Compute

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

Today we’re delighted to announce that Azure N-Series Virtual Machines, the fastest GPUs in the public cloud, are now available in preview.

The Application Insights team just added support to create work items (issues) in GitHub directly from Application Insights.

We are excited to announce a limited preview of Azure Container Service for Windows Server containers.

Since we announced our transition plan for Mobile Apps to HockeyApp from Visual Studio Application Insights, we received feedback from our customers expressing concerns about the features that are missing in Hockey App.