August was a slow month for tech news, but Microsoft continued to update its Azure cloud platform with a variety of new features, including a new type of instance for high-performance computing.

Microsoft made generally available reserved instances for its Azure cloud on Thursday, allowing its Infrastructure-as-a-Service customers to save on their virtual machine spending through one- and ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of a new computing instance family for Azure that is optimized for databases, Hadoop clusters and other analytics workloads. One of the ...