May 2024 Cloud Recap: Tech Blossoms and Cloud Bursts! 🌷
☁️ Dominik Skowron
Azure MVP • Head of Microsoft Technologies • DevOps & Tech Advocate • Javonet
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🙋 I'm delighted to introduce you to Issue #9 of the Cloud Beacon Newsletter! Here, you'll discover your monthly round-up of the most important news from the Cloud and Tech industry! We will go through some fresh spring news from tech and cloud world!
🌐 Microsoft is bringing passkeys to all users [link]
🌐 The global cloud market just saw one of its biggest ever quarterly growth spurts [link]
🌐 Introducing Copilot+ PCs [link]
🌐 OpenAI’s latest flagship model on Azure AI, GPT-4o, is now generally available in Azure AI Studio and as an API [link]
🌐 Microsoft announces $3.3 billion investment in Wisconsin to spur artificial intelligence innovation and economic growth [link]
🌐 AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down [link]
Microsoft Build 2024 Book of News most interesting findings:
📌 AI Focus: This year’s event emphasizes AI, with updates to Microsoft Copilot and new capabilities. Expect features like live captions and voice commands, along with a potential introduction of the AI Explorer tool
📌 Azure and AI: Azure plays a crucial role in creating transformative AI experiences. Look out for new agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot, Windows Copilot Runtime, and Copilot+ PCs
📌 AI Impact: Microsoft recognizes AI’s impact on organizations. It boosts efficiency, enhances customer experiences, and drives innovation. The commitment remains strong to equip customers, partners, and developers for success in these revolutionary AI times
📌 Developer Tools: Beyond AI, there are exciting updates for developers. Custom Copilots using Azure AI Studio, enhancements to Azure Functions, and improvements to the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code are part of the announcements
📌 Microsoft Azure AI Studio, now generally available [link]
📌 Microsoft just gave us a first look at the future of its DNS services [link]
📌 Microsoft Graph is becoming a popular target for hackers [link]
📌 Microsoft doesn't want police forces using Azure AI for facial recognition [link]
📌 Microsoft says AI at work is here to stay - now we just need to work out how best to use it [link]
📌 Copilot for Microsoft 365 now offers more prompt assistance [link]
📌 Microsoft's next big cloud and AI investment is pouring billions of Euros into France [link]
📌 Microsoft Teams is facing more antitrust lawsuits in Europe [link]
📌 Microsoft will soon start enforcing Azure MFA logins [link]
📌 Microsoft reveals AI-powered ‘Recall’ feature to transform Windows 11’s searchability [link]
📌 Microsoft just gave GitHub a whole load of new Copilot tools [link]
📌 Microsoft and G42 are building a $1 billion data center in Africa powered by geothermal energy [link] Google reveals first subsea cable connecting Africa and Australia
📌 Excel's evolution: how cloud and AI are transforming the digital workplace [link]
Azure Updates:
📌 Generally available: Azure IoT Edge v1.5.0 (LTS) release [link]
📌 Azure Governance Update - Management Groups [link]
📌 General Availability - Azure API Center [link]
📌 Azure Front Door log scrubbing of sensitive data is generally available [link]
📌 General Availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Mexico [link]
📌 Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.14 at install time [link]
📌 Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Italy North [link]
📌 General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB RU supports version 5.0 and 6.0 [link]
📌 General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts [link]
📌 General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server [link]
📌 General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server [link]
📌 General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts [link]
📌 GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS [link]
📌 New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available [link]
📌 Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service [link]
📌 General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU [link]
📌 Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Azure Virtual Machines [link]
📌 Azure Front Door server variable enhancement generally available [link]
📌 General Availability: Data API builder [link]
📌 The availability of Azure compute reservations will continue until further notice [link]
📌 General availability: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration [link]
📌 Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing [link]
📌 Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build 2024 [link]
📌 General availability: Azure Cache for Redis now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication and authorization [link]
📌 General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions [link]
📌 General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL integrations in LangChain and Semantic Kernel [link]
📌 General availability: Computed properties in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL [link]
📌 General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK [link]
📌 General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration [link]
📌 General Availability: Azure AI extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL [link]
📌 General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024 [link]
📌 Generally Available: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server [link]
📌 Generally Available: 32TB storage support in Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Business Critical [link]
📌 Generally Available: Automated deployments for AKS [link]
📌 Draft now supports best practices via deployment safeguards [link]
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📌 Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager workload orchestration [link]
📌 Generally Available: KEDA in the Azure Portal [link]
📌 Generally Available: Azure Functions can now run on Azure Container Apps [link]
📌 Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr [link]
📌 Generally Available: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js [link]
📌 GA EDI capabilities in Azure Logic Apps Standard [link]
📌 GA Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management [link]
📌 GA Improved Onboarding Experience on VS Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard [link]
📌 GA Import Azure OpenAI enpoints as an APIs in Azure API Management [link]
📌 GA Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management [link]
📌 GA Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway [link]
📌 GA Load Balancer in Azure API Management [link]
📌 GA OData API type in Azure API Management [link]
📌 GA Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management [link]
📌 New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources [link]
📌 Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability [link]
📌 Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto [link]
📌 Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery [link]
📌 General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code [link]
📌 General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs [link]
📌 General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary [link]
📌 General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size [link]
📌 Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines [link]
📌 General Availability: Azure NetApp Files backup [link]
📌 Feature Update: Azure Action Groups [link]
☁️ AWS Q1 growth pushes ahead as cloud revenue soars [link]
☁️ AWS launches new Amazon Q chatbot for developers [link]
☁️ AWS enters 5G cloud market with Telefonica deal [link]
☁️ AWS plans to invest €7.8 billion into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud [link]
☁️ Italy could be the next country to receive a billion-dollar AWS boost [link]
☁️ Google Workspace is getting a talkative tool to help you collaborate better – meet your new colleague, AI Teammate [link]
☁️ Google I/O 2024 – the 7 biggest AI announcements, from Gemini to Android 15 [link]
☁️ Google Cloud has just knocked a load of customers offline for the second time this month [link]
☁️ Google reveals first subsea cable connecting Africa and Australia [link]
☁️ Google Cloud Next '24 recap [link]
☁️ Top cloud storage platforms hijacked to host malware [link]
☁️ AWS and Microsoft are dominating the UK cloud market — and that could be a problem for both of them [link]
🗞️ AMD’s fiscal results show GPU sales are tanking, and AI PCs are hugely important [link]
🗞️ Could generative AI work without online data theft? Nvidia's ChatRTX aims to prove it can [link]
🗞️ Malware attacks on Docker Hub spread millions of malicious repositories [link]
🗞️ Why legitimizing Shadow IT open doors to cloud innovation [link]
🗞️ Many companies still don't have the proper tech to support hybrid working [link]
🗞️ LLM copyright and IP theft "de facto endorsed" by UK government [link]
🗞️ Google says passkeys can help secure elections around the world [link]
🗞️ The AI effect: create, optimize, localize [link]
🗞️ OpenAI is working on a new tool to help you spot AI-generated images and protect you from deep fakes [link]
🗞️ Transform your generative AI roadmap with custom LLMs [link]
🗞️ Why do small businesses distrust technology? [link]
🗞️ PwC becomes OpenAI's biggest customer - and first official enterprise reseller [link]
🗞️ CEOs need to take some big decisions on AI at work — but many of them just aren't ready [link]
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👋 My name is Dominik, and my goal is to provide you with something worth reading over a cup of coffee :). I am working with Cloud, represented Poland in EuroSkills2023 (category: ICT), earned the title of Gold Microsoft Student Learn Ambassador, and help businesses grow with power of cloud. I've also recently started vlogging about my tech life on Social Media. I'm passionate about tech, geek topics, and sports. Please feel free to leave your feedback or contact me if you need assistance with anything.
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