Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

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

October 25, 2016 Oct 25, 2016 10/25/16
Sarah Weldon
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...

Azure Blueprint takes ATO Processes to the Next Level: DoD Impact Level 4!

October 24, 2016 Oct 24, 2016 10/24/16
Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager
I am pleased to announce the release of the Azure Blueprint for the Department of Defense (DoD). Azure Blueprint recently released documentation to streamline the path for Azure Government customers working with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate Baseline to attain Authorizations to Operate (ATO). Azure ...

Securing your enterprise applications and virtual workspace with Citrix solutions and Microsoft Azure Government

October 24, 2016 Oct 24, 2016 10/24/16
Megan Yount (MSFT)
Citrix and Microsoft continue to expand our strategic partnership to meet the security needs of the modern workforce with application and desktop virtualization and network delivery from Microsoft Azure Government. Citrix solution NetScaler is available now on Azure Government community cloud to help agency IT teams securely and efficiently ...

Backup: How Operational Management Suite (OMS) keeps customers safe on Azure

October 20, 2016 Oct 20, 2016 10/20/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
Over my first year working at Microsoft, it has been very clear that we are doing everything that we can to really be the go-to Cloud Service Provider (CSP) for customers when it comes to all types of Cloud based services. Now that Azure Government is available, we are trying to do the same for the Public Sector community. However, not ...

The Capabilities of Red Hat VM Images in a Pay-as-you-go Model for Azure Government

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are happy to announce that government customers can now deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 and 7.2 VM images in a Pay-As-You-Go model directly from the Azure Government Marketplace with per-minute billing.  This is following our partnership announcement with Red Hat in Azure Government on July 27th, 2016.  What does this mean for ...

Emerging from the depths, Godzilla G-series VMs for Azure Government

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16
Dan E. Price
Update, 10/21: Azure GS-Series Virtual Machines  A G-Series variant, the GS-Series now supports Premium storage in the US Gov Virginia region.  GS-Series VMs enable resource-intensive applications with the fastest processors, the most memory, and the highest input/output operations per second (IOPS) (for storage disk performance compared to...