Azure Service Bus has been the Messaging as a Service (MaaS) option of choice for our enterprise customers. We’ve seen tremendous growth to our customer base and usage of the existing namespaces, which inspires us to bring more features to the service. We recently expanded Azure Service Bus to support all Azure regions with Availability […]
Windows Server 2019 support now available for Windows Containers on Azure App Service
The Azure App Service engineering team is always striving to improve the efficiency and overall performance of applications on our platform. Today, we are happy to announce Windows Server 2019 Container support in public preview. To our customers, this expanded support translates into clear efficiencies: Reduced container size enables you to be more cost effective […]
Extending Azure Security Center capabilities
This blog post was co-authored by Ron Matchoro, Principal Program Manager, Ronit Reger, Senior Program Manager, Miri Landau, Senior Program Manager, and Devendra Tiwari, Principal PM Manager, Azure Security Center. As more organizations are delivering innovation faster by moving their businesses to the cloud, increased security is critically important for every industry. Azure has built-in […]
Announcing the Azure Functions Premium plan for enterprise serverless workloads
We are very excited to announce the Azure Functions Premium plan in preview, our newest Functions hosting model! This plan enables a suite of long requested scaling and connectivity options without compromising on event-based scale. With the Premium plan you can use pre-warmed instances to run your app with no delay after being idle, you […]
Self-service exchange and refund for Azure Reservations
Azure Reservations provide flexibility to help meet your evolving needs. You can exchange a reservation for another reservation of the same type, and you can refund a reservation if you no longer need it. Exchange an existing reserved instance You start the exchange in the Azure portal with Azure Reservations. 1. Select the reservations that […]
Microsoft Azure portal April 2019 update
This month’s updates include improvements to IaaS, Azure Data Explorer, Security Center, Recovery Services, Role-Based Access Control, Support, and Intune. Sign in to the Azure portal now and see for yourself everything that’s new. Download the Azure mobile app to stay connected to your Azure resources anytime, anywhere. Here’s the list of April updates to […]
Azure Sphere Retail and Retail Evaluation feeds
Azure Sphere developers might have noticed that we now have two Azure Sphere OS feeds where once there was only one. The Azure Sphere Preview feed that delivered over-the-air OS updates has been replaced by feeds named Retail Azure Sphere OS and Retail Evaluation Azure Sphere OS. What’s the difference and what does it mean […]
IoT in Action: Enabling cloud transformation across industries
The intelligent cloud and intelligent edge go hand-in-hand, and together they are sparking massive transformation across industries. As computing gets more deeply embedded in the real world, powerful new opportunities arise to transform revenue, productivity, safety, customer experiences, and more. According to a white paper by Keystone Strategy, digital transformation leaders generate 8 percent more […]
Updates to geospatial functions in Azure Stream Analytics – Cloud and IoT edge
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS service that helps you run real-time analytics and complex event processing logic on telemetry from devices and applications. Numerous built-in functions available in Stream Analytics helps users build real-time applications using simple SQL language with utmost ease. By using these capabilities customers can quickly realize powerful applications […]
Updates to geospatial features in Azure Stream Analytics – Cloud and IoT edge
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS service that helps you run real-time analytics and complex event processing logic on telemetry from devices and applications. Numerous built-in functions available in Stream Analytics helps users build real-time applications using simple SQL language with utmost ease. By using these capabilities customers can quickly realize powerful applications […]