Azure Daily News for Wednesday, Nov 15 2023

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Azure App Service at Ignite 2023
Welcome to Ignite 2023! App Service team members will be presenting at the session "Unlock Innovation with AI by Migrating Enterprise Apps to App Service" on Wednesday November 15th (11:45AM to 12:30PM Pacific time - Level 4 Room 425 - In-Person and Live-streamed). Tune in to see demonstrations of the new Azure Migrate application and code assessment capabilities, the new Microsoft Copilot...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog
Discover your next integration inspiration at this year’s Ignite!
Get ready for an exhilarating digital experience at Microsoft Ignite 2023. This year's event is a deep dive into the cutting-edge world of AI and cloud technology. And if you're eager to explore the transformative potential of Azure Integration Services, you're in for a treat. From seamless application and data integration to powerful workflow automation, Azure Integration Services is poised...
Source: Integrations on Azure Blog
Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) reaches General Availability
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps in Visual Studio Code. Data Mapper is Azure Logic Apps’ visual data transformation tool that can help you both create maps and execute transformations. Users can easily define a data transformation that can be used in an Azure Logic Apps workflow to exchange messages between XML or JSON formats. Data...
Source: Integrations on Azure Blog
Making it easy to get started with the Azure Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension
The Logic Apps standard VS Code extension seamlessly extends the Logic App designer empowering users to transition from developing workflows in the cloud to a local environment. The intuitive no-code designer of Logic Apps combined with the powerful pro-code capabilities of VS Code has enabled developers to build, run and test their Logic App workflows locally with features such as...
Source: Integrations on Azure Blog
AKS Welcomes you to Ignite 2023
Hi everyone, and welcome to Microsoft Ignite 2023! The AKS team is looking forward to connecting in person and virtually with all the AKS community, throughout the Ignite Keynotes, Breakouts, QA sessions, expert meetups or over a beverage in the hallways! The team has been hard at work making Azure the best platform to run kubernetes and a truly kubernetes-powered cloud. And over the last...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog
Bringing Generative AI to Semiconductor and Electronics Design
Generative AI promises to revolutionize how we live, work and play. This, as with prior technology innovations, have all been developed on increasingly complex, high-performance semiconductor platforms and systems. As such, it behooves us to utilize the transformative power of generative AI for accelerating innovation, improving quality, and enhancing safety of semiconductors. Synopsys is...
Source: Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog
Announcing Azure Functions Flex Consumption: sign up for the early access preview
Azure Functions offers a wide range of hosting options to run your Azure Function applications. This gives customers the option to deploy into an environment that works with their overall workload. For the serverless Consumption plan, one of the most consistent feedback items for Azure Functions has been for networking features, such as private endpoints and VNet integration. We have also...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog
How Credential Manager in API Management can help you manage, store, and control access to your API
We're excited to introduce the rebranding and feature enhancements of Azure API Management's Credential Manager, previously known as Authorizations. In addition, Credential Manager now includes capabilities for user-delegated permissions. OAuth 2.0 - A Secure and Standardized Protocol for Authorization: Authentication and authorization are two critical processes that help ensure secure...
Source: Integrations on Azure Blog
Introducing Azure NC H100 v5 VMs for mid-range AI and HPC workloads
Today at Ignite, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of the NC H100 v5 Virtual Machine Series, the latest addition to our portfolio of purpose-built infrastructure for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. The new Azure NC H100 v5 series is powered by NVIDIA Hopper Generation H100 NVL 94GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs and 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ Genoa...
Source: Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog
Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMD’s flagship MI300X GPU
In our relentless pursuit of pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, we understand that cutting-edge infrastructure and expertise is needed to harness the full potential of advanced AI. At Microsoft, we've amassed a decade of experience in supercomputing and have consistently supported the most demanding AI training and generative inferencing workloads. Today, we're excited to...
Source: Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog
📢 Azure Logic Apps (Standard) workflow assistant - Public Preview 🎊
We are very excited to announce the Public Preview for the workflow assistant in Azure Logic Apps!! The workflow assistant is a chat interface to answer any questions about Azure Logic Apps, from directly within designer. You can also use it to describe existing workflow or prompt for specific answers in the context of your workflow. The chat interface provides access to Azure Logic Apps...
Source: Integrations on Azure Blog
Build Intelligent Apps and Microservices with Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps is a modern PaaS platform designed for container-first Cloud Native apps and microservices. Azure Container Apps delivers a fully serverless pay-per-use Consumption hosting option with event-driven scale all the way to 0 as well as Dedicated specialized compute hosting options. New announcements including GPU enabled compute, add-ons for popular vector databases,...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog
Azure Deployment Environments optimizes developer experience and adds new enterprise capabilities
Over the last 15 years, DevOps practices and new cloud technologies have streamlined and standardized operational processes to help developers focus on what really matters - their code. Yet as applications become more complex, so does the corresponding infrastructure, requiring a new approach. Platform Engineering is an evolution of DevOps practices that provides developers with self-service...
Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
Announcing General Availability: Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio
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Source: Apps on Azure Blog
New capabilities help simplify and streamline the experience with Microsoft Dev Box
It’s hard to believe that Microsoft Dev Box has already been generally available for almost four months. In this time, we have been blown away by the excitement from administrators and developers about a VDI service purpose-built for developer productivity. With all the real-world usage has also come feedback and suggestions, and we’ve been busy working on new features and capabilities to...
Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
Public preview: Confidential containers on AKS
The cloud-native movement has driven container adoption with emphasis on designing applications specifically for cloud environments. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration and Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) continues to be a leading choice for customers for their container-based applications deployed on cloud. Confidential computing will...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog
⭐Azure Cache for Redis at Microsoft Ignite 2023: What's New for Developers⭐
By: Ricky Diep, Shruti Pathak, Kyle Teegarden, and Catherine Wang Microsoft Ignite 2023 is here, and we're excited to share the latest updates on Azure Cache for Redis with our developer community. Our team has been working hard to bring you new features that enhance security, reduce costs, and improve performance. In this blog post, we'll take a closer look at what's new and how you...
Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
Azure Functions - Ignite 2023 update
It is exciting to have Microsoft Ignite happening this week and the team wanted to give an update on the latest releases of Azure Functions since the previous update in May Azure Functions – May update for Microsoft build. There have been a lot of features that were released based on your feedback that hopefully will make your experience using Azure Functions better as you build out your...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog
Azure Migrate application and code assessment is now available for .NET and Java
Enterprise application migrations often require deep insights and stakeholder alignment across a variety of use cases, whether at the portfolio or application level. Azure Migrate is Microsoft’s free platform for migrating to and modernizing in Azure. It provides discovery, assessment, business case analysis, planning, migration, and modernization capabilities in a consistent manner across...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog
Resiliency policies now available in Azure Container Apps
We are thrilled to announce the public preview of Azure Container Apps resiliency policies. With this new resiliency feature, you can seamlessly recover from service and outbound dependency request failures just by adding simple policies, like timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers. The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) powers the resiliency feature behind the scenes; however, you...
Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
📢Introducing Azure Integration Environment & Business Process Tracking (Public Preview)📢
We are excited to introduce Azure Integration Environment, a new unified experience that helps customers manage and monitor their integration resources effectively. This platform enables customers to organize their resources logically, providing business context and reducing overall complexity. By using this platform, customers can leverage integration as a strategic advantage, unlocking new...
Source: Integrations on Azure Blog