Compute

Announcement: Azure supports OpenBSD since 6.1 release.

Today, my team is proud to announce Draft, a tool that streamlines application development and deployment into any Kubernetes cluster. Using two simple commands, developers can now begin hacking on container-based applications without requiring Docker or even installing Kubernetes themselves.

It’s been about a month since we finalized the acquisition of Deis to expand the Azure Container Service and Kubernetes support on Azure.

We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offering, yet have a longstanding commitment to match AWS on price drops.

We continue to find ways to make Azure a better value for our customers. Azure Managed Disks, a new disk service launched in Feb ’17, simplifies the management and scaling of Virtual Machines (VM).

We’ve recently made it much easier to monitor microservices and containerized applications using Azure Application Insights.

More and more enterprise customers are realizing the benefits of moving their core business applications to the cloud. Many have moved beyond the conversation of “why cloud” to “which cloud provider.” Customers want the assurance of performance, privacy and scale for their mission critical applications.

Today at Microsoft Build 2017, we are delighted to announce the public preview of a new way to obtain and consume Azure compute at a much lower price using Azure Batch – low-priority VMs.

I’m always amazed by the mind-blowing visual effects in today’s movies, but I know rendering these effects is one of the most complex aspects of a cinematic production.

Last year we introduced our first GPU offering powered by NVIDIA’s Tesla-based GPUs and we have seen an amazing customer response.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new, simplified Azure management libraries for .

For Microsoft Azure, we have a long standing promise of making our prices comparable with AWS on commodity services such as compute, storage, and bandwidth.