Enhance the security and operational capabilities of your Azure Kubernetes Service with Advanced Container Networking Services, now generally available

By Dustin Ward

With the increased adoption of cloud-native technologies, containers and Kubernetes have become the backbone of modern application deployments. Microservices-based container workloads are easier to scale, more portable, and resource-efficient. With Kubernetes managing these workloads, organizations can deploy advanced AI and machine learning applications across diverse compute resources, significantly improving operational productivity at scale. With this…

Microsoft launches latest Azure virtual machines optimized for AI supercomputing, the ND H200 v5 series 

By Dustin Ward

The need for scalable and high-performance infrastructure continues to grow exponentially as the AI landscape advances. Our customers rely on Azure AI infrastructure to develop innovative AI-driven solutions, which is why we are delivering new cloud-based AI-supercomputing clusters built with Azure ND H200 v5 series virtual machines (VMs) today. These VMs are now generally available…

Advanced Container Networking Services: Enhancing security and observability in AKS

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft’s Azure Container Networking team is excited to announce new enhancements to Advanced Container Networking Services. Following the success of advanced network observability, which provides deep insights into network traffic within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, we’re introducing fully qualified domain name (FQDN) filtering as a new security feature. What is Advanced Container Networking Services?…

Advancing cloud platform operations and reliability with optimization algorithms

By Dustin Ward

“In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, we see a growing number of services and environments (in which those services run) our customers utilize on Azure. Ensuring the performance and security of Azure means our teams are vigilant about regular maintenance and updates to keep pace with customer needs. Stability, reliability, and rolling timely updates remain…