Announcing the Azure SDK 2.7 for .NETToday, we’re excited to announce Azure SDK 2.7 for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015. We are also excited to announce the final release of Visual Studio 2015. Azure SDK 2.7 is the first supported Azure SDK for the final release of Visual Studio 2015. This post summarizes the updates and how the new… Read More
Enhancing Azure VMs Protection with ESET File Security ExtensionWe are excited to announce that this week ESET became part of the Azure Marketplace Security VM Extensions family. By provisioning ESET File Security as VM extension, users can get the enhanced security and experience of ESET. Their Solution, designed specifically for Windows Server is expanded to an even larger user base – business customers… Read More
EC2 Container Service – Latest Features, Customer Successes, and More…We launched Amazon EC2 Container Service last fall at AWS re:Invent and made it available in production form this past April. We’ve made a lot of enhancements since then and I thought it would be a good time to recap them for you. AWS customers are already making good use of EC2 Container Service and… Read More
Updates to the Mobile Apps server SDKBack in March, we announced Azure App Service, which includes the preview of Mobile Apps, a new version of the existing Mobile Services product. Mobile Apps makes it easy for developers to leverage great App Service features to build scalable and feature-rich backends which are easy to consume from mobile devices. Today, I’m pleased to… Read More
Integrate your on-premises infrastructure with AzureIf you’ve experimented with Microsoft Azure, or are already using it for some of your IT functionality, you may be ready to take that next step and integrate your infrastructure with Azure so you can use it as an extension to your on-premises infrastructure. Finding all the information that helps you do this can be… Read More
DynamoDB Update – Triggers (Streams + Lambda) + Cross-Region Replication AppI’ve got some really good news for Amazon DynamoDB users! First, the DynamoDB Streams feature is now available and you can start using it today. As you will see from this blog post, it is now very easy to use AWS Lambda to process the change records from a stream. Second, we are making it… Read More
Announcing the general availability of Media Encoder StandardWe’ve fielded asks on a regular basis from customers for an on demand media encoder that is more agile – one that is able to support more input and output formats, and one that is more tolerant to how the input file was created. Today, I have a solution for those asks – a new… Read More
Azure Site Recovery GA: Move VMware, AWS, Hyper-V and Physical Servers to AzureTo enable our customers to move heterogeneous workloads from multiple environments – VMware, Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or physical servers – to Azure, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of application-aware, one-click migration with Azure Site Recovery. With this new GA, all of Microsoft Migration Accelerator’s functionality is now incorporated into Azure Site… Read More
Extensible Triggers and Binders with Azure WebJobs SDK 1.1.0-alpha1This release opens a new extensibility model of the SDK which allows you to write custom Triggers and Binders such as Trigger functions on File events, schedule and more. It leads to simplicity in developing and managing WebJobs, since you can now have a single WebJob with functions which can be triggered on Azure Queues, Blobs,… Read More
Azure Marketplace announces new features and functionalityOur goal with the Azure Marketplace is to continuously enhance our customers’ experience and provide you with the tools you need to achieve your business goals. Today we are happy to announce enhancements for compute offerings, a new Developer Services category, and the integration of Docker Hub and Container Apps. Compute Offerings Deploy production level… Read More