Microsoft named a Leader in Forrester Wave: Function-as-a-Service Platforms

By Dustin Ward

Forrester has named Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q1 2021 based on their evaluation of Azure Functions with recognition for upping its developer experience game and stateful capabilities. Development experience Azure Functions is fully integrated with other Azure services and development tools. Its end-to-end development experience allows you to build and…

Our commitment to expand Azure Availability Zones to more regions

By Dustin Ward

The cloud continues to play a critical role in our everyday lives. Our customers range from classrooms and small businesses to critical life and safety services and Fortune 500 companies. Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure—the largest in the world—is the backbone for many of these experiences which have been essential to connecting people, businesses, and governments and…

Azure and AMD announce landmark in confidential computing evolution

By Dustin Ward

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation globally and the scalability and security advantages offered by Microsoft Azure have helped many customers move forward. One key tenet we have in Azure is that your data is your data.    In Azure, we take your data security seriously and have built numerous controls around data at rest and data at flight. As a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium,…

Choose the landing zone for your cloud adoption journey

By Dustin Ward

This post is co-authored by Thomas Maurer, Senior Cloud Advocate, Azure.  Tailwind Traders1 is a retail company that is looking to adopt Azure as part of their IT strategy. The IT team is familiar with deploying infrastructure on-premises and is now researching what they need to do in order to run their workloads on Azure. In this blog…