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We are excited to share that the Azure SRE Agent is now available in public preview for everyone instantly – no sign up required. A big thank you to all our…

The new Parse document with metadata and Chunk text with metadata actions in Logic Apps bring powerful improvements to how you handle documents. Unlike the previously released parse and chunk…

Azure Event Grid continues to evolve with new capabilities in General Availability and Public Preview – intended to help you enhance performance, security, and interoperability in modern event-driven systems. These…

One of the most common questions Azure customers and administrators ask is: “How do I know who created this resource?” If you’ve ever been in charge of managing a large…

🔍 What Is Outbound Network Segmentation? Outbound Network Segmentation allows you to define and control how outbound traffic is routed from your App Service Environment v3 apps. This means you…

Introducing the Microsoft Agent Framework: A Unified Foundation for AI Agents and Workflows The landscape of AI development is evolving rapidly, and Microsoft is at the forefront with the release…

As organizations accelerate their AI adoption on Microsoft Azure, governance, compliance, and security become critical pillars for success. Deploying AI workloads without a structured compliance framework can expose enterprises to…

We are excited to announce that Azure Local is now generally available for Azure Government customers. Building on the momentum from our public preview, Azure Local is ready for production…

Azure Storage Actions is a powerful platform for automating data management tasks across Blob and Data Lake Storage. Among its many features, Exclude Prefix stands out as a subtle yet critical…

The way we write code as engineers is changing—fast. If you think GitHub Copilot is just glorified autocomplete, think again. Copilot is more than a tool—it’s a teammate. It’s a…

In this blog, we’ll cover: Why AI Landing Zones matter. Security threats specific to AI workloads. Mapping Azure security services into AI Landing Zone design areas. A reference architecture diagram…

Explore how Microsoft and AMD are accelerating HPC and AI innovation at the HPC Roundtable 2025 in Turin. On September 30th, the city of Turin will host the HPC Roundtable…

Introduction This blog demonstrates the practical implementation of System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) with the recently introduced “idp” provider that can be used on Azure Linux 3.0 HPC clusters to…

Why cost efficiency matters more than ever In today’s digital-first economy, cost efficiency is top of mind for organizations worldwide. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud and AI technologies to…

Developer tier APIM enjoys many "premium" features such as vnet injection. Feature Consumption Developer Basic Basic v2 Standard Standard v2 Premium Premium v2 (preview) Microsoft Entra integration1 No Yes No…

 [[{"value":" We're thrilled to announce a suite of powerful new features from the Terraform on Azure Team that will revolutionize how you build, manage, and deploy infrastructure. These enhancements deliver…

With the adoption of the NIS2 Directive EU 2022 2555, cybersecurity obligations for both public and private sector organizations have become more strict and far reaching. NIS2 aims to establish…

The Challenge: Outbound Control in a Serverless World Serverless compute resources run in the serverless compute plane, and is managed by Microsoft, for ease of use.  Databricks serverless provides hassle-free…

Introduction A large enterprise customer set out to build a generative AI application using Azure OpenAI. While the app would be hosted on-premises, the customer wanted to leverage the latest…

Introduction In today’s cloud-native landscape, organizations are accelerating the deployment of web applications at unprecedented speed. But with rapid scale comes increased complexity—and a growing need for deep, actionable visibility…

Abstract   The theme of this blog is “Simplicity”. Today’s HPC user has an overabundance of choices when it comes to HPC Schedulers, clouds, infrastructure in those clouds, and data management…

  This architecture diagram illustrates a Microsoft Azure AI Landing Zone Pattern — a scalable, secure, and well-governed framework for deploying AI workloads across multiple subscriptions in an enterprise environment.…

Governance Principles Least Privilege: Grant only the permissions required for each role.  Segregation of Duties (SoD): Separate responsibilities for build, deploy, operate, and secure.  Environment Guardrails:  Dev → open for experimentation.  Nonprod → controlled integration and validation. …

Today we are excited to release the public preview support for Azure Integrated HSM for AMD v7 Virtual Machines. As announced last year at Ignite, Azure Integrated HSM is hardware…

Azure Native Integrations tightly couple partner solutions to the Azure management experience allowing you to deploy and operate industry-leading solutions like Pure Storage Cloud with the same tools and methodology…

Supply chain security has become one of the most pressing challenges for modern cloud-native applications. Every container image, Helm chart, SBOM, or AI model that flows through your CI/CD pipeline…

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Arc gateway for Arc‑enabled servers. Arc gateway dramatically simplifies the network configuration required to use Azure Arc by consolidating outbound connectivity through…

Hello everyone, Now that the Azure Arc gateway is GA is announced, we are super happy to also announce the General Availability of  the Arc Gateway for Azure Local! This…

Picture this: Your agent authored with the OpenAI Agent SDK is halfway through analyzing 10,000 customer reviews when it hits a rate limit and dies. All that progress? Gone. Your…

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a powerful, standardized way for LLMs to interact with external tools. But as soon as you move from a local demo to a real-world…

As product roadmaps accelerate to meet new business needs, developer teams are struggling to maintain productivity, some even reporting that they need to use six or more tools to do…

We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana, a major step forward in simplifying observability for your apps and environments. With this…

Call transcripts are full of business intelligence that never makes it to your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Customer sentiment, promised follow-ups, escalation signals – all lost in walls of…

The internet’s transport layer is undergoing one of its most significant evolutions in decades. QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) — the protocol underpinning HTTP/3 — is rapidly becoming the default for…

We recently released our MCP Server capabilities in Azure Logic Apps that unlocks enterprise data assets for agentic solutions. One of the questions that I received was, how can I…

Introduction As cloud and AI workloads surge, the pressure on datacenter (DC), Metro and Wide Area Network (WAN) networks has never been greater. Microsoft is tackling the physical limits of…

Discover and Assess PostgreSQL Databases at Scale with Azure Migrate (Preview) Cloud migration projects can be complex, and it can be difficult to determine where to begin, especially when you…

Are you ready to take your Azure development workflow to the next level? In this post, we’ll walk through how to use GitHub Copilot in Agent Mode—paired with MCP (Model…

Whether you're an enterprise IT administrator or a cloud-native developer, ensuring data protection and resiliency is non-negotiable, especially when running mission-critical workload on Azure Files Premium (SSD) shares. We’re thrilled…

Using Azure as a cloud, not as a region As Mark Russinovich stated in his blog post we want to empower customers and partners to build and run applications and data…

Introduction Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a cloud-native service that actively protects web applications from common vulnerabilities and exploits. It also supports custom rules that allow fine-grained control over…

Shiva Shastri Sr Product Marketing Manager, Azure Migrate—Product & Ecosystem. Modernization in motion: Evolving at the speed of change. Modernization is the process of transforming legacy IT systems into technologies…

What Is Disciplined Guardrail-Based Development? In AI-assisted software development, approaches like Vibe Coding—which prioritize momentum and intuition—often fail to ensure code quality and maintainability. To address this, Disciplined Guardrail-Based Development introduces…

Join us for an Ask Me Anything with the Foundry Local team on September 29th, 2025! Discover how Foundry Local is redefining edge AI with powerful features like on-device inference,…

We are excited to announce that Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal at no additional cost. This integration marks a major…

We are excited to release Image Customizer, an open-source tool, built and maintained by the Azure Linux team. Image Customizer lets you customize well-tested existing Azure Linux images for any…

As organizations continue to scale containerized workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the need to secure network traffic between applications and services has never been more critical especially in regulated…

Like many of you I have been on a journey to build AI systems where multiple agents (AI models with tools and autonomy) collaborate to solve complex tasks. In this…

Come learn about new agentic AI capabilities and investments that can help unlock your organization’s digital future. Mark your calendar for the upcoming Migrate and Modernize Summit, happening September 23…

Introduction  Accelerate your migration and modernization journey with Azure Essentials, Azure Migrate, and GitHub Copilot—empowering your organization to join the ranks of Frontier Firms: businesses that put AI and cloud…