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articles/azure-boost/overview.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ms.service: azure-virtual-machines
 ms.topic: overview
 ms.custom:
   - ignite-2023
-ms.date: 11/07/2023
+ms.date: 03/18/2025
 ms.author: mattmcinnes
 ms.reviewer: mattmcinnes
 #Customer intent: I want to improve the security and performance of my Azure virtual machines
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Azure Boost contains several features that can improve the performance and secur
 
 - **Networking:** Azure Boost includes a suite of software and hardware networking systems that provide a significant boost to both network performance (Up to 200-Gbps network bandwidth) and network security. Azure Boost compatible virtual machine hosts contain the new [Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)](../../articles/virtual-network/accelerated-networking-mana-overview.md). Learn more about [Azure Boost networking](../../articles/azure-boost/overview.md#networking).
 
-- **Storage:** Storage operations are offloaded to the Azure Boost FPGA. This offload provides leading efficiency and performance while improving security, reducing jitter, and improving latency for workloads. Local storage now runs at up to 26-GBps and 6.6 million IOPS with remote storage up to 14-GBps throughput and 750 K IOPS. Learn more about [Azure Boost Storage](../../articles/azure-boost/overview.md#storage).
+- **Storage:** Storage processing operations are offloaded to the Azure Boost FPGA. This offload to FPGA provides leading efficiency and performance while improving security, reducing jitter, and improving latency for workloads. Local storage now runs at up to 36GBps throughput and 6.6 million IOPS, and with remote storage up to 14GBps throughput and 750K IOPS. Learn more about [Azure Boost Storage](../../articles/azure-boost/overview.md#storage).
 
 - **Security:** Azure Boost uses [Cerberus](../security/fundamentals/project-cerberus.md) as an independent HW Root of Trust to achieve NIST 800-193 certification. Customer workloads can't run on Azure Boost powered architecture unless the firmware and software running on the system is trusted. Learn more about [Azure Boost Security](../../articles/azure-boost/overview.md#security).
 
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ Consistent updates and performance enhancements ensures you're always a step ahe
 ## Storage
 Azure Boost architecture offloads storage covering local, remote and cached disks that provide leading efficiency and performance while improving security, reducing jitter & improving latency for workloads. Azure Boost already provides acceleration for workloads in the fleet using remote storage including specialized workloads such as the Ebsv5 VM types. Also, these improvements provide potential cost saving for customers by consolidating existing workload into fewer or smaller sized VMs. 
 
-Azure Boost delivers industry leading throughput performance at up to 14-GBps throughput and 750K IOPS. This performance is enabled by accelerated storage processing and exposing NVMe disk interfaces to VMs. Storage tasks are offloaded from the host processor to dedicated programmable Azure Boost hardware in our dynamically programmable FPGA. This architecture allows us to update the FPGA hardware in the fleet enabling continuous delivery for our customers.
+Azure Boost delivers industry leading throughput performance at up to 14GBps throughput and 750K IOPS for remote disk access performance. This performance is enabled by accelerated storage processing and exposing NVMe disk interfaces to VMs. Storage processing tasks are offloaded from the host processor to dedicated programmable Azure Boost hardware in our dynamically programmable FPGA. This architecture allows us to update the FPGA hardware in the fleet enabling continuous delivery for our customers.
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/boost-storage-nvme-vs-scsi.png" alt-text="Diagram showing the difference between managed SCSI storage and Azure Boost's managed NVMe storage.":::
 
-By fully applying Azure Boost architecture, we deliver remote, local, and cached disk performance improvements at up to 26-GBps throughput and 6.6M IOPS. Azure Boost SSDs are designed to provide high performance optimized encryption at rest, and minimal jitter to NVMe local disks for Azure VMs with local disks.
+With Azure Boost SSD architecture, we deliver local, and cached disk performance improvements at up to 36GBps throughput and 6.6M IOPS depending on the VM size of your choice. Azure Boost SSDs are designed to provide high performance optimized encryption at rest, and minimal jitter to NVMe local disks for Azure VMs with local disks.
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/boost-storage-ssd-comparison.png" alt-text="Diagram showing the difference between local SCSI SSDs and Azure Boost's local NVMe SSDs.":::
 

articles/azure-cache-for-redis/cache-azure-active-directory-for-authentication.md

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ To use the ACL integration, your client application must assume the identity of
 
 - Microsoft Entra authentication is supported for SSL connections and TLS 1.2 or higher.
 - Microsoft Entra authentication isn't supported in the Enterprise tiers of Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise.
+- Microsoft Entra groups are not supported.
 - Some Redis commands are blocked. For a full list of blocked commands, see [Redis commands not supported in Azure Cache for Redis](cache-configure.md#redis-commands-not-supported-in-azure-cache-for-redis).
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]

articles/azure-functions/functions-overview.md

@@ -1,58 +1,54 @@
 ---
-title: Azure Functions Overview
-description: Learn how you can use Azure Functions to build robust serverless apps.
+title: Azure Functions overview
+description: Learn how you can use Azure Functions to build robust serverless apps without writing extra code.
 ms.assetid: 01d6ca9f-ca3f-44fa-b0b9-7ffee115acd4
 ms.topic: overview
-ms.date: 05/22/2023
+ms.date: 03/06/2025
 ms.custom: devdivchpfy22, build-2023
-zone_pivot_groups: programming-languages-set-functions-lang-workers
 ---
 
-# Azure Functions overview
+# What is Azure Functions?
 
-Azure Functions is a serverless solution that allows you to write less code, maintain less infrastructure, and save on costs. Instead of worrying about deploying and maintaining servers, the cloud infrastructure provides all the up-to-date resources needed to keep your applications running.
+Azure Functions is a serverless solution that allows you to build robust apps while using less code, and with less infrastructure and lower costs. Instead of worrying about deploying and maintaining servers, you can use the cloud infrastructure to provide all the up-to-date resources needed to keep your applications running.
 
-You focus on the code that matters most to you, in the most productive language for you, and Azure Functions handles the rest.
-
-For the best experience with the Functions documentation, choose your preferred development language from the list of native Functions languages at the top of the article.
+You focus on the code that matters most to you, in the most productive language for you, and Azure Functions handles the rest. For a list of supported languages, see [Supported languages in Azure Functions](supported-languages.md).
 
 ## Scenarios
 
-Functions provides a comprehensive set of event-driven [triggers and bindings](functions-triggers-bindings.md) that connect your functions to other services without having to write extra code. 
+Functions provides a comprehensive set of event-driven [triggers and bindings](functions-triggers-bindings.md) that connect your functions to other services without having to write extra code.
 
-The following are a common, _but by no means exhaustive_, set of integrated scenarios that feature Functions.
+The following list includes common integrated scenarios that use Functions.
 
 | If you want to... | then...|
 | --- | --- |
 | [Process file uploads](./functions-scenarios.md#process-file-uploads) | Run code when a file is uploaded or changed in blob storage. |
 | [Process data in real time](./functions-scenarios.md#real-time-stream-and-event-processing)| Capture and transform data from event and IoT source streams on the way to storage.   |
-| [Infer on data models](./functions-scenarios.md#machine-learning-and-ai)| Pull text from a queue and present it to various AI services for analysis and classification. |
-| [Run scheduled task](./functions-scenarios.md#run-scheduled-tasks)| Execute data clean-up code on pre-defined timed intervals. |
+| [Run AI inference](./functions-scenarios.md#machine-learning-and-ai)| Pull text from a queue and present it to various AI services for analysis and classification. |
+| [Run scheduled task](./functions-scenarios.md#run-scheduled-tasks)| Execute data clean-up code on predefined timed intervals. |
 | [Build a scalable web API](./functions-scenarios.md#build-a-scalable-web-api)| Implement a set of REST endpoints for your web applications using HTTP triggers. |
 | [Build a serverless workflow](./functions-scenarios.md#build-a-serverless-workflow)| Create an event-driven workflow from a series of functions using Durable Functions. |
-| [Respond to database changes](./functions-scenarios.md#respond-to-database-changes)| Run custom logic when a document is created or updated in [Azure Cosmos DB](/azure/cosmos-db/introduction). |
-| [Create reliable message systems](./functions-scenarios.md#create-reliable-message-systems)| Process message queues using Queue Storage, Service Bus, or Event Hubs. |
+| [Respond to database changes](./functions-scenarios.md#respond-to-database-changes)| Run custom logic when a document is created or updated in a database. |
+| [Create reliable message systems](./functions-scenarios.md#create-reliable-message-systems)| Process message queues using Azure Queue Storage, Service Bus, or Event Hubs. |
 
-These scenarios allow you to build event-driven systems using modern architectural patterns. For more information, see [Azure Functions Scenarios](functions-scenarios.md).
+These scenarios allow you to build event-driven systems using modern architectural patterns. For more information, see [Azure Functions scenarios](functions-scenarios.md).
 
 ## Development lifecycle
 
-With Functions, you write your function code in your preferred language using your favorite development tools and then deploy your code to the Azure cloud. Functions provides native support for developing in [C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, Python](./supported-languages.md), plus the ability to use [more languages](./functions-custom-handlers.md), such as Rust and Go. 
+With Functions, you write your function code in your preferred language using your favorite development tools, and then deploy your code to the Azure cloud. Functions provides native support for developing in [C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, or Python](./supported-languages.md), plus the ability to use [custom handlers](./functions-custom-handlers.md) for other languages, such as Rust and Go.
 
 Functions integrates directly with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Maven, and other popular development tools to enable seamless debugging and [deployments](functions-deployment-technologies.md). 
 
-Functions also integrates with Azure Monitor and Azure Application Insights to provide comprehensive runtime telemetry and analysis of your [functions in the cloud](functions-monitoring.md).
+Functions also integrates with Azure Monitor and Azure Application Insights to provide comprehensive monitoring and analysis of your [functions in the cloud](functions-monitoring.md).
 
 ## Hosting options
 
-Functions provides a variety of [hosting options](functions-scale.md#overview-of-plans) for your business needs and application workload. [Event-driven scaling hosting options](./event-driven-scaling.md) range from fully serverless, where you only pay for execution time (Consumption plan), to always warm instances kept ready for fastest response times (Premium plan). 
+Functions provides various [hosting options](functions-scale.md) for your business needs and application workload. [Event-driven scaling hosting options](event-driven-scaling.md) range from fully serverless, where you only pay for execution time (Consumption plan), to always-warm instances kept ready for the fastest response times (Premium plan).
 
-When you have excess App Service hosting resources, you can host your functions in an existing App Service plan. This kind of Dedicated hosting plan is also a good choice when you need predictable scaling behaviors and costs from your functions. 
+When you have excess App Service hosting resources, you can host your functions in an existing App Service plan. This kind of Dedicated hosting plan is also a good choice when you need predictable scaling behaviors and costs from your functions.
 
-If you want complete control over your functions runtime environment and dependencies, you can even deploy your functions in containers that you can fully customize. Your custom containers can be hosted by Functions, deployed as part of a microservices architecture in Azure Container Apps, or even self-hosted in Kubernetes. 
+If you want complete control over your runtime environment and dependencies, you can even deploy your functions in containers that you can fully customize. Your custom containers can be hosted by Functions, deployed as part of a microservices architecture in Azure Container Apps, or even self-hosted in Kubernetes.
 
-## Next Steps
+## Related content
 
-> [!div class="nextstepaction"]
-> [Azure Functions Scenarios](./functions-scenarios.md)
-> [Get started through lessons, samples, and interactive tutorials](./functions-get-started.md)
+- [Azure Functions scenarios](functions-scenarios.md)
+- [Get started with Azure Functions](functions-get-started.md)