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How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on Azure Container Apps

Elastic Observability is the optimal tool to provide visibility into your running web apps. Microsoft Azure Container Apps is a fully managed environment that enables you to run containerized applications on a serverless platform so that your applications scale up and down. This allows you to accomplish the dual objective of serving every customer’s need for availability while meeting your needs to do so as efficiently as possible.

Improving Trace Data For Azure Virtual Desktop

The Microsoft infrastructure makes collecting network traces more complicated. Network traces (tracert) inside and out of the Azure Virtual Desktop virtual machine are valuable when diagnosing support issues or when an end-user calls up complaining of poor Azure Virtual Desktop performance. The following information should help improve the collection of network traces and trace data, which will aid in diagnosing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure connectivity.

How Our FinOps Account Management Team Helps You Achieve Your Cloud Savings Goals

At CloudZero, we’re in the business of driving positive business change. Whenever we work with a client, our goal is to share insights rooted in our FinOps perspective and platform expertise that helps customers save on cloud costs and build strategies for engineering-led optimizations. Each experience is curated for the clients FinOps maturity stage and unique business goals; that’s what personalized service is all about.

Getting started with Azure Integration Services - Stephen W. Thomas

Stephen W. Thomas takes center stage in this session, reflecting on past Integrate experiences and talking about the Azure Integration Services. Labeling himself a "drag-and-drop developer," Stephen emphasizes the timeliness of adopting Azure Integration, vital for seamless business operations in today's virtual landscapes. From Logic Apps to AI Tools like ChatGPT, get a pulse on current market trends, the rising demand for Azure resources, and insights on strategizing BizTalk migration.

Choosing Azure Database Services - What are the options?

Microsoft Azure offers a choice of relational and non-relational database services to support a wide range of application needs and demands. Built-in intelligence helps automate management tasks like high availability, scaling, and query performance tuning to provide users with services that ensure applications are always available and performant. Many services offer essentially limitless database scale and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) usually range between 99.9-99.999% availability.

How To Profile and Optimize Telemetry Data: A Deep Dive

We recently had the privilege of presenting our telemetry data pipelining platform at Cloud Field Day. Today, we'd like to share a recap of our demo with you. In this demo, we explore the transformative potential of data profiling, telemetry pipeline optimization, and incident response. Foundationally, we follow an Understand, Optimize, and Respond workflow.

Global AWS Orchestration with Runbook Automation

It is common for companies to have multiple AWS Accounts, and as it turns out, there are cases where certain operational tasks need to be performed on EC2’s that reside in each account. Examples of this include standardizing practices for auditing, patching, and incident-response – such as retrieving diagnostics or remediation. This demo showcases how Runbook Automation orchestrates commands and scripts on EC2’s spanning numerous AWS accounts through an integration with Systems Manager (SSM).

Keynote: State of Microsoft Integration - Slava Koltovich

In this session, Slava Koltovich, Principal Group Product Manager for Azure Integration Services at Microsoft delves into the rise of digital-first strategies post-COVID-19 and forecasts a software development revolution with 750 million new apps by 2025. Explore Azure Integration Services' vast capabilities, its partnership success story with Royal Mail, and a glimpse into Microsoft’s upcoming tech innovations.