Hacker News with Generative AI: Azure

Azure Data Studio Retirement (microsoft.com)
We’re announcing the upcoming retirement of Azure Data Studio (ADS) on February 6, 2025, as we focus on delivering a modern, streamlined SQL development experience.

Azure, Software, Databases, Microsoft, Retirement

4 points by daigoba66 14 days ago | 0 comments

DocumentDB: Open-Source Announcement (microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce the official release of DocumentDB—an open-source document database platform and the engine powering the vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, built on PostgreSQL.

Open Source, Databases, Microsoft, Azure, PostgreSQL

6 points by Hixon10 27 days ago | 1 comments

Azure Space (microsoft.com)
An interactive exploration of the infrastructure and power of the Azure cloud in space

Azure, Space, Cloud Computing, Microsoft

9 points by geox 45 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down? (ycombinator.com)
Looks like Azure is experiencing a major outage, but I cannot find anything about it. If you look at downdetector.com you'll notice reported outages from OpenAI, Microsoft 365, XBox Live, Walmart, the list goes on.

Technology, Online Services, Downtime, ChatGPT, Azure

146 points by franze 56 days ago | 141 comments

Azure GPT-3 got replaced by a creepy Chinese state censored model by ByteDance (reddit.com)
Azure GPT-3 got replaced by a creepy Chinese state censored model by Bytedance

Azure, Generative AI, China, Censorship, ByteDance

9 points by rlevy 57 days ago | 3 comments

An EPYC Exclusive for Azure: AMD's MI300C – By George Cozma (chipsandcheese.com)
At SC24 we stopped by the Azure Booth to check out their new HBv5 VMs powered by the AMD EPYC 9v64H CPU.

AMD, Azure, Cloud Computing, Servers, CPUs

41 points by rbanffy 79 days ago | 14 comments

AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Processors, Hardware, Cloud Computing, Azure

44 points by rbanffy 92 days ago | 6 comments

AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner (learn.umh.app)
Why We Recommend Hetzner to Try Out the UMH: it is at least 4x–10x less expensive than AWS and Azure for similar VM instances.

Cloud Computing, Cost Comparison, AWS, Azure, Hetzner

131 points by JeremyTheo 122 days ago | 138 comments

Ask HN: Azure Ran Out of Capacity? (ycombinator.com)
We tried provisioning a database in US EAST. We were denied. We submitted a support request. We were told they could not provision the database due to high demand in that region (what??). We pivoted to US EAST 2 and am now getting blocked trying to deploy an App Service.

Cloud Computing, Azure, Serverless, Databases

11 points by scottndecker 140 days ago | 7 comments

Microsoft performs operations with multiple error-corrected qubits (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series of announcements related to its Azure Quantum Cloud service. Among them was a demonstration of logical operations using the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet.

Quantum Computing, Microsoft, Azure, Cloud Computing

8 points by gmays 161 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft and Quantinuum create 12 logical qubits (microsoft.com)
Microsoft and Quantinuum applied Azure Quantum’s qubit-virtualization system to Quantinuum’s H2 trapped-ion quantum computer to create 12 highly reliable logical qubits. Additionally, the teams demonstrated the emerging capabilities of reliable quantum computing by using two logical qubits, integrated with an AI model and cloud high-performance computing (HPC), to accurately estimate the ground state energy of the active space of an important catalytic intermediate.

Quantum Computing, Microsoft, Azure, AI

6 points by swernli 163 days ago | 0 comments

Overspent Azure Credits (ycombinator.com)

Azure, Cloud Computing, Cost Management

7 points by waterdolphin 191 days ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work (ycombinator.com)

Cloud Computing, AWS, GCP, Azure, Work

74 points by michal_kluczek 197 days ago | 50 comments

Azure Down? (status.microsoft)

Azure, Cloud Computing, Downtime, Service Outages

93 points by vb-8448 205 days ago | 20 comments

Microsoft 365 and Azure outage takes down multiple services (bleepingcomputer.com)