[In preview] Public Preview: Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching for VM/VMSS

by Azalio tdshpsk | Mar 30, 2026 | Cloud

Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching is now available in public preview for Azure VM/VMSS, bringing significantly faster and more reliable OS disk performance to your workloads. By caching the entire OS disk image on local VM storage (cache disk, resource

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Indonesia Central

by Azalio tdshpsk | Mar 30, 2026 | Cloud

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in the Indonesia Central Azure region, expanding regional availability for customers running mission‑critical OpenShift workloads on Azure. This release enables organizations in Indonesia and the...

Retirement: Deprecation of sidecar for remote-write for Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

by Azalio tdshpsk | Mar 30, 2026 | Cloud

On March 31, 2027 Azure Monitor will be deprecating the sidecar for remote-write of Prometheus metrics to Azure Monitor Workspace. This is as part of our ongoing efforts to improve reliability and reduce complexity.We recommend configuring your self-hoste

Retirement: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL will retire on March 31, 2029

by Azalio tdshpsk | Mar 30, 2026 | Cloud

On March 31, 2029, Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL will be retired, and you’ll need to migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster by that date. Azure Database for PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster delivers the same distributed PostgreSQL...

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS AI/ML Scholars program, Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless, and more (March 30, 2026)

by Azalio tdshpsk | Mar 30, 2026 | AWS

Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML Scholars program by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, to provide free AI education to up to 100,000 learners worldwide. The program has two phases: a Challenge phase where you’ll...