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What a great week we had at Build 2019! We all had tremendous fun meeting developers, talking about new technologies, and sharing our vision for the future.

Starting the process of migrating to the cloud can be daunting. Legacy systems that are colossal in scale often overwhelm the average team tasked with the mission of digital transformation.

Serverless technologies are reshaping how we think about business. How, though, do important technological innovations such as autoscaling, fully managed infrastructure, and execution-based pricing make a tangible business impact?

This week, at our premier developer conference, Microsoft Build in Seattle, we’re thrilled to announce our latest innovations that further simplify IoT and dramatically accelerate time to value for customers and partners.

Microsoft’s success has always been based on working hand in hand with our vibrant partner ecosystem to meet our collective customers’ needs. With the rapid growth of cloud, we have invested to ensure our partner ecosystem realizes this growth, as well.

In connection with HIMSS 2019, we announced the Azure API for FHIR, which provides our customers with an enterprise grade, managed FHIR® API in Azure. Since then, we have been busy improving the service with new configuration options and features.

When Google announced its migration from Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), push services like Azure Notification Hubs had to adjust how we send notifications to Android devices to accommodate the change.

We have heard from many of you that security is a top priority when moving web applications onto the cloud. Today, we are very excited to announce our public preview of the Web Application Firewall (WAF) for the Azure Front Door service.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From February 1 to February 15, 2019, 54 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.

Since our public preview announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2018, every month thousands of developers worldwide have leveraged the Azure SignalR Service bindings for Azure Functions to add real-time capabilities to their serverless applications.

APIs have become mundane. They have become the de facto standard for connecting apps, data, and services. In the larger picture, APIs are driving digital transformation in organizations.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From January 16 to January 31, 2019, 70 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.