Azure Synapse Analytics: Insights for all

By Dustin Ward

In November we announced Azure Synapse Analytics—a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. Despite the massive disruptions occurring throughout industries in recent months, we continue to see a high level of excitement and enthusiasm for joining the private preview to use analytics in these times of crisis. Thank…

Meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow with Azure AI

By Dustin Ward

It’s inspiring to see how customers continue to reimagine how they work with the help of AI, which is more important today than ever. Our customers are finding innovative ways to deliver crisis management solutions, drive cost-savings, redefine customer engagement, and accelerate decision-making. Here are some notable examples we’ve recently seen: Scaling crisis management On…

Change feed with full database operations for Azure Cosmos DB

By Dustin Ward

Preview support for Azure Cosmos DB change feed with full database operations history will be available in the coming months. Users will be able to filter the change feed by operation type (write, update, or delete) and there will also be an option to include the previous version of documents in the change feed.

Developing Migration and Rapid Application Development Strategies for SAP S/4HANA on AWS

By Dustin Ward

By Navjot Sharma, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLPBy Manas Srivastava, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Migrating from an on-premises SAP environment to SAP S/4HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can appear intimidating, particularly for organizations that have little experience with cloud infrastructure. There’s good reason for caution: shifting mission-critical workloads without proper planning…

Monitor AWS services used by Kubernetes with Prometheus and PromCat

By Dustin Ward

AWS offers Amazon CloudWatch to provide observability of the operational health for your AWS resources and applications through logs, metrics, and events. CloudWatch is a great way to monitor and visualize AWS resources metrics and logs. Recently I’ve found that some customers are adopting Prometheus as their monitoring standard because it offers the ability to…