From queries to conversations: Unlock insights about your data using Azure Storage Discovery—now generally available

By Dustin Ward

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Discovery, a fully managed service that delivers enterprise-wide visibility into your data estate in Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage. Azure Storage Discovery helps you optimize storage costs, comply with security best practices, and drive operational efficiency. With the included Microsoft…

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter

By Dustin Ward

This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to our…

Running high-performance PostgreSQL on Azure Kubernetes Service

By Dustin Ward

In the ever-evolving world of cloud-native technologies, PostgreSQL continues to solidify its position as a top-tier database choice among workloads running on Kubernetes. According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2025 report, PostgreSQL now powers 36% of all database workloads running on Kubernetes—up 6 points since 2022—signaling its rising popularity and growing trust among the…

Unlock seamless data management with Azure Storage Actions—now generally available 

By Dustin Ward

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Actions, our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage. Businesses continuously generate, analyze, and store data, accumulating vast datasets with billions of objects that span multiple regions. Relentless data sprawl makes it difficult for…