Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment
Summary The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production.…
Organizations will use frontier models where capability matters, and s…
But the value does not come from any model in isolation.
It comes from the system around it: infrastructure, data, applications…
How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering Team scaled hybrid operations with Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop
When a physical security operator begins a shift supporting Microsoft’s global datacenter operations, they depend on a collection of applications and systems that help monitor access activity, review video feeds, investigate alerts, and coordinate physical security operations across a complex global environment.…
Those tools must be available, responsive, and reliable from the momen…
As Azure datacenters expanded to support growing demand for cloud and …
Critical security systems were distributed across hundreds of location…
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents
This blog post is the third of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry.…
The first post set out the three decisions that systems rest on.
The second post took the request at runtime.
This post takes the next one: making each agent cheaper over time as i…
As organizations accelerate AI adoption and modernize their digital estates, applications, data, and infrastructure increasingly span multiple cloud environments.…
Customers are choosing the best platform for each workload, leveraging…
Yet while multicloud strategies have become commonplace, networking be…
Establishing private connectivity often requires customers to manually…
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost
This blog post is the second of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry.…
The first post set out the three decisions that system rests on: optim…
This post takes the first, the one that touches every dollar you will …
The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane
For decades, cybersecurity defenders have relied on a relatively straightforward model: a vulnerability is disclosed, security teams assess exposure, test available fixes, deploy patches into production, and ultimately close the risk before attackers can exploit it at scale.…
That model increasingly reflects a world that no longer exists.
Today’s enterprises operate thousands of interconnected workloads acro…
Mission-critical applications power revenue-generating services, custo…
In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo
In the early days of cloud computing, AWS supported intensive learning for builders in a physical space called the AWS Pop-up Lofts in cities worldwide.…
These spaces were accessible to startup entrepreneurs, developers, and…
With the recent emergence of generative AI, AWS Gen AI Lofts provided …
We realized the need of permanent community spaces give students and d…
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms
Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, which we believe recognizes the platforms organizations rely on to build, deploy, and operate cloud-native applications at scale.…
This is our third consecutive year positioned as a Leader in this repo…
Read the report We are proud of this recognition.
More importantly, we believe it reflects a shift we see across industr…
AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)
Last week, the OpenSearch and Valkey teams visited Seoul to meet open source developers and contributors in the Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026.…
At the four-day event, community leaders and users of open source proj…
Leaders of the Korean OpenSearch communities volunteered to participat…
OpenSearch is an open source, enterprise-grade search and observabilit…
Azure IaaS: How to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure for long-term cost efficiency
In this article Compute: Matching resources to workload requirementsStorage: Balancing performance and lifecycle managementNetworking: Improving efficiency without compromising resiliencyContinuous optimization is where long-term savings happenContinue your Azure IaaS optimization journeyCreate a resilient infrastructure with Azure This blog post is the third part of a blog series called Azure IaaS which will share best practices and guidance to help you build a trusted infrastructure platform—from performance, resiliency, and security to scalability and cost efficiency.…
As organizations modernize infrastructure, migrate mission-critical wo…
Discover the Benefits of Azure IaaS Yet cloud costs are rarely driven …
More often, across Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environmen…
Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications
Today, we’re announcing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a new set of capabilities that enables developers to build enterprise-grade generative AI applications with their proprietary data in minutes.…
Organizations building agentic AI applications need secure, reliable, …
Managed Knowledge Base abstracts away the complexity of building and m…
Developers building knowledge bases for their agents face three key ch…
Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events, and target tracking to scale dynamically on real-time metrics.…
You can choose proactive scaling by using predictive scaling (automati…
Amazon ECS service auto scaling adjusts the number of tasks in an ECS …
In AWS benchmarking tests, time to trigger scale-out improved from 363…
Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, delivering high performance GPU acceleration for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads.…
AWS is the first major cloud provider to support NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 B…
G7 instances are accelerated by these GPUs with custom sixth-generatio…
AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)
Last week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation.…
Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI …
Agents for working – You can launch autonomous agents and access a sma…
Agents for securing – You can shift from reactive to proactive securit…