Azure Public IPs are now zone-redundant by default

By Dustin Ward

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…

5 ways Microsoft Azure can reimagine student experiences and streamline operations

By Dustin Ward

In today’s rapidly evolving world, education is facing unprecedented challenges that require transformation. Microsoft plays a pivotal role in providing the tools and resources schools need to create a more inclusive, equitable, and effective education environment. With AI-powered, secure, and flexible solutions, Microsoft Azure enables educational institutions to adapt to new realities, streamline operations, and…

Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, now generally available, enables near real-time analytics

By Dustin Ward

Zero-ETL integrations help unify your data across applications and data sources for holistic insights and breaking data silos. They provide a fully managed, no-code, near real-time solution for making petabytes of transactional data available in Amazon Redshift within seconds of data being written into Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL. This eliminates the…

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces Amazon EKS support

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are pleased to announce Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod — purpose-built infrastructure engineered with resilience at its core for foundation model (FM) development. This new capability enables customers to orchestrate HyperPod clusters using EKS, combining the power of Kubernetes with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod‘s resilient environment designed for training…

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…