Compute

We recently shared the public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop service on Azure.

We are excited to join the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week to learn what’s new and share our work in Azure focused on enabling modern, global games via cloud and cloud-native technologies.

How do you back up your SQL Servers today? You could be using backup software that require you to manage backup servers, agents, and storage, or you could be writing elaborate custom scripts which need you to manage the backups on each server individually.

So you followed that excellent walkthrough on the web and built a great prototype web app. You run npm start locally and browse to https://localhost and it all looks great.

Since our public preview announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2018, every month thousands of developers worldwide have leveraged the Azure SignalR Service bindings for Azure Functions to add real-time capabilities to their serverless applications.

Take advantage of reliable collections to process event from Event Hubs using Service Fabric Processor. This new library lets to manage partitions and also provide with sophisticated load balancing.

TypeScript is becoming increasingly popular in the JavaScript community. Since Azure Functions runs Node.js, and TypeScript compiles to JavaScript, motivated users already could get TypeScript code up and running in Azure Functions.

Azure Functions provides a productive programming model based on triggers and bindings for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications.

Kubernetes is going from strength to strength as adoption across the industry continues to grow. But there are still plenty of customers coming to container orchestration for the first time while also building up their familiarity with Docker and containers in general.

To meet customer demand, Azure is continuously expanding. We’ve been adding new Azure regions and introducing new capabilities. As a result, customers want to move their existing virtual machines to new regions while adopting the latest capabilities.

Always On availability groups (AG) provide high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to your SQL Server database, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a combination of both.

Today, we are excited to announce three new Azure Reserved VM Instances’ (RI) features to provide our customers with additional savings and purchase controls.