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Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Firewall structured logs. The new feature brings an improved logging experience for firewall events and makes it easier to search, filter, and analyze network traffic data. “Azure Firewall’s structured logs provide a more detailed view of firewall events. They include information such as source and destination and…

Last week, Microsoft acknowledged an issue that triggered connectivity issues on its Azure portal. Now, the company has confirmed that the outage was caused by an “anomalous spike” in Azure traffic. Specifically, Microsoft reported that the incident started at 8:00 A.M PT on June 9. They saw the “We’re working to restore all services as…

Microsoft announced yesterday that its Azure OpenAI Service is now available for Azure Government customers. The new service will allow government agencies to use generative AI capabilities in a way that meets security and privacy requirements. According to Microsoft, the new service enables federal, state, and local government agencies to use GPT-3, GPT-4, and Embeddings…

Microsoft Dev Box, the company’s new Azure service that provides access to a developer workstation in the cloud is getting new features ahead of its general availability. Following the launch of a public preview back in August, Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference today that Microsoft Dev Box will become generally available in July…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Deployment Environments. It’s a new managed service that lets developers use infrastructure-as-code templates to quickly spin up on-demand app deployment environments. Microsoft highlighted three key factors for effectively managing cloud-based infrastructure in enterprise environments: speed, usability, and governance. The company has incorporated customer feedback to build Azure…

Microsoft kicked off its Build 2023 conference today, and the company announced several updates for its products and services. Arun Ulagaratchagan, CVP of Azure Data, unveiled Microsoft Fabric, an end-to-end data analytics platform that incorporates Data Factory, Synapse, and Power BI into a unified solution. “With Microsoft Fabric, customers can use a single product with…

Microsoft has announced the public preview of Code Optimizations for Azure Monitor. The new AI-powered service enables customers to detect CPU and memory usage performance issues with their .NET apps and services. Microsoft first introduced the Code Optimizations feature (previously called Optimization Insights) in a limited preview back in March 2022. It’s part of the…

Microsoft has announced new network traffic analysis capabilities for its Azure Firewall solution. The latest logging and metric improvements enable customers to view detailed insights about the traffic processed by the firewall. Azure Firewall is a cloud-based network firewall security solution that helps IT admins to protect cloud workloads running in Microsoft Azure. The service…

Microsoft has announced the release of its Azure Container Storage solution. The new cloud-based service enables organizations to create and manage block storage volumes for container applications and workloads. Previously, customers had to use individual container storage interface (CSI) drivers in order to offer cloud storage for containers. It caused various operational issues related to…

The European Union has opened an informal probe against Microsoft Azure cloud services. According to a report from Bloomberg, the antitrust watchdog is planning to investigate Microsoft over alleged anticompetitive behavior with Microsoft Azure. Specifically, the European Commission is soliciting feedback from Microsoft’s customers on whether or not to move to a deeper investigation. The…