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Announcements
Stay informed with the latest breakthroughs and innovations in cloud technology, directly from the experts at Microsoft Azure. Our announcements section is your go-to source for new features and pathways to empower your digital transformation.
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New updates to Azure AI expand AI capabilities for developers
As companies increasingly look to transform their businesses with AI, we continue to add improvements to Azure AI to make it easy for developers and data scientists to deploy, manage, and secure AI functions directly into their applications. -
Larger, more powerful Managed Disks for Azure Virtual Machines
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disk sizes of up to 32 TiB on Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD disk offerings. -
Azure Premium Block Blob Storage is now generally available
As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and increasingly deploy performance sensitive cloud-native applications, we are excited to announce general availability of Azure Premium Blob Storage. -
Azure Data Studio: An Open Source GUI Editor for Postgres
When you are working with a database, or any other kind of software, your experience is enhanced or hindered by the tools you use to interact with it. -
Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines now generally available!
How do you back up your SQL Servers today? You could be using backup software that require you to manage backup servers, agents, and storage, or you could be writing elaborate custom scripts which need you to manage the backups on each server individually. -
Power IoT and time-series workloads with TimescaleDB for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
We’re excited to announce a partnership with Timescale that introduces support for TimescaleDB on Azure Database for PostgreSQL for customers building IoT and time-series workloads. -
Simplifying your environment setup while meeting compliance needs with built-in Azure Blueprints
I’m excited to announce the release of our first Azure Blueprint built specifically for a compliance standard, the ISO 27001 Shared Services Blueprint which maps a set of foundational Azure infrastructure, such as virtual networks and policies, to specific ISO controls. -
Achieve more with Microsoft Game Stack
Microsoft is built on the belief of empowering people and organizations to achieve more – it is the DNA of our company. -
Azure Databricks – VNet injection, DevOps Version Control and Delta availability
Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache® Spark™-based analytics platform to accelerate and simplify the process of building big data and AI solutions that drive the business forward, all backed by industry-leading SLAs. -
Microsoft opens first datacenters in Africa with general availability of Microsoft Azure
Today, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure from our new cloud regions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. -
Real-time serverless applications with the SignalR Service bindings in Azure Functions
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.
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