As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see how architectural decisions made years ago continue to shape the way we build modern applications. This week brings a special milestone that perfectly captures this evolution in cloud…
Microsoft’s engagement with the open source community has transformed the company from a one-time skeptic to now being one of the world’s leading open source contributors. In fact, over the past three years, Microsoft Azure has been the largest public cloud contributor (and the second largest overall contributor) to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).…
We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for a second year in a row, and the furthest to the right in Completeness of Vision. We believe this recognition reflects our continued product innovation, seamless developer experience, and AI leadership. Enabling customers…
This blog post is the second out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Tools are defining the next wave of agentic AI In the previous blog, we explored five common design patterns of agentic AI—from tool…
A new kind of enterprise is emerging—and it’s rewriting the rules of leadership. Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index calls them Frontier Firms: organizations that are not just adopting AI, but are powered by intelligence on tap, human-agent teams, and a new role for everyone; agent boss while rearchitecting their operations around it. These firms are…
Today, we’re announcing general availability of the new eighth generation, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS. They deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These instances deliver up to 15…