From startups to industry-leading enterprises, there is an insatiable desire for organizations to experiment with the idea of how the world could work differently. They explore bold, new ways for society to operate and meet market demand by focusing their efforts on developing innovative products and services. With 78% of companies using AI in at least one…
At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. Since launching the Secure Future Initiative (SFI)—a company-wide commitment to security, we continue to prioritize delivering products and solutions that are secure by design, secure by default, and secure in operation. SFI sits at…
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) general-purpose M8i and M8i-Flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency. These instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They also…
Amazon Prime Day 2025 was the biggest Amazon Prime Day shopping event ever, setting records for both sales volume and total items sold during the 4-day event. Prime members saved billions while shopping Amazon’s millions of deals during the event. This year marked a significant transformation in the Prime Day experience through advancements in the…
As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see how architectural decisions made years ago continue to shape the way we build modern applications. This week brings a special milestone that perfectly captures this evolution in cloud…
Microsoft’s engagement with the open source community has transformed the company from a one-time skeptic to now being one of the world’s leading open source contributors. In fact, over the past three years, Microsoft Azure has been the largest public cloud contributor (and the second largest overall contributor) to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).…