Microsoft is expanding its family of cloud solutions by announcing a new Azure cloud that will better serve US government customers who work with classified information. Microsoft Azure Government Top Secret will join the existing list of clouds available to the US government, including Azure Government, Azure Government Secret, and Azure Public Cloud. Microsoft has confirmed that it is currently working with the US government to gain accreditation, but recently completed the creation of the new top-secret government Azure regions. The technology company has promised that its new classified offering will deliver the same level of performance as other government and commercial clouds.
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Microsoft Azure Government Top Secret will offer a wide range of services designed specifically for customers working in the classified space. In addition to offering greater agility, the new cloud will allow users to gain deeper insights from their data and enable provisions for secure remote work. In other relevant information for its government customers, Microsoft announced that Windows Virtual Desktop is now available with FedRAMP High accreditation for users of the Azure Government cloud, as well as Availability Zones, which will handle data center failures. through redundancy and logical isolation of services.
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(Image credit: Microsoft Azure) Other new features for Azure users were also announced at Microsoft's annual Summit of Government Executives. “The consistency between Azure (commercial), Azure Government and Azure Government Secret is also starting to be a game changer, as software development can take place from anywhere, while the code itself can be promoted to enclaves with tiers. ranking levels,” explained Carroll Moon, CTO of CloudFit Software, winner of the 2020 MSUS Partner Award for Government Industry. “There you can interact with data from higher ranking levels. Ultimately, that means doing more for the mission at a lower total cost. via ZDNet