Microsoft named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Public Cloud Platforms, 2024

By Dustin Ward

In 2010, we embarked on a journey to build a cloud platform that would empower organizations globally. In February, we celebrated 15 years of bringing Azure innovation to the world, and today, we celebrate Microsoft again being recognized as a leader in Forrester’s recently published report, The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q4 2024. We…

DeepSeek-R1 now available as a fully managed serverless model in Amazon Bedrock

By Dustin Ward

As of January 30, DeepSeek-R1 models became available in Amazon Bedrock through the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. Since then, thousands of customers have deployed these models in Amazon Bedrock. Customers value the robust guardrails and comprehensive tooling for safe AI deployment. Today, we’re making it even easier to use DeepSeek…

Optimizing incident management with AIOps using the Triangle System

By Dustin Ward

High service quality is crucial to the reliability of the Azure platform and its hundreds of services. Continuously monitoring the platform service health enables our teams to promptly detect and mitigate incidents that may impact our customers. In addition to automated triggers in our system that react when thresholds are breached and customer-report incidents, we…

Scale and deliver game streaming experiences with Amazon GameLift Streams

By Dustin Ward

Since 2016, game developers have been using Amazon GameLift to power games with dedicated, scalable server hosting capable of supporting 100M concurrent users (CCU) in a single game. Responding to customer requests for additional managed compute capabilities beyond game servers, we’re announcing Amazon GameLift Streams — a new capability in Amazon GameLift to help game…

What’s new in Azure Elastic SAN

By Dustin Ward

I’m excited to share our recent updates to Azure Elastic SAN—our solution for high-scale cost efficiency in the cloud. Whether you’re looking for a seamless migration of your SAN environment or looking to consolidate existing workloads within the cloud, this enterprise-class offering stands out by helping you simplify your storage management experience and giving you…