Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

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 ...

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 ...

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

(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

(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...

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

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 ...

New portal for Azure Government now generally available

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

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 ...

Generally available, securing your data with Storage Service Encryption

We are happy to announce the general availability of Storage Service Encryption (SSE) for data at rest in Azure Government storage accounts. SSE enables customers to meet a comprehensive set of security and compliance requirements meeting government organizational needs.  With this feature, Azure Storage automatically encrypts your data ...

Azure SQL Database v12 has landed in Azure Government

(image) We are delighted to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Database (v12) in Microsoft Azure Government. This latest version delivers 25% more Premium performance and faster data recovery to help your objectives. Azure SQL Database is a managed cloud database for app developers. The service makes building and maintaining ...