{"id":4398,"date":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/keeping-up-with-azure-government-september-highlights"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:03:04","slug":"keeping-up-with-azure-government-september-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/keeping-up-with-azure-government-september-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up with Azure Government: September highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m super excited to recap an exciting month of service launches and releases. This has been an extra busy month for us where we landed critical and key features that you all have been waiting for. 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