But creating and managing your own image pipeline to build those custom images means running extra infrastructure and managing extra software. Azure Image Builder offers you that as a cloud service.

Microsoft to take the wraps off 'Antares' hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure Microsoft is expected to announce some of its promised 'spring update' features for Windows Azure during a June 7 event.

Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, just announced the launch of VM Depot, "a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure ...

These users put their VMs at risk when they use certain Azure services such as Azure Automation, Azure Automatic Update, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Configuration Management, and others.

A report published Monday cited several sources who said customers of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will be able to run Linux servers on the service starting this spring.

Now, Sasha Levin, Microsoft Linux kernel developer, in a request that Microsoft be allowed to join a Linux security list, revealed that " the Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows ".

Organizations can now use their Azure Active Directory credentials to log into a Linux-based VM running on Microsoft's Azure public cloud service.

Earlier today, Microsoft's developer account posted a tweet revealing that 40 percent of the virtual machines hosted on the company's Azure cloud platform are powered by Linux distros.