Azure Daily News for Wednesday, Apr 12 2023

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  • Asteroid Hunting with Synthetic Data
    Why to consider synthetic data?   Without any doubt, machine learning (ML) is one of the most transformative technological areas these days. Affordable cloud-based compute, complex and more efficient algorithms, plus accessible big data volumes helped to make incredible scientific breakthroughs in various fields and achieve (or even exceed) human parity with computer vision (CV) and...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Secure Linux Access Using Azure Virtual Desktop
    I've heard time and time again that Azure Virtual Desktop does not support Linux VMs in Azure.  I think that's really semantics, based on the realities of and complexities of Linux (so many distros / kernel version / management tools / access methods).  While Azure Virtual Desktop does not itself provision or manage Linux VMs, it does a wonderful job of supporting secure access to those Linux...
    Source: Azure Architecture Blog
  • Dapr extension for AKS is available in 7 new regions
    Dapr is a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions. The Dapr extension for AKS is now enabled in 7 new regions in Europe & Asia: Brazil South France South Japan West Korea...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Azure Container Apps Announces New Pricing Plan and Enhanced Networking
    Today, Microsoft announced the public preview of a new plan and pricing structure for Azure Container Apps (ACA). This structure is designed to adapt compute options to individual apps and microservices components for more flexible microservices solutions. Azure Container Apps now supports a Dedicated plan in addition to the existing serverless Consumption plan.   The Dedicated plan...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • The future of healthcare is data-driven
    As analytics tools and machine learning capabilities mature, healthcare innovators are speeding up the development of enhanced treatments supported by Azure’s GPU-accelerated AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA.
    Source: Microsoft Azure Blog
  • Announcing Project Health Insights Preview: Advancing AI for health data
    Today, I’m excited to announce Project Health Insights Preview. Project Health Insights is a service that derives insights based on patient data and includes pre-built models that aim to power key high value scenarios in the health domain. The models receive patient data in different modalities, perform analysis, and enable clinicians to obtain inferences and insights with evidence from the...
    Source: Microsoft Azure Blog

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Azure Daily News for Wednesday, Apr 12 2023