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The Capabilities of Red Hat VM Images in a Pay-as-you-go Model for Azure Government
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 consumers? This means Azure Government customers will be able to use the secure region for their clouds along with the capabilities of the stable and trusted platform for critical IT infrastructure from Red Hat. The RHEL images are certified by Red Hat and have gone through exten...
Emerging from the depths, Godzilla G-series VMs for Azure Government
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 any other series). For more information, please refer to the Additional Resources links below for Azure Virtual Machines. We are excited to announce the general availability of the G-Series Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure Government. Azure G-Series Virtual Mac...
F5 Now Available in Microsoft Azure’s US Gov Cloud
F5 is pleased to announce the general availability of its BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) application delivery controller (ADC) solutions in the Microsoft Azure US Government Cloud. Customers who want to deploy mission-critical government applications in Microsoft-managed and physically-isolated datacenters within the continental United States can now take advantage of F5’s market-leading application services to make their applications faster, more available, and more secure. With F5 now available in Azure Government Cloud, you will be able to leverage existing IT investments, maintain consistency and control by re...
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...