Announcing Microsoft’s own Content Delivery Network
In Azure, we understand that the breadth and scale of the cloud demands an ever-evolving commitment to continuously improve the customer experience and help our customers…
Announcements
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Announcing Azure Maps
Azure Location Based Services has a new name – Azure Maps; and, as of today, I’m thrilled to announce Azure Maps’ are offered for general availability.
Azure M-series VMs are now SAP HANA certified
In December 2017, we announced general availability of the Azure M-series virtual machines (VM). These VMs host on the most powerful cloud hardware that is available across all public cloud providers.
Announcing first-class support for CloudEvents on Azure
As more and more serverless applications are developed, events are now the glue connecting all aspects of modern applications.
Microsoft extends AI support to PyTorch 1.0 deep learning framework
Today Microsoft is announcing the support for PyTorch 1.0 in Azure Machine Learning Services and Data Science Virtual Machine. PyTorch 1.
Global VNet Peering now generally available
Today, I am thrilled to announce the general availability of Global VNet Peering in all Azure public regions, empowering you to take the ease, simplicity, and isolation of VNet peering to the next…
Write Accelerator for M-Series virtual machines now generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability of a new feature for Azure virtual machines (VMs) called Write Accelerator!
Blazing fast data warehousing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Today, we announced general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) Compute Optimized Gen2 tier, the new generation of Azure SQL DW.
AzCopy on Linux now generally available
Today we are announcing the general availability release of AzCopy on Linux, a data transfer utility for Azure Storage. This release brings new and enhanced features, as well as performance improvements thanks to the feedback we received during the preview.
Adaptive caching powers Azure SQL Data Warehouse performance gains
Today we made Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) Compute Optimized Gen2 Tier generally available to our customers. Even though data and data sources grow exponentially, organizations continue to demand faster and faster insights.
Turbocharge cloud analytics with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Data is transformative. The ability to turn data into breakthrough insights is foundational to remain relevant in an increasingly competitive market.
Azure Container Instances now generally available
I am proud to announce the general availability of Azure Container Instances (ACI) – a serverless way to run both Linux and Windows containers.