Understanding Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal VM manager

by Azalio tdshpsk | Nov 14, 2024 | Cloud

Virtualization seemed to be one of those technologies that was done. With Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM all offering similar features and performance, all that was left to do was to support new chipset instructions and fix bugs. But slowly things began to change, as...

[Launched] Generally Available: Extension of limited-time promotional discounts on Azure Databricks Serverless Compute Services

by Azalio tdshpsk | Nov 14, 2024 | Cloud

We’re excited to announce the extension of the promotional discounts on serverless compute for Notebooks, Jobs, and Pipelines (Delta Live Tables). You will continue to get 50% off serverless compute for Jobs and Pipelines and 30% off serverless compute fo

Retirement: End of Support Announcement for Azure Load Balancer numberOfProbes property on September 1, 2027.

by Azalio tdshpsk | Nov 13, 2024 | Cloud

Support for Azure Load Balancer numberOfProbes property ends on September 1, 2027. To avoid service disruption, upgrade your apps to API version 2022-05-01 or higher and start using Azure Load Balancer probeThreshold property. We will not be supporting th

[In development] TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage

by Azalio tdshpsk | Nov 13, 2024 | Cloud

To respond to evolving technology and regulatory standards, Azure Storage will remove support for TLS version 1.1 and 1.0, and the minimum supported version will be TLS1.2 starting November 1, 2025. TLS 1.2 is more secure and faster than older TLS version

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB vector database integration with LangChain.js 

by Azalio tdshpsk | Nov 13, 2024 | Cloud

We’re excited to introduce LangChain.js integration with Azure Cosmos DB. You can use this powerful combination to efficiently manage fast and accurate data retrieval with greater ease in your JavaScript applications. The new LangChain.js integration make

[Launched] Generally Available: Single prefix enhancement to seamless gateway migration

by Azalio tdshpsk | Nov 13, 2024 | Cloud

With the Gateway migration experience, customers can use the Azure Portal or PowerShell scripts to deploy a second Virtual Network Gateway within the same GatewaySubnet of the Virtual Network. During the migration phase, once initiated by the customer, Az