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…
Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
Today, we are announcing AWS Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive within AWS Lambda that lets you run code generated by users or AI in isolated, stateful execution environments.…
You get virtual machine level isolation, near-instant launch and resum…
Lambda MicroVMs are powered by Firecracker, the same lightweight virtu…
Why customers need this Over the past few years a new class of multi-t…
Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager
If you manage TLS certificates for your applications, you know the challenge: certificates expire, and when they do, your customers see errors or your service goes down.…
As certificate validity periods get shorter (the Certification Authori…
You need automation.
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) is an open protoco…
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available
When you run compute-intensive workloads like real-time analytics, batch processing, video encoding, scientific modeling, or CPU-based machine learning inference, every percentage point of performance matters.…
You need instances that deliver higher throughput per vCPU, faster mem…
Today I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon Elasti…
C9g instances are compute-optimized and deliver up to 25% higher perfo…
Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode
Today, we’re announcing AWS CloudFormation Express mode, a new deployment mode that accelerates deployments for developers and AI tools iterating on infrastructure.…
Express mode accelerates deployments by completing when CloudFormation…
This reduces deployment time by up to 4 times for iterative developmen…
How it works Every CloudFormation deployment performs stabilization ch…
Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio
Takeaway: Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production.…
You don’t know with certainty that your application is resilient until…
Better to learn it isn’t by deliberately breaking it in a test environ…
Azure Chaos Studio is our managed service for doing exactly that, safe…
Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved
In this article Resiliency as a shared responsibility, not a handoffPlatform foundations that reflect reality: zones, regions, and sovereigntyAzure features and capabilities strengthen resiliency outcomesBridging intent to execution through experiences on AzureHow you can build Resilience in AzureAzure Essentials Resiliency in the cloud is often described in terms of availability, such as how quickly a system fails over, how many replicas exist, or what a service-level agreement guarantees.…
But for most organizations today, especially those operating in regula…
It is the ability to continue operating under pressure, protect what m…
A useful way to think about this is not a system problem, but a city p…
Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks
Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door.Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back.…
The community is making real progress here, and KEP-4330 introduces em…
But in practice this constraint has pushed organizations to build elab…
With Kubernetes releasing three minor versions per year, teams managin…
Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.…
We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way …
If one service called another directly and that service was slow or un…
Message queuing solved this by letting services communicate asynchrono…
What’s new todayGPT‑5.6 is generally available in Microsoft Foundry, alongside the Asia-Pacific Data Zone, and hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service.…
AI only creates value when it shows up in real systems—systems that ar…
More than 100,000 organizations are already building on Microsoft Foun…
At Microsoft Build, we laid out a simple promise for the agentic era: …
AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD
First-of-its-kind telecom AI deployment Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operations.…
To address that gap, AT&T created their Open Telco (OTel) models, the …
Building OTel2.
0 required more than training a large language model, it reflected a b…
Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value.…
It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-enginee…
Discover Azure Databricks The advantage is built-in, not bolted on.
Microsoft and Databricks co-engineer the service, share one integratio…
What customers value most in Microsoft Databases—from reliability to AI readiness
In this article What customers consistently value Turning customer feedback into innovation Thank you to our customers and community Every day, customers trust Microsoft Databases to power their most critical applications, business processes, and AI-powered experiences.…
Continuous customer feedback provides valuable insights into how these…
I’m honored to share that Microsoft Databases have received multiple 2…
This year, PeerSpot recognized: SQL Server as a Tech Leader in Databas…