Azure Government
Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government
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Five tips for securing your IaaS workloads
This is the second 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 it, check out the first blog: Six tips for securing identity in the cloud.) In this blog, we’ll cover specific recommendations for improving your IaaS security posture, focusing on data protection, network security, and security management, including threat protection. Data protection: Ensure confidentiality and integrity of data by leveraging multiple encryption o...
Join us: Government cloud strategies: What to know – Feb. 27
Cloud technologies are critical to keeping pace with innovation and securing America’s technical advantage. Cloud enables leading edge solutions for federal and military agency missions; ranging from improved citizen services and safety to protecting our warfighters and national security. The importance of cloud to government is evident in the recently-released Department of Defense Cloud Strategy as well as the Office of Management and Budget’s Cloud Smart Strategy proposal released in September 2018. With this in mind, we invite you to RSVP and join the Microsoft Azure Government DC user community on Wednesda...
Six tips for securing identity in the cloud
This 3-part blog series on security in Azure Government was co-authored by Robert Jaffe, Sr. Program Manager, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect, with Microsoft Azure Global Government. Over the last year, as modernization has accelerated, we’ve started to see many customers turning to cloud services as an asset in fighting evolving cybersecurity threats. In this three-part series on Azure Government security, we’ll cover some of the top reasons why and provide guidance on best practices for securing your Azure Government resources. This first blog: ‘Six tips for securing identity in th...
Open Source DevOps in Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Harshal Dharia, Cloud Solution Architect in US Federal at Microsoft, about open source DevOps in Azure Government. Having a reliable and secure DevOps pipeline is one of the most important factors to a successful development project. However, different organizations and agencies often have different tools for DevOps. Harshal starts out by discussing various DevOps tools available and specifically focuses this demo-heavy talk on open source DevOps tools in Azure Government. Harshal show how Terraform and Jenkins can be used in a robu...
Azure Advisor for Azure Government now generally available
Azure Advisor is a free Azure service that analyzes your Azure usage and configurations and provides personalized recommendations to help you optimize your resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost. Azure Advisor is now generally available (GA) for Azure Government. Get the most out of Azure Government with Azure Advisor There’s a lot you can do with Azure Government. With so many services and features, it can be challenging to keep up with best practices and optimize your workloads. That’s why we created Azure Advisor. You can think of Azure Advisor as a personalized cloud consult...
VS Code Extensions for Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti once again sits down with Yujin Hong, Program Manager on the Azure Government Engineering team, to discuss many of the incredible VS Code Extensions for Azure. VS Code has quickly become the most popular editor in the world – there are numerous reasons for this, but one of the key reasons is VS Code’s extensibility. There are numerous VS Code Extensions available for Azure, and now these same extensions can be utilized for Azure Government! In this demo-heavy video, Yujin will show the unified authentication experience that enable all these co...
Azure Database for MySQL in Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Sachin Dubey, of the Azure Government Engineering team, about Azure Database for MySQL in Azure Government. MySQL is one of the most popular open source relational databases ever – but running it at an Enterprise scale has its challenges just like any other database. Now with a fully managed PaaS offering, Azure Database for MySQL provides the perfect unification of the underlying MySQL database which developers know and love with the world-class security, scalability, and reliability of Azure. Sachin discusses the benefits of Azure...
Women in Tech Lunch Panel: Our Journey to Ignite Government Innovation
Monday, February 4, 2019 A recent announcement from the Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser highlighted a study naming the District of Columbia as the best city in the country for women in technology1. Women currently make up 38.5% of the tech workforce in the district, well over the nation’s average of 25.9%. We’re interested in learning more and exploring how this diversity is fueling innovation in government. To this end, we’re bringing together a panel of accomplished technology leaders for a lunch session at Microsoft Ignite | The Tour - Government on Monday, February 4. Register today and join us ...
Managed Identity in Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Mohit Dewan, of the Azure Government Engineering team, about Managed Identities on Azure Government. Mohit starts out by explaining what Managed Identities is and how leveraging it can result in a significantly more secure application. Mohit then demonstrates managed identities both for a simple IaaS application as well as a PaaS application – both securely connecting to Azure Key Vault in Azure Government. Whether you’re storing certificates, connection strings, keys, or any other secrets – managed identities is an invaluable tool ...