Microsoft and NVIDIA accelerate AI development and performance  

By Dustin Ward

Together, Microsoft and NVIDIA are accelerating some of the most groundbreaking innovations in AI. This long-standing collaboration has been at the core of the AI revolution over the past few years, from bringing industry-leading supercomputing performance in the cloud to supporting breakthrough frontier models and solutions like ChatGPT in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft…

Microsoft Cost Management updates—March 2025

By Dustin Ward

In this article Optimizing AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) costs  AWS (Azure Web Services) connector deprecation Exchange of Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned Reservations Help shape the future of cost reporting Documentation updates What’s next for Cost Management? Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need…

Announcing the Responses API and Computer-Using Agent in Azure AI Foundry

By Dustin Ward

AI agents are transforming industries by automating workflows, enhancing productivity, and enabling intelligent decision-making. Businesses are leveraging AI agents to process insurance claims, manage IT service desks, optimize supply chain logistics, and even assist healthcare professionals in analyzing medical records. The potential is vast, and we’re excited to introduce two powerful innovations in Azure AI…

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…

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…