This document contains numerous URLs linking to Microsoft blogs, news articles, and documentation pages announcing updates and new features for various Microsoft Azure services in January and February 2015. These services include compute, storage, networking, big data analytics, databases, developer tools, security, and more. Many of the updates focused on expanded availability of features and regions. The document highlights Microsoft's continued expansion and innovation within the Azure cloud platform.

2. http://a-c-e.biz/activity/update

3. https://satonaoki.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/cloud-
platform-roadmap/
http://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/server-cloud/roadmap/

4. http://azure.microsoft.com/ja-jp/regions/

5. http://azure.microsoft.com/ja-jp/regions/#services
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-region-
available-for-azure-automation-japan-east/

8. http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/20/microsoft-
acquires-equivio-provider-machine-learning-powered-
compliance-solutions/
http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/23/microsoft-acquire-
revolution-analytics-help-customers-find-big-data-value-
advanced-statistical-analysis/

9. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/05/microsoft-azure-government-meets-criminal-
justice-information-services-cjis-requirements.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/20/microsoft-azure-reaches-new-industry-leading-
cloud-compliance-milestones.aspx

10. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
02/17/microsoft-azure-the-first-cloud-computing-
platform-to-conform-to-iso-iec-27018-the-only-
international-set-of-privacy-controls-in-the-cloud.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/29/fisc-compliance-reports.aspx

11. http://news.microsoft.com/ja-
jp/2015/01/15/150115_expressroute/

12. http://news.microsoft.com/ja-
jp/2015/01/06/20150106_azure_nagano-hospital/
http://news.microsoft.com/ja-jp/2015/02/05/150205-
azure-datashelf/

13. http://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/casestudies/tv-
asahi2.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/ja-
jp/casestudies/futaba02.aspx

14. http://www.microsoft.com/ja-
jp/casestudies/oohori02.aspx

15. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/01/13/az
ure-is-now-bigger-faster-more-open-and-more-secure.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/01/14/in
troducing-docker-in-microsoft-azure-marketplace.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/01/15/az
ure-data-center-migration-just-got-easier.aspx

16. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/01/20/migrate-
linux-vms-to-azure-with-migration-accelerator.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/01/28/new-g-
series-support-in-us-east-2.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/02/04/automated-
everything-with-sql-server-on-iaas-vms.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/easily-enable-operational-
insights-for-azure-virtual-machines/

17. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/
12/22/azure-hdinsight-introduces-built_2d00_in-
integration-with-azure-websites-to-do-web-log-
analytics.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/26/new-application-insights-functionality-on-azure-
websites-with-the-application-insights-website-
extension.aspx

18. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/
12/29/announcing-general-availability-of-mobile-
offline-sync-managed-sdk.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/mobile-
services-beta-android-sdk-with-offline-incremental-
sync-soft-delete-and-android-studio-migration/

19. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-
preview-azure-mobile-engagement/
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/azure-
mobile-engagement-now-in-public-preview/

20. http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/announcin
g-full-powershell-cmdlet-support-for-azure-
automation/

21. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-batch-
client-library-for-net-updated/

22. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/
12/18/introducing-premium-storage-high-
performance-storage-for-azure-virtual-machine-
workloads.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/
12/22/new-premium-storage-backed-virtual-
machines.aspx

23. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/15/protecting-against-the-ssl-30-vulnerability-azure-
storage-to-start-disabling-ssl-30-on-february-20th-
2015.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
02/12/troubleshooting-microsoft-azure-storage-with-
message-analyzer.aspx

24. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/12/18/pr
eview-available-for-latest-version-of-azure-sql-database.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/01/05/cli
ent-tooling-updates-for-azure-sql-database.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/02/04/mi
gration-cookbook-now-available-for-the-latest-azure-sql-
database-update-v12.aspx

25. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-
azure-sql-database-v12/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/application-insights-
support-for-windows-phone-and-windows-store/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-
dynamic-data-masking-for-azure-sql-database/

26. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/12/29/azure-hdinsight-makes-
cluster-customization-generally-available-and-provide-more-templates-for-hadoop-
projects-including-spark-r-giraph-and-solr.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-hdinsight-3-2-supports-
hadoop-2-6-and-hdp-2-2/
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/microsoft-continues-vision-for-broad-big-
data-adoption-while-showing-more-love-for-linux/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/preview-hdinsight-on-linux/
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/the-first-azure-hosted-service-that-runs-on-
linux/

27. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/hdinsight-available-on-more-
virtual-machine-sizes/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-availability-cluster-
scaling-for-hdinsight/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-apache-
storm-on-hdinsight/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/updated-visual-studio-tools-
for-apache-hive/

28. http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/azure-
redis-cache-monitoring-changes/

29. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-
machine-learning-offers-logging-for-web-services/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/important-
changes-to-the-web-service-publishing-process-in-
machine-learning/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-
availabilty-azure-machine-learning/

30. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/08/introducing-the-azure-documentdb-java-
sdk.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/21/announcing-sql-parameterization-in-
documentdb.aspx

31. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/02/16/az
ure-documentdb-new-asia-us-regions-and-increased-account-
limits.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/documentdb-
hadoop-connector/
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/microsoft-
continues-vision-for-broad-big-data-adoption-while-showing-
more-love-for-linux/

32. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/
12/24/azure-data-factory-updates-integration-with-
azure-machine-learning_2100_.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
02/16/azure-data-factory-updates-diagram-view-
enhancements.aspx

33. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/02/02/an
nouncing-new-enhancements-to-azure-search-suggestions.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/02/02/az
ure-search-how-to-add-suggestions-auto-complete-to-your-
search-applications.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/02/16/pe
rsonalizing-search-results-announcing-tag-boosting-in-azure-
search.aspx

34. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/20/azure-virtual-network-gateway-
improvements.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
02/16/new-set-of-hybrid-cloud-test-environments.aspx

35. http://news.microsoft.com/ja-
jp/2015/01/15/150115_expressroute/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/01/26/tr
y-expressroute-free-of-charge-with-this-promotion.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/changes-in-10-gbps-
expressroute-exchange-provider/

36. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/
12/22/azure-active-directory-news-application-proxy-
general-availability-and-many-more-new-additions.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-
preview-multifactor-authentication-per-application/

37. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-
preview-azure-active-directory-connect-health/
https://satonaoki.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/acs-
future-azure-ad/

38. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/
12/16/continued-innovation-microsoft-announces-
updates-across-storage-azure-sql-database-identity-
and-access-management-and-media-services.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/enterprise-
grade-array-based-replication-and-disaster-recovery-
with-asr-and-system-center-now-generally-available/

39. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/12/24/az
ure-backup-announcing-support-for-windows-client-operating-
system.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-backup-
increases-features-and-supports-additional-dpm-workloads/
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/16/new-features-in-
azure-backup-long-term-retention-offline-backup-seeding-and-
more/

40. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/upcoming-
general-availability-azure-remoteapp/

41. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2014/12/22/az
ure-media-services-announces-general-availability-of-live-
channels.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/01/05/an
nouncing-azure-media-services-live-streaming-with-playready-
encryption-capability.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/02/04/az
ure-media-services-enhances-streaming-security-with-general-
availability-of-drm-technology.aspx

42. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
02/16/azure-api-management-premium.aspx

43. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
01/13/azure-is-now-bigger-faster-more-open-and-
more-secure.aspx

44. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurej/archive/2015/
02/12/announcing-azure-preview-portal-
improvements.aspx

45. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/application-insights-adds-
telemetry-export-and-segmentation-chart-editing/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/application-insights-status-
monitor-and-sdk-updated/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/application-insights-support-
for-windows-phone-and-windows-store/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/application-insights-supports-
collecting-custom-metrics-and-properties/

46. http://www.pts.co.jp/corp/buildwindows2015/