Azure Government
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Azure Government expands FedRAMP High coverage
10 new services added to FedRAMP High ATO as part of ongoing work to make commercial innovation more accessible to government agencies Microsoft now has 67 services covered by the FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) for Azure Government in the continental United States. Why is FedRAMP compliance important? The new era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is empowering agencies to lead citizens through digital transformation. In many cases, government agencies must balance between cost efficiency and the most robust security for their IT systems. To help government agencies a...
Advanced Data Security with Azure SQL Database in Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti, principal program manager with Azure Government, sits down to talk with Ajay Jagannathan of the Azure SQL Database Engineering team about Advanced Data Security with Azure SQL Database in Azure Government. Ajay and Steve begin with a discussion of the types of security features customers have been asking for and how Azure SQL Database wraps these features into a unified package of intelligent security capabilities. Ajay discusses the three major pillars of this advanced data security: 1) Data Classification, 2) Vulnerability Assessments, a...
DoD IL5 scope expands to all Azure Government regions
Earlier this month we announced that Microsoft has expanded the IL5 Provisional Authorization (PA) granted by the Department of Defense (DoD) to all Azure Government regions. This expanded coverage brings more PaaS features and services at Impact Level 5 (IL5) to customers than any other cloud provider. With six regions across the United States now offering services at IL5, mission owners benefit from greater choice in terms of cost optimization, decreased latency, expanded geo-redundancy, and options for disaster recovery (DR). Today, more than 25 services are available across all Azure Government regions at ...
Enabling government to advance the mission
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 principles and architecture as Azure commercial cloud, the Azure Government Secret regions are built to maintain the security and integrity of classified workloads while enabling fast access to sensitive, mission-critical information. These dedicated datacenter regions are built ...
Join us! How AI is creating what’s next in government
As AI emerges from research labs and IT back offices and into the mainstream, the transformational possibilities of AI for both businesses and government are enormous. According to the Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, released earlier this year, "AI promises to drive growth of the United States economy, enhance our economic and national security, and improve our quality of life." To discuss how AI is creating what’s next in government, be sure to RSVP and join the Microsoft Azure Government user community for a meetup on Wednesday, April 24 from 6 – 8:30 p.m., at 1...
Is there an easy button for gov IT modernization?
To keep up with our country’s pace of innovation and ensure mission success, government agencies are under more pressure than ever to accelerate their IT modernization projects (and for some, just get them off the ground!). As agencies incur various challenges in their progress, they might be wondering if there’s an easy button for modernization. To explore successful strategies and hear practical execution tips for IT modernization, we invite you to RSVP and join us Wednesday, March 27 from 6 – 8:30 p.m. for a Microsoft Azure Government DC meetup, Is there an easy button for gov IT modernization?, at 1776 in ...
Welcome to the new Azure Government Blog
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. All blogs will preserve existing content as well as your bookmarks and RSS feed subscriptions. However, if you have any issues reaching your desired content, please report it to us through the Feedback button in the lower right corner. The Azure Government blog will contin...
The Azure Government blog is moving to a new platform
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 make it easier for readers to discover and share valuable content. You’ll continue to receive all the information and news from our teams, your RSS feeds will continue to seamlessly deliver posts, and any of your bookmarked links will re-direct to the new URL location. Th...
Enhance data protection and compliance with customer managed keys
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 tips for securing your IaaS workloads. Secure key management is essential to protecting data in the cloud. With Azure Government, you can use Azure Key Vault to encrypt keys and small secrets like passwords that use keys stored in hardware security modules (HSMs). For more ...