We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure for the fourth consecutive year. Microsoft is positioned highest for Ability to Execute. We believe this recognition reflects the strength of Microsoft’s unified approach to distributed infrastructure. With Azure Local and Azure Arc,…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) started with a handful of foundational infrastructure services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), so that anyone with an idea could start building. As the world’s largest companies and governments adopted AWS, they asked for features…
There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly sweater weather. The city is back at full speed, and so is the AWS launch calendar. This week that energy showed up in a new frontier model on Amazon Bedrock, a desktop app for Amazon…
I am pleased to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, positioned furthest to the right on Completeness of Vision. We believe this recognition reflects our ability to help customers modernize existing applications and embrace AI workloads without adding operational complexity. Furthermore, this recognition comes…
This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can 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…
Why infrastructure resiliency is essential for modern applications and AI workloads Organizations today face constant pressure to modernize; business-critical applications are being transformed, AI workloads are becoming foundational to business operations, and infrastructure environments continue to grow in complexity. Yet modernization only succeeds when organizations have confidence that their applications, data, and infrastructure can withstand…