Get started with Azure Load Testing now, by quickly creating a load test for your web application by using a URL. If you already have load tests leveraging JMeter, you can easily get started by reusing existing Apache JMeter test scripts.
Microsoft Azure innovation powers leading price-performance for SQL Server
As part of our commitment to ensuring that Microsoft Azure is the best place to run SQL Server and Windows Server, Microsoft is excited to announce that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines just achieved new, faster performance benchmarks than ever before. According to a report from analyst firm GigaOm, customers can get mission-critical performance for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines up to 57 percent faster and costing up to 54 percent less than AWS EC2 on a price-performance basis, with Azure Hybrid Benefit and a three-year commitment.
Lessons learned optimizing Microsoft’s internal use of Azure
At Microsoft, we learned a lot from moving our internal operations to Microsoft Azure, lessons we use to make our cloud products work better for our customers. As a top user of Azure, we understand our customers’ obstacles and constraints. Just like them, we’re under pressure to “do more with less” in these challenging fiscal times. As such, we’re sharing our story of first migrating to Azure, and then optimizing our usage to bring our costs down. Our goal is to help our customers do the same—help them migrate to the cloud, optimize their cloud costs, and strategically invest in projects to boost their growth.
Azure Native New Relic Service: Full stack observability in minutes
Currently, to leverage New Relic for observability, you go through a complex multistep process to set up credentials, event hubs, and custom code, thus impacting your productivity and efficiency. To alleviate this challenge, we partnered with New Relic to create a seamlessly integrated solution on Azure that’s now available on the Azure marketplace.
Azure Native New Relic Service makes it effortless for developers and IT administrators to monitor their cloud applications.
Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now generally available
We are announcing the general availability of Azure Load Testing. Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load-testing service that enables you to generate high-scale load, gain-actionable insights, and ensure the resiliency of your applications and services regardless of where they’re hosted. Developers, testers, and engineering teams can use it to optimize application performance, scalability, or capacity.
Get started with Azure Load Testing now, by quickly creating a load test for your web application by using a URL. If you already have load tests leveraging JMeter, you can easily get started by reusing existing Apache JMeter test scripts.

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