Azure Government Top Secret now generally available for US national security missions

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Government Top Secret, a significant milestone in our commitment to bringing unmatched commercial innovation to our government customers across all data classifications. This announcement, together with new services and functionality in Azure Government Secret, provides further evidence of Microsoft’s relentless commitment to the mission of national security,…

How to re-size Azure virtual networks that are peered—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

As customers adopt and scale their applications in Azure, they constantly need to grow or resize their networks in the cloud. Virtual networks in Azure have had a long-standing constraint where any address space change is only allowed if the virtual network does not have any peerings. Today, we are announcing that this limitation has…

Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q1 and Q2 DDoS attack trends

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Amir Dahan, Senior Program Manager, Anupam Vij, Principal Program Manager, Skye Zhu, Data and Applied Scientist 2, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking. In our 2020 retrospective, we highlighted shifts in the active cyberthreat landscape. With the huge surge in internet activity, particularly with the onset of…