Storage account To use the Microsoft Azure storage solution, it’s necessary to create a Storage Account. This storage account gives you a single namespace where only you (by default) can have access.

For Azure Virtual Machines, Microsoft said it has reduced prices of its compute-optimized F Series instances and its general-purpose A1 Basic instances, by up to 24 percent and 61 percent ...

Silk then uses Azure L-series VMs to compose the platform’s data layer. For this, Silk recently validated and will soon be in production with the v3 machines, which support data encryption at rest.