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Join us! Mastering cloud governance and management for gov – Aug 28
Managing governance and cloud spend are often cited as top challenges for government. And, while effective governance to ensure control over costs, performance, and security is essential for cloud success, many agencies are not fully leveraging the various tools, resources, and automation capabilities that can enable success. To hear how agencies can address these challenges, we invite you to RSVP and join the Microsoft Azure Government community for our next meetup, “Mastering cloud governance and management in government” on Wednesday, Aug. 28 from 6 – 8:30 p.m. at 1776 at the New America building in Washing...
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 on Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti, Principal Program Manager, talks with Sachin Dubey, Software Engineer, on the Azure Government Engineering team, to talk about Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in Azure Government. The discussion starts with an explanation of what ADLS is and many of the advantages of ADLS compared to traditional blob storage. Sachin highlights ADLS Gen2 capabilities such as HDFS endpoints, full backward compatibility, and cross-platform capabilities. Sachin then shows a couple demos of ADLS Gen2 on Azure Government – starting with a basic storage account,...
Terraform on Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti, Principal Program Manager talks with Kevin Mack, Cloud Solution Architect, supporting State and Local Government at Microsoft, about Terraform on Azure Government. Kevin begins by describing what Terraform is, as well as explaining advantages of using Terraform over Azure Resource Manager (ARM), including the ability to do “what if” scenarios with Terraform’s plan feature. Kevin discusses the simplified syntax of Terraform and the features of multiple cloud providers. Kevin shows multiple demos of Terraform starting with a simple example prov...
Azure Cost Management on Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti, Principal Program Manager talks with Adam Wise, Program Manager, on the Azure Cost Management team, about Azure Cost Management in Azure Government. Adam starts by explaining what Cost Management is – and how it can enable government customers to spend taxpayer money more efficiently. Adam shows the primary aspects of Cost Management including cost analysis and export, as well as creating and management budgets. Adam shows the flexibility of cost management – for example, how it can be applied on a granular level to a small number of resource...
Azure and Azure Government support for NERC CIP standards
This blog was co-authored by Larry Cochrane , Principal Program Manager, Microsoft. We recently published two blogs on how you can use Azure Government to meet export control regulations: Export control implication on Azure and Azure Government and Managing export controls in Azure and Azure Government. This blog provides another deep dive on compliance for bulk power systems owners, operators, and users, focused on current Azure and Azure Government support for NERC CIP standards as of July 2019. All bulk power system owners, operators, and users must comply with NERC CIP standards. For detailed informatio...
Managing export controls in Azure and Azure Government
Disclaimer: Customers are wholly responsible for ensuring their own compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Information provided in this post does not constitute legal advice, and customers should consult their legal advisors for any questions regarding regulatory compliance. In Part 1 of this blog series, we provided an overview of the U.S. export control regulations and their implications on cloud computing. In this Part 2, we cover Azure and Azure Government features in support of export control requirements. Microsoft provides customers with contractual commitments, operational processe...
Join us! Moving smart: Cloud accelerators for government – July 31
According to a recent Government Accountability Office report, only 11 percent of federal IT systems are running on the cloud while the Department of Defense uses cloud for about 3 percent of its tech. As many government agencies look to accelerate their drive to the cloud, they can encounter various roadblocks to picking up the pace. With this in mind, we invite you to RSVP and join the Microsoft Azure Government user community for our next meetup, Moving smart: Cloud accelerators for government, on July 31 from 6 – 8:30 p.m. at 1776 at New America in Washington, DC. (Note: this is a new location from previou...
Export control implications on Azure and Azure Government
Disclaimer: Customers are wholly responsible for ensuring their own compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Information provided in this post does not constitute legal advice, and customers should consult their legal advisors for any questions regarding regulatory compliance. This blog is the first of two parts containing a review of the current U.S. export control regulations and considerations for cloud computing. In the second part, we’ll cover Azure features and commitments in support of export control requirements Export-related definitions vary among various export control regulations; ho...
Building automated workflows on Azure Government with Logic Apps
Azure Logic Apps allows users to automate and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. With an easy-to-use, drag-drop user interface and hundreds of pre-built connectors allowing easy integration with other applications and services, Logic Apps simplifies how you design and build scalable solutions. Imagine being able to build an end-to-end application that writes to a database, can plug into other platforms such as Twitter, Dropbox as well as first-party services such as Outlook and Dynamics – without...