{"id":1725,"date":"2022-12-14T19:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ituziast.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:17:23","slug":"azure-announcements-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ituziast.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/14\/azure-announcements-december-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Announcements (December 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Microsoft Azure<\/a>, being a constantly evolving, updating and changing environment, makes it difficult to sometimes follow all that happens around it. I will try to condense some of the Azure Announcements based on status – generally available, preview or update features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be aware that generally available features\/updates might incur costs. Anything that is part of a public preview<\/a>, does not incur any costs, but also does not have Service-Level Agreement (SLA<\/a>) attached to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\nMicrosoft Ignite Announcements (October 2022)<\/a>
Azure announcements (September 2022)<\/a>
Azure announcements (August 2022)<\/a>
Azure Announcements (July 2022)<\/a>
Azure Announcements (June 2022)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Blogs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 key cloud adoption trends in migrating and modernizing workloads<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the past few years, organizations have weathered unprecedented change as they have had to adapt to macro-economic, political, and societal challenges. These challenges are not going away\u2014the business outlook remains uncertain with ongoing concerns, including inflation, supply chain disruptions, and rising energy prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by our customers and their plans around cloud adoption, Microsoft commissioned a global survey<\/a> with more than 1200 IT decision makers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Three key cloud adoption trends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Moving workloads to the cloud provides more flexibility for organizations to align their IT investments with business needs while benefiting from cloud economies of scale. Modern infrastructure and cloud capabilities can also free up an organization\u2019s IT workforce to focus on workloads and applications that are most meaningful to their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nLink to blog<\/a>
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AI and the need for purpose-built cloud infrastructure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The progress of AI has been astounding with solutions pushing the envelope by augmenting human understanding, preferences, intent, and even spoken language. AI is improving our knowledge and understanding by helping us provide faster, more insightful solutions that fuel transformation beyond our imagination. However, with this rapid growth and transformation, AI\u2019s demand for compute power has grown by leaps and bounds, outpacing Moore\u2019s Law\u2019s ability to keep up. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: <\/em><\/strong>Top 500 The List: Top500 November 2022<\/a>, Green500 November 2022<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

With the added capability of a high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect fabric, scale-out AI-first infrastructure can significantly accelerate time to solution via advanced parallel communication methods, interleaving computation and communication across a vast number of compute nodes. Azure scale-up-and scale-out AI-first infrastructure combines the attributes of both vertical and horizontal system scaling to address the most demanding AI workloads. Azure\u2019s AI-first infrastructure delivers leadership-class price, compute, and energy-efficient performance today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nLink to blog<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

General Availability Announcements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway now supports customizing actions per rule. This new functionality allows you greater control over how the Web Application Firewall handles incoming traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following per rule actions are supported:<\/p>\n\n\n\n