Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

VMSS, and ARM VM series offerings for Azure Government

October 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016 10/17/16
Dan E. Price
We’re pleased to announce the general availability of VMSS and VM series expansion in Microsoft Azure Government. Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) VM Scale Sets are a way to manage Azure VMs as a group, providing easy deployment and management options, and simple ways to integrate with Azure autoscale and load balancing. If your machines ...

Batch, Redis Cache, and Service Fabric offerings generally available for Azure Government

October 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016 10/17/16
Dan E. Price
(image) (image) (image) We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Batch, Redis Cache, and Service Fabric in Microsoft Azure Government. Batch   Azure Batch is our job scheduling and compute pool management service that helps developers easily scale their compute-intensive workloads to tens, hundreds, or thousands of virtual...

Bringing Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Server Stretch Database to the Azure Government database family

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16
Megan Yount (MSFT)
(image) Following the arrival of SQL Database v12, we’d like to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure SQL Stretch Database in Microsoft Azure Government. Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based, fully managed database capable of processing massive amounts of data, both relational...

Join us! Internet of Things at DC Azure Gov Meetup – Oct. 26

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16
Karina Homme
(image) Please RSVP and join us for the next DC Microsoft Azure Gov Meetup, Internet of Things for Government, on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 6 – 8 p.m., at 1776 in Washington, DC. In addition to excellent networking, we are excited to feature Kevin Miller, principal program manager of Microsoft’s Azure IoT team who will be in town from ...

Log Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite Portal now available in Microsoft Azure Government 

October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16
Sarah Weldon
We are excited to announce the general availability of Log Analytics and the Operations Management Suite Portal in Microsoft Azure Government.   Log Analytics in Operations Management Suite Portal  Log Analytics is a service in Operations Management Suite (OMS) that helps you collect and analyze data generated by resources in your cloud ...

Azure Blueprint: architecting secure solutions just got easier!

October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16
Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager
Azure Government Engineering is pleased to announce the initial release of the Azure Blueprint program! The program is designed to facilitate the secure and compliant use of Azure for government agencies and third-party providers building on behalf of government. Azure Government has been granted a JAB Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO...

New portal for Azure Government now generally available

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16
Brenda Y Lee
A few months ago we announced the new portal preview. Today we are excited to share that the new portal is now generally available in Azure Government. This portal provides an integrated experience allowing users to manage their Azure services and applications. The classic portal (http://manage.windowsazure.us) will continue to co-exist with ...

Compliance is a commitment, not a checkbox

October 3, 2016 Oct 3, 2016 10/3/16
Rochelle M. Eichner
With the recent heartbreaking public safety events in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Minnesota and other locations around the United States, it was inspiring to have the opportunity for Microsoft to participate in the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) User Conference. It included over 700 law enforcement professionals ...