Η Microsoft κυκλοφόρησε το Azure Government Top Secret, μια νέα προσφορά cloud για όσους χρειάζονται διαχείριση διαβαθμισμένων δεδομένων (Top Secret). Η νέα προσφορά ενώνει την υπάρχουσα οικογένεια Azure Cloud που διατίθεται σε users of the US government, such as Azure Government and the Azure Government Secret - together with Azure public cloud.
Microsoft is working with the US government. to get certified for Top Secret cloud. Company executives said on December 7 that the company has completed the creation of new clouds for Azure Government Top Secret, according to Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet.
Microsoft also announced a new functionality for the Azure Government Secret cloud, which is used in the Ministry Defenseς των ΗΠΑ, από υπηρεσίες επιβολής του νόμου και σε άλλες υπηρεσίες. Το Government Secret cloud έχει εγκριθεί από το DoD σαν Impact Level 6 και Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503. Τα Windows Virtual desktop are now available on Azed Government with FedRAMP High certification, Microsoft executives said.
Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Instances are already available in Government Secret. In the field of security, the Azure Sentinel, the threat management service and the Azure Security Center are also available in the Government Secret cloud.
Microsoft also announced availability zones for Azure Government today. Availability Zones. Availability zones have been created to handle data center failures through redundancy and logical isolation of services. There are also devices in the cloud, such as Azure edge-computing, Azure Modular Datacenter, and the durable versions of Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge Pro and Azure Stack Edge Mini R.
Azure Modular Datacenter – available in tiers 5 and 6 – gets a new functionality unit network high availability for network resiliency through multiple satellite link partners, as well as a high availability power unit.
The Azure Modular Datacenter is a portable version of an Azure data center that currently runs the Azure Stack and is available to government customers as well as those who need portable data centers that have the option of satellite connection.