In this article Building on the success of Cobalt 100 VMs What’s new in Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs Industry partners and customer adoption Developer ecosystem and Arm compatibility Microsoft services powered by Cobalt 200 VMs VM families and specifications The next chapter in Azure’s custom silicon journey Additional resources As organizations increasingly embrace the agentic…
As we previewed in What’s Next with AWS 2026, we’re announcing the general availability of OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock, giving you access to frontier models and a coding agent for software development. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models are excellent for coding, reasoning, agentic workflows, and complex professional work.…
In my last Week in Review post, I shared what I’d been hearing from customers in the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops I’ve been delivering. Last week I was back at it, this time in Denver for a two-day AI-DLC workshop, where I helped facilitate 17 teams to deliver nearly 20 separate use cases in…
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving developers and enterprises access to Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work.As AI applications become more complex, teams need models that can handle longer-running work, reason more deeply across complex analysis use tools more reliably across multi-step workflows, and support…
Today, we’re announcing the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that brings together a new application model, dependency discovery assessment, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting. Organizations running hundreds of applications share a common challenge: availability is a top concern, yet there is no consistent…
Today, we’re announcing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector engine designed for customers building AI agents. The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless scales from zero to thousands of requests per second and back to zero when idle, offering up to 60% cost savings compared to the cost of…