IT implementors

Government clouds are not all the same so we’re starting a dialogue on our strategy for building the Microsoft Government Cloud, exploring several areas we believe are highly valuable differentiators.

The public availability of the Service Fabric for Linux preview on Monday, Sept. 26, coincident with the Ignite conference.

Technology has enabled some pretty amazing things, but being in two places at once still isn’t one of them.

Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Storage Service Encryption for Azure Blob Storage. You can enable this feature on any Azure Resource Manager storage account using the Azure Portal, Azure Powershell, Azure CLI or the Microsoft Azure Storage Resource Provider API.

Azure backup now supports edit and delete on existing Azure VM backup policies in Recovery Services vault.

Microsoft is the first global provider to deliver the complete cloud from datacenters in the UK.

New update to SQL Database Advisor greatly reduces the time required (from a week to a day) to produce and implement index tuning recommendations, making the performance tuning process much faster.

We are happy to announce that JSON support is now generally available in Azure SQL Database.

Today, we’re announcing a cool new feature (in preview) for Web developers using Azure App Service to create Web applications that use MySQL.

I’m excited to share exciting new open source developments from Microsoft and things we’ve learned from our journey with Linux and open source.

If case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been super busy here at Azure Government, and have been posting all our exciting updates and items of interest on our Azure Government Blog!

We would like to share a few customer experiences that demonstrate how Azure SQL Database Threat Detection helped address their concerns about potential threats to their database.