Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare expands portfolio with Azure Healthcare APIs

By Dustin Ward

Announcing Azure Healthcare APIs Today Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is expanding our portfolio of interoperability data services for the health and life sciences industry. In October 2019, Microsoft became the first cloud with a fully managed, first-party service to ingest, persist, and manage structured healthcare data in the native FHIR format with the Azure API…

Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability transparency

By Dustin Ward

“Throughout our Advancing Reliability blog series we’ve explained various techniques used by the Azure platform to prevent technical issues from impacting customers’ virtual machines (VMs) or other resources—like host resiliency with Project Tardigrade, cautious safe deployment practices taking advantage of ML-based AIOps insights, as well as predicting and mitigating hardware failures with Project Narya. Despite…

Monitoring serverless applications with AWS CloudWatch alarms

By Dustin Ward

Running any application in production assumes reliable monitoring to be in place and serverless applications are no exception. As modern cloud applications get more and more distributed and complex, the challenge of monitoring availability, performance, and cost get increasingly difficult. Unfortunately, there isn’t much offered right out of the box from cloud providers. Although you can’t fully…