Announcing new capabilities for Azure Firewall

By Dustin Ward

We are happy to share several key Azure Firewall capabilities that are now generally available as well as updates on recent important releases into general availability (GA) and preview. New GA regions in Qatar central, China East, and China North IDPS Private IP ranges now generally available. Single Click Upgrade/Downgrade now in preview. Enhanced Threat…

Enterprise-grade DDoS protection for SMBs now available in preview

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PDM Manager. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the largest availability and security concerns facing customers that are moving their applications to the cloud. While cyber-attacks are on the rise, they typically make the news only when a large organization has fallen victim…

Delivering consistency and transparency for cloud hardware security

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow, Azure, and Bryan Kelly, Partner Architect, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure. When it comes to building the Microsoft Cloud, our work to standardize designs for systems, boards, racks, and other parts of our datacenter infrastructure is paramount to facilitating forward progress and innovation across…