Placement polices now in public preview for Azure VMware Solution

By Dustin Ward

Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules for running Virtual Machines in an Azure VMware Solution SDDC has been simplified and is now executable directly from the Azure…

Innovate securely with Azure

By Dustin Ward

This blog post has been co-authored by Carissa Broadbent, Product Marketing Manager, Security Marketing. Security is based on the inherent need for safety. Today, we see that need challenged more than ever. In the past year alone, we’ve witnessed an exponential increase in ransomware, supply chain attacks, phishing, and identity theft. These activities fundamentally threaten our…

Azure Government Top Secret now generally available for US national security missions

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Government Top Secret, a significant milestone in our commitment to bringing unmatched commercial innovation to our government customers across all data classifications. This announcement, together with new services and functionality in Azure Government Secret, provides further evidence of Microsoft’s relentless commitment to the mission of national security,…

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2 AWS Neuron, the SDK for running machine learning inference on AWS Inferentia-based Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2. Starting with Neuron 1.15.0 you can execute your TensorFlow 2 BERT based models on Inf1 instances with support for additional models coming soon. To learn more…

Preventing Free Trial Abuse with AWS Managed Services

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedPreventing Free Trial Abuse with AWS Managed Services Free trial promotions are a popular marketing tactic, but they can also be a common source of fraud for ecommerce retailers. So, how do you identify fraudulent users? And what are some effective ways to prevent free trial abuse? This blog post outlines common free trial…

Cross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedCross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift To be successful in today’s fast-moving world, businesses need to analyze data quickly and take meaningful action. Many of our customers embrace this concept to become data-driven organizations. Data-driven organizations treat data as an asset and use it to improve their insights and make better decisions. They unleash…