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Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed 38TB of Sensitive Data
Security researchers at cloud-security company Wiz discovered a data leak affecting Microsoft's AI GitHub repository, including a huge amount of private data and a disk backup of two employees' workstations with sensitive data.
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HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes Moves into General Availability
HashiCorp has moved the HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes into general availability. This Kubernetes Operator combines Vault's secret management tooling with the Kubernetes Secrets cache. The operator also handles secret rotation and has controllers for the various secret-specific custom resources.
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State of Serverless 2023 Report Suggests Increasing Serverless Adoption
Datadog recently published the 'State of Serverless 2023' report, an annual analysis tracking the adoption of serverless technologies in cloud workloads. The major cloud providers are witnessing substantial growth in serverless usage, especially for container-based solutions.
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Azure Launches Free Playground for WordPress on App Service
One year after introducing WordPress on Azure App Service, Microsoft has started offering a free hosting tier for developers to explore with WordPress on Azure without incurring any costs (almost).
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Intra-Account Collection Copy in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB in Public Preview
Microsoft recently introduced the public preview of Intra-Account Collection Copy for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, allowing users to copy collections within the same account - offering enhanced data management and migration capabilities.
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Azure Announces Jumpstart Agora, a Collection of Cloud-to-Edge Examples
Microsoft recently introduced Jumpstart Agora, a new initiative to provide end-to-end industry scenarios for cloud-to-edge solutions. The first project that has been released is Contoso Supermarket, a sample point-of-sale application.
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External REST Endpoint Invocation in SQL Azure Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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Spring AI Provides Integration with OpenAI and Azure OpenAI
The experimental Spring AI project was introduced during the SpringOne conference and allows the creation of AI applications by using common concepts of Spring. Currently the project integrates Azure OpenAI and OpenAI as AI backends. Use cases like content generation, code generation, semantic search and summarization are supported by the project.
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Cost-Effective Solution for Infrequent Data Access and Retention with Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier, an online tier designed explicitly for efficiently storing infrequently accessed or modified data while ensuring immediate availability.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Boost to Improve Remote Storage Throughput and IOPS Performance
During the recent Inspire 2023 conference, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Boost to improve remote storage throughput and IOPS performance. Separating the hypervisor and host OS functions from the host infrastructure, the new option allows up to 10 Gbps throughput and 400K IOPS.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of Azure Application Gateway for Containers
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Application Gateway for Containers - a new application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management product for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster. It extends Azure's Application Load Balancing portfolio and is a new offering under the Application Gateway product family.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Round up: Claude 2, Stable Doodle, CM3leon, Llama 2, Azure and xAI
The most recent update, covering developments from July 17th, 2023, showcases significant progress and announcements in the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week's focus centers on Anthropic, Stability AI, Microsoft, Meta and xAI.
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Microsoft Azure Managed Lustre for HPC and AI Workloads Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Managed Lustre, a managed file system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads.
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Microsoft Azure Cross-Region (Global) Load Balancer Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure cross-region (Global) Load Balancer in all Azure public and national cloud regions.
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Distributed PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Azure Cosmos DB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB
Microsoft recently discussed the results of distributed PostgreSQL benchmarks, comparing transaction processing and price performance for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and Yugabyte. With different implementation trade-offs, the results show a higher throughput for Azure Cosmos DB but highlight the challenges of benchmarking distributed databases.