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We are excited to announce instance size flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances, a new feature that makes your reserved instance purchasing and management even simpler by applying reservation discounts to different virtual machine sizes within the same VM group.

I am extremely honored to be delivering the keynote next week at the Data Platform Summit (DPS) in Bangalore.

We are excited to announce that SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) serves you intelligent performance insights within the Azure portal! SQL DW is a flexible, secure, and fully managed analytics platform for the enterprise optimized for running complex queries fast across petabytes of data.

This article outlines best practices for government agencies faced with the challenges of storing, sharing, and protecting rapidly growing file data, and explains how the Nasuni global file system with Azure Government storage works for agencies needing to consolidate outdated NAS and file server infrastructure

Ansible 2.6 was recently released and I am excited to share with you what’s new for Azure in Ansible 2.6. In total, four new Azure modules were added in addition to over 17 enhancements to our existing modules.

Microsoft Azure provides a secure foundation for customers to host their infrastructure and applications.

Interested in deploying your Linux or containerized web app in an Azure Virtual Network? Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Linux on App Service Environment (ASE), which combines the features from App Service on Linux and App Service Environment.

Today, we are announcing the public preview offering for Manual failover.

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.