Today we’re announcing new capabilities in Azure AI Foundry that make it easier for developers to build, observe, and govern multi-agent systems, while helping organizations close the trust gap in AI. As agentic AI adoption accelerates—eight in ten enterprises now use some form of agent-based AI, according to PwC1—the complexity of managing these systems is…
Today’s enterprises are entering a new phase of AI adoption—one where trust, flexibility, and production readiness aren’t optional; they’re foundational. Microsoft has collaborated closely with xAI to bring Grok 4, their most advanced model, to Azure AI Foundry—delivering powerful reasoning within a platform designed for business-ready safety and control. Check out the Azure AI Foundry…
Today, we’re announcing the availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8a instances, the latest addition to the general-purpose M instance family. These instances are powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors with a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz. Customers can expect up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better…
After launching Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) memory-optimized R8i and R8i-flex instances and general-purpose M8i and M8i-flex instances, I am happy to announce the general availability of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency and feature a 2:1…
Starting today, you can use your own AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt identity data, such as user and group attributes, stored in AWS IAM Identity Center organization instances. Many organizations operating in regulated industries need complete control over encryption key management. While Identity Center already encrypts data at rest using AWS-owned…
Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand…