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Azure Service Tiles. Source: N4Stack<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This unprecedented global health crisis has dramatically increased the speed of which organisations are enabling remote working, and many have turned to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), built on Azure.<\/span> With an increasing number of users comes increasing numbers of feedback and Microsoft have taken that feedback on board to release several new capabilities including:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Read more about the latest WVD capabilities\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>. For more new features have a read of the\u00a0<\/span>WVD Spring Update features<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As part of the collaborative\u00a0<\/span>press release<\/span><\/a>, Docker announced that developers can now use native Docker commands to run applications in Azure Container Instances for a seamless experience when building cloud native applications. Developers can look forward to the following productivity benefits:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can read more about the partnership\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To resolve the issue of developers not using Cosmos DB when building web apps for small numbers of users due to pricing, Microsoft has\u00a0<\/span>announced<\/span>\u00a0Azure Cosmos DB serverless<\/span><\/a>, a new pricing model that offers per-operation compute pricing ideal for noncritical, intermittent and small workloads with moderate performance requirements. Consumption-based pricing bills customers for the total resources (request units) used for each discrete database operation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Alongside the announcement, Microsoft also shared several new capabilities in Cosmos DB that will be available in summer 2020:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Azure Spot Virtual Machines (VMs) provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Spot VMs offer the same characteristics as a pay-as-you-go VM, the difference being pricing and evictions. Spot VMs can be evicted at any time if Azure needs capacity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The workloads that are ideally suited to run on Spot VMs include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Azure Spot VM pricing. Source: Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>For more information on pricing, deployment and best practices, have a read of Microsoft\u2019s <\/span>announcement<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In November, Microsoft announced\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the preview of Azure Arc<\/span><\/span><\/a>, a set of technologies that unlocks new hybrid scenarios for customers by bringing Azure services and management to any infrastructure across datacentres, edge, and multi-cloud. In May, they announced the delivery of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in preview for customers. With this, anyone can use Azure Arc to connect and configure any Kubernetes cluster.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. Source: Microsoft<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>You can read more about the benefits, and how to get started,\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Microsoft makes single sign-on (SSO) free for all Azure AD customers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n AKS introduces uptime SLA<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Microsoft and Red Hat extend Azure integration with OpenShift<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Microsoft offers $200k in Azure Sphere hacking challenge<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nENABLE REMOTE WORK FASTER WITH NEW WINDOWS VIRTUAL DESKTOP CAPABILITIES<\/h3>\n
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MICROSOFT AND DOCKER COLLABORATE ON NEW WAYS TO DEPLOY CONTAINERS ON AZURE<\/h3>\n
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MICROSOFT INTRODUCES A MORE COST-EFFECTIVE WAY TO USE AZURE COSMOS DB + NEW CAPABILITIES<\/h3>\n
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ANNOUNCING THE GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF AZURE SPOT VIRTUAL MACHINES<\/h3>\n
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