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Re-define analytics with Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 tier now generally available 

Microsoft Azure Government regions give unparalleled flexibility for US government agencies and their partners. Today, we announce the general availability of industry-leading performance Azure SQL Data Warehouse Compute Optimized Gen2 tier for government customers in the US Gov Arizona and US Gov Texas regions.

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A fast, serverless, big data pipeline powered by a single Azure Function 

A single Azure function is all it took to fully implement an end-to-end, real-time, mission critical data pipeline. And it was done with a serverless architecture. Serverless architectures simplify the building, deployment, and management of cloud scale applications.

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U.S. Air Force awards $30M+ Enterprise IT-as-a-Service contract to Microsoft 

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a transformational $30+M agreement to Microsoft to provide secure network access to DoD data and applications as well as enable access for mobile and remotely located users. Microsoft has a longstanding 30-year partnership with the DoD and this other transaction agreement (OTA) with the U.S. Air Force enables experimentation towards transformation to network-as-a-service for IT operations, including support to the department’s mission-critical workloads.

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GoChain blockchain available on Azure 

The team at GoChain is bringing their private, scalable blockchain offering to Microsoft Azure. GoChain is a blockchain based on Ethereum, which changes to protocol and consensus model primarily to increase the transaction speed of the network.