Discover and assess ASP.NET apps at-scale with Azure Migrate

By Dustin Ward

Azure Migrate is your central place in the Azure portal that provides a unified experience to discover, assess, and migrate your servers, databases, and web apps to Azure. With a range of options across IaaS, PaaS, CaaS, and Serverless, Azure provides best-in-class flexibility and choice of platforms for your migrated workloads. With Azure Migrate we are…

Advancing your financial services strategy with Azure sustainability

By Dustin Ward

Many CEOs and senior business leaders have used the COVID-19 and economic crisis as an opportunity to focus on redesigning their business. Like others, they’ve felt compelled to re-examine their business and operational models, driven by the internal necessity for digital transformation, as well as external consumer and regulatory pressures to advance sustainability efforts. Across…

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – July 2021

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always…

Optimize your cloud spend with Azure

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft, we know our customers are looking to transform digitally now more than ever and the speed of innovation can make the difference between growth or decline. While presenting new opportunities, we hear repeatedly from our customers and partners that the challenges created by digital transformation are unique. Customers are looking for better ways…

Next-generation firewall capabilities with Azure Firewall Premium

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Gopikrishna Kannan, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking and Suren Jamiyanaa, Program Manager 2, Azure Networking. Following the preview release announced in February 2021, we are announcing the general availability release of Microsoft Azure Firewall Premium. Key features in this release include: TLS inspection: Azure Firewall Premium terminates outbound and east-west…

Advancing application reliability with the Azure Well-Architected Framework

By Dustin Ward

“For two years now, my ongoing Advancing Reliability blog series has highlighted initiatives and investments underway to keep improving the reliability of our Azure platform and services. But what about your own Azure applications that run on top of these—how should you think about establishing and improving the reliability of your own architecture? We created…