In response to the growing needs of the U.S. Government and its contractors/suppliers, Microsoft has migrated the Azure AD identity platform from the original instance for U.S. Govermment (codenamed "Fairfax") to a new isolated Azure AD instance (codenamed "Arlington").
This migration effort completed in December, 2020. Azure Government / GCC High / DOD customers will be able to take advantage of new platform features, including:
- Identity isolation and segmentation from Azure AD Global
- Improved B2B support between tenants in Azure Government
- Tenant integration with Microsoft Volume Licensing
- Customer self-service tenant creation/sign-up
- Cross-cloud B2B support