Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Storage, Backup & Recovery - Azure Government

Azure Government Cloud expands P-ATO scope with addition of five new offerings

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager
(image) We are pleased to announce that Azure’s Government Cloud has expanded its FedRAMP Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) with the addition of five new offerings. Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple, and Backup have all received Joint Authorization Board (JAB) approval for addition to Azure Government’...

Log Analytics: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

November 15, 2016 Nov 15, 2016 11/15/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
(image) This is my last post in this series where we have been talking about the Operational Management Suite (OMS) within Azure Government and how it can make customers feel safe & secure. In the previous posts we focused on the Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Automation services that help make up the suite. Now I want to ...

Automation Runbooks & DSC: How Operational Management Suite keeps Customers Safe & Secure in Azure

November 10, 2016 Nov 10, 2016 11/10/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
(image) In my last post, I talked about the second of the two services within the Operational Management Suit (OMS) that focuses on Backup & Recovery of your On-Prem or Cloud related infrastructure. However, this is only one piece of the operational management footprint that Public Sector customers' IT departments need to keep their ...

Site Recovery: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

November 9, 2016 Nov 9, 2016 11/9/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
In my last post, I spent some time providing an overview of Operational Management Suite (OMS) and specifically, the Azure Backup service. I tried to focus on the advantages of the suite from the perspective of a potential Azure Government customer as well as the perspective of customers that have already implemented or are implementing a ...

Use Case: Azure Site Recovery in Azure Government

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16
Pishoy Bous, Azure Technical Specialist
An organization must have the ability to withstand all hazards and sustain its mission through environmental changes.  These changes can be gradual, such as economic or mission changes, or sudden, as in a disaster event. (NIST Special Publication 800-34 Rev. 1 Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems , 2010) Azure ...

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

October 20, 2016 Oct 20, 2016 10/20/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
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 ...

Bringing Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Server Stretch Database to the Azure Government database family

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16
Megan Yount (MSFT)
(image) Following the arrival of SQL Database v12, we’d like to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure SQL Stretch Database in Microsoft Azure Government. Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based, fully managed database capable of processing massive amounts of data, both relational...

Log Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite Portal now available in Microsoft Azure Government 

October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16
Sarah Weldon
We are excited to announce the general availability of Log Analytics and the Operations Management Suite Portal in Microsoft Azure Government.   Log Analytics in Operations Management Suite Portal  Log Analytics is a service in Operations Management Suite (OMS) that helps you collect and analyze data generated by resources in your cloud ...

Generally available, securing your data with Storage Service Encryption

September 29, 2016 Sep 29, 2016 09/29/16
Julie Glixon, Program Manager
We are happy to announce the general availability of Storage Service Encryption (SSE) for data at rest in Azure Government storage accounts. SSE enables customers to meet a comprehensive set of security and compliance requirements meeting government organizational needs.  With this feature, Azure Storage automatically encrypts your data ...

Azure Government adding F-Series VMs to USGov Iowa

September 19, 2016 Sep 19, 2016 09/19/16
Julie Glixon, Program Manager
Today we are announcing the addition of the F-Series VMs to Azure Government’s USGov Iowa datacenter. As noted in the initial release of F-Series VMs in Azure, these VMs have: Any workload which does not need as much memory or local SSD per CPU core will benefit from the value of the F-Series VMs. Due to the price-performance value, ...