Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Azure Blueprint takes ATO Processes to the Next Level: DoD Impact Level 4!

I am pleased to announce the release of the Azure Blueprint for the Department of Defense (DoD). Azure Blueprint recently released documentation to streamline the path for Azure Government customers working with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate Baseline to attain Authorizations to Operate (ATO). Azure ...

Backup: How Operational Management Suite (OMS) keeps customers safe on Azure

Over my first year working at Microsoft, it has been very clear that we are doing everything that we can to really be the go-to Cloud Service Provider (CSP) for customers when it comes to all types of Cloud based services. Now that Azure Government is available, we are trying to do the same for the Public Sector community. However, not ...

The Capabilities of Red Hat VM Images in a Pay-as-you-go Model for Azure Government

We are happy to announce that government customers can now deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 and 7.2 VM images in a Pay-As-You-Go model directly from the Azure Government Marketplace with per-minute billing.  This is following our partnership announcement with Red Hat in Azure Government on July 27th, 2016.  What does this mean for ...

Emerging from the depths, Godzilla G-series VMs for Azure Government

Update, 10/21: Azure GS-Series Virtual Machines  A G-Series variant, the GS-Series now supports Premium storage in the US Gov Virginia region.  GS-Series VMs enable resource-intensive applications with the fastest processors, the most memory, and the highest input/output operations per second (IOPS) (for storage disk performance compared to...

F5 Now Available in Microsoft Azure’s US Gov Cloud

F5 is pleased to announce the general availability of its BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) application delivery controller (ADC) solutions in the Microsoft Azure US Government Cloud. Customers who want to deploy mission-critical government applications in Microsoft-managed and physically-isolated datacenters within the continental United States ...

The most trusted Government Cloud for mission critical workloads – check the facts

A pivotal day today as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave a Mastermind Keynote at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, discussing Microsoft’s differentiated cloud for global good and how not all clouds are created equal.  Simultaneously, from a FedScoop FedTalk in Washington, DC, Jason Zander, CVP of our Microsoft Azure team, further elaborated ...

VMSS, and ARM VM series offerings for Azure Government

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of VMSS and VM series expansion in Microsoft Azure Government. Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) VM Scale Sets are a way to manage Azure VMs as a group, providing easy deployment and management options, and simple ways to integrate with Azure autoscale and load balancing. If your machines ...

Batch, Redis Cache, and Service Fabric offerings generally available for Azure Government

(image) (image) (image) We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Batch, Redis Cache, and Service Fabric in Microsoft Azure Government. Batch   Azure Batch is our job scheduling and compute pool management service that helps developers easily scale their compute-intensive workloads to tens, hundreds, or thousands of virtual...