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.

Announcements

June 1, 2023

4 min read

Increase gaming performance with NGads V620-series virtual machines

The NGads V620 series has GPU, CPU, and memory resources that are balanced to generate and stream high-quality graphics for a high-performance, interactive gaming experience hosted in Azure.
Announcements

May 31, 2023

8 min read

Microsoft Cost Management updates—May 2023

May is all about cost optimization! From customizable right-sizing recommendations in Advisor to many updates to pricing experiences and the addition of cost recommendations in Azure Resource Graph for Azure Gov and Azure China clouds.
Announcements

May 23, 2023

8 min read

Build next-generation, AI-powered applications on Microsoft Azure

Welcome to Microsoft Build 2023—the event where we celebrate the developer community.
Announcements

May 23, 2023

10 min read

Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI

Today we are unveiling Microsoft Fabric—an end-to-end, unified analytics platform that brings together all the data and analytics tools that organizations need.
Announcements

May 15, 2023

4 min read

Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview

Today, we are excited to announce the preview of Azure Container Storage, the industry’s first platform-managed container native storage service in the public cloud, providing end to end storage management and orchestration for stateful applications to run efficiently at scale on Azure.
Announcements

May 15, 2023

3 min read

Optimize performance and strengthen security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall

Network security policies are a critical component of modern IT environments, especially with the increasing adoption of cloud workloads.
Announcements

May 11, 2023

4 min read

Microsoft Azure security evolution: Embrace secure multitenancy, Confidential Compute, and Rust

In this installment, we will introduce our game-changing bets that will enable us to deliver industry-leading security architectures with built-in security for years to come, ensuring a secure cloud experience for our customers.
Announcements

May 10, 2023

6 min read

What’s new with Azure Files

In this blog we will talk about how SAP ECS uses Azure Files NFS shares as part of their default deployment and we’ll also announce some of the big NFS feature we’ve been working over the past year including: new 99.
Announcements

May 3, 2023

9 min read

Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2023

April introduces scheduled cost alerts for Azure Government and a wealth of tips and new ways to save with Microsoft 365 and Azure, plus 8 new and updated docs.
Announcements

May 2, 2023

4 min read

Azure Virtual WAN introduces its first SaaS offering

Today we are excited to announce the preview of Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) for Azure, available as a software as a service (SaaS) offering in Azure Virtual WAN.
Announcements

May 2, 2023

5 min read

Secure your cloud environment with Cloud Next-Generation Firewall by Palo Alto Networks, an Azure Native ISV Service—now in preview

To support our customers in accelerating their digital transformation journey and protecting their cloud environment against threats, Microsoft is committed to giving customers the best possible options for securing their applications and we are excited to announce the preview of Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) for Azure.
Partnerships

April 18, 2023

3 min read

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise in Azure Marketplace

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise on Azure is a powerful tool for securing and managing Kubernetes’ workloads on Azure.

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