Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Azure Form Recognizer now processes IDs in Azure Government

July 8, 2021 Jul 8, 2021 07/8/21

Lu Zhang

Form Recognizer can analyze and extract information from government-issued identification documents (IDs) using its prebuilt IDs model to help reduce the time, complexities and errors that come with manually extracting data from various ID types and formats.

Azure Stream Analytics in Azure Government

January 23, 2020 Jan 23, 2020 01/23/20

Steve Michelotti

In this episode of the Microsoft Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti, Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Government team, talks with Jean-Sebastien Brunner, Principal Program Manager on the Azure Stream Analytics team, about Azure Stream Analytics in Azure Government. Jean-Sebastien starts out by explaining what Stream ...

Innovating for government from the commercial cloud to the tactical edge

October 7, 2019 Oct 7, 2019 10/7/19

Lily Kim, General Manager, Azure Global

From our commercial cloud to the tactical edge, we continue to deliver more innovation to empower government agencies to advance their mission. In addition to the recent product news enabling government to advance ‘tech intensity’, here are some recent highlights of new capabilities in Azure to support the full spectrum of government needs...

Get mission ready with deep technical training

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18

Azure Gov Team

Join us for deep technical training - free in Washington. D.C.! We’re excited to announce Microsoft Ignite | The Tour | Government a free technical training event for developers, tech professionals, and mission leaders, is coming to Washington, D.C. on February 4 – 5, 2019. Our top engineers are hitting the road to bring you two ...

Modernize Citizen Services with AvePoint

May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 05/24/18

Azure Gov Team

Advancements in technology can challenge government agencies to meet rising citizen expectations. At the same time, they provide an opportunity for agencies to modernize operations, becoming more responsive, transparent, and efficient. AvePoint, who won the 2017 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Public Sector: Microsoft CityNext, offers...

Build recap: Azure innovations announced for government

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18

Azure Gov Team

At the recent Build 2018 developer conference, Microsoft shared the breadth of innovation coming to Azure--across Azure Stack, data and analytics solutions, IoT and more. Government customers can continue to count on this rapid pace of commercial innovation coming to Azure Government over time, as services becoming generally available, ...

Optimizing defense systems with Advanced services

April 11, 2018 Apr 11, 2018 04/11/18

Azure Gov Team

(image) The proliferation of data from devices and sensors creates both challenges and opportunities for US armed forces. Today, data comes from both manned and unmanned platforms—ranging from form factors like the sophisticated instrumentation on a modern aircraft to the wearable gear. The challenge in handling all this data lies in ...

Azure Advisor in Preview in Azure Government

April 9, 2018 Apr 9, 2018 04/9/18

Gerardo Saca

Azure Advisor is now in preview in Azure Government. Advisor is a free offering that helps you to follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry to recommend solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, and high availability of your Azure ...

Why cloud for state and local government?

February 8, 2018 Feb 8, 2018 02/8/18

Karina Homme

(image) With rapid technological advances, cities can now transform into smart cities with enhanced and interactive citizen services, better living, and increased economic growth. You can learn more about these opportunities by watching our on-demand webinar, The Benefits of Moving to the Cloud for State and Local Governments. Despite the many...

A year in review for Azure Government

February 6, 2018 Feb 6, 2018 02/6/18

Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft

Looking back over the past year and seeing the progress we’ve made gives us a real sense of momentum as we continue to double-down on our investments in Azure Government in 2018. As the engineering lead for Azure Government, my team looks at everything from where we build datacenters, to what hardware and networking we put in those ...

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