Kategorie: Microsoft Azure

Power hybrid and multicloud environments with Azure Arc data solutions

We know we are in the middle of a transformative time. At the heart of this transformation is the digitization of data. Data is the most strategic asset for organizations across all industries, and a new level of data agility is required to deal with dynamic changes in our world. Organizations that have embraced their data as a strategic asset are at a competitive advantage. In fact, a recent Gartner® Predict report estimates that 90 percent of data management tools and platforms that fail to support multicloud and hybrid capabilities will be set for decommissioning through 2026.1

But for all the powerful capabilities the cloud offers to help organizations on their transformation journey, not all data is created equal. The myriad of regulations to navigate, the need for data sovereignty, the low tolerance for any form of disruption keeps data from living in a single public cloud, expanding your data estate and complexity. Managing the vast amounts of data that exists across siloed, disparate systems, applications, and locations, while also getting the most from existing investments is not a balance many solutions can achieve.

This is why, back in November 2019, we debuted Azure Arc, a set of technologies that extends Azure innovations and cloud benefits to any infrastructure. Cloud-native databases like Azure SQL and PostgreSQL have been enabled by Azure Arc, delivering the much-needed consistency and cloud automation for all data workloads. We want you to focus less on managing data, and more on creating value and unlocking insights. Because true innovation starts at the data layer.

Innovate anywhere with Azure Arc

With Azure Arc-enabled data services, we can bring cloud data management to any infrastructure, across customer on-premises data centers, other third-party clouds, and the edge. Here’s how Azure Arc is delivering on that promise:

Always up to date with full automation. Benefit from an evergreen SQL with the latest features using automated updates so there is no more end-of-support. Those in-place, rolling updates ensure close to zero downtime, so you can maximize efficiencies and minimize disruptions
Get industry-leading, multi-layered security with built-in capabilities. With comprehensive encryption including Transparent Data Encryption and Always Encrypted, as well as Azure Role-Based Access Control and Policy, your data is protected both at the powerful database engine-level and by Azure Security capabilities from the cloud.
With elastic scale, you can scale up or down based on your resource needs without application downtime to optimize performance. You can also realize cost efficiencies by paying only for what you use without the need to overprovision.
Deliver a vastly simplified DevOps experience through full automation with built-in capabilities like rapid deploy, high availability, and disaster recovery. You can deploy a 3 replica SQL MI with full high availability (HA) in two minutes with a single command, and gain a unified view into your query performance, storage capacity, and error logs using dashboards directly from the built-in monitoring. Use the tools you are already familiar with.

All these capabilities can run in any environment regardless of the connectivity to Azure. You can run Arc-enabled data services without a connection to Azure. If you can be fully connected to Azure, the user experience is richer and in real-time, but it is not required, data services can keep running even without a connection to Azure. Azure portal deployment and other value-added management services are fully integrated under direct connection.

Built for mission-critical

And now, we’re making that solution available in an even more powerful way. We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Arc-enabled data services Business Critical (BC) tier, designed to support the most demanding mission-critical data workloads.

With feature parity with SQL Server Enterprise Edition, it delivers all the proven capabilities customers have trusted for decades. It runs online transaction processing (OLTP) and hybrid transaction/analytics processing (HTAP) with record-setting performance, advanced high availability, and top-rated security.
It meets the most demanding business continuity requirements using Always On Availability Groups, so your app will have close to zero downtime in case of an automated failover.
Failover to another instance within the same Kubernetes cluster for local high availability, or to a different cluster in a different datacenter or even a public cloud, delivering “cloud-level redundancy”.
We also provide a free passive instance to run in your disaster recovery for even greater value
Choose the configuration that best suits your workloads, with no set limits on CPU and memory configuration. To further maximize the performance, we provide one free read-scale replica to offload any read-heavy workloads.

Our partner, Dell Technologies, conducted a series of OLTP benchmarks, using Intel technology, which took a closer look at the kind of performance possible with this new service tier. The results were remarkable. Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance was proven to provide the same performance as SQL Server on Windows Server, so customers can run their workloads with confidence. The speed of provisioning and deprovisioning will massively speed up your continuous integration (CI) test runs. SQL instances can now be deployed very easily via automation and be available in 60 seconds, and Business Critical cuts multi-replica HA deployment time from hours or days to minutes with a single command! Those out-of-the-box experiences allow you to realize time efficiencies and redirect resources to where they matter most.

Broad partner ecosystem

Our ambition to help you digitally transform your business with the cloud and edge is boundless, we know we can’t do it alone. No single cloud provider can deliver all the infrastructure and as-a-service solutions you’ll need. That’s why we’re building an ecosystem of partners across service providers, platform providers including OS and Container platforms, and independent software vendors (ISVs) to help you envision, plan, and deploy the full stack of hybrid and multicloud solutions. Our history in both productivity and the datacenter is unique among cloud providers. Microsoft is at our best when our platforms fuel the growth of others, and I’m thrilled to see how energized the ecosystem is to evolve with us.

Get started

Review Azure Arc documentation on data services and trial the new Business Critical tier in the Azure portal.
Sign up for the Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day digital event to learn about the latest innovation from Azure Arc.

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Quelle: Azure

Find out why your SQL Server data belongs on Azure

The global events of the last couple of years have introduced significant changes to how companies operate and the way we work, accelerating digital transformation for many as they seek the additional flexibility, scale, and cost savings of the cloud. More companies are choosing Azure SQL for their SQL Server workloads and it’s easy to see why. Azure SQL provides a full range of deployment options ranging from edge to cloud and a consistent unified experience that makes the most of your on-premises skills and experience. It’s very cost-effective, too, when you use the Azure Hybrid Benefit to maximize your on-premises licensing investments.

Customers moving SQL Server workloads to the cloud have choices. Whether simply migrating to virtual machines (VMs) to offload infrastructure costs or modernizing on fully-managed database services that do more on your behalf, every choice on Azure is a great one.

SQL Managed Instance leads in price-performance for mission-critical workloads

More companies are choosing managed services because of the benefits they provide like lower total cost of ownership, productivity gains, and even accelerated time to market.

According to a study by Enterprise Strategy Group, customers who migrated their SQL Server data from on-premises to Azure Virtual Machines reduced their costs by up to 47 percent. Customers who continued to modernize their data from virtual machines to managed database services realized an additional 17 percent cost savings and an expected incremental $30M in new revenue due to faster release cycles. When it comes to modernizing your SQL Server data at scale, Azure SQL Managed Instance is your best choice.

It’s also a price-performance leader. Principled Technologies, an independent research firm, recently published a study where they benchmarked SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS across three different workloads. SQL Managed Instance emerged as the leader across each of these workloads, with up to five times faster performance while costing up to 93 percent less than AWS RDS.1

SQL Managed Instance combines the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility back to SQL Server 2008, with all the benefits of a fully managed and always up-to-date platform-as-a-service (PaaS). You can use it to quickly and confidently modernize your custom and vendor-provided apps to Azure and further unlock the benefits of Azure’s integrated service platform. When a hybrid approach is required, you can run Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance on the infrastructure of your choice.

“We wanted an easy transition from on-premises SQL Server, and Azure SQL Managed Instance looks just like SQL Server—with all the operational benefits of a platform as a service.”—Hardayal Singh, Senior Principal Enterprise Architect, City National Rochdale

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines leads SQL Server on AWS EC2 

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines saves money and simplifies management of security and high availability at no additional cost. SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines not only saves money, is flexible at scale, meets peaks in demands, and accelerates innovation, but leads SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in overall speed and price performance.

In a recent study from GigaOm, performance was tested between Microsoft SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines versus SQL Server on AWS EC2 instances across transactional and analytical workloads. Microsoft SQL Server came out on top meeting customers’ mission-critical requirements with up to 42 percent faster transactional performance while costing up to 31 percent less than AWS EC2.2

With SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines you can shift your SQL workloads with ease and maintain 100 percent SQL Server compatibility and operating system-level access. In addition, when you register your self-installed VMs with SQL Server IaaS Agent extension, you can save money and simplify management of security, high availability, and storage administration. With SQL Server IaaS Agent extension, you get built-in security and management benefits, including automated backups, for free and pay only for what you use by converting licenses between pay-as-you-go, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and HA/DR license types.

H&R Block made plans to stay ahead of the changes, providing seamless multichannel experiences and unifying its disparate data sources to better serve its customers. By moving its various workloads to Microsoft SQL Server the tax provider has been able to enhance service delivery, scale to meet its peaks in demand, and accelerate innovation. The company was able to move its customer-facing systems—including a DIY online tax-filing app and an appointment application used by 10,000 offices—to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with minimal issues before, during, and after migration.

“Investing in Azure data services and data platforms has really set up an amazing foundation for us to continue to deliver and accelerate new products and services to our clients.”—Aditya Thadani, Vice President of Architecture and Information Management, H&R Block

Get started today

Read the reports from Principled Technologies and GigaOm.
Ready for that next step? Use Azure Migrate to assess your data’s readiness for the cloud and use the provided tools to start your journey today.

1Price-performance claims based on data from a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Principled Technologies in April 2022. The study compared performance and price performance between a 16 vCore, 64 vCore and 80 vCore Azure SQL Managed Instance using premium-series hardware on the business-critical service tier and the db.m6i.32xlarge, db.r5b.4xlarge and db.r5b.16xlarge offerings for Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) on SQL Server. Benchmark data is taken from a Principled Technologies report using recognized standards, HammerDB TPROC-C, HammerDB TPROC-H and Microsoft MSOLTPE, a workload derived from TPC-E. The MSOLTPE is derived from the TPC-E benchmark and as such is not comparable to published TPC-E results, as MSOLTPE results do not comply with the TPC-E Specification. The results are based on a mixture of read-only and update intensive transactions that simulate activities found in complex OLTP and analytics application environments. Price-performance is calculated by Principled Technologies as the cost of running the cloud platform continuously divided by transactions per minute or per second throughput, based upon the standard. Prices are based on publicly available US pricing in South Central US for Azure SQL Managed Instance and US East for AWS RDS as of April 2022 and incorporates Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server, excluding Software Assurance and support costs. Performance and price-performance results are based upon the configurations detailed in the Principled Technologies report. Actual results and prices may vary based on configuration and region.

2Price-performance claims based on data from a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by GigaOm in April 2022. The study compared price performance between SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition on Windows Server 2022 in Azure E32bds_v5 instance type with P30 Premium SSD disks and SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition on Windows Server 2022 in Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Compute instance type r5b.8xlarge with General Purpose (gp3) volumes. Benchmark data is taken from a GigaOm Transactional Field Test derived from a recognized industry standard, TPC Benchmark™ E (TPC-E) The Field Test does not implement the full TPC-E and as such is not comparable to any published TPC-E benchmarks. Prices are based on publicly available US pricing in North Central US for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and Oregon for AWS EC2 as of April 2022. The pricing incorporates three-year reservations for Azure and AWS compute pricing, and Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server and Windows Server, and License Mobility for SQL Server in AWS, excluding Software Assurance and support costs. Actual results and prices may vary based on configuration and region.
Quelle: Azure

How developers can benefit from the new 5G paradigm

5G is not an upgrade, it’s a new paradigm

Fueled by the rapid expansion of the cloud, 5G is much more than a network upgrade—it will help create a new application paradigm and pave the way for the emergence of a new breed of network-intelligent applications that enable developers to solve problems previously out of reach. These modern connected apps will use software-defined 5G technology to communicate and interact with the network, leveraging APIs to deliver a high-performance, optimized user experience.

For developers, 5G will unlock use cases across many sectors of industry and society. It will enable massive machine-type communications (MMTC) for billions of devices in complex pipeline monitoring scenarios. It will help solve for mission-critical use cases requiring ultra-reliable low latency (URLLC) such as smart cities, where AR and VR-enabled video devices help people improve safety and security. And it will leverage enhanced mobile broadband (EMBB) to allow thousands of sports fans in a packed stadium to enjoy the on-field action live on their devices, all at the same time.

Imagine the kind of applications you could create if you turned the network from a bottleneck into an asset. If you could manage and control networking functions through software instead of hardware and leverage the cloud everywhere. If you could deploy an enterprise solution globally with the ability to solve problems locally. To manage company assets that react in near real time to conditions as different as a coal mine in Indonesia and a busy highway in the Netherlands.

The 5G opportunity for developers

With this new breed of application, forward-thinking developers will be at the forefront of change. The opportunity lies in bringing together ubiquitous computing and 5G leading to a new class of applications.

Analysys Mason, a management consulting firm, forecasts cumulative six-year enterprise spending on business applications that require 5G totaling $20 billion USD over the 2022-2027 timeframe, growing at a 75 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

This is the future of the cloud, and it not only changes how we experience apps but the way they’re built. Developers can now take advantage of new 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) capabilities to bring computing closer to the problems they’re trying to solve. Network APIs will play a fundamental role in this change. Developers will be able to leverage network APIs as a control plane to make the best use of available infrastructure and the network. This will give developers more control over application performance and help improve the user experience—and help them move from a single use case model to a write-once, run anywhere ability to scale.

But developing applications for 5G is still an emerging area and accessing the opportunity is like trying to enter a building with no door. Anyone trying to enter confronts a host of complexities including a wide range of standards, multiple vendors and operators, and numerous network configurations.

How Microsoft enables the opportunity for developers

At Microsoft, we’re opening the door to the power of 5G to help developers take full advantage of the opportunity. We recognize the challenges developers face when forced to build on multiple networks or work within walled gardens that restrict data usage across outside platforms. Microsoft is committed to helping developers create on their own terms with a distributed, open-source environment and to build on a consistent, carrier-agnostic platform. And we are at the forefront of an effort to help standardize APIs, coordinating work across technology and communications providers.

Microsoft covers the full app development lifecycle with multi-cloud support, so solution components can be run on multiple clouds and on all Azure and Azure edge-based services from public and private MEC, Azure Stack HCI, Azure Sphere, and space. New networking capabilities will help developers optimize app performance cross-network (for example, private MEC to public MEC) and cross-layer, where information can be shared among layers for more efficient use of network resources and to achieve high adaptivity. Developers will have the freedom to choose their preferred development framework and language while taking advantage of familiar Microsoft tools such as GitHub, Power Platform, Azure DevOps, and more.

An Azure-based portal will give developers all the resources they need to build 5G apps, from installation to testing to management. Azure Arc will help developers build apps and services with flexibility to run across Azure, multiple clouds, data centers, and edge environments through a unified management platform built for multi-cloud and hybrid. And as the cloud everywhere enables ubiquitous connectivity, our focus on security remains with built-in zero trust for the security issues of the future.

Last, we know as a developer you are always considering how to push your applications to do more. By taking advantage of ubiquitous compute and 5G, you can run complex AI workloads with confidence thanks to ultra-reliable connectivity. Imagine taking these network-intelligent apps to market and the opportunities to expand your reach by uploading your apps to Azure Marketplace—where your work can be discovered by Microsoft’s wide network of enterprises, systems integrators (SIs), and operators.

Microsoft’s vision for 5G, brought to life with Ferrovial

We’re opening the door for developers to seize the 5G opportunity and recently shared a great real-world example at Build, showcasing a partnership between Microsoft and a Spanish multinational company using 5G to build smart highways.

As highways become more digitized to improve safety, Ferrovial has created a digital smart roads solution called AIVIA, where the road is “exposed as an API,” enabling infrastructure to automatically adjust in real-time to changing situations and information gathered from cameras and sensors placed along the highway. In this way, Ferrovial can create a digital twin of the highway in real-time to mirror road conditions.

In another scenario, Ferrovial built an AI solution for object recognition to identify safety hazards such as debris or broken-down vehicles. Ferrovial can offer these services to drivers or expose the information as APIs to connected vehicles or autonomous cars. For example, they can identify traffic congestion and automatically respond by updating digital highway signs.

Powering the intelligent video analysis is an accelerator called Edge Video Services (EVS), a Microsoft platform for developing video analytics solutions that can be deployed on Azure public MEC. It provides intelligent, real-time video analytics for the Ferrovial use case, including vehicle counting. EVS splits computation across private and public MEC or regular Azure regions and is optimized to work with 5G networks to make the best use of the underlying infrastructure.

The ultra-reliability and intelligence collected by these devices demonstrate how 5G can help developers achieve mission-critical workload results in highly complex, real-world scenarios. For Ferrovial, it’s literally solving safety problems at the roadside. And because Azure is virtually everywhere, it can be managed all through one unified and flexible platform.

Paving the way for developers to build modern connected apps at the edge with 5G

The new paradigm is here. Microsoft is committed to helping developers act on the 5G opportunity and build the next generation of network-intelligent applications on an open-source platform with proven building blocks for 5G app innovation.

We believe now is the ideal time for developers to benefit from the coming transformation and we’re proving our commitment to 5G by investing heavily in a platform designed to unlock the possibilities.

Our goal is to pave the way for you to innovate from the cloud to the edge to space—Microsoft offers developers a platform and ecosystem strong enough to support the vision, and the vast potential of 5G. The cloud is expanding into a ubiquitous, highly distributed fabric that’s bringing faster computing closer to the problems developers are trying to solve. And unlocking new scenarios only limited by our imaginations.

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Microsoft Cost Management updates – May 2022

Whether you're a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in.

We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. Here are a few of the latest improvements and updates based on your feedback:

Azure Cost Management and Billing is now Microsoft Cost Management.
Anomaly detection alerts and accuracy improvements.
Viewing cost for child resources in the cost analysis preview.
Reviewing cost for Azure Lab Services.
Help shape the future of Cost Management and Billing.
What's new in Cost Management Labs.
New ways to save money with Azure.
New videos and learning opportunities.
Documentation updates.
Join the Azure Cost Management and Billing team.

Let's dig into the details.

Azure Cost Management and Billing is now Microsoft Cost Management

In October, we announced that Azure Cost Management started covering select Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows 365, and Power Platform seat-based offers as part of Microsoft Customer Agreement billing accounts. In January, we added Cost Management to the Microsoft 365 admin center to offer a lightweight cost analysis experience for Microsoft 365 billing admins. As more seat-based offers are added to Microsoft Customer Agreement, you’ll see Azure Cost Management and Billing expand to cover all your Microsoft Cloud costs. To that end, we are re-introducing Azure Cost Management and Billing as Microsoft Cost Management – an integrated tool to monitor, manage, and optimize your Microsoft Cloud costs.

Microsoft Cost Management will continue to focus on the same core tenets of driving transparency and visibility into your costs throughout the organization, increasing organizational accountability, and optimizing cloud efficiency across all your Microsoft Cloud services. And going forward, you can expect to see deeper integration across services and better tooling to support their diverse needs.

We’re excited to make this pivot towards a single, holistic solution for organizations to monitor, manage, and optimize their cloud costs under a single, more flexible billing account.

Anomaly detection alerts and accuracy improvements

In February, we announced the Cost Management anomaly detection preview for subscriptions. The feedback we’ve heard has been great. Keep it coming! This month, we have two exciting updates for anomaly detection.

First, the anomaly detection model has been significantly improved to predict and detect anomalies more accurately. Hopefully, you won’t even notice this silent improvement, but we’re excited to see the results and wanted to at least share that with you. Improving detection accuracy is critical and we’ll continue to invest in that going forward.

Second, you probably won’t be surprised that the top request we’ve heard has been that you want to get notified when an anomaly is detected. This month, we’ve fully rolled out anomaly detection alerts and are already seeing broad adoption. If you haven’t seen it yet, getting setup is easy:

Start on a subscription scope.
Open the Cost alerts page.
Select +Add > Add anomaly alert.
Add your desired recipients and submit.

It's that simple. All email recipients will be notified when a subscription cost anomaly has been detected.

Your anomaly alert email will include a summary of changes in resource group count and cost as well as the top resource group changes for the day compared to the previous 60 days with a direct link to the portal so you can review the cost and dig in further.

Coupled with scheduled emails and budget alerts, anomaly detection is just one more weapon in your arsenal when it comes to staying informed about cost changes across your subscriptions. Learn more about anomaly detection and start setting up anomaly alerts today.

Viewing cost for child resources in the cost analysis preview

Understanding what you're being charged for can be complicated. The best place to start for many people is the Resources view in the cost analysis preview, which shows resources that are incurring cost. But even a straightforward list of resources can be hard to follow when a single deployment includes multiple, related resources. To help summarize your resource costs, we're investigating ways to group related resources together. Today, I’ll cover how we’re changing cost analysis to show child resources.

Many Azure services use nested or child resources. SQL servers have databases, storage accounts have containers, and virtual networks have subnets, just to name a few. Most of these child resources are only used to configure services, but sometimes these resources have their own usage and charges. SQL databases are perhaps the most common example.

SQL databases are deployed as part of a SQL server instance, but usage is tracked at the database level. In addition to this, you may also have charges on the parent server, like for Microsoft Defender for SQL. To get the total cost for you SQL deployment in classic cost analysis, you need to find the server and each database and then manually sum up their total cost. As an example, you can see the aepool elastic pool at the top of the list below and the treyanalyticsengine server lower down on the first page. What you don’t see is another database even lower in the list. You can imagine how troubling this would be when you need the total cost of a large server instance with many databases.

Now, in the cost analysis preview, these child resources are grouped together under their parent resource, giving you a quick, at-a-glance view of your deployment and its total cost. Using the same subscription, you can now see all three charges grouped together under the server, offering a nice one-line summary for your total server costs.

For those paying close attention, you may also notice the change in row count. Classic cost analysis shows 53 rows where every resource is broken out on its own and the cost analysis preview only shows 25 rows. This comes down to the different resources that are being grouped together, making it easier than ever to get that at-a-glance summary of your costs.

In addition to SQL servers, you’ll also see other services with child resources, like App Service, Synapse, VNet gateways, and more. Each of these will similarly be shown grouped together in the cost analysis preview.

You can see this today in the cost analysis preview. Try it out and let us know what you’d like to see next.

Reviewing cost for Azure Lab Services

Azure Lab Services is an offering that helps easily set up and provide on-demand access to preconfigured VMs to support your scenarios. Teach a class, train professionals, run a hackathon or a hands-on lab, and more. Simply define your needs and the service will roll the lab out to your audience. Users access all their lab VMs from a single place. If you’re using Lab Services, you might be interested in some new improvements around how you review and monitor your costs. Specifically, here’s what you’ll see after the latest update:

Charges are broken down by lab VM, not the lab plan.
Resources are tagged with lab VM and lab plan, which you can use to filter or group by in classic cost analysis.
You can set custom tags on labs to organize and analyze cost.

Learn more about Cost management guide for Azure Lab Services.

Help shape the future of Cost Management and Billing

Do you report on or manage cost for your team or organization? We're exploring new alert capabilities to improve your cost monitoring experience and would love to get your feedback in a brief, 10-minute survey.

Please share this with others within your organization – we’re looking for as much feedback as we can get!

Take the survey.

What's new in Cost Management Labs

With Cost Management Labs, you get a sneak peek at what's coming in Azure Cost Management and can engage directly with us to share feedback and help us better understand how you use the service, so we can deliver more tuned and optimized experiences. Here are a few features you can see in Cost Management Labs:

New: Configuration renamed to “Manage subscription” – Now available in the public portal
“Configuration” is a central hub for all settings you can use to monitor, manage, and optimize costs. To improve discoverability and ease of access, we tested a few variations of the name. Results are in and we’ve found that “Manage subscription” (or appropriate name for your scope) leads to more engagement. Let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see change in the central configuration management experience.
New: Product column experiment in the cost analysis preview
We’re testing new columns in the Resources and Services views in the cost analysis preview for Microsoft Customer Agreement. You may see a single Product column instead of the Service, Tier, and Meter columns. Please leave feedback to let us know which you prefer.
New: Group related resources in the cost analysis preview
Group related resources, like disks under VMs or web apps under App Service plans, by adding a “costanalysis-parent” tag to the child resources with a value of the parent resource ID. Wait 24 hours for tags to be available in usage and your resources will be grouped. Leave feedback to let us know how we can improve this experience further for you.
Update: Anomaly detection alerts – Now available in the public portal
Subscribe to automatic email alerts when a new anomaly has been detected. Anomaly detection is only available for subscriptions in the cost analysis preview. You can opt into this preview using Try Preview and then configure anomaly alerts from the Alerts page.
Update: Grouping SQL databases and elastic pools – Now available in the public portal
Get an at-a-glance view of your total SQL costs by grouping SQL databases and elastic pools under their parent server in the cost analysis preview. You can opt in using Try Preview.
Charts in the cost analysis preview
View your daily or monthly cost over time in the cost analysis preview. You can opt in using Try Preview.
Cost Management tutorials
Whether you’re just getting started or looking to learn more about specific features, tutorials are now a click away from the Cost Management overview in Cost Management Labs.
View cost for your resources
The cost for your resources is one click away from the resource overview in the preview portal. Just click View cost to quickly jump to the cost of that particular resource.
Change scope from the menu
Change scope from the menu for quicker navigation. You can opt-in using Try Preview.

Of course, that's not all. Every change in Azure Cost Management is available in Cost Management Labs a week before it's in the full Azure portal. We're eager to hear your thoughts and understand what you'd like to see next. What are you waiting for? Try Cost Management Labs today.

New ways to save money with Azure

Here are five new and updated offers you might be interested in:

Generally available: Scale-down mode in AKS.
Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server higher burstable compute.
Generally available: Windows Server guest licensing offer for Azure Stack HCI.
Generally available: Azure Archive Storage now available in Switzerland North.
Preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 in Australia, Japan, US, and Asia.

New videos and learning opportunities

Here are a couple new videos you might be interested in:

Azure Cost Management for ISVs (26 minutes).
Cost Savings with Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server (8 minutes).

Follow the Azure Cost Management and Billing YouTube channel to stay in the loop with new videos as they’re released and let us know what you'd like to see next.

Want a more guided experience? Start with Control Azure spending and manage bills with Azure Cost Management and Billing.

Documentation updates

Here are a few documentation updates you might be interested in:

New: Troubleshoot common Cost Management errors.
Added anomaly detection to Identify anomalies and unexpected changes in cost.
Updated AWS configuration steps in Set up AWS integration.
Added note about how daily exports will have two runs at the beginning of the month in Create and manage exported data.

Want to keep an eye on all of the documentation updates? Check out the Cost Management and Billing documentation change history in the azure-docs repository on GitHub. If you see something missing, select Edit at the top of the document and submit a quick pull request.

Join the Azure Cost Management and Billing team

Are you excited about helping customers and partners better manage and optimize costs? We're looking for passionate, dedicated, and exceptional people to help build best in class cloud platforms and experiences to enable exactly that. If you have experience with big data infrastructure, reliable and scalable APIs, or rich and engaging user experiences, you'll find no better challenge than serving every Microsoft customer and partner in one of the most critical areas for driving cloud success.

Watch the video below to learn more about the Azure Cost Management and Billing team:

Join our team.

What's next?

These are just a few of the big updates from last month. Don't forget to check out the previous Azure Cost Management and Billing updates. We're always listening and making constant improvements based on your feedback, so please keep the feedback coming.

Follow @AzureCostMgmt on Twitter and subscribe to the YouTube channel for updates, tips, and tricks. You can also share ideas and vote up others in the Cost Management feedback forum or join the research panel to participate in a future study and help shape the future of Azure Cost Management and Billing.

We know these are trying times for everyone. Best wishes from the Azure Cost Management and Billing team. Stay safe and stay healthy.
Quelle: Azure

Introducing the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

We are moving to a world where every application needs to be intelligent and adaptive to real-time model learning. As businesses build modern data capabilities, they must make decisions at the speed of human thought. Developers are challenged by this, given the huge silos that exist between databases and analytic products, and the complexity of a fragmented data estate can hamper the speed of agility and innovation. Data engineers, data scientists, and business analysts struggle with the complexity of making data integration, data warehousing, machine learning operations (MLOps), and business intelligence (BI) work together. What is needed is a consistent data ecosystem.

To help address the fragmentation that exists today between databases, analytics and governance, and enable organizations to unlock these new capabilities, we shared several exciting announcements today at Microsoft Build that demonstrate our continued innovation and investment in the data products our customers have come to know and trust, which will enable our customers to achieve the kind of sustained agility that allows them to pivot and adapt in real-time, add layers of intelligence to their applications, unlock fast and predictive insights, and govern their data—wherever it resides.

Accelerate innovation

Today, we unveiled the new Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, the leading cloud data platform that fully integrates databases, analytics, and governance. This seamless data platform empowers organizations to invest more time creating value rather than integrating and managing their data estate.

Furthering our mission of integration, Azure Synapse Link for SQL removes data movement barriers, providing a seamless data pipeline to Azure Synapse Analytics, and enables near-real-time analytics for SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Database. Once Azure Synapse Link transfers data to Azure Synapse Analytics, data can be used for advanced analytics with no performance impact on transactional workloads. Over 10 million Azure SQL databases globally can now leverage this capability.

Achieve agility

Through continued investments in databases and analytics, we are empowering customers to achieve agility in new ways.

Now in preview SQL Server 2022 is our most Azure-enabled release yet, with continued innovation across performance, security, and availability. By connecting SQL server to Azure through seamless disaster recovery to Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server 2022 provides true resilience. The latest Azure Arc innovation is here with the Business Critical tier of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance now generally available—helping customers run the most demanding mission-critical workloads in hybrid and multicloud environments. We continue to invest in bringing the best developer experience in any cloud with Azure SQL Database releasing new features to help simplify and expedite application development and reduce time to market for developers. In addition, the ledger feature in Azure SQL Database, now generally available, eliminates the additional cost and complexity of decentralized blockchain technology while providing the benefits of blockchain in a fully managed and familiar SQL environment.

New innovation in cloud-native NoSQL and open-source databases give developers the freedom to build on their terms. Azure Cosmos DB has an enhanced 30-day trial experience now generally available and has introduced new burst capacity and elasticity features in preview. Application traffic spikes don’t have to equal spikes in costs. New burst capacity and elasticity features ensure applications deliver high performance during peak times while still remaining cost-effective. The Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Memory-Optimized service tier is now the improved "Business Critical" tier for high performance transactional or analytical applications with a 1.5x performance improvement over Single Server with faster failover time to standby.

When it comes to analytics, Azure Synapse is simply unmatched with more meaningful integrations that enable existing Synapse customers to get even more value from their Microsoft 365 data. Microsoft Graph Data Connect empowers customers to securely export their Microsoft 365 data estate, and it’s only available on Microsoft Azure. This enables every customer to unlock new actionable business insights with the employee and customer collaboration data that comes from Microsoft 365.

Customers like KPMG use Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform integrations to power their KPMG Digital Gateway bringing together a wealth of tools to help customers tackle regulatory change, turn data into value, and streamline compliance and planning while enabling effective collaboration across tax, legal, and finance departments. KPMG Digital Gateway puts its investments in machine learning, data analytics, powerful visualizations, and AI technologies all in one place. Client data is provided once and leveraged across applications, saving time and money.

To continue creating simple frictionless experiences, we announced the preview of datamart in Power BI, a new Power BI Premium self-service capability that enables users to uncover actionable insights through their own data sets. This out-of-the-box feature empowers developers and business analysts to build a datamart that can be centrally governed and managed for workloads up to half a terabyte—accelerating time to insight while alleviating demands on IT. This new feature brings the power of data warehousing and puts it in the hands of individual Power BI developers and analysts, helping you uncover more insights and drive digital transformation at every level of a business.

Build on a trusted platform

Meeting data privacy and governance standards cannot be an afterthought. When governance is not deeply integrated where data lives, it is nearly impossible to meet regulatory requirements. 

Data governance has become top of mind for almost every organization where data is fluidly moving across hybrid and multicloud environments. This makes it increasingly important to map the lineage of data. Dynamic Lineage for Azure SQL Databases in Microsoft Purview is currently in preview to further enrich the Microsoft Purview Data Map with details from actual runs of SQL stored procedures in Azure SQL Databases for customers to govern their data across hybrid and multicloud environments. We are also excited to announce that the Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights will be generally available in the coming months.

As we look beyond the horizon, machine learning and AI capabilities will be pivotal in harnessing the power of data in new ways. Azure Machine Learning now offers a Responsible AI dashboard in preview, making it possible for customers to implement it more easily by debugging machine learning models and making informed data-driven decisions. The dashboard brings together capabilities such as data explorer, model interpretability, error analysis, counterfactual, and causal inference analysis in a single view. In addition, Azure Machine Learning now offers a Responsible AI scorecard in preview to summarize model performance and insights so that all stakeholders can easily participate in compliance reviews.

The opportunity to accelerate innovation in your business and achieve agility across all your data is substantial. Now is the time to realize its limitless potential. We look forward to seeing what you can do with it.

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Code, test, and ship your next app quickly and securely with Microsoft developer tools

Welcome to Microsoft Build, the event that’s all about celebrating the developer community! The work you do has the power to transform entire industries and keep critical businesses and services running through innovative solutions and applications. I couldn’t be more honored to champion this entire dev community as you create the future.

Microsoft was founded as a developer company and almost 50 years later, nothing has changed in that regard. From our earliest products to the powerful developer tools available now through Visual Studio, GitHub, and Azure, we keep development teams top of mind. Today our full Microsoft Cloud stack brings an incredible platform for developers to use and build apps and solutions. I like to say, we’re the platform and you bring the innovation.

I take great inspiration from the innovative things you’re already building with our platform and tools. Development teams at companies big and small are choosing Microsoft to code and modernize. Gjensidige, the largest insurance company in Norway, is just one great example—they chose Azure and the combined capabilities of GitHub to modernize applications at enterprise scale. And I’m always amazed by the creativity and ingenuity that student developers are bringing to the platform.

The developer experience today

Whenever I talk to customers and my colleagues who code, a few themes emerge about what development teams need to be successful and how it’s evolved—especially in the last couple of years.

Security shifts left. The world’s reliance on technology continues to grow and so does the importance of security. With cyberattacks on the rise, we want to equip developers with the tools to shift security left, into code, so problems and concerns can be identified and fixed before a security breach even happens.

Collaboration, anywhere. In the age of hybrid work, it matters less where you sit and work. It could be in a home or traditional office setting or even in your local coffee shop. With dispersed development teams using different languages, devices, and networks, developers need to interact and connect with their teams—and have confidence they can deliver their best work from anywhere and that it will be secure.

Agility and productivity. With a hybrid work environment, teams need to stay agile and onboard new team members quickly and efficiently. Ideally, developers can focus on code instead of spending time setting up dev environments and managing infrastructure.

Today, I’m proud to share some news and updates designed to address these needs and improve the overall developer experience even further with our beloved tools and the Microsoft Cloud platform—all designed to help you quickly code and ship from anywhere with confidence.

Modern solutions and apps for hybrid teams

Through GitHub, we’re already delivering the developer environment of the future. GitHub Copilot is an AI programmer that empowers you to write code faster and with less work. Another way the development experience is changing is work moving to the cloud. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud development environment that works great for web app, cloud-native applications, APIs, or backend development. But what if you’re working on a different workload, like desktop, mobile, embedded, or game development? Or if you’re using a different version control system other than GitHub?

Enter Microsoft Dev Box. Microsoft Dev Box is a cloud solution that provides developers with self-service access to high-performance workstations preconfigured and ready-to-code for specific projects. Developers can get started coding quickly, without worrying about security, compliance, or cost control. It is tailored to meet the needs of today’s developers and integrated with Windows 365 so IT administrators can manage Dev Boxes and Cloud PCs together in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Microsoft Dev Box will soon be in preview.

With Microsoft Dev Box, leads can quickly create projects, configure images, and assign team members so they can get straight to code in seconds, from anywhere. No matter where in the world you’re working, the onboarding process for a new team has never been easier.

Start secure, stay secure

How we all work has forever changed after the last several years. Security is essential in a world of increasing cyberattacks, global uncertainty, and with distributed teams sitting in different locations using different platforms, languages, and devices.

As I mentioned, I’ve heard from many of my developer colleagues about the need to identify and fix problems before they result in a security breach. The push protection feature in GitHub Advanced Security proactively protects against secret leaks. For another layer of security and added peace of mind, today we’re announcing the general availability of GitHub OpenID Connect (OIDC) with Azure AD workload identity federation to minimize the need for storing and accessing secrets. With this integration, developers can manage all cloud resource access securely in Azure.

Increase your app resilience

As you build apps, you need to know the app can handle traffic and scale before it launches. We recently launched a preview of Azure Load Testing, an Azure service to help teams test and meet scale and performance goals with confidence. And since launch, we’ve seen customers of all sizes using the service to simulate high-scale load for apps running anywhere and catch performance bottlenecks early. We’ve heard you loud and clear about some additional features you’d like to see—testing private endpoints, using custom plugins, and more Azure regions. These features and more will be coming soon so be sure to visit Azure Updates frequently.

Start with Microsoft for an ideal developer experience

When you’re ready to take your next idea from code to the cloud, we want you to start with us. The session Rapidly code, test, and ship from secure cloud development environments is where you can learn more about these announcements and how we’re delivering a great developer experience to you—no matter where you’re working from or what you’re using to build. I also encourage you to view the session about Scaling cloud-native apps and accelerating app modernization to learn about what’s new to help you build cloud-native apps.

There’s no shortage of great content throughout the Microsoft Build experience this week; new innovations, technical demos, learning opportunities, and plenty of fun with our After Hours sessions. I encourage you to take it all in and keep sharing with us so we can deliver an even better experience for you.

On behalf of the Azure team here at Microsoft, thanks for inspiring us with what you build.

Learn more about Azure at Microsoft Build

Deepen your skills with hand-picked learning modules, documentation, and community content.
Watch all the sessions you loved, or catch up on any you missed after the event with Build On-Demand.
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Read the latest on how Azure powers your app innovation and modernization with the choice of control and productivity you need to deploy apps at scale. 
Read how you can Innovate faster and achieve greater agility with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform and turn your data into decisions.   

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Scale your cloud-native apps and accelerate app modernization with Azure, the best cloud for your apps

Developers are essential to the world we live in today, and the work you do is critical to powering organizations in every industry. Every developer and development team brings new ideas and innovation. Our ambition with the Microsoft Cloud and Azure is to be the platform for all of this innovation to really empower the entire community as they build what comes next.

Microsoft was founded as a developer tools company, and developers remain at the very center of our mission. Today, we have the most used and beloved developer tools with Visual Studio, .NET, and GitHub. We offer a trusted and comprehensive platform to build amazing apps and solutions that help enable people and organizations across the planet to achieve more.

Over 95 percent of the world’s largest companies today are choosing Microsoft Azure to run their business, in addition to thousands of smaller and mid-size innovative organizations as well. The NBA uses Azure and AI capabilities to turn billions of in-game data points into customizable content for its fans. Stonehenge Technology Labs has increased developer velocity through its fast-growing commerce enhancement software, STOPWATCH, using Azure, Live Share, and Visual Studio.

With the Microsoft Cloud and Azure, we meet you where you are and make it easy for you to start your cloud-native journey—from anywhere. That means developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy to the cloud and the edge, collaborating in a secure way and integrating different components in no time with low-code solutions.

Supporting all of this, here are some of the latest developments we’ll talk about at Microsoft Build this week. You can also view the Scaling cloud-native apps and accelerating app modernization session to learn more about these announcements. 

Build modern, cloud-native apps productively with serverless technologies and the best Kubernetes experience for developers

As new apps are built, you’ll want them to be cloud-native since they’re designed to take full advantage of everything the cloud offers. Using cloud-native design patterns helps achieve the agility, efficiency, and speed of innovation that you need to deliver for your businesses. The experience bar and what end users expect from apps is going up. Product launches, peak shopping seasons, and sporting events are just a few examples of highly dynamic usage demands that modern apps must be prepared to handle.

This is made possible through architectures and technologies like containers, serverless, microservices, APIs, and DevOps everywhere, which offer the shortest path to cloud value. With Azure, GitHub, and the Microsoft Cloud, we’re working to better enable you to easily leverage all these capabilities.

Azure Container Apps offers an ideal platform for application developers who want to run microservices in serverless containers without managing infrastructure. Today, Azure Container Apps is generally available and ready for you to use. It’s built on the strong open-source foundation of the Kubernetes ecosystem, which is core for cloud-native applications.

Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) was built to be a destination for all developers and provide the best-managed experience for Kubernetes, whether it’s your first time trying it or using it regularly and quickly for testing. It delivers elastic provisioning of capacity without the need to manage underlying compute infrastructure and is the fastest way to spin up managed Kubernetes clusters and configure a seamless DevSecOps workflow with CI/CD integration.

A great example of a customer taking advantage of AKS today is Adobe. Adobe evolved to cloud-native practices a few years ago and adopted a microservices architecture. They chose AKS because of its scalable, flexible, and multi-cloud capabilities, and it brought faster development, from onboarding to production, all while providing automated guardrails with DevSecOps practices.

Today, we have some great updates to enhance the developer and operator experience on AKS even further, making it faster and easier than ever before so you can spend more time writing code. We’re launching the Draft extension and CLI, the preview of a new integrated AKS web application routing add-on, and a KEDA extension (Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling extension). 

The power and scalability of a cloud-native platform

What makes the Microsoft Cloud particularly rich as a development platform and ecosystem is the services it delivers and the underlying cloud infrastructure that allows you to focus on writing and shipping code. You can build upon and leverage a complete cloud-native platform, from containers to cloud-native databases and AI services.

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully-managed and serverless developer database—and the only database service in the market to offer service legal agreements (SLAs) guaranteeing single-digit millisecond latency and 99.999 percent availability. These guarantees are available globally at any scale, even through traffic bursts.

Today, we’re improving Azure Cosmos DB elasticity with new burst capacity and increased serverless capacity to 1TB—while only paying for the storage and throughput used. In preview, this ability is ideal for workloads with intermittent and unpredictable traffic and allows developers to build scalable, cost-effective cloud-native applications.

We see customers innovating at a faster pace with cloud-native technologies. Azure Arc brings Azure security and cloud-native services to hybrid and multicloud environments, enabling you to secure and govern infrastructure and apps anywhere.

One example of a customer turning to Azure Arc is Canada’s largest bank, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). As a Kubernetes-based deployment, Azure Arc enables the company to leverage existing infrastructure investments, and skillsets to manage and automate database deployments. Arc-enabled Data services allowed RBC to accelerate their time to market and development of products—bringing more time and focus to innovation and integration of their products and capabilities.

We continue to innovate and add new capabilities to Azure Arc to enable hybrid and multicloud scenarios. Today, we’re excited to announce several new Azure Arc capabilities including the landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, offering customers greater agility for cloud-native apps and tools to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployments—all while strengthening security and compliance. The landing zone accelerator provides best practices, guidance, and automated reference implementations for a fast and easy deployment.

Azure Managed Grafana is part of our approach to provide customers with all the tools they need to manage, monitor, and secure their hybrid and multicloud investments. We recently launched this integration so you can easily deploy Grafana dashboards, complete with Azure’s built-in high availability and security.

I’m excited to share that the Business Critical tier of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now generally available to meet the most demanding critical business continuity requirements. This allows developers to build scalable, cost-effective cloud-native apps and add the same top-rated security and automated update capabilities they’ve trusted for decades.

Modernize Java applications

Java continues to be one of the most important programming languages, and we’re committed to helping Java developers run their Spring applications more easily in the cloud. As part of a long-time collaboration with Pivotal, now VMware, Azure Spring Cloud was created as a fully managed service for Spring Boot applications to solve the challenges of running Spring at scale. Azure Spring Cloud is a fully-featured platform for all types of Spring applications; to better reflect this, the service is now called Azure Spring Apps.

Azure Spring Apps Enterprise will be generally available in June, bringing fully managed VMware Tanzu components running on Azure and advanced Spring Runtime support. Customers like FedEx are already leveraging this collaboration on Azure Springs Apps to deliver an impactful solution for their end-customers, helping predict estimated delivery times for millions of packages globally.

Build with Microsoft Cloud

Developing with the Microsoft Cloud puts the latest technologies in your hands and empowers you with both control and productivity. It offers a trusted and comprehensive platform so you can build great apps and solutions.

Microsoft Build is all about celebrating the work you do and helping you build what comes next. Be sure to view the session Scaling cloud-native apps and accelerating app modernization to learn more about these announcements. I also encourage you to view the Rapidly code, test, and ship from secure development environments session for more depth on Microsoft’s developer tools. There’s an exciting week planned, so join in throughout the entire digital event for more announcements, customer stories, breakout sessions, learning opportunities, and technical demos. Enjoy the event experience. I can’t wait to see what you build.

Learn more about Azure at Microsoft Build

Deepen your skills with hand-picked learning modules, documentation, and community content.
Watch all the sessions you loved, or catch up on any you missed after the event with Build on-demand.
Continue learning! Join Microsoft experts through live technical content and events to keep your learning going post-Build.
Read how to build productively, collaborate securely, and scale innovation—no matter where in the world with a comprehensive set of Microsoft developer tools and platform.
Read how you can Innovate faster and achieve greater agility with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform and turn your data into decisions.

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Announcing Azure DNS Private Resolver: Now in preview

A quick overview of Azure DNS

We offer two types of Azure DNS Zones—private and public—for hosting your private DNS and public DNS records.

Azure Private DNS: Azure Private DNS provides a reliable and secure DNS service for your virtual network. Azure Private DNS manages and resolves domain names in the virtual network without the need to configure a custom DNS solution. By using private DNS zones, you can use your own custom domain name instead of the Azure-provided names during deployment.
Azure Public DNS: DNS domains in Azure DNS are hosted on Azure's global network of DNS name servers. Azure DNS uses anycast networking. Each DNS query is answered by the closest available DNS server to provide fast performance and high availability for your domain.

More information on additional services part of the Azure DNS offering can be found in the Azure DNS product page.

What is being announced today?

Azure Private DNS Resolver enables you to query Azure Private DNS Zones from an on-premises environment and vice versa without provisioning IaaS-based DNS solutions.

Azure DNS Private Resolver preview is being announced to all customers and will have regional availability in the following regions:

Australia East
UK South
North Europe
South Central US
West US 3
East US
North Central US
Central US EUAP
East US 2 EUAP
West Central US
East US 2
West Europe

All of these regions support Availability Zones and will help with the regional and global resiliency story of customer workloads!

What will customers be able to do today that they couldn’t do before?

Customers will no longer need to provision IaaS-based solutions on their virtual networks to resolve names registered on Azure Private DNS Zones and will be able to do conditional forwarding of domains back to on-premises, across multicloud providers, and public DNS servers.

This solution will also work with your existing Azure ExpressRoute, Azure VPN or Azure Bastion setup in a seamless way.

Customers will also be able to manage their DNS settings at a Virtual Network level in a very simplified way by linking rules to each of their Virtual Networks and enabling conditional forwarding at scale.

Private access to your Private DNS Zones

Conditionally forward from your virtual networks to any reachable DNS server and from on-premises to Azure Private DNS Zones.

Plus, the following benefits

Zero Maintenance: Fully managed service which does not require you to patch or plan for any downtime of your service.
Cost Reduction: Run at a fraction of traditional IaaS solutions which typically would require planning for high availability, resiliency, and backup of configurations.
Highly Available: Built-in high availability, zone redundancy. You will no longer need to plan for availability zones awareness nor how many instances to provision per region Azure availability zones are physically separate locations within each Azure region that are tolerant to local failures and are connected by a high-performance network with a round-trip latency of less than 2ms.
DevOps Friendly: Build your pipelines with Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, REST API support, Go, Typescript/Javascript. This will allow you to keep a consistent configuration and experience across regions and different instances of your service.

Get started and share your feedback

You can try Azure DNS Private Resolver today. For more information about the capabilities available, please visit the Azure DNS Private Resolver technical documentation. Post your ideas and suggestions on the networking community page. More information on additional services part of the Azure DNS offering can be found in the Azure DNS product page.
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