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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
Effective May 23, 2023, utilization alerts for Microsoft Azure Reservations are available. What are Microsoft Azure Reservations? Reservations help organizations cut costs in Azure by committing to a 1-year or 3-year term for services such as virtual machine compute. Committing allows you to get a discount on the resources
Since April 26, 2023, Microsoft Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server is generally available. What is Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server? Azure Hybrid Benefit is a licensing benefit that enables you to leverage your on-premises core-based SQL Server licenses, along with active Software Assurance or subscription,
From February to April 2024, Microsoft has introduced a variety of new frontline worker licenses. Most of them are Microsoft Intune-related. These join the additions from January 2024. New Frontline Worker licenses All new additions are licensed as User Subscription Licenses (USL). Hence, each user accessing these services or
Effective April 1, 2024, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Premium is available. It gives new demand planning capabilities for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management powered by Copilot. What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Premium? Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Premium is a version of Microsoft
On December 11, 2023, VMware was acquired by Broadcom. With this, major changes in licensing were made. VMware has reduced the number of offerings and has transitioned their bundles to subscriptions. In this article, we want to give you an overview of the new licensing models of VMware. Also, find
