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Auth0's Move to a Single-Cloud Architecture on AWS
Auth0, a provider of authentication, authorization and single sign on services, moved their infrastructure from multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) to just AWS. An increasing dependency on AWS services necessitated this, and today their systems are spread across four AWS regions, with services replicated across zones.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Linux on App Service Environment
Microsoft announced the general availability of Linux on App Service Environment (ASE), which enables customers to combine the features of App Service on Linux and App Service Environment. This release is a follow up on May's public preview, which allowed customers to deploy Linux and containerized apps in an App Service Environment.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Service Fabric Mesh as a Public Preview
Service Fabric now has a relative in the cloud – Azure Service Fabric Mesh, a fully managed service in Azure that will enable developers to deploy and operate containerised applications. This service is now publicly in preview after its initial private preview debut during Build 2018 last May.
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Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall Now in Public Preview
With Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall, Microsoft will provide two new services to help customers modernise their network. The Azure Virtual WAN service will simplify large-scale branch connectivity, while with the Azure Firewall enterprises can enforce their security policies in the cloud. Both services are currently in public preview.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of Dev Spaces for AKS
Microsoft announced a public preview of Dev Spaces for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), which provides a rapid, iterative Kubernetes development experience for teams. The release is a follow up after a private preview of Dev Spaces during Build 2018 in May.
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Q&A with Gabe Monroy of Microsoft on Azure Kubernetes Service from Build 2018
InfoQ caught up with Gabe Monroy, lead program manager for Containers on Azure regarding Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) from the Microsoft //build conference. He goes into more detail about how Microsoft is working with the community, but at the same trying to differentiate the service, by integrating Azure Active Directory (AAD) for instance.
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OpsRamp Introduces an AIOps Inference Engine
Provider of a SaaS based IT operations management platform, OpsRamp, has announced OpsRamp 5.0, a new release featuring an artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) inference engine for alerting and event correlation. The new release also includes a multi-cloud visibility dashboard.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Event Hubs for Kafka Ecosystems in Public Preview
During Build 2018, Microsoft announced it would support Kafka clients to integrate with Azure Event Hubs. The Microsoft engineering team responsible for Azure Event Hubs made a Kafka endpoint available for users of their service to stream event data into it.
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Unified Service Discovery Announced by OpsRamp
At the May 2018 Gartner IT Operations Strategies and Solutions Summit in Orlando, Florida, OpsRamp announced a new solution, Unified Service Discovery, and a 48-hour IT Asset Visibility Challenge for hybrid environments.
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Microsoft Announces Its Own Content Delivery Network in Public Preview
Microsoft announced it would start to provide a public preview of their own Content Delivery Network (CDN) to enable customers to use and deliver content from it. With Azure CDN customers can allow their businesses to provide content on any of Microsoft’s extensive 54 global point-of-presence (POP) CDN in 33 countries.
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What’s New in Azure Machine Learning?
Matt Winkler delivered a talk at Microsoft Build 2018 explaining what is new in Azure Machine Learning. The new improvements come in several areas: making development easier, single container deployment to make the dev/test loop faster, using the SDK from the Azure Notebook for control, as well as helping people get started solving a particular problem.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Availability Zones in Select Regions
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Availability Zones to deliver a high availability option for their customer’s mission-critical applications and data. Last year during Ignite, an annual conference for developers and IT professionals, Microsoft introduced Azure Availability Zones.
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Microsoft Announce General Availability of Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of geo-replication support for the Azure Redis Cache service, Microsoft’s hosted implementation of the open-source Redis cache. The announcement follows a public preview that was announced in June 2017.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Event Grid
Microsoft introduced Event Grid last year in August, and now it is generally available (GA). The Azure Event Grid is a service which enables developers to manage events in a unified way in Azure.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Data Factory V2 Visual Tools in Public Preview
After releasing Microsoft Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) in public preview in September, Microsoft has recently followed up with the announcement of a public preview of new visual tooling for the service.