Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Announcement - Azure Government

The most trusted Government Cloud for mission critical workloads – check the facts

October 18, 2016 Oct 18, 2016 10/18/16
Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft
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 ...

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...

IaaS just got easier for Government

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure VM and SQL DB deployment and management powered by Azure Resource Manager (ARM) on Microsoft Azure Government. These capabilities are some of the most requested features for Azure Government.  This enables the modern management of many more of your cloud resources. The ARM ...

Azure Government adding F-Series VMs to USGov Iowa

September 19, 2016 Sep 19, 2016 09/19/16
Julie Glixon, Program Manager
Today we are announcing the addition of the F-Series VMs to Azure Government’s USGov Iowa datacenter. As noted in the initial release of F-Series VMs in Azure, these VMs have: Any workload which does not need as much memory or local SSD per CPU core will benefit from the value of the F-Series VMs. Due to the price-performance value, ...

Azure Import/Export Service generally available in Azure Government

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Import/Export Service in Microsoft Azure Government. The Import/Export service allows migration of large amounts of data in and out of Azure blob storage by shipping hard disk drives directly to the datacenter. This service is suitable in situations where you want to transfer ...

Join us! DC Azure Gov Meetup on open source technology in government –  Aug. 31 

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
Karina Homme
The recent release of the White House's Federal Source Code policy is just the latest example of how the federal government has come to embrace. open source ideology. This policy promotes efficiency and re-use by encouraging agencies to use open source code for custom applications and building communities around it. Please join us to discuss ...