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Google EU complaint: Microsoft is punishing enterprises that use rivals to Azure

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Google on Wednesday told the European Union (EU) that Microsoft is illegally using its dominant market position in Windows to force enterprises to use its Azure cloud service or face a 400% price penalty and a denial of upgrades and security patches. Google elaborated on its official reasons for the EU filing in a blog post. “For

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What Does Azure DevOps Services Cost?

Xebia

It is a question I often get when I talk to customers about Azure DevOps. Some of them run on-premises Azure DevOps Server and wonder what it costs to run it in the Cloud as a SaaS service. Keep in mind that the Azure Pricing Calculator or Azure DevOps Pricing is your friend! Up until 5 users it remains free.

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Publish Azure DevOps Extensions using Azure Workload Identity

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As you may know, I maintain several Azure DevOps Extensions. To publish them I use the Azure DevOps extension tasks. If you need help configuring a basic CI/CD pipeline for an Azure DevOps Extension, check out the guidance on Microsoft Learn ). Recently the whole of Azure DevOps got support for Workload Identities.

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Keyless Google Cloud deployments from Azure Pipelines

Xebia

Deploying Google Cloud (GCP) resources via Azure Pipelines used to require service account keys. Today, however, Azure DevOps OIDC tokens can be exchanged to Google credentials using Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation. This blog uses the Google Cloud Auth to do so. First, the Google Credentials are exchanged.

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Supercharging Airflow & dbt with Astronomer Cosmos on Azure Container Instances

Xebia

In this blogpost, we’re going to show how you can turn this opaqueness into transparency by using Astronomer Cosmos to automatically render your dbt project into an Airflow DAG while running dbt on Azure Container Instances. This last point is the main focus for this blog. A runtime in which the dbt commands are executed.

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Self-Guided Meditations With AI On Azure

Xebia

Whether it’s a blog/manual/podcast you’re trying to produce, Large Language Models can help you to create unique content if you use them correctly. DALL-E, Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Speech (formerly Cognitive Services) to create fresh daily content. You can use GPT-4 through the OpenAI APIs or Azure OpenAI Service.

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Measuring Your Azure Carbon Footprint with the Sustainability API

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So, you want to start with green software on the Azure cloud by measuring your carbon footprint. Microsoft Azure’s Sustainability API can help organizations measure their carbon footprint to analyze and reduce it. In this blog, we’ll dive into the carbon emission data it offers and how it can be leveraged for a more sustainable future.

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