Blogs

New pricing for Microsoft 365
Today we are announcing changes to our commercial pricing for Microsoft 365—the first substantive pricing update since we launched Office 365 a decade ago. This

EC2 VM Import/Export now supports migration of virtual machines with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot to AWS
EC2 VM Import/Export now supports migration of virtual machines that use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot. UEFI is a modern firmware that initializes your

CIBC and Microsoft announce strategic relationship to accelerate the bank’s transformation and cloud-first approach
Huge news from Canada today. CIBC has selected Microsoft Azure as their primary cloud platform, based on its comprehensive capabilities and tight integration with Microsoft

Pentagon cancels $10bn ‘Jedi’ contract
The Pentagon is scrapping a multibillion dollar cloud computing contract, which sparked a row between Microsoft and Amazon. The US Department of Defense said the

Cloud SQL for SQL Server: Database administration best practices
Cloud SQL for SQL Server is a fully-managed database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain and administer SQL Server databases on Google Cloud

Limited Preview: New Azure VMs for confidential workloads
Today, we’re announcing the limited preview go-live of the DCsv3-series and DCdsv3-series Azure Virtual Machines, starting in the East US 2 region. These VMs dramatically

AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka
AWS Lambda functions that are triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka topics can now access usernames and passwords secured by AWS Secrets Manager using SASL/PLAIN, a simple username/password authentication