We’re excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.* This is the second year in a row that Microsoft has been named a Leader in this Gartner® Magic Quadrant™, and we believe this recognition reflects the ongoing investment Microsoft has made to support running…
Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in. We’re always looking…
Innovate with AI—get access to the new models in Azure AI Studio We are excited to add OpenAI’s newest models o1-preview and o1-mini to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Studio, and GitHub Models. The o1 series enables complex coding, math reasoning, brainstorming, and comparative analysis capabilities, setting a new benchmark for AI-powered solutions. Azure…
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?…
This blog is co-authored by Kambiz Aghili, Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Multicloud, Oracle. One year ago, Microsoft and Oracle built upon our multi-year partnership by announcing a first of its kind solution—Oracle Database@Azure—to offer Oracle Database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) inside Microsoft Azure datacenters. This gives customers the ability to run or…
We are excited to announce that Microsoft Azure Public IPs are zone-redundant by default. This means that unless you specifically select a single zone when deploying your Microsoft Azure Standard Public IPs, they will be zone-redundant—without any extra steps on your part. Yes, automatically. If you don’t select a zone for your Standard Public IPs…