Azure Government onboarding is now available whenever you are! Much like the live onboarding session this on demand onboarding will provide an overview and highlight best practices for Azure Government in the following areas: If you would like to schedule a real time onboarding sessio...

Cloud Security Director of Cloud Health and Security Engineering, Matt Rathbun, shares his thoughts and insights on ways to improve the agility of regulatory frameworks in a cloud-centric world. Check out Matt’s post...

In the last few weeks, we have made Dv2-Series VMs available in the US Gov – Iowa region for Azure Government. This means that both Azure Government regions now have access to D-Series VMs.  US Gov – Virginia has the original D-Series VMs. Dv2-Series VMs (a follow-on to the original D-Series VMs) feature similar memory and hard disk configurations...

Calling all architects, developers and cloud professionals to participate in the 2016 National Day of Civic Hacking.  In support of this exciting initiative, Microsoft is supporting two key events--we hope you can join us! DC Azure Meetup--May 24 As a proud supporter of this National Day of Civic Hacking event, Microsoft will provide insight and ...

The Azure Government Onboarding presentations have been refreshed with a new theme and updated content.  If you are an Azure Government customer and have not already scheduled your complimentary onboarding, we highly recommend that you schedule a time (see full instructions below).   The onboarding session will provide an overview and highlight bes...

We are pleased to share with you the most-recently published VM images now available for Microsoft Azure Government customers. In the next month you will also see SharePoint and Remote Desktop Host as we continue to bring VM images to Azure Government. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions to help us improve your Azure Go...