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Government agencies have an increased need for secure, verifiable, and compliant cloud environments that adhere to data sovereignty regulations, operate in a Zero Trust framework, and help reduce exposure to insider threats. Today, Microsoft marks a major milestone in secure cloud innovation with the general availability of Azure Confidential Co...

Today we’re announcing the availability of Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) solution templates for both Windows and Linux on the Azure Marketplace (commercial) and Azure Government Marketplace.

Since the launch of Microsoft Jenkins offer in Azure Marketplace in mid-2017, it’s exciting to see the growing number of customers using our solution template to run Jenkins on Azure. Jenkins is a popular open source CI/CD server. With our solution template, you can stand a Jenkins master running on a Linux (Ubuntu 16.05 LTS) VM up on Azure in ...

We are pleased to share with you the most-recently published VM images from February through March that are now available for Microsoft Azure Government customers. Published in February- March Marketplace Images* - Added to Azure Gov and DoD: *All Marketplace Images now supported in DoD Regions! First Party Image...

Comprehensive, Prevention-Based Security for Azure Government Cloud Today on Azure Government The Palo Alto Networks® VM-Series virtualized next-generation firewall on Microsoft Azure allows government agencies to apply the same advanced threat prevention features and next-generation firewall application policy controls used in their physical data...

How to design and build an enterprise infrastructure in Azure using the Azure Resource Manager portal Getting started in Azure is easy to do, and you can have production workloads running in the cloud in very little time. However, there are some essential aspects of the Azure platform that require some forethought and planning. While it is easy to ...

We are happy to announce the general availability of DSv2-Series and Fs-Series (not to be confused with F-series) virtual machines in US Gov Virginia. DSv2-series and Fs-series VMs can use Premium Storage, which provides high-performance, low-latency storage for Input/Output intensive workloads. These VMs use solid-state drives (SSDs) to host a vi...

In my last post, I provided you with some simple steps on how to “Get Started” with the Azure Backup service by focusing on the Backup Vault and Policies that are associated with Vaults and VMs. Starting from there, I would like to go to the next and final step, which is the actual Backing Up of VMs or Servers. In the below video, I will walk you ...

We are pleased to share with you the most-recently published VM images from December and January that are now available for Microsoft Azure Government customers. Published in January: * This sku is Powershell/classic Portal only, same in Azure Public. Published in December: ...

Last month we announced Azure Marketplace availability in Azure Government, which included individual VM publishing capabilities. Today we’re pleased to announce that solution templates are now supported in the Azure Government Marketplace portal. Solution templates allow you to bundle multiple Azure services and images into a template that enabl...