As AI continues to proliferate across the corporate world, and the marketplace of capable models continues to expand, the landscape of API providers expands with it. Rather than continue this sprawl, most organizations now look to centralize capacity, cost, governance, and observability so AI usage is aligned to their enterprise policies. Enter the “AI Gateway”.

If you’ve interacted with Azure Storage using PowerShell, you’ve probably come across the AzTable community module. But, given this module’s developer abandonment, to reduce reliance on third-party packages, and to enable modern authentication, you can interact directly with Azure Tables using its REST API.

Azure Application Insights is Microsoft’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) service built on top of Azure Monitor. Unfortunately, PowerShell is not one of the officially supported languages for the Application Insights SDK. But, it does work, and is actually pretty simple to set up.

Detecting orphaned volumes (disks which are not attached to any virtual machine) can become a challenging endeavor, especially when faced with an environment containing thousands of virtual machines. Luckily, Azure Resource Graph allows users to easily identify orphaned volumes across their entire Azure estate.

After years of being an avid Spotify library and playlist curator, I have on more than one occasion worried about the possibility of my library or playlists being lost. So, I decided to export them for my own personal backup using PowerShell and Azure, and will show you how you can too.

When working with AWS Backup, it can sometimes (often) become difficult to correlate which EBS Volume or EC2 Instance generated each Snapshot (and subsequently is responsible for its cost), especially since the AWS Cost and Usage Report can include millions of line items for large enterprises.

Now that you have a containerized deployment of AWX with PowerShell (see part 1), you can start to leverage the additional capabilities it provides within your Ansible Playbooks.

Now that we have PowerShell for Mac & Linux, it’s able to shine in many more use cases, including leveraging the power of the open source configuration management & automation platform RedHat Ansible AWX to execute PowerShell 7 commands & scripts within Ansible Playbooks, directly on the Ansible control node.

Azure doesn’t let you rename Virtual Machine resources after provisioning. Here’s how to fix it.

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