Business decision makers

Azure Cost Management helps you understand how and where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs, empowering you to do more with less.

Today’s healthcare organizations are expected to be agile, reduce costs, and direct capital toward revenue generating activities that improve patient outcomes.

I’m excited to announce our second Azure Blueprint for an important compliance standard with the release of the PCI-DSS v3.2.1 blueprint.

Today, many organizations are leveraging digital transformation to deliver their applications and services in the cloud. At the recent Build 2019 conference, Microsoft Azure Quickstart Center was generally available and received positive feedback from customers.

In October 2018 we announced the public preview of Azure Monitor for VMs. At that time, we included support for monitoring your virtual machine scale sets from the at scale view under Azure Monitor.

Learn how to monitor performance and resource utilization on Azure HDInsight by keeping tabs on metrics, such as CPU, memory, and network usage, to better understand how your cluster is handling your workloads and whether you have enough resources to complete the task at hand.

Preparing for the unexpected is part of every IT professional’s and developer’s job. Although rare, service issues like outages and planned maintenance do occur.

We recently released Azure Application Gateway V2 or Autoscaling version (SKU) and Web Application Firewall (WAF). These SKUs are Standard_v2 and WAF_v2 respectively and are fully supported with a 99.95% SLA.

Without the right tools and approach, cloud optimization can be a time-consuming and difficult process. There is an ever growing list of best practices to follow, and it’s constantly in flux as your cloud workloads evolve.

For businesses today, data is indispensable. Innovative ideas in manufacturing, health care, transportation, and financial industries are often the result of capturing and correlating data from multiple sources.

Elasticity means services can expand and contract on demand. This means Microsoft Azure customers who are on a pay-as-you-go plan will reap the most benefit out of Azure services.

Azure Cost Management helps you understand how and where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs, empowering you to do more with less.