Monitor your Azure workload compliance with Azure Security Benchmark

By Dustin Ward

The Azure Security Benchmark v1 was released in January 2020 and is being used by organizations to manage their security and compliance policies for their Azure workloads. We are pleased to share that you can now track and monitor your compliance with the benchmark across your Azure environment in Azure Security Center. The Azure Security Benchmark is…

Learn how to deliver insights faster with Azure Synapse Analytics

By Dustin Ward

Today, it’s even more critical to have a data-driven culture. Analytics and AI play a pivotal role in helping businesses make insights-driven decisions—decisions to transform supply chains, develop new ways to interact with customers, and evaluate new offerings. Many organizations are turning to cloud analytics solutions to quickly create a data-driven culture, accelerate time to…

Announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines (VMs). Azure Spot VMs provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Spot pricing is available on single VMs in addition to VM scale sets (VMSS). This enables you to deploy a broader variety of workloads on Azure while enjoying access to…

Announcing Azure Front Door Rules Engine in preview

By Dustin Ward

Starting today, customers of Azure Front Door (AFD) can take advantage of new rules to further customize their AFD behavior to best meet the needs of their customers. These rules bring the specific routing needs of your customers to the forefront of application delivery on Azure Front Door, giving you more control in how you…