Microsoft made some significant aouncements related to Azure. First, Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are available in the Azure Marketplace, Azure Container Service broadly available, Bitnami images certified for the Azure Marketplace, and OneOps support on Azure.
Using these Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances, customers of Red Hat and Microsoft will now be able to rapidly and seamlessly deploy instances for on-demand workloads, dev-test, and cloud bursting – all with the simplicity, scalability, agility and unique per-minute billing flexibility of Azure. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 and 7.2 images are now live in all regions, except China and US Govement, and can be deployed directly from the Azure Marketplace.
Read more about the other aouncements from the link below.