Geocoding: The first step towards unlocking location intelligence

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft Azure Maps is a collection of mapping and location APIs that enable enterprises to add location intelligence into their solutions. The Geocoding Service is one of the most prominently used Maps APIs that enables geocoding of addresses (conversion of textual addresses into geographic coordinates) and vice versa. For example, a coffee shop name or…

Azure Public IPs are now zone-redundant by default

By Dustin Ward

We are excited to announce that Microsoft Azure Public IPs are zone-redundant by default. This means that unless you specifically select a single zone when deploying your Microsoft Azure Standard Public IPs, they will be zone-redundant—without any extra steps on your part. Yes, automatically. If you don’t select a zone for your Standard Public IPs…

Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is now available in preview

By Dustin Ward

When we launched Azure Spring Cloud with VMware in 2019, we set out to solve common challenges developers, IT operators, and DevOps teams face when running Spring Boot applications at scale. Since then we’ve had the opportunity to work with many customers to help them adopt the service including Bosch, Digital Realty, Kroger, Liantis, Morgan…

Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking In the second half of 2021, the world experienced an unprecedented level of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) activity in both complexity and frequency. The gaming industry was perhaps the hardest hit, with DDoS attacks disrupting gameplay of…

Elastic and Microsoft Azure: Unified Observability for Spring Boot applications

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot applications, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. You also get a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other…