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Qovery: a Heroku for Almost Any Cloud Provider?
Qovery started on a journey to build a developer’s productivity tool which would allow scaling companies to keep up the rapid pace of delivery, without sacrificing quality or stability. One way is by combining the simplicity and “magic” of a PaaS, like Heroku, with IaaS’ flexibility. In a conversation with InfoQ, the CEO and founder, Romaric Philogene, provided more insights into their journey.
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EDB Announces General Availability of a PostgreSQL Database in the Cloud: BigAnimal
Recently, EnterpriseDB (EBD), a significant contributor to PostgreSQL, announced the general availability (GA) of its BigAnimal offering. The offering is a fully-managed PostgreSQL database in the cloud with compatibility for Oracle database technology.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Chaos Studio in Public Preview
At the recent Ignite, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Chaos Studio, a fully-managed experimentation service to help customers track, measure, and mitigate faults with controlled chaos engineering to improve the resilience of their cloud applications.
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Microsoft Introduces a New Cloud-Native Offering with Azure Container Apps Service
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a new cloud-native offering with Azure Container Apps, allowing developers to build microservice architectures using containers. This serverless Kubernetes-based service is in public preview.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Open AI Service Including Access to Powerful GPT-3 Models
At its recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the new Azure OpenAI Service in preview, allowing access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform. This new Azure Cognitive Service will give customers access to OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 models, along with security, reliability, compliance, data privacy, and other enterprise-grade capabilities available through the Azure platform.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Purview
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Purview, its data governance solution in the cloud. It provides customers with a unified data governance solution for on-premises, cloud, and app-based systems. The GA release is a follow-up from its public preview release almost a year ago.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Functions 4.0 with .NET 6 Support in Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview release of Azure Functions 4.0 – its Function as a Service (FaaS) offering. The release of this new runtime includes support for .NET 6.0.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for Azure Virtual Machines
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). With this new feature for VMs, customers can reserve more compute capacity.
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Cloud Providers Publish Ransomware Mitigation Strategies
In the last few weeks AWS, Azure and Google Cloud have posted articles and documentation with suggestions on ransomware mitigation techniques on the cloud, highlighting the main protections and recovery preparation actions.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, a new managed service tier for Spring that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers. The new enterprise tier is available in preview.
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Microsoft Warns Customers about a Critical Vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally-distributed and fully-managed NoSQL database service. Recently, Microsoft warned thousands of its Cosmos DB customers of a vulnerability that exposes their data. A flaw in the service could grant a malicious actor access keys to steal, edit or delete sensitive data.
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Microsoft Renames Its Azure for FHIR API to Azure Healthcare APIs
Recently Microsoft announced the renaming of its Cloud for Healthcare's Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) to "Azure Healthcare APIs." In addition to the renaming of the APIs, the company also expands support for healthcare data to include patient health data via FHIR, medical imaging data via DICOM - and medical device data via the Azure IoT Connector for FHIR .
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Need Help Tracking Cloud Emissions? Microsoft Previews Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
At the recent Inspire 2021 conference, Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, a new service to help companies measure and manage their carbon emissions, set sustainability goals and take measurable action.
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Q&A with Jeff Hollan of Microsoft Regarding Azure Application Services on Kubernetes
InfoQ caught up with Jeff Hollan, director of product management, Azure Application Platform at Microsoft, about the philosophy behind running Azure App Service on Kubernetes, some of the technical details and the requirement on Azure Arc.