Azure Gov Team 

New cloud playbook: Migrate and modernize with Azure Government

February 26th, 2020

Looking for strategies, technical how-tos, and resources that will help ease your government agency’s cloud journey? Check out and download our newly-released Azure Government Migration and Modernization Playbook. This playbook is designed for anyone interested in or working with cloud – specifically, IaaS and PaaS. It details ways you ...

Updated Azure Government session schedule at Ignite The Tour Government – Feb 6-7

February 6th, 2020

If you  are at Microsoft Ignite The Tour Government, make sure you join us for our Azure Government specific sessions. Day 1 (Feb.6) Day 2 (Feb.7) Be sure to take advantage of opportunities to connect with our experts and partners, as well as check out the various demo stations in the Hub. Also, ...

Join us: Microsoft Ignite The Tour Government – Feb. 6-7

January 22nd, 2020

Microsoft Ignite The Tour is bringing the very best of Microsoft Ignite to Washington, DC, Feb. 6-7, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Time is running out to secure your spot for two days of technical training led by Microsoft experts and your community. During this conference, you’ll learn new ways to build solutions, ...

Enabling government to advance the mission

April 17th, 2019

Azure Government Secret now in private preview and pending accreditation  Azure Government Secret delivers comprehensive and mission enabling cloud services to US Federal Civilian, Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and US government partners working within Secret enclaves. Developed using the same foundational ...

Welcome to the new Azure Government Blog

March 13th, 2019

Today, we launched the Azure Government Blog on the Microsoft Dev Blogs platform which provides a more user-friendly design and better capabilities to help you stay connected with our developer community even when you’re AFK (away from keyboard). Over the last few months, a number of developer blogs also transitioned to this new platform...

The Azure Government blog is moving to a new platform

March 12th, 2019

Tomorrow, we’ll be moving the Azure Government blog to a new platform. What will stay the same is our focus on serving our government customers and partners with a dedicated channel for all things Azure Government. With our new channel under Microsoft Dev Blogs, you’ll experience a more modern, clean design, along with capabilities that...

Enhance data protection and compliance with customer managed keys

March 11th, 2019

This is the third blog in a three-part series on security in Azure Government co-authored by Robert Jaffee, Sr. Program Manager, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, with Microsoft Azure Global Government. (In case you missed them, check out the first and second blogs: Six tips for securing identity in the cloud and Five ...

Five tips for securing your IaaS workloads

February 26th, 2019

This is the second blog in a three-part series on security in Azure Government co-authored by Robert Jaffee, Sr. Program Manager, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, with Microsoft Azure Global Government. (In case you missed it, check out the first blog: Six tips for securing identity in the cloud.) In this blog, we’...

Six tips for securing identity in the cloud

February 19th, 2019

This 3-part blog series on security in Azure Government was co-authored by Robert Jaffe, Sr. Program Manager, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, with Microsoft Azure Global Government. Over the last year, as modernization has accelerated, we’ve started to see many customers turning to cloud services as an asset in ...

Azure Advisor for Azure Government now generally available

February 7th, 2019

Azure Advisor is a free Azure service that analyzes your Azure usage and configurations and provides personalized recommendations to help you optimize your resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost. Azure Advisor is now generally available (GA) for Azure Government. Get the most out of Azure Government with Azure ...