Microsoft announces features and performance improvements for many Azure services

Microsoft announced updates to many Azure services this week, previewing new services and moving others from preview to general availability as full working versions.For those running virtual machines (VM) in the Azure cloud, there are now two ways of using SSDs to improve performance. In addition to the D series virtual machines that use SSD for a temporary disk that caches only data the VM is currently using, to speed up things like NoSQL database workloads or SQL Server caching, Microsoft