Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been coauthored by Ashish Shah, Partner Director of Engineering, Azure Developer Experience. We are announcing the general availability of Azure Load Testing. Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load-testing service that enables you to generate high-scale load, gain-actionable insights, and ensure the resiliency of your applications and services regardless of where they’re…

Announcing new capabilities for Azure Firewall

By Dustin Ward

We are happy to share several key Azure Firewall capabilities that are now generally available as well as updates on recent important releases into general availability (GA) and preview. New GA regions in Qatar central, China East, and China North IDPS Private IP ranges now generally available. Single Click Upgrade/Downgrade now in preview. Enhanced Threat…

New Project Flash Update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring

By Dustin Ward

“Earlier this year, we introduced Project Flash in the Advancing Reliability blog series, to reaffirm our commitment to empowering Azure customers in monitoring virtual machine (VM) availability in a robust and comprehensive manner. Today, we’re excited to share the progress we’ve made since then in developing holistic monitoring offerings to meet customers’ distinct needs. I’ve…

Announcing more Azure VMware Solution enhancements

By Dustin Ward

I’m writing to you today from VMware Explore in Barcelona, where my team and I are presenting to and meeting with customers and partners in person! When we launched Azure VMware Solution two years ago amid a pandemic, IT agility became a top priority as organizations scrambled to enable remote work and ensure business resilience via cloud…