HashiCorp has announced the launch of HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure, a private beta version that enables Microsoft Azure customers to provision managed Consul clusters directly through the Azure Marketplace. This service lowers the barrier to entry for organizations to adopt Consul for service discovery or service mesh across various environments, while offloading operational burden to HashiCorp's SRE experts. HCS on Azure provides native identity and billing integrations, enabling seamless adoption of Consul without additional administrative complexity. The service enables features like dynamic traffic management, service segmentation, observability, and Mesh Gateway for secure traffic routing across Azure regions, private data centers, and runtime environments.