Azure Government
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The most trusted Government Cloud for mission critical workloads – check the facts
A pivotal day today as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave a Mastermind Keynote at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, discussing Microsoft’s differentiated cloud for global good and how not all clouds are created equal. Simultaneously, from a FedScoop FedTalk in Washington, DC, Jason Zander, CVP of our Microsoft Azure team, further elaborated on these critical differentiators for U.S. government customers. As Jason cites in his announcements, in a recent survey conducted by Penn Schoen Berland, government customers rated Microsoft as the most trusted cloud service provider, over AWS, Google and Salesforce. This sta...
VMSS, and ARM VM series offerings for Azure Government
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 can all be configured the same, you can reduce the overhead of managing them individually, and elastically scale your VMs to match the workload. VM Scale Sets are available at no additional cost over the compute resources being used, and are available in all regions that suppo...
Batch, Redis Cache, and Service Fabric offerings generally available for Azure Government
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 machines without having to manage the infrastructure. As a managed service, Azure Batch handles the heavy lifting of provisioning, monitoring and scaling virtual machines. You create an Azure Batch account, within minutes have the resources you require, and can scale up and down as the volume of jobs ...
Announcing new Support Plans and Options for Azure Government
We are pleased to announce today a change on Support Plans availability on Azure Government, focused on improving the support experience and ensuring the same level of benefits, features and support quality to all our Azure customers. These changes include: Who is affected? Existing Azure Government customers will be automatically migrated to a new Azure Government support plan, according to their relationship level with Microsoft. New Azure Government customers will also benefit from the same terms: What is included and is there a cost to it? The new support plans for Azure Government...
Bringing Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Server Stretch Database to the Azure Government database family
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 and non-relational. Built on our massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, SQL Data Warehouse allows you to manage your data quickly and flexibly Benefits include: Additional Resources: SQL Server Stretch Database SQL Server Stretch Database part of SQL Serve...
Azure App Service generally available in Azure Government
We are excited to share the general availability of Azure App Service on Azure Government. App Service is a cloud platform which enables developers to build, deploy and run powerful web apps, mobile back-ends and API apps that connect to data anywhere in the cloud. It is an integrated solution which streamlines development and provides powerful DevOps capabilities while meeting your needs for security, reliability, and scalability. Azure App Service provides developers with everything they need to build: Web and API Apps allow you to host any website, web app, or API app in the cloud. It supports a wide arr...
Join us! Internet of Things at DC Azure Gov Meetup – Oct. 26
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 Redmond, Washington.   During this Meetup, we will explore some of the ways IoT is being used across various industries today, with a focus on public sector. You will hear about newly available technologies and technology patterns that are enabling the next generation of organizational t...
Log Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite Portal now available in Microsoft Azure GovernmentÂ
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 and on-premises environments. It gives you real-time insights using integrated search and custom dashboards to readily analyze millions of records across all your workloads and servers regardless of their physical location. You can create a Log Analytics workspace directly fro...
Azure Blueprint: architecting secure solutions just got easier!
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) based on Microsoft internal security protections and processes. Customers can leverage this P-ATO to reduce the scope of security responsibilities in a cloud-based system. Inheriting security control implementations from Azure Government allows customers to focus on implem...