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 Fairwater datacenter in Wisconsin, we also have multiple identical Fairwater datacenters under construction in other locations across the US.
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Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial IoT Platforms, highlighting its commitment to delivering intelligent, secure, and scalable industrial solutions with Azure.
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Azure AI Foundry brings together security, safety, and governance in a layered process enterprises can follow to build trust in their agents.
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Azure Kubernetes Service Automatic helps teams go from commit to cloud without friction, accelerating delivery and unleashing innovation.
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Learn about the new features and enhancements announced for Microsoft Fabric at FabCon Vienna 2025
The post FabCon Vienna: Build data-rich agents on an enterprise-ready foundation appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

The next major release of Azure Container Storage delivers up to 7 times higher IOPS and 4 times less latency compared to previous versions.
The post Accelerating AI and databases with Azure Container Storage, now 7 times faster and open source appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

The real power of agents comes from their ability to connect to each other, to enterprise data, and to the systems where work gets done.
The post Agent Factory: Connecting agents, apps, and data with new open standards like MCP and A2A appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Meet Ask Ralph, a new AI-powered styling companion that not only helps with product discovery but also inspires consumers with Ralph Lauren's unique and iconic take on style.
The post Ask Ralph: Where style meets AI—a new era of conversational commerce appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Microsoft Azure is announcing the start of Phase 2 multifactor authentication enforcement at the Azure Resource Manager layer, starting October 1, 2025.
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You need to know what you’re spending, where your money is being spent, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise bill—and that’s where Microsoft Cost Management comes in.
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It's no longer whether you can build an agent—it’s how fast and seamlessly you can go from idea to enterprise-ready deployment.
The post Agent Factory: From prototype to production—developer tools and rapid agent development appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Ensuring the reliability, safety, and performance of AI agents is critical. That’s where agent observability comes in.
The post Agent Factory: Top 5 agent observability best practices for reliable AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Scientific innovation speeds up with Azure’s cloud and NVIDIA’s GPUs—see how researchers are transforming discovery.
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At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud.
The post Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

From Linux kernel code to AI at scale, discover Microsoft’s open source evolution and impact.
The post Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

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. 
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Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools.
The post Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-world outcomes appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Frontier Firms are moving beyond experimentation and into scaled transformation—powered by human-agent teams—by having agents as members of their team, reinventing processes, providing employees with new skills to scale their impact, and using a modern cloud foundation.
The post Building the Frontier Firm with Microsoft Azure: The business case for cloud and AI modernization appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Instead of simply delivering information, agents reason, act, and collaborate—bridging the gap between knowledge and outcomes. Read more about agentic AI in Azure AI Foundry.
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We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has once again been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, for the third year in a row.
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Today, we’re announcing general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship, GPT-5, in Azure AI Foundry. This is more than a new model release; it is the most powerful large language model (LLM) ever released across key benchmarks.
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In the Cloud Cultures series, leaders from 12 different countries share how they’re tackling some of the world’s most complex challenges.
The post Achieving AI-powered success: Learnings from Cloud Cultures Season 3  appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Introduction  The year 2024 was all about accelerating advancements in AI technologies with improved and much more powerful language models, agent eco-systems and accompanying tools to build them, and of course advancements in the silicon layer. As companies adopt these new technologies, they are also focused on the ROI (Return on investment) and you as
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We are pleased to announce that the o1 model is coming soon to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. This multimodal model brings advanced reasoning capabilities and improvements that will significantly enhance your AI applications and solutions. The o1 model supports both text and vision inputs, making it ideal for a wide range of applications from complex problem-solving to contextual AI experiences.
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Take a look at three companies who invested in continuous, holistic modernization with remarkable success.
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Microsoft Azure Maps is a collection of mapping and location APIs that enable enterprises to add location intelligence into their solutions.
The post Geocoding: The first step towards unlocking location intelligence appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

At Microsoft Ignite in November 2024, we announced offerings and resources to empower software companies in the landscape of AI-powered experiences.
The post Unveiling the future of AI innovation for ISVs appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

In this blog, we’ll explore how the unique features of Copilot enhance each element of DevEx across the SPACE framework.
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Azure is designed to unify operations, streamline application development, and consolidate data management across distributed infrastructures.
The post Laying a secure cloud foundation for AI-powered enterprises appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

At Microsoft Ignite, we announced key product updates to enable your FinOps journey.
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News and advancements from Microsoft Ignite to showcase our commitment to your success in this dynamic era. Let’s get started.
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At Microsoft Ignite, we’re introducing significant updates across our entire cloud and AI infrastructure.
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We are excited to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. In this report, Gartner placed Microsoft furthest in Completeness of Vision.
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With the increased adoption of cloud-native technologies, containers and Kubernetes have become the backbone of modern application deployments. Microservices-based container workloads are easier to scale, more portable, and resource-efficient. With Kubernetes managing these workloads, organizations can deploy advanced AI and machine learning applications across diverse compute resources, significantly improving operational productivity at scale. With this
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Our latest enhancements strengthen core network capabilities for mission-critical applications running in the cloud.
The post Unlocking the future: Azure networking updates on security, reliability, and high availability appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview for audio and speech, a major enhancement to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service that adds advanced voice capabilities and expands GPT-4o's multimodal offerings.
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To truly harness the power of generative AI, customization is key. In this blog, we share the latest Microsoft Azure AI updates.
The post Announcing fine-tuning for customization and support for new models in Azure AI  appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Explore how Microsoft's platform-centric approach builds resilient digital ecosystems. This first post in our end-to-end security series covers its definition and benefits in cybersecurity.
The post Developer insights: Building resilient end-to-end security appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a fast and easy way to seamlessly migrate VMware-based workloads to Azure, using familiar VMware tools and skills.
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Discover how UC Berkeley uses Azure OpenAI Service to enhance computer science education and prepare students for their future careers.
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At Microsoft, we have commitments to ensuring Trustworthy AI and are building industry-leading supporting technology. Our commitments and capabilities go hand in hand to make sure our customers and developers are protected at every layer. Building on our commitments, today we are announcing new product capabilities to strengthen the security, safety and privacy of AI systems.
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Announcing new features designed to further enhance data privacy and security capabilities for customers building and scaling with Azure OpenAI.
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At Microsoft, we want to give you more choice, flexibility, and resiliency for your cloud solutions, and we encourage you to take advantage of these benefits by adopting a multi-region growth strategy.
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We’re excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.
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We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.
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“In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, we see a growing number of services and environments (in which those services run) our customers utilize on Azure. Ensuring the performance and security of Azure means our teams are vigilant about regular maintenance and updates to keep pace with customer needs. Stability, reliability, and rolling timely updates remain
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I’m writing to you today from VMware Explore in Las Vegas, where my team and I are thrilled to present the latest updates for Azure VMware Solution (AVS). We’re hosting sessions, showcasing demos at our booth, and most importantly, meeting directly with customers like these to help them map the future of their VMware environments
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We're excited to announce several updates to help developers quickly create AI solutions with greater choice and flexibility leveraging the Azure AI toolchain.
The post Boost your AI with Azure’s new Phi model, streamlined RAG, and custom generative AI models appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.
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Learn how MFA can protect your data and identity, and get ready for the upcoming MFA requirement for Azure.
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We're excited to announce significant updates for Azure OpenAI Service, designed to help our 60,000+ customers manage AI deployments more efficiently and cost-effectively beyond current pricing. With the introduction of self-service Provisioned deployments, we aim to help make your quota and deployment processes more agile, faster to market, and more economical.
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Flex Consumption delivers fast and large scale-out features on a serverless model and supports long function execution times, private networking, instance size selection, and concurrency control.
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4o Next.
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Azure Data Box offline data transfer solution allows you send petabytes of data into Azure Storage in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner.
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Microsoft and NVIDIA have launched a collaborative resource for developers and organizations to experience the better together benefits.
The post Build AI-enabled applications with Azure AI and NVIDIA appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

We are excited to partner with GitHub to empower their more than 100 million developers to build AI applications directly from GitHub.com with seamless integrations with Codespaces and Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
The post Accelerating AI app development with Azure AI and GitHub appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Announcing the general availability of Microsoft Azure Container Storage, the industry’s first platform-managed container native storage service in the public cloud.
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We are excited to announce several updates to help developers quickly create customized AI solutions with greater choice and flexibility leveraging the Azure AI toolchain.
The post Announcing Phi-3 fine-tuning, new generative AI models, and other Azure AI updates to empower organizations to customize and scale AI applications appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Forrester's study underscores the significant economic and strategic advantages of migrating to Azure for be AI-ready. Lower costs, increased innovation, better resource allocation, and improved scalability make migration to Azure a clear choice for organizations looking to thrive in the AI-driven future.
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We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.
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