Developers

It’s been about a month since we finalized the acquisition of Deis to expand the Azure Container Service and Kubernetes support on Azure.

As we announced recently, Microsoft thinks there is a natural balance between the cloud and the edge in IoT. Why?

We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offering, yet have a longstanding commitment to match AWS on price drops.

As we approach Consensus 2017, it is with great pleasure that we announce support for complex blockchain network deployments for many more blockchain and distributed ledger protocols on Azure, including HyperLedger Fabric, R3 Corda, Quorum, Chain Core, and BlockApps, to further our goal and meet

There are many facets to an IoT Solution – device code, cloud solution code, and application code – all working together to realize a business goal. Azure IoT Suite is designed to get you started quickly and realize business value from IoT.

This blog post was authored by Marc Mercuri, Director, Microsoft Digital. Microsoft is laser-focused on enabling and accelerating enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies. Our blockchain offerings are well known for providing the ability to rapidly and consistently deploy blockchain infrastructure.

We continue to find ways to make Azure a better value for our customers. Azure Managed Disks, a new disk service launched in Feb ’17, simplifies the management and scaling of Virtual Machines (VM).

Azure Cosmos DB, announced at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, is the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building planet scale apps. You can easily build globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple-datacenter configurations.

We’ve recently made it much easier to monitor microservices and containerized applications using Azure Application Insights.

More and more enterprise customers are realizing the benefits of moving their core business applications to the cloud. Many have moved beyond the conversation of “why cloud” to “which cloud provider.” Customers want the assurance of performance, privacy and scale for their mission critical applications.

We’ve made improvements to SQL Data Sync including PowerShell programmability, better security and resilience, enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting, and availability in more regions.

Today at Microsoft Build 2017, we are delighted to announce the public preview of a new way to obtain and consume Azure compute at a much lower price using Azure Batch – low-priority VMs.