Harness analytical and predictive power with Azure Synapse Analytics
07 December 2020
Since its preview announcement, we’ve witnessed incredible excitement and adoption of Azure Synapse from our customers and partners.
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Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – November 2020
30 November 2020
Get your budget emails in the language of your choice, enjoy a preview of new cost views optimized for resources and reservations, and take advantage of even more ways to save money! November is as action-packed as ever. And don't forget to check out new videos and documentation updates to help you be more successful than ever in driving financial health within your organization.
Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – October 2020
27 October 2020
Last month, we shared a lot of cost optimization tips and tricks. Continuing with that focus, October is all about helping you save money on Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS), database, or storage offerings. You'll also read about creating subscriptions via Azure Resource Manager deployment templates, be able to participate in a survey to streamline your experience when verifying your billed charges, and get a sneak peek at a few very early previews. Enjoy!
Three ways serverless APIs can accelerate enterprise innovation
07 October 2020
With the wrong architecture, application programming interface (APIs) can be a bottleneck to not only your applications, but to your entire business. Bottlenecks such as downtime, low performance, or high application complexity, can result in exaggerated infrastructure and organizational costs as well as lost revenue.
Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – September 2020
30 September 2020
While 2020 may be keeping you on your toes, September should help make your life a little bit easier with the general availability of AWS support in Azure Cost Management + Billing, allowing you to manage all your Azure and AWS costs in a single place; the preview of cost allocation, streamlining your internal chargeback process; and many, many new cost optimization tips and tricks, including a new retail, PAYG pricing API, new Advisor recommendations, and specific guidance for organizations using Azure SQL or Azure Backup. You won't want to miss this update!
Microsoft named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service
30 September 2020
We are excited to share that Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in the 2020 enterprise integration platform as a service (EiPaaS) Magic Quadrant, based on our ability to execute and completeness of vision. Microsoft has now remained an EiPaaS MQ leader for the past three years.
Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – June 2020
30 June 2020
Flexibility was the main theme for June, with more customizable budget notifications, a way to monitor your cost recommendations, and automated subscription creation for Azure Government. And of course, these are just a few highlights. Don't forget to check out new ways to save, a new video, and our regular documentation updates.
Microsoft named a leader in The Forrester New Wave: Functions-as-a-Service Platforms
11 March 2020
We’re excited to share that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in the inaugural report, The Forrester New Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q1 2020 based on their evaluation of Azure Functions.
Preview of Active Directory authentication support on Azure Files
24 February 2020
We are excited to announce the preview of Azure Files Active Directory (Azure AD) Authentication. You can now mount your Azure Files using Azure AD credentials with the exact same access control experience as on-premises.
Serverless for the enterprise with Microsoft Azure
06 November 2019
Cloud computing has opened new paradigms that enable enterprises to reach new levels of productivity and scale. At the tip of that spear is serverless computing, enabling developers, teams, and organizations to focus on business logic and leave hosting and scaling of resources to the cloud platform.