Microsoft on Friday announced that its Azure Availability Zones datacenter uptime assurance offering for virtual machine (VM) workloads is now commercially available in two Azure regions. The new ...

The Azure Availability Zones uptime assurance offering for hosted workloads is now ready for use by some Azure users, according to a Microsoft announcement on Friday. The new service addition, which ...

Microsoft is making generally available Azure Availability Zones, starting in two regions -- Iowa (US Central) and Paris (France Central). Availability Zones are meant to help protect customers from ...

Microsoft has a long history of turning its internal tools into products, especially as part of Azure. That’s not surprising: The company is building and running the same cloud-native applications as ...