Integrating Azure CNI and Calico: A technical deep dive

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We are pleased to share the availability of Calico Network Policies in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Calico policies lets you define filtering rules to control flow of traffic to and from Kubernetes pods. In this blog post, we will explore in more technical detail the engineering work that...

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Key causes of performance differences between SQL managed instance and SQL Server

Migrating to a Microsoft Azure SQL Database managed instance provides a host of operational and financial benefits you can only get from a fully managed and intelligent cloud database service. Some of these benefits come from features that optimize or improve overall database performance. After migration many of...

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HB-series Azure Virtual Machines achieve cloud supercomputing milestone

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New HPC-targeted cloud virtual machines are first to scale to 10,000 cores Azure Virtual Machine HB-series are the first on the public cloud to scale a MPI-based high performance computing (HPC) job to 10,000 cores. This level of scaling has long been considered the realm of only the...

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Managing Versions and Revisions using the HTTP API

From a high level perspective, working with a current Revision is identical to the way working with an API has always been. Working with a different Version of an API, is just like working with a different API. Each Version has its own apiId identifier. Working with a...

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Optimize price-performance with compute auto-scaling in Azure SQL Database serverless

Optimizing compute resource allocation to achieve performance goals while controlling costs can be a challenging balance to strike especially for database workloads with complex usage patterns. To help address these challenges, we are pleased to announce the preview of Azure SQL Database serverless. SQL Database serverless (preview) is...

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Visual interface for Azure Machine Learning service

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This new drag-and-drop workflow capability in Azure Machine Learning service simplifies the process of building, testing, and deploying machine learning models for customers who prefer a visual experience to a coding experience. This capability brings the familiarity of what we already provide in our popular Azure Machine Learning...

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Microsoft 365 boosts usage analytics with Azure Cosmos DB – Part 2

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Finding the right partition key—a critical design decision After moving to Azure Cosmos DB, the team revisited how data would be partitioned (referred to as “sharding” in MongoDB). With Azure Cosmos DB, each collection must have a partition key, which acts as a logical partition for the data...

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Microsoft 365 boosts usage analytics with Azure Cosmos DB

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The challenge: Understanding the behavior of more than 150 million active users Office 365 is a flagship service within the Microsoft 365 Enterprise solution, with millions of commercial customers and more than 150 million active commercial users each month. Office 365 provides extensive reporting for administrators within each...

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Azure Firewall and network virtual appliances

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Network security solutions can be delivered as appliances on premises, as network virtual appliances (NVAs) that run in the cloud or as a cloud native offering (known as firewall-as-a-service). Customers often ask us how Azure Firewall is different from Network Virtual Appliances, whether it can coexist with these...

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Azure SQL Database Edge: Enabling intelligent data at the edge

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The world of data changes at a rapid pace, with more and more data being projected to be stored and processed at the edge. Microsoft has enabled enterprises with the capability of adopting a common programming surface area in their data centers with Microsoft SQL Server and in...

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