Azure News

At DataWorks Summit, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6. It is backed by the enterprise grade SLA and brings updates to various open source components in Apache Hadoop & Spark eco-system to the cloud. This will allow customers to deploy these components easily...

Azure Advisor, and resource health are generally available in all Azure public regions, starting today. These services will provide you with robust monitoring & alerting capabilities, and customized recommendations based on best practices. If you are running your VMs on Azure or using other Azure services,...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Monitor, its built-in platform monitoring service for Azure. For organizations, Azure Monitoring service gives you all the important monitoring telemetry including platform- and service-level metrics and logs. Azure monitor comes with REST APIs, Resource Manager templates, PowerShell cmdlets and Azure...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Web Application Firewall in all Azure public regions. This will lead to better web application security since the firewall is added to the layer 7 Azure Application Gateway service. In today's world, Web applications have become primary...

Microsoft has expanded its Azure Analysis Services to two additional regions: Japan East and UK South. With this action, Azure Analysis Services is now available in the following regions: Australia Southeast, Canada Central, Brazil South, Southeast Asia, North Europe, West Europe, West US, South Central...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Relay Hybrid Connections. The Azure Relay service enables hybrid applications by allowing you to securely exhibit services that reside within a corporate enterprise network to the public cloud, without having to open a firewall connection, or require intrusive...

Microsoft has announced the preview of backup pre-checks for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). As the name suggests, the feature will check your VMs’ configuration for issues that can unfavourably affect backups, collect this information so you can view it directly from the Recovery Services Vault...

Microsoft has announced the release of Azure Service Fabric SDK 2.5 and the corresponding 5.5 release of the Azure Service Fabric runtime and standalone Windows Server installer. This release brings great new features along with the usual bug fixes and optimizations, read on to find...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Geographic Routing capability in Azure Traffic Manager. As Geographic Routing capability becomes generally available, it will put consumers in control to customise content based on regions where users are located on a global basis. Plus, the customers who...

Microsoft has announced the availability of Azure Site Recovery in five new regions. With this expansion, Azure Site Recovery is now available in 27 regions worldwide including Australia East, Australia Southeast, Brazil South, Central US, East Asia, East US, East US2, Japan East, Japan...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse in four more regions—Germany Central, Germany Northeast, Korea Central, and Korea South. With this addition, the SQL Data Warehouse worldwide availability reaches 27 regions which is more than any other major cloud provider. The general...

Microsoft today announced a new breed of Virtual Machines, the L Series. The L Series has been crafted to optimize workloads that require low latency, such as NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloudera and Redis). The new series of VMs are fueled by the Intel®...