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With scale-out, client queries can be distributed among multiple query replicas in a query pool, reducing response times during high query workloads.

I am excited to announce the general availability of Managed Applications in the Azure Marketplace. Managed Applications, an Azure unique offering, enables you to deploy entire applications and empower your partner to fully manage and maintain the application in your environment.

Azure Managed Applications enable Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Independent Software Vendors (ISV) partners, and enterprise IT teams to deliver fully managed, turnkey cloud solutions that can be made available through the Azure Marketplace or through the enterprise service catalog of a specific end-customer.

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 23, 2017: Cray supercomputers in the cloud, managed Kubernetes, GDPR resources and tools, and more

I am happy to announce new capabilities in Azure Site Recovery (ASR), which will now allow you to start replicating your Azure IaaS virtual machines within one-click.

Five highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 16, 2017: Translating AWS to Azure with the Cloud Service Map, Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour ’17, New Azure Government capabilities, New previews on Azure, and weekly Azure shows to catch.

Five highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 9, 2017: IoT Updates, New previews, Azure Management Libraries for .NET v1.3, Cloud Platform Release Announcements, and Stuff to watch & listen.

By using the new firewall feature, customers can lock down their Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) servers to accept network traffic only from desired sources.

This post reviews some of the cool new features supported by the new Azure Log Analytics query language. To learn more on the query language check out the tutorials on our language site and our Log Analytics community space.

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of a new Azure Security and Compliance Blueprint for PCI DSS-compliant Payment Processing environments, the only auditor reviewed, 100% automated solution for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard – PCI DSS 3.2 technical controls.

Today at the Ignite 2017 conference in Florida, we announced a range of new monitoring and analytics capabilities in Azure bringing together application and infrastructure monitoring in a unified curated overview in Azure Monitor.

The set body policy is used for changing the request or response body.