A new Planned Maintenance experience for your virtual machines
We’re excited to announce the availability of a new planned maintenance experience in Azure, providing you more control, better communication, and better visibility.
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Introducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency and high availability
As part of our commitment to providing customers with a platform for their most demanding, mission-critical workloads, I’m excited to announce expanded capabilities for Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure.
Route IoT device messages to Azure Storage with Azure IoT Hub
IoT Hub has a new custom endpoint type available: Azure Storage containers!
On-premises Azure Files access on Linux update and new troubleshooter
We had announced the availability of Linux on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files for the first OS distribution – Ubuntu 17.04, in April.
More and more fun with Terraform on Azure
Just one month ago, we announced our increased investment in Terraform. It is amazing to see the progress we have already made together with HashiCorp and the Terraform community.
Processing 100,000 events per second on Azure Functions
Customers often ask us about the scalability and throughput limits of the consumption plan for Azure Functions. The short answer is always “it depends, what does your workload look like?”.
Simplifying OPC UA security for everyone
At the IoT Expo in Taipei, we were excited to announce our contribution of an open-source, cross-platform OPC UA Global Discovery Server (GDS) to the OPC Foundation. As we have done with our UA-.
Keep credentials out of code: Introducing Azure AD Managed Service Identity
A common challenge in cloud development is managing the credentials used to authenticate to cloud services.
Introducing Azure confidential computing
Microsoft spends one billion dollars per year on cybersecurity and much of that goes to making Microsoft Azure the most trusted cloud platform.
API Versioning with Azure API Management
When talking to developers building HTTP APIs the subject of versioning comes up regularly. A quick web search will reveal hundreds of articles promoting guidance on the subject.
Using Azure Analysis Services with Azure Data Lake Store
Support for Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) is now available in Azure Analysis Services and in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Now you can augment your big data analytics workloads with rich interactive analysis for selected data subsets at the speed of thought!
Introducing B-Series, our new burstable VM size
Today I am excited to announce the preview of the B-Series, a new Azure VM family that provides the lowest cost of any existing size with flexible CPU usage.