Launched at Ignite in 2020, Azure Communication Services (ACS) is built on top of Teams’ chat and telephony features. It delivers a set of managed communications APIs much like those offered by Twilio ...

ASP.NET Core supports cross platform (windows / macOS / Linux) which pairs nicely with Azure's hosting of Windows & Linux virtual machines. ASP.NET Core includes a built-in container that supports ...

At first look, the big hyperscale public clouds are much the same; they offer similar services and charge similar prices. But each has its own specialty as a result of its parent company’s history.

Databricks has made a name for itself as one of the most popular commercial services around the Apache Spark data analytics platform (which, not coincidentally, was started by the founders of ...

At its Ignite 2018 conference, Microsoft unveiled a series of public and private previews for services including Azure Sphere, VM Image Builder, and more. Most of them are available to try now. At its ...

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud offer a wide range of cloud computing services, but Azure is more enterprise-focused, while Google Cloud has a stronger focus on AI and machine learning. We may earn ...

When Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect announced Windows Azure at PDC 2008, no one could assess the impact that this software platform would have on the company and the industry.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate. The company reported services were ...