Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Microsoft Azure Government and Booz Allen Announce Virtual Cloud Defense

Cloud Security Suite Brings Power and Simplicity to Securing Cloud Deployments Microsoft and Booz Allen Hamilton are pleased to announce the general availability of Virtual Cloud Defense (VCD) for Azure Government. Virtual Cloud Defense from Booz Allen helps Azure Government customers secure cloud workloads and protect data by deploying cost...

DoD Region Preview frequently asked questions

Since announcing our Azure Government DoD Region Preview last week at Microsoft’s Government Cloud Forum, we have had overwhelming interest from customers and partners in participating.  We’ve spent time compiling answers to the most frequently ask questions we’ve heard to help customers and partners understand what this unprecedented ...

Use Case: Azure Site Recovery in Azure Government

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 ...

Microsoft and Fortinet Extend Partnership to Secure Mission-Critical Workloads in Azure Government Cloud  

(image) Co-author: Chad Whalen – VP Cloud Security, Fortinet Fortinet and Microsoft today announced an extension of their partnership to protect the cloud environments of their joint government customers. The US Federal Government sets the world’s highest security standards for data protection. Other public institutions, like state and...

New Azure Government Documentation!

  (image) We are happy to announce Azure Government documentation! This documentation provides guidance that is tailored to our Azure Government customers. We highlight common solutions and guidance on building government specific implementations, as well as information that you need to know about using services, Marketplace, Portal and ...

Preview of New Department of Defense Regions in Azure Government

Microsoft is pleased to announce the opening of the Preview of our new Azure Government Department of Defense (DoD) regions. As previously announced by Jason Zander, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Azure, these regions offer a comprehensive cloud that is DoD information Impact Level 5-ready for infrastructure, platform, and ...

Azure Government – 3x Growth in 2016 and over 75 new capabilities in the last 90 days

Today I am with over 600 of our federal, state and local government customers and partners at the Government Cloud Forum 2016, in Washington D.C. The Forum is queued to take our audiences through breakthrough technology and solutions impacting citizen engagement, the empowerment of government employees, how agencies can optimize their ...

Welcome to Azure Marketplace and our ISV partners in Azure Government!

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of the Azure Marketplace for Microsoft Azure Government, as well as welcoming our 3rd party ISV partners. We’ve partnered with some of the top ISVs to provide Azure Government customers with more options for finding the right solutions and quickly spinning up applications that suit their ...

Get started on Splunk® Enterprise, now supported in Azure Government Cloud!

You can now combine the award-winning Splunk® Enterprise with the power and security of the Azure Government Cloud! Splunk provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Splunk searches, monitors, analyzes and visualizes machine-generated big data from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices – all...