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Analytics in Azure is up to 14x faster and costs 94% less than other cloud providers; Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data services; Azure Cost Management now GA for EA customers; and more.

The mobility space is at the forefront of the most complex challenges faced by cities and urban areas today.

When we discuss Azure Stack with customers, they see the value in Azure Stack providing cloud-native capabilities to their datacenters.

It’s true. With the volume and complexity of data rapidly increasing, performance and security are critical requirements for analytics. But not all analytics services are built equal. And not all cloud storage is built for analytics.

As Julia White mentioned in her blog today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer. We also announced the preview of Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow.

Azure Monitor provides sophisticated tools for collecting and analyzing telemetry that allow you to maximize the performance and availability of your cloud while also maximizing on-premises resources and applications.

Always On availability groups (AG) provide high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to your SQL Server database, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a combination of both.

We are now excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Cost Management experience that helps organizations visualize, manage, and optimize costs across Azure.

Today, we are excited to announce three new Azure Reserved VM Instances’ (RI) features to provide our customers with additional savings and purchase controls.

This month we’re bringing you updates to several IaaS Compute resources, an improvement to the layout of essential properties on overview pages, enhancements to the experience on recovery services pages, and expansions of setting options in Intune.

Many of the conveniences we enjoy today are dependent on the infrastructure cities and municipalities provide, such as water mains, streetlights, and roads. This infrastructure and its associated technology support our transportation systems, schools, hospitals, and more.

Today we are excited to share the preview for account failover for customers with geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts.