Unlocking document understanding with Mistral Document AI in Microsoft Foundry
Enterprises today face a familiar yet formidable challenge: mountains of documents -contracts, invoices, reports, forms – remain locked in unstructured formats. Traditional OCR (optical character recognition) captures text, but often struggles with context, layout complexity, or multilingual content. The result? Slow workflows, error-prone manual reviews, and missed insights. Enter mistral-document-ai-2512 in Microsoft Foundry. This new […]
Instant access incremental snapshots: Restore without waiting
Today, we’re excited to introduce instant access support for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk, delivering an industry-leading snapshot experience where creation, disk restore, and production-ready performance all happen instantly. Instant access snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra Disk are usable immediately upon creation, allowing you to restore new disks without waiting […]
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity, and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected
As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectations and higher risk conditions. Microsoft’s approach to sovereignty is grounded in enabling enterprises, public sectors, and regulated industries to participate in the digital economy securely, independently, and on their own terms. The Microsoft […]
Introducing Budget Bytes: Build powerful AI apps for under $25
When developers hear “cloud” and “AI,” their first thought is often about cost. “How much will this cost me to learn? Can I build something meaningful without racking up a surprise bill?” Budget Bytes is a new series is designed to inspire developers to build affordable, production-quality AI applications on Azure with a budget of […]
Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available today in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for teams who want frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale.Last week, we took a major step forward with the availability of Claude Opus 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry, bringing frontier AI capable of deep reasoning, agentic workflows, and complex […]
Azure reliability, resiliency, and recoverability: Build continuity by design
Modern cloud systems are expected to deliver more than uptime. Customers expect consistent performance, the ability to withstand disruption, and confidence that recovery is predictable and intentional. In Azure, these expectations map the three distinct concepts: reliability, resiliency, and recoverability. Explore technical methodologies with Azure Essentials Reliability describes the degree to which a service or workload […]
The data behind the design: How Pantone built agentic AI with an AI-ready database
When we talk about agentic AI, it’s easy to default to abstract conversations about models, prompts, and orchestration. But the most compelling stories I see are the ones where AI unlocks something deeply human—creativity, intuition, and expertise—at entirely new speed and scale. That’s why I was excited to host Color Meets Code: Pantone’s Agentic AI […]
Agentic cloud operations: A new way to run the cloud
Cloud operations have reached an inflection point. For more than a decade, the industry has focused on scale—more infrastructure, more data, more services, more dashboards to build and manage both infrastructure and applications. While today’s cloud delivers extraordinary flexibility, the rapid growth of modern applications and AI workloads has introduced levels of scale and complexity […]
Can high-temperature superconductors transform the power infrastructure of datacenters?
As the demand for AI and data-intensive computing is on the rise, the need for efficient and reliable power delivery is critical. Enter high-temperature superconductors (HTS), a game-changing technology that can improve energy efficiency by reducing transmission losses. Microsoft is investigating HTS technology to understand how our datacenters can meet the growing demand for power […]
Five Reasons to attend SQLCon
The SQL community is gathering in Atlanta this March for the first‑ever SQLCon, co‑located with FabCon, the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, March 16-20. One registration unlocks both events, giving you access to deep SQL expertise and the latest in Fabric, Power BI, data engineering, real‑time intelligence, and AI. Whether you’re a DBA, developer, data engineer, […]