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Announcements, Azure Monitor, Compute, Management and Governance, Virtual Machines
Published • 9 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
“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…
Azure Monitor, Compute, DevOps, Thought leadership, Virtual Machines
Published • 6 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
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.
Azure Active Directory, Hybrid + Multicloud, Security, Thought leadership
Published • 5 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
The most critical promise of our identity services is ensuring that every user can access the apps and services they need without interruption. We’ve been strengthening this promise to you through a multi-layered approach, leading to our improved promise of 99.99 percent authentication uptime for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Serverless, Thought leadership
Published • 6 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
Microsoft’s cloud supply chain is essential to deliver the infrastructure—servers, storage, and networking gear—that enables cloud reliability and growth. Our vision is for cloud capacity to be available like a utility so that customers can seamlessly turn it on when and where they need it.
Serverless, Thought leadership
Published • 10 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
All service engineering teams in Azure are already familiar with postmortems as a tool for better understanding what went wrong, how it went wrong, and the customer impact of the related outage. For today’s post in our Advancing Reliability blog series, we share insights into our journey as we work towards advancing our postmortem and resiliency threat modeling processes.