IT implementors

As part of our continued commitment to deliver Azure to customers at the best possible prices, effective October 1st, we are lowering prices on many of our most popular virtual machines (VMs).

Earlier today we announced our plan to offer the Microsoft Cloud, including Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 from datacenters located in France with initial availability in 2017.

We’re excited to share that the second technical preview of Microsoft Azure Stack (TP2) is now available.

Cyber threats are evolving at an astonishing pace, and safeguarding your cloud workloads requires constant innovation. Since Azure Security Center became generally available in July 2016, we have been hard at work on new capabilities to help customers better defend against these threats.

This week at Ignite, we’re unveiling many new Azure capabilities and you’ll see a common meme across these – enabling IT with cloud infrastructure, security capabilities, holistic management, and world-class support for open source.

I am excited to announce today that Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server will be generally available for download at no cost.

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Monitor, a new platform service that provides monitoring capabilities for Azure resources.

This week we are announcing several new Azure networking services and features to provide customers greater performance, higher availability, better security and more operational insights.

Microsoft was proud to become the first global cloud service provider to appear on the Department of Commerce’s list of Privacy Shield certified entities as of August 12th 2016.

Announcing the General Availability of the Azure DNS service. Azure DNS can now be used for production workloads, and is covered by the Azure SLA and Azure Support.

Availability of H-series VMs in Microsoft Azure

The Azure Big Compute team is happy to announce version 1.0.0 of the Batch Shipyard toolkit, which enables easy deployment of batch-style Dockerized workloads to Azure Batch compute pools.