IT decision makers

Today we are launching Try Azure Cosmos DB for free, an experience that allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign up required and at no charge for a limited time.

Earlier this year at Microsoft Build, we announced the public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

In this blog post, I will walk you through some of the new capabilities we have in our template language expressions for Azure Resource Manager templates.

Today we’re announcing the public preview of the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service! The Device Provisioning Service is a new service that works with Azure IoT Hub to enable customers to configure zero-touch device provisioning to their IoT hub.

Applications are changing the pace of business today – from delivering amazing customer experiences, to transforming internal operations.

I’m thrilled to announce the preview release of Enterprise Cost Management within the Azure portal. With today’s release, Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) users can view and analyze their subscription costs across different pivots, within the Azure portal.

Today, we announced the general availability of Azure App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers. Providing Linux support in Azure App Service is an important step towards our commitment to support variety of OSS stacks on the platform.

Central to our security strategy in ensuring protection of our customer’s data, we are taking a step further, by enabling encryption by default using Microsoft Managed Keys for all the data written to all Azure services (Blob, File, Table and Queue storage) for all storage

As of today, the default compatibility level for new databases created in Azure SQL Database is 130.

Today we’re announcing the public preview of Archive Blob Storage designed to help organizations reduce their storage costs even further by storing rarely accessed data in our lowest-priced tier yet.

Getting ahead of issues before they impact end users is a key goal of any IT organization.

Diagnosing network connectivity and performance issues in the cloud can be a challenge as your network evolves in complexity. We are pleased to announce the preview of a new feature to check network connectivity in a variety of scenarios when using VM.