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 χρήστες της κυβέρνησης των USA, 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 new functionality for the Azure Government Secret cloud, which is used by the US Department of Defense, law enforcement and other agencies. The Government Secret cloud has been approved by DoD as Impact Level 6 and Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503. The Windows Virtual Desktops are now available on Azure Government with FedRAMP High certification, Microsoft officials said.
Η υπηρεσία Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) της Microsoft και η Azure Container Instances είναι ήδη διαθέσιμες στο Government Secret. Στον τομέα της ασφάλειας, το Azure Sentinel, η προληπτική υπηρεσία διαχείρισης απειλών και το 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.