{"id":610,"date":"2020-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-responds-to-covid19"},"modified":"2025-06-30T03:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:10:55","slug":"azure-responds-to-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-responds-to-covid19\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure responds to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The global health pandemic continues to impact every organization\u2014large or small\u2014their employees, and the customers they serve. Over the last several months, we have seen firsthand the role that cloud computing plays in sustaining operations across the board that helps us live, work, learn, and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During this unparalleled time all of Microsoft\u2019s cloud services, in particular Azure, Microsoft Teams, Windows Virtual Desktop, and Xbox Live experienced unprecedented demand. It has been our privilege to provide support and the infrastructure needed to help our customers successfully accelerate their cloud adoption to enable digital transformation during such a critical time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last 90 days, we have learned a lot and I want to share those observations with you all. The following video has been developed to provide a more technical look at how we scaled Azure as the COVID-19 outbreak rapidly pushed demand for cloud services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Related post: <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AdvancingReliability\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure \u2013 Operating at pandemic scale<\/a>.<br>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AA8ad9b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growing Azure\u2019s capacity to help customers, Microsoft during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global health pandemic continues to impact every organization\u2014large or small\u2014their employees, and the customers they serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ms_queue_id":[],"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","_alt_title":"","footnotes":"","msx_community_cta_settings":[]},"categories":[1466],"tags":[],"audience":[3053,3056],"content-type":[1481],"product":[],"tech-community":[],"topic":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hybrid-multicloud","audience-it-decision-makers","audience-it-implementors","content-type-thought-leadership","review-flag-microsofts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Azure responds to COVID-19 | Microsoft Azure Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The global health pandemic continues to impact every organization\u2014large or small\u2014their employees, and the customers they serve. 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