Azure AI Foundry: Your GPS for the changing AI landscape

By Dustin Ward

I spent most of the last decade in the Midwest (hello, Chicagoland!) but now live in the Seattle area and work at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Before moving here, I’d visited the Redmond campus dozens of times as a Microsoft partner and customer, but had only basic airport-campus-hotel-restaurant navigation skills. Relocating a family of…

Forrester Total Economic Impact study: A 304% ROI within 3 years using Azure Arc 

By Dustin Ward

As businesses continue to adapt to changing market demands, running modern workloads requires the rapid integration of AI from digital to physical estate. Managing enterprise-level infrastructure and applications across environments needs to be simplified with centralized visualization and control across IT assets. Azure Arc extends the Azure platform to standardize governance, security, and orchestration for…

Tired of all the restarts? Get hotpatching for Windows Server

By Dustin Ward

Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025, made available in preview in 2024, will become generally available as a subscription service on July 1st, 2025. One of the key updates in the latest release of Windows Server 2025 is the addition of hybrid and multicloud capabilities, aligned with Azure’s adaptive cloud approach. With hotpatching, we are taking what was previously an Azure-only capability and now making it available…

Reduce your operational overhead today with Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m happy to announce the general availability of Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager, a new feature that helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, web development platform providers, and companies with multiple brands and websites efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains. Customers already use CloudFront to securely deliver content with low latency and high transfer speeds. CloudFront SaaS…

Writer Palmyra X5 and X4 foundation models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

By Dustin Ward

One thing we’ve witnessed in recent months is the expansion of context windows in foundation models (FMs), with many now handling sequence lengths that would have been unimaginable just a year ago. However, building AI-powered applications that can process vast amounts of information while maintaining the reliability and security standards required for enterprise use remains…