Scaling cloud and AI: Microsoft Azure’s commitment to Europe’s digital future

By Dustin Ward

Customer demand for cloud and AI is accelerating worldwide, and this demand has been particularly strong in Europe. Public sector customers like Manchester City Council are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to streamline operations and improve citizen services, while companies like Inriver use Microsoft Foundry to transform product information management. These innovations are powered by Microsoft…

Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local

By Dustin Ward

Today, I am pleased to announce that Azure Local now scales to support deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment, allowing organizations to run much larger workloads locally across large-footprint datacenters, industrial environments and edge locations while maintaining control within their sovereign boundary. Organizations operating national infrastructure, regulated workloads or…

Cloud Cost Optimization: Principles that still matter

By Dustin Ward

In this article What is cloud cost optimization and why does it still matter? How AI workloads change traditional cost optimization Cloud cost optimization best practices for AI and modern workloads Cloud cost management versus cost optimization Measuring value alongside cloud cost optimization Next steps for cloud cost optimization on Azure This blog post is…

How Drasi used GitHub Copilot to find documentation bugs

By Dustin Ward

For early-stage open-source projects, the “Getting started” guide is often the first real interaction a developer has with the project. If a command fails, an output doesn’t match, or a step is unclear, most users won’t file a bug report—they will just move on. Drasi, a CNCF sandbox project that detects changes in your data…