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It’s no secret that Azure is Microsoft’s future and at Ignite today, the company announced updates to many different aspects of the platform. On the agenda are updates to licensing terms, Azure Stack hardware is now shipping, new hybrid cloud benefits, and a lot more.
Earlier this summer, Microsoft announced that they would be acquiring Cloudyn and we are now seeing the fruits of that purchase materializing as Azure Cost Management. This service is exactly like the name sounds and helps customers optimize cloud spend from a single view for not only Azure but also AWS too.
In addition to Azure Cost Management, Microsoft is announcing the following updates:
All of these updates and enhancements for Azure continue to show Microsoft’s commitment to its cloud service. While Microsoft will support on-premises deployments for many years to come, it’s clear that they are giving cloud initiatives priority and that’s where new features will show up first.
Microsoft will continue to use hybrid IT as a gateway to up-selling more pure-cloud services which is why we see them investing heavily in this scenario as well. Make no mistake about it, Azure Stack is how Microsoft expects to move on-premises users from local compute to the cloud during the next decade or two.
Even though not everyone is ready or able to move to the cloud today, Microsoft is preparing so that in the not-so-distant future, the cloud will be the preferred option for every company on the planet.
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