Announcements

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines (VMs). Azure Spot VMs provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts.

Blob Index—a managed secondary index, allowing you to store multi-dimensional object attributes to describe your data objects for Azure Blob storage—is now available in preview.

Today, I’m excited to announce the preview of the next generation of Azure VMware Solution, designed, built, and supported by Microsoft in close partnership with VMware.

The service and its new updates available today in preview will be more important than ever before to simplify getting started and enabling secure access to what users need each day.

Today marks the preview of Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) support using Azure Backup.

Azure Container Registry announces dedicated data-endpoints, enabling tightly scoped client firewall rules to specific registries, minimizing data exfiltration concerns.

Microsoft Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

For the past few years, Microsoft and Red Hat have co-developed hybrid solutions enabling customers to innovate both on-premises and in the cloud.

Announcing the general availability of Windows Server container support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

With the general availability of DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs), we are ushering in the beginning of a new level of data protection in Azure.

Announcing the preview of Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage—a new capability of Azure Data Lake Storage, which improves both performance and cost.

Since launching Azure Archive Storage, we have seen unprecedented interest and innovative usage from a variety of industries. Archive Storage is built as a scalable service for cost-effectively storing rarely accessed data for long periods of time.