{"id":40899,"date":"2020-05-22T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=d91d211332711765409abace88d3c023"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:48:31","slug":"microsoft-launches-ten-new-azure-cloud-services-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-launches-ten-new-azure-cloud-services-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches ten new Azure cloud services in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/a><\/span>
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Azure Bastion and Confidential Computing are among ten services Microsoft has launched for UK Azure customers to improve security and allow users to take advantage of technologies like IoT.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bastion, a managed platform as a service (PaaS), first launched in public preview last June<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and is designed to protect exposed virtual machines (VMs)<\/a> from outside threats. The service lets users securely connect to VMs without using public IP addresses, reducing exposure to the public internet and cyber threats such as malware.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Confidential Computing will allow customers to secure information while it\u2019s being used, as opposed to encrypting data<\/a> while it\u2019s sitting in a data centre or being moved across a network. This real-time encryption feature means multiple organisations can combine data sets and analyse them without being able to access each other\u2019s data.<\/p>\n

A prospective use case for the technology could be banks combining transaction data to detect fraud and money laundering, while hospitals could combine patient records for analysis to improve diagnostics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the services being launched are App Configuration, Bot Service, Consumption Plan Linux, IoT Central, Premium Plan Linux, Time Series Insights, and Virtual Network NAT.<\/span><\/p>\n

The final service being launched, Private Link, offers a secure connection to Microsoft\u2019s cloud with no public internet access. This can also help users meet the demands of regulations in different markets across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMicrosoft continues to invest in our UK Azure regions to meet the growing needs of our customers,\u201d said Michael Wignall, Azure business lead at Microsoft UK.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAzure is helping organisations, both large and small, adapt to a new way of working, and our cloud experts continue to help them at this challenging time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

App Configuration allows customers to centrally manage application settings while the Bot Service gives them the capability to develop<\/a> Q&A bots to improve the customer experience. Time Series Insights collects, processes, stores and analyses data, as well as giving customers the ability to launch queries.<\/span><\/p>\n

IoT Central, meanwhile, is a secure app platform for IoT devices and software<\/a>, which can also scale as businesses grow. The product\u2019s main appeal is the offer of industry-specific app templates for sectors ranging from retail to healthcare.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/p>\n

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Azure Bastion and Confidential Computing are among ten services Microsoft has launched for UK Azure customers to improve security and allow users to take advantage of technologies like Io…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40901,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40899\/revisions\/40901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}