Microsoft's big Java on Azure push is moving forward with an update to the Azure toolkit for the IntelliJ IDE, along with the General Availability status for the Azure Spring Apps Enterprise tier.

Microsoft and VMware on Wednesday announced the 'general availability' commercial release of Azure Spring Cloud, which provides infrastructure support for Spring Boot Java application developers.

The Azure Spring Cloud service also comes with an autoscale capability at the preview stage that lets organizations set boundaries on their applications' use of resources. Application performance can ...