Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Storage - Azure Government

New service-level disaster recovery guidance

June 9, 2016 Jun 9, 2016 06/9/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are happy to announce the availability of the Microsoft Azure service resiliency guidance page. We created this page because our customers have asked us for clear guidance on what to do when they experienced a service disruption. Since a service disruption can be localized (perhaps an issue on a specific host or even code within a virtual ...

Have AzCopy, Will Travel

June 6, 2015 Jun 6, 2015 06/6/15
SteveK-MS
[Update: Azure uses sparse storage, so only the bits that represent user data are transferred. When transferring disk VHDs that are less than full, this will make the throughput look seemingly much better.] As some of the Azure Government blog posts have eluded to, AzCopy is the preferred way to move files around. Many of us are using Azure ...