Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support
We’re excited to introduce a public preview of the DocumentDB Emulator, which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service.
IT implementors
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General availability of Azure Application Insights
We announced the general availability of Azure Application Insights (previously Visual Studio Application Insights) and launched our new pricing structure.
App Service on Linux now supports Containers and ASP.NET Core
We announced the preview of Azure App Service on Linux making it easier for PHP and Node.js developers to run their web applications natively on Linux and thus making it easier to work directly with .htaccess files or avoid using modified extensions or code.
Announcing general availability of Azure Functions
Today organizations are turning to the cloud not only to accelerate – but to transform – their business. Part of the Azure PaaS portfolio, Azure Functions, offers a serverless compute experience for rapid application development and operational agility.
Azure N-Series: General availability on December 1
We’re excited today to announce general availability of the Azure N-Series of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.
Microsoft Azure Announces Industry’s First Cloud Bot-as-a-Service
We are thrilled by the surprisingly large number of bots, tools, channels and the overall vibrancy and excitement within the developer community since our launch of Bot Framework on Github in March. The democratization of AI and the advancement of conversational canvasses are well underway.
Choose Azure, like OpenAI did, to power your compute intensive workloads and add intelligent interactions to all your apps
Today, Microsoft announced a new partnership with OpenAI, a nonprofit AI research organization co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.
Microsoft Azure SQL Database provides unparalleled performance with In-Memory technologies
In-Memory technologies are now generally available in Azure SQL Database, to optimize performance of transaction processing, analytics, as well as hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP).
Azure Container Service: the cloud’s most open option for containers
Containers are the next evolution in virtualization, enabling organizations to be more agile than ever before.
Azure Container Registry preview
In today’s cloud-first world, applications are the vital ingredients that fuel innovation and productivity.
Azure DocumentDB updates: quick start experience, backup and restore, and firewall support
Over the past couple weeks the DocumentDB team released a number of improvements to developer experience and capabilities of DocumentDB. We added a new quick start experience helping you to get up and running with a working app on DocumentDB in seconds.
Project Bletchley – Blockchain comes to Azure Marketplace
We are excited to expand support of Bletchley v1 into the Azure Marketplace and add many new partners to our growing ecosystem.