Azure VMware Solution in Microsoft Azure Government streamlines migration efforts

By Dustin Ward

Today we are pleased to announce the public preview of Azure VMware Solution in Microsoft Azure Government. With this release, we are combining VMware cloud technologies with world-class Azure infrastructure in Azure Government, which is designed, built, and supported by Microsoft to help meet the highest levels of government security and compliance. Azure Government delivers…

DDoS Mitigation with Microsoft Azure Front Door

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was authored by Dave Burkhardt, Principal Product Manager, and co-authored by Harikrishnan M B, Program Manager, and Yun Zheng, Sr Program Manager. Within the last few years, the complexity and size of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have increased dramatically across the industry. As we reported previously, TCP, UDP, and DNS-based attacks are still…

Lessons learned optimizing Microsoft’s internal use of Azure

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft, we learned a lot from moving our internal operations to Microsoft Azure, lessons we use to make our cloud products work better for our customers. As a top user of Azure, we understand our customers’ obstacles and constraints. Just like them, we’re under pressure to “do more with less” in these challenging fiscal…

Announcing more Azure VMware Solution enhancements

By Dustin Ward

I’m writing to you today from VMware Explore in Barcelona, where my team and I are presenting to and meeting with customers and partners in person! When we launched Azure VMware Solution two years ago amid a pandemic, IT agility became a top priority as organizations scrambled to enable remote work and ensure business resilience via cloud…

Zero downtime migration for Azure Front Door—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

In March of this year, we announced the general availability of two new Azure Front Door tiers. Azure Front Door Standard and Premium is our native, modern cloud content-delivery network (CDN), catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with built-in turnkey security and a simple and predictable pricing model. It has already been…