Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Azure Site Recovery available in DoD and New Azure Government Regions

We are pleased to announce the availability of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to all Azure government regions in the United States. With this expansion, Azure Site Recovery is now available in all Azure government regions (US DOD Central, US DOD East, US Gov Arizona, US Gov Texas, US Gov Iowa, and US Gov Virginia). Customers can now select any of ...

Join us May 31! Azure Gov DC Meetup: Managing the Changing Hybrid Cloud Environment in Gov

(image) Hybrid cloud is critical to government IT transformation, which means storing data on-premises and in the cloud. Keeping up with ever-changing IT environments presents myriad challenges for organizations. Please register now and join us for the Azure Government DC Meetup, Managing the Changing Hybrid Cloud Environment in Gov, on Wed...

Site Recovery: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

In my last post, I spent some time providing an overview of Operational Management Suite (OMS) and specifically, the Azure Backup service. I tried to focus on the advantages of the suite from the perspective of a potential Azure Government customer as well as the perspective of customers that have already implemented or are implementing a ...

Use Case: Azure Site Recovery in Azure Government

An organization must have the ability to withstand all hazards and sustain its mission through environmental changes.  These changes can be gradual, such as economic or mission changes, or sudden, as in a disaster event. (NIST Special Publication 800-34 Rev. 1 Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems , 2010) Azure ...