Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
We’re proud that Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
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Azure mandatory multifactor authentication: Phase 2 starting in October 2025
Microsoft Azure is announcing the start of Phase 2 multifactor authentication enforcement at the Azure Resource Manager layer, starting October 1, 2025.
Leverage Microsoft Azure tools to navigate NIS2 compliance
Microsoft Azure helps organizations build NIS2 compliance strategies with robust cybersecurity, centralized management, and continuous monitoring.
6 findings from IoT Signals report: Manufacturers prepare their shop floor for AI
Read on to discover the six key lessons learned from manufacturers rethinking their operations for AI and how Microsoft is supporting the factory of the future with Azure’s adaptive cloud approach.
Explore the latest features for Datadog—An Azure Native ISV Service
Datadog, an Azure Native ISV Service that brings the power of Datadog’s observability capabilities to Azure allows you to monitor and diagnose issues with your Azure resources by automatically sending logs and metrics to your Datadog organization.
New Azure capabilities to simplify deployment and management
Customers around the world take advantage of Microsoft Azure to build, deploy, and manage business-critical applications at scale. We continuously innovate to help customers simplify their app deployment and management experience so they can spend more time building great solutions.
Leverage enterprise-scale reference implementations for your cloud adoption
Tailwind Traders takes advantage of prescriptive guidance coupled with best practices for your Azure control plane by using the enterprise-scale architecture.
Cloud Services (extended support) is generally available, migration tool in preview
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Cloud Services (extended support), which is a new Azure Resource Manager (ARM)-based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services. The platform-supported tool for migrating existing cloud services to Cloud Services (extended support) also goes into preview today.
Accelerate your cloud adoption with the start small and expand landing zone
Tailwind Traders is a retail company that is looking to adopt Azure as part of its IT strategy. The IT team is familiar with deploying infrastructure on-premises and are now researching what they need to do in order to run their workloads within Azure.
Build regionally resilient cloud services using the Azure Resource Manager
Today, we are announcing the preview of Cloud Services (extended support), which is a new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services.
Azure Cost Management and Billing 2020 year in review
2020 wasn’t the year we signed up for, but was chock full nonetheless.
Advancing resilience through chaos engineering and fault injection
This post is designed to get you thinking about how best to validate typical failure conditions, including examples of how we at Microsoft validate our own systems.