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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for a second year in a row, and the furthest to the right in…