Compute

Today, I’m excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image available directly from the Azure Marketplace.

Today we are announcing 10 additional compute optimized VM sizes. This new series of VMs, called the F-Series, are based on the 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processor, which can achieve clock speeds as high as 3.

Today at the SAP Sapphire Now conference, Microsoft and SAP announced new, exciting deployment options on Azure that provide the broadest support and unparalleled performance.

We are transitioning from Azure Mobile Services to Azure App Service.

Our team was excited to recently release a preview of the new Azure Functions service at //build. We’ve done some blogging about the service already (e.g.

I’m excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Container Service; the simplest, most open and flexible way to run your container applications in the cloud.

We are pleased to introduce App Service Certificate (ASC) which allows App Service customers to create, manage and consume certificates seamlessly in Azure cloud.

Chauvet Cave is one of the first and most surprising examples of human collaboration: An open-source Paleolithic project. Fast-forward to today, and the same open source principles are alive and well.

Long before long-distance collaboration was feasible, an interesting example of interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation took place somewhat by accident—at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in its now-famous Building 20.

Today, at the //Build conference, we announced that Azure Service Fabric is now generally available (GA) as a service in Azure.

Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in Azure or third party service as well as on-premises systems.

Azure Automation and Virtual Machines are pleased to announce the public preview release of a new feature that allows you to configure Azure Virtual Machine alerts to run Azure Automation runbooks.