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 18, 2018 1 min read

Announcing the general availability of Azure SQL Data Sync

We are delighted to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Data Sync! Azure SQL Data Sync allows you to synchronize data between Azure SQL Database and any other SQL endpoints…
Announcements June 13, 2018 3 min read

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) GA – New regions, more features, increased productivity

Today, I’m incredibly excited to announce that the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available.
Announcements June 4, 2018 3 min read

Microsoft Azure Stack expands availability to 92 countries/regions

Earlier today, we announced some exciting updates across Azure IaaS, including that we will expand the footprint of Microsoft Azure Stack to a total of 92 countries/regions.
Announcements June 4, 2018 1 min read

Speech services now in preview

At Microsoft Build 2018, the Microsoft Speech Services team announced the following new and improved products and services.
Announcements May 25, 2018 2 min read

M-Series certified for SAP HANA and available worldwide

Last December, we announced general availability of Azure M-series Virtual Machines with memory configuration from 1 TB to 4 TB, offering on-demand scalability and agility for workloads requiring…
Announcements May 23, 2018 1 min read

An update on the integration of Avere Systems into the Azure family

It has been three months since we closed on the acquisition of Avere Systems.
Announcements May 23, 2018 1 min read

Create enterprise subscription experience in Azure portal public preview

Typically, Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) subscriptions were created in the EA Portal and management of services was completed in the Azure portal.
Announcements May 23, 2018 1 min read

Azure AD Authentication for Azure Blobs and Queues now in public preview

We are excited to announce the preview of Azure AD Authentication for Azure Blobs and Queues.
Announcements May 10, 2018 3 min read

Enhancements in Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger

We are pleased to announce a series of improvements on Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger.
Announcements May 9, 2018 1 min read

Announcing new Async Java SDK for Azure #CosmosDB

We’re excited to announce a new asynchronous Java SDK for Cosmos DB’s SQL API.
Announcements May 9, 2018 3 min read

Azure confidential computing

Last September, I had the privilege to publicly announce our Azure confidential computing efforts, where Microsoft Azure became the first cloud platform to enable new data security capabilities that…
Announcements May 8, 2018 2 min read

4 new features now available in Azure Stream Analytics

Azure Stream Analytics is a serverless PaaS service in Azure to run real-time analytics on fast moving streams of data.

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