Hacker News with Generative AI: Azure

AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 (tomshardware.com)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Overspent Azure Credits (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work (ycombinator.com)
Azure Down? (status.microsoft)
Microsoft 365 and Azure outage takes down multiple services (bleepingcomputer.com)
Azure Portal Is Down (status.microsoft)
Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today (thenewstack.io)
Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change (bleepingcomputer.com)
Azure US Central is down (status.microsoft)
Azure DevOps is down globally (ycombinator.com)
Azure Central US region is currently down (ycombinator.com)
Azure OpenAI down in multiple regions (status.microsoft)
Possible Azure RCE (zerodayinitiative.com)
Microsoft is laying off hundreds in its Azure cloud business, sources say (businessinsider.com)
The preview of new Azure VMs based on the Azure Cobalt 100 processor (microsoft.com)
Show HN: Cut 50%+ on the Cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure) (ycombinator.com)