Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator in preview. The Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator allows you to configure and estimate the costs for Microsoft Azure products.
To estimate your expected monthly bill, please try the Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/preview/.
Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator in preview. This TCO Calculator allows you to evaluate potential cost savings if you migrate on-premises application workloads to Microsoft Azure. You specify the details of your existing infrastructure, various cost assumptions you want the tool to work with, and then you receive a report that shows on-premises costs compared to Microsoft Azure costs.
Find the Microsoft Azure TCO Calculator here: http://tco.microsoft.com/Home/Calculator.
Microsoft announces that Microsoft Azure Active Directory group-based license management for Office 365 is now in public preview. This will offer two new services: firstly, you can assign a license template to an Azure Active Directory security group and then as users join and leave the group, licenses are automatically assigned and removed. Secondly, you will be able to selectively disable components in product licenses so that you can do a phased roll-out of the services of Office 365 E5 for example.
Find the Microsoft announcement here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/02/22/announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-ad-group-based-license-management-for-office-365-and-more/
Microsoft announced the general availability of the first Azure services available from two new regions in Germany: Germany Central (Frankfurt) and Germany Northeast (Magdeburg). This marks the beginning of Microsoft cloud services available from local datacenters in Germany, and these two regions ensure business continuity, as well as meeting many customer data residency requirements.
Customers in the European Union and European Free Trade Association (EU/EFTA) can choose whether to continue using Microsoft Cloud Europe and United Kingdom regions or to separately purchase the services from German datacenters where access to their data will be controlled by a German data trustee under German law.
A new or renewing Enterprise Agreement (EA) customer who purchases at least 83 Azure Monetary Commitment units prior to December 31, 2016, will be eligible to receive a one-time Azure Monetary Commitment credit equal to up to 25 percent of the Azure Monetary Commitment the customer consumed during the first four months of the agreement term from Microsoft Cloud Germany.
Microsoft Azure Rights Management will be renamed to Microsoft Azure Information Protection Premium P1. Microsoft Azure Information Protection Premium P1 helps you protect confidential documents and email with strong encryption. Control the use of your information by specifying who can view, edit, print, save and share your data. Simple to use and integrated with Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Exchange.
Microsoft Azure Information Protection Premium P2 provides intelligent classification and encryption for files shared inside and outside your organization. It also includes the capabilities of Azure Information Protection Premium P1 which provides protection of confidential documents and email with strong encryption and control over who can view, edit, print, save and share data.
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium P2 is a service that includes all capabilities of Azure Active Directory Premium P1, plus Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management.
Azure Active Directory Identity Protection is a security service that provides a consolidated view into risk events and potential vulnerabilities affecting your organization’s identities. Identity Protection leverages existing Azure Active Directory’s anomaly detection capabilities (available through Azure Active Directory’s Anomalous Activity Reports) and introduces new risk event types that can detect anomalies in real-time.
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Effective August 1, 2016, Azure Active Directory Premium will be renamed to “Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1”.
The Azure Compute Capacity Promo offers Azure A, G, D, and D V2 series one year reservations at extremely affordable prices. Between December 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016 you can take advantage of this offer with discounts up to 19-63%. Targeted customer segments include Commercial, Government and Education. This offer will be available in the Enterprise Agreement (Additional Product in Server and Cloud Enrollment (SCE) Offering included), Enterprise Subscription, Campus (Enrollment for Education Solutions), School, and Worldwide Government Partners (WWGP) programs.
Microsoft is introducing a per-user license offer for the Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) service.
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