Announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines (VMs). Azure Spot VMs provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts.
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Azure Blob Storage enhancing data protection and recovery capabilities
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS)—providing protection against regional disasters and Account failover—allowing you to determine when to initiate a failover instead.
Office Licensing Service and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Migrating the production workload
This post is part 1 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them.
Office Licensing Service and Azure Cosmos DB part 2: Improved performance and availability
This post is part 2 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them.
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now provide simpler management during scale-in
With the general availability of three new features for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, you now have more control over gracefully handling your virtual machine instances during scale-in.
Automating cybersecurity guardrails with new Zero Trust blueprint and Azure integrations
Today, many of our customers in regulated industries are adopting a Zero Trust architecture, moving to a security model that more effectively adapts to the complexity of the modern environment, embraces the mobile workforce, and protects people, devices, applications, and data wherever they’re located.
Use Azure Firewall for secure and cost-effective Windows Virtual Desktop protection
Work from home policies require many IT organizations to address fundamental changes in capacity, network, security, and governance.
Minecraft Earth and Azure Cosmos DB part 2: Delivering turnkey geographic distribution
This post is part 2 of a two-part series about out how organizations are using Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs and the difference it’s making to them.
Minecraft Earth and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Extending Minecraft into our real world
This post is part 1 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs and the difference it’s making to them.
How Azure VPN helps organizations scale remote work
A shift to remote work is one of the widespread effects of the global pandemic, and we heard from organizations around the world who are looking for ways to enable more of their employees to work remotely for their safety and that of the community.
Microsoft announces next evolution of Azure VMware Solution
Today, I’m excited to announce the preview of the next generation of Azure VMware Solution, designed, built, and supported by Microsoft in close partnership with VMware.
Manage and find data with Blob Index for Azure Storage—now in preview
Blob Index—a managed secondary index, allowing you to store multi-dimensional object attributes to describe your data objects for Azure Blob storage—is now available in preview.