Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Communication Services (ACS) for Teams. The new service enables developers to integrate Microsoft Teams capabilities within their custom business applications with just a few lines of code. Microsoft’s Azure Communication Services first launched in public preview back in 2020. The goal of this release was to provide…

Microsoft has announced the launch of a new datacenter region in Doha, Qatar. The new cloud region will help to accelerate digital transformation and attract more businesses and partners into the country. Microsoft first unveiled its plans to open a cloud region in Qatar back in December 2019. The new Azure region was initially slated…

Microsoft has launched a public preview of its Microsoft Dev Box managed service. The new cloud-based offering provides developers easier access to a preconfigured virtual developer workstation without having to set up their physical machines. The Dev Box service was first announced at Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference in May. It’s designed for developers who…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Azure Fluid Relay service. It’s a managed cloud offering that enables web developers to use the Fluid Framework for building enterprise-grade collaborative applications. The Fluid Framework was announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference back in 2019. It’s an open-source web-based platform that allows users to create discrete…

Microsoft has launched a new Update Management Center (UMS) in public preview. The new service is designed to make it easier for IT admins to manage updates for all Azure and Linux machines on Azure and Azure Arc-enabled servers. Essentially, Update Management Center is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s Azure Automation Update Management solution. For…

Microsoft is launching today Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, a new cloud offering for the government sector. The new cloud solution is meant to help government and public sector customers build, move, and operate sensitive data and workloads in the cloud while supporting the highest security and compliance standards. A sovereign cloud is a cloud infrastructure…

Azure Bastion provides an easy way to secure virtual machines that might otherwise be directly exposed to the Internet.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud is experiencing capacity issues due to ongoing supply chain constraints. According to a new report from The Information, over two dozen Azure datacenters worldwide are currently operating with limited server capacity. In March 2020, Microsoft started experiencing an increased demand for its cloud services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, Microsoft Teams…

Microsoft unveiled a slew of updates for its Azure services at the annual Build developer conference. The Redmond giant has also announced a new cloud data platform called “Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform” in an effort to consolidate its existing database, analytics, and governance services. Microsoft highlights that its Intelligent Data Platform will enable organizations to…

Microsoft has unveiled enhancements coming to the Learn platform during its Build 2022 developer conference. The Redmond giant is expanding its Microsoft Learn portfolio with a bunch of new and updated training and certifications for security experts and IT administrators. Microsoft Learn is a free online training platform that provides interactive and hands-on training sessions…