Advanced Container Networking Services: Enhancing security and observability in AKS

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft’s Azure Container Networking team is excited to announce new enhancements to Advanced Container Networking Services. Following the success of advanced network observability, which provides deep insights into network traffic within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, we’re introducing fully qualified domain name (FQDN) filtering as a new security feature. What is Advanced Container Networking Services?…

Advancing cloud platform operations and reliability with optimization algorithms

By Dustin Ward

“In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, we see a growing number of services and environments (in which those services run) our customers utilize on Azure. Ensuring the performance and security of Azure means our teams are vigilant about regular maintenance and updates to keep pace with customer needs. Stability, reliability, and rolling timely updates remain…

Check out what’s new in Azure VMware Solution

By Dustin Ward

I’m writing to you today from VMware Explore in Las Vegas, where my team and I are thrilled to present the latest updates for Azure VMware Solution (AVS). We’re hosting sessions, showcasing demos at our booth, and most importantly, meeting directly with customers like these to help them map the future of their VMware environments…

Embrace the future of container native storage with Azure Container Storage

By Dustin Ward

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure Container Storage, the industry’s first platform-managed container native storage service in the public cloud. With Kubernetes driving cloud evolution, we are witnessing a transformative shift as enterprises move from virtual machines (VMs) to containers, optimizing for scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. We introduce Azure…

8 key VMware questions answered at the Azure VMware Solution digital event

By Dustin Ward

The 2023 changeups in the VMware landscape have created uncertainty and spurred discussions about long-term strategy—your company may be wondering where the best place is to run VMware workloads. Over the past 25 years, many organizations like yours have built their on-premises IT foundation on VMware—and today the benefits of migrating are more substantial than…