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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Arc Enabled Kubernetes at Build 2020
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with support for most of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-certified Kubernetes distributions. With this capability, customers can manage and govern their Kubernetes clusters from Azure across their data centers, multi-cloud configurations, and Azure Stack Hub.
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Microsoft Announces a New Pricing Model Option for Azure Cosmos DB and More Capabilities
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced a new consumption-based pricing model for Azure Cosmos DB called 'serverless' that is ideal for spiky workloads and complements the existing provisioned throughput pricing model.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Stack Hub with New Management Features, Container Support and More
During this year's digital Build conference, Microsoft announced several new incremental updates to its private and hybrid computing offering Azure Stack Hub. The public cloud vendor will add various significant features on Azure Stack Hub in private previews such as an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Resource Provider, and Fleet Management.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Windows Server Containers, and More for AKS
Almost a year ago, Microsoft launched a preview of Windows Server Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Now the company announced the general availability of Windows Server containers in AKS, including the support of private clusters and managed identities.
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Google Announces Anthos Support for Multi-Cloud is Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced that Athos support for multi-cloud is generally available. With Anthos, customers can now consolidate all their operations across on-premises, Google Cloud, and other clouds starting with AWS and Microsoft Azure as it is currently in preview.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Dedicated Hosts with Reservations, Maintenance Control and More
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced new updates to its Dedicated Host service in Azure. The public cloud vendor made a few updates to the service such as cost-saving reservations, maintenance control, further options with SKUs, and Resource Health alerts.
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AzureRM Terraform Provider 2.0 Released with Custom Timeouts and Improved Resource Importing
HashiCorp announced the release of version 2.0 for the AzureRM Terraform Provider. This release includes an overhaul of how virtual machines and virtual machine scale set resources are described, an introduction of custom timeouts, and the removal of a number of deprecated resources. There are also changes to improve how existing resources are handled while running terraform apply.
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Confluent Offers Apache Kafka as a Service on the Azure Marketplace
In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the general availability of Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Confluent Cloud is a fully managed Apache Kafka service that removes the burden of operationally managing Kafka for engineers.
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Azure Sphere, a Secure IoT Platform, Reaches General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Sphere, an end-to-end IoT Security Platform. The Azure Sphere platform focuses on three key areas including microcontroller units (MCUs), a secure operating system (OS), which is based upon Linux, and providing cloud security services including software updates and detecting emerging threats.
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Microsoft Releases Azure App Configuration to General Availability
Azure App Configuration is a new service on Microsoft's Cloud Platform, allowing developers to centralize their application configuration and feature settings in a secure and straightforward manner. In a recent Microsoft Azure update, the public cloud vendor announced the general availability of this service.
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Q&A with Martijn Verburg and Bruno Borges of Microsoft Regarding Contributing to the OpenJDK
InfoQ caught up with Martijn Verburg, principal group SWE manager, Java and Bruno Borges, principal program manager, Java at Microsoft, about the specifics of the intended contribution from Microsoft to the OpenJDK.
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Microsoft Adds Virtual Network Support for Azure Firewall Manager, Enables Centralized Management
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Firewall Manager now supports virtual networks. This new capability allows organizations to centrally manage security policies and route management for cloud-based security perimeters based on two network architectures, including secured virtual hub and hub virtual network.
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Microsoft Releases Sustainability Calculator, Helps Enterprises Analyze Carbon Emissions
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Sustainability Calculator, which is a Power BI application that allows Azure customers to measure carbon emissions associated with their Azure consumption. The goal of this tool is to provide people who are responsible for measuring their carbon impact of their cloud workloads with insights on how they can reduce their carbon footprint.
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Microsoft Rebrands Flow Service to Power Automate, Adds Robotic Process Automation Capabilities
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced changes to its cloud-based automation service, Microsoft Flow. The service has been re-branded to Power Automate, which better aligns to other Power Platform services. Microsoft has also expanded on the capabilities of the Microsoft Flow service by providing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities, in preview.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Event Grid on IoT Edge
Microsoft have announced the public preview of Event Grid on IoT Edge, which enables the adoption of event-driven architectures on systems created for disconnected or remote environments. This means that implementing event-driven scenarios using a publish/subscribe model with routing capabilities are now available on Internet of Things devices running anywhere.