, you have the ability to exchange Azure compute reservations (Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances, Azure Dedicated Host reservations,
On September 14, 2023, Oracle and Microsoft announced Oracle Database@Azure. Oracle Database@Azure provides customers with direct access to Oracle database services hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and deployed within Microsoft Azure data centers. This collaboration combines Oracle Database’s performance and scalability with Microsoft Azure’s flexibility and top-tier services, including
On October 1, 2023, Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) becomes Microsoft Entra ID. This is a name change only and requires no action on your part. The licensing plans and pricing for Azure AD and Microsoft 365 plans, which include Azure AD, will remain unchanged. Name changes Service
On November 22, 2023, Broadcom announced that it has completed its acquisition of VMware. The acquisition of VMware expands Broadcom’s portfolio of software solutions
Starting in Spring 2024, the new Planner app will be available in Microsoft Teams, followed by a web experience later in 2024. Microsoft Planner will
Since November 15, 2023, Microsoft SharePoint Premium is available in Preview with various services launching from late 2023 to early 2024. SharePoint Premium is an
