This blog is a wrap-up post in a blog series called Agent Factory which shares best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. The rise of AI agents—autonomous software entities acting on behalf of users and organizations—marks a transformative moment for enterprise technology. But as we’ve explored throughout this…
Azure Cobalt 100 is our in-house, custom-built, Arm-based cloud CPU powering general compute workloads in the cloud. Cobalt 100 systems are designed to deliver high performance, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness for a wide range of workloads. Cobalt 100 systems have been live for nearly a year and now available in 29 Microsoft datacenter regions…
Every organization has an innovation agenda. Whether it’s building AI-native applications, creating more engaging customer experiences, or unlocking new efficiencies—ambition is never the problem. But for many teams, it’s their technical debt that stands in the way. Legacy systems, outdated codebases, and fragmented infrastructure slow progress and drain resources. In fact, over 37% of application portfolios require modernization today—and that number will remain high over the…
This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to our…
We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial IoT (IIoT) Platforms. We believe this recognition underscores our commitment to empowering industries with intelligent, secure, and scalable solutions that drive real-world impact. As industrial organizations continue to modernize their operations, Azure’s adaptive cloud approach, which includes Azure IoT, Azure Arc,…
This blog post is the sixth out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which shares best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Trust as the next frontier Trust is rapidly becoming the defining challenge for enterprise AI. If observability is about seeing, then security is about…