Episode 455 - Azure ML in the real world

In this episode we chat with Andrés Padilla and Meer Alam about practical use of AI and ML systems.  Examples of this are discussed around autonomous drone / delivery models and the various components in Azure that make this a seamless, scalable and sustainable experience.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode455.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/0Y_jeCWZn38

Resources:

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1569428314103514552-drone-express-travel-transportation-azure-en-united-states

https://github.com/Azure/KAN

Other updates:

Azure Disks Standard SSD billable transaction cap blog (microsoft.com)

Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General Availability: Customer Initiated Storage Account Conversion | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI Service | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure

Teams premium - conversation recap, chapters, etc.; Viva Sales, Bing Chat

Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Image captioning, customisation, improved learning, smaller datasets, higher quality.

Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Zero Trust segmentation; single holistic view of traffic with real time visibility of interaction and dependencies; test firewall changes before deploying; across all 3 skus of firewall

Public Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports querying PromQL | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Use promql to define alerts to view in the portal

Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Installs an agent to your VM through PS, triggered by the portal

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-to-showcase-purposebuilt-ai-infrastructure-at-nvidia-gtc/