This first article in our resilience series draws on a conversation with Mark Russinovich about how resilience is changing in the AI era and what it takes to continuously validate it at scale. What surprises me most about resilience failures is how ordinary the drift is. A workload is deployed across availability zones, but a…
For decades, applications have been designed to wait. A user clicks, a request arrives, code runs, a response goes back. And we got very good at this. We learned to forecast traffic, scale on demand, wrap everything in enterprise controls, and run it all with the operational discipline that keeps critical business systems available around…
Today, we are expanding our GPT-6 series by welcoming GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to our generally available lineup in Microsoft Foundry. Building on the exceptional customer momentum of GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, this launch continues our work to deliver transformative capabilities in Microsoft Foundry that produce less noise and are more capable at…
AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a multi-step business process. As that work gets longer, raw intelligence is only part of what matters. The model also needs to…
Amazon CloudWatch now offers CloudWatch Omni, an AI-powered observability experience for the applications and AI agents you run together. You reach Omni through a dedicated URL for your organization and sign in with the identities you already manage, so working in Omni does not require access to the AWS Management Console. Omni is built on…
Today, Amazon CloudWatch introduces CloudWatch Omni, a unified observability experience for application and AI workloads that is app-centric, AI-powered, built on open standards, and delivered off-console. CloudWatch Omni is a purpose-built observability, evaluation, and experimentation solution for AI agents. It helps teams design, evaluate, and operate AI agents across any model provider, framework, or runtime,…