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. Enjoy!
Azure Monitor
Protect against cyberattacks with the new Azure Firewall Basic
We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Firewall Basic, a new SKU of Azure Firewall built for SMBs.
3 key cloud adoption trends in migrating and modernizing workloads
Microsoft believes the best way to prepare for this uncertainty is for organizations to do more with less—less complexity and cost, with more agility, resilience, and innovation.
New Project Flash Update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring
“Earlier this year, we introduced Project Flash in the Advancing Reliability blog series, to reaffirm our commitment to empowering Azure customers in monitoring virtual machine (VM) availability in a…
Accelerate your cloud-native journey with Azure Monitor
Our team has been busy bringing you a reliable, scalable, and secure monitoring service with Azure Monitor.
Elevate your visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana—now generally available
Announcing the general availability of Azure Managed Grafana, a managed service that enables you to run Grafana natively within the Azure cloud platform.
Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm–based processors—generally available
Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the latest Azure Virtual Machines featuring the Ampere Altra Arm–based processor.
High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications
In today’s business world, service availability and reliability are key to a successful digital transformation. SUSE and Microsoft have been working closely to provide a trusted path to SAP Solutions in the cloud, including solutions to reduce unplanned and planned downtime.
SUSECON 2022: Powering Business Critical Linux workloads on Azure
Since 2009, Microsoft and SUSE have partnered to provide Azure-optimized solutions for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
Unlock cloud savings on the fly with autoscale on Azure
Autoscaling is one of the value levers that can help unlock cost savings for your Azure workloads by automatically scaling up and down the resources in use to better align capacity to demand.
Observability from cloud to edge in Azure
Our customers are transforming their digital environments, whether migrating workloads to Azure, building new cloud-native apps, or unlocking new scenarios at the edge. As they combine these strategies to meet their business needs, they must also maintain their existing environments.
Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring with Project Flash
Today, we’re excited to announce the completion of the project’s first two milestones—the preview of VM availability data in Azure Resource Graph, and the private preview of a VM availability metric in Azure Monitor.