Hybrid + multicloud

Hi everyone. I am so excited to be writing this blog post outlining a plethora of announcements (did you say a plethora?) coming out of Orlando, Florida at Microsoft Ignite.

We’re seeing tons of customer interest in Azure migration following our July announcements, and have been building out the next level of customer success and product investments ever since.

We are going through a technology transformation that is unlocking new scenarios that were simply not possible before.

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been a whole year since we officially launched Azure Stack! Our customers have been with us through the journey this past year providing great feedback, and we’ve been listening.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies extend the capabilities of software applications that are now found throughout our daily life: digital assistants, facial recognition, photo captioning, banking services, and product recommendations.

Attackers commonly target open ports on Internet-facing virtual machines (VMs), spanning from port scanning to brute force and DDoS attacks. In case of a successful brute force attack, an attacker can compromise your VM and establish a foothold into your environment.

Azure IoT Edge which recently became generally available, designs in security from the ground up with avenues for custom security hardening. Security hardening entails additional security measures for given deployments in response to perceived higher threats like physical accessibility of devices by malicious actors.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL in all regions where the service is available…

Today, we’re announcing that Microsoft Azure Stack is now available to order for Azure Government customers.

Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

Today we inform you about a change coming to the Azure Stack infrastructure and how endpoints get published using a firewall. This blog post does inform you about the rollout timeline and to prepare for careful planning in advance.

This post was contributed by Susie Adams, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Federal and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, Azure Government at Microsoft.