Upgrade your infrastructure with the latest Dv5/Ev5 Azure VMs in preview

By Dustin Ward

On April 6, Microsoft participated in the launch of Intel’s 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, where Microsoft announced the upcoming preview of Azure Confidential Computing and general-purpose Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. Today we are delivering on that promise and announcing the preview of Dv5-series and Ev5-series Azure Virtual Machines for general-purpose and memory-intensive workloads. You can…

Teaming up with Coursera on new Azure Specializations and Scholarships

By Dustin Ward

Over the last year, there has been a significant uptake in digital skilling to fill the exponential rise in new tech jobs. In fact, the World Economic Forum is forecasting that nearly 150 million new tech jobs will be created in the next five years. Microsoft is committed to supporting learners interested in upskilling and…

Build a medical sentence matching application using BERT and Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuild a medical sentence matching application using BERT and Amazon SageMaker Determining the relevance of a sentence when compared to a specific document is essential for many different types of applications across various industries. In this post, we focus on a use case within the healthcare field to help determine the accuracy of information…

Insurity Provides Next-Generation Predictive Analytics for Insurers on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedInsurity Provides Next-Generation Predictive Analytics for Insurers on AWS By Jonathan Victor, CIO at InsurityBy Sudeep John, Principal Partner Solution Architect at AWS Identifying the potential impact of each risk on profitability and aggregate exposure is critical for insurers. Yet, research shows that establishing robust analytics capabilities in this area is a major pain…

Reduce Operational Load using AWS Managed Services for your Data Solutions

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedReduce Operational Load using AWS Managed Services for your Data Solutions As the volume of customers’ data grows, companies are realizing the benefits that data has for their business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many database and analytics services, which give companies the ability to build complex data management workloads. At the same time,…