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Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

This post was contributed by Susie Adams, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Federal and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, Azure Government at Microsoft.

Happy Birthday Kubernetes! In the short three years that Kubernetes has been around, it has become the industry standard for orchestration of containerized workloads.

Machine learning (ML) is causing quite the buzz at the moment, and it’s having a huge impact on healthcare. Payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies are all seeing applicability in their spaces and are taking advantage of ML today.

Today, we’re releasing our next update to Workbench, which we’re calling version 1.2.0. You can either deploy a new instance of Workbench through the Azure portal or upgrade your existing deployment to 1.2.0 using our upgrade script.

Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

We are thrilled to announce that SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) has released accelerated and flexible restore points for fast data recovery. SQL DW is a fully managed and secure analytics platform for the enterprise, optimized for running complex queries fast across petabytes of data.

Azure File Sync replicates files from your on-premises Windows Server to an Azure file share.

Azure AD Managed Service Identity has been in preview for several months now. We wanted to give you an update on what is new with the service.

Healthcare costs are skyrocketing. In 2016, healthcare costs in the US are estimated at nearly 18 percent of the GDP! Healthcare is becoming less affordable worldwide, and a serious chasm is widening between those that can afford healthcare and those that cannot.

Sensitive health data processed by hospitals and insurers is under constant attack from malicious actors who try to gain access to health care systems with the goal to steal or extort personal health information.

As your cloud spend starts to increase, being able to accurately forecast usage becomes a critical part of your plan.