Management and governance

Preparing for the unexpected is part of every IT professional’s and developer’s job. Although rare, service issues like outages and planned maintenance do occur.

We recently released Azure Application Gateway V2 or Autoscaling version (SKU) and Web Application Firewall (WAF). These SKUs are Standard_v2 and WAF_v2 respectively and are fully supported with a 99.95% SLA.

The automated machine learning capability in Azure Machine Learning service allows data scientists, analysts, and developers to build machine learning models with high scalability, efficiency, and productivity all while sustaining model quality.

When we released the capability of automatic update of agents used in disaster recovery of Azure VMs, the most frequent feedback we received was related to access control.

Azure Cost Management helps you understand how and where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs, empowering you to do more with less.

Azure Deployment Manager is a new set of features for Azure Resource Manager that greatly expands your deployment capabilities.

Apache Kafka is one of the most popular open source streaming platforms today. However, deploying and running Kafka remains a challenge for most.

It’s common for enterprises to run workloads on more than one cloud provider; however, adopting a multi-cloud strategy comes with complexities like handling different cost models, varying billing cycles, and different cloud designs that can be difficult to navigate across multiple dashboards and views.

oday, I’m excited to share our ability to support US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High impact level FedRAMP services with the extension of FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) to all of our Azure public regions in the United States.

Logs are critical for many scenarios in the modern digital world. They are used in tandem with metrics for observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, usage and service level analytics, auditing, security, and much more.

News and updates from Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure portal updates, and Azure Cosmos DB.

This month is packed with updates on the Azure portal, including enhancements to the user experience, resource configuration, management tools and more.