Azure updates for partners: December 2025
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we explored what it means for organizations to move into the era of Frontier transformation. This shift is focused on embedding AI across every part of the business to improve decision-making, increase speed, and create new value. Organizations leading in AI make it foundational. They rethink processes and integrate new technologies […]
Introducing GPT-5.2 in Microsoft Foundry: The new standard for enterprise AI
The age of AI small talk is over. Enterprise applications demand more than clever chat. They require a reliable, reasoning partner capable of solving the most ambiguous, high-stakes problems, including planning multi-agent workflows and delivering auditable code. Azure is the foundation for solving these challenges. Today, OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is announced as generally available in Microsoft […]
Azure Storage innovations: Unlocking the future of data
Microsoft is redefining what’s possible in the public cloud and driving the next wave of AI-powered transformation for organizations. Whether you’re pushing the boundaries with AI, improving the resilience of mission-critical workloads, or modernizing legacy systems with cloud-native solutions, Azure Storage has a solution for you. Learn more about Azure Storage tools and products At […]
Actioning agentic AI: 5 ways to build with news from Microsoft Ignite 2025
Energy at Microsoft Ignite was electric. Over 20,000 attendees gathered in San Francisco, with 200,000 digitally joining us to explore the future of cloud and AI. What continues to inspire me most are the responses online and the conversations happening in our technical communities. It’s how quickly you’re turning these announcements into action and building […]
Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in the United States
Today, we are sharing progress on our infrastructure expansions across the United States that are supporting the tremendous growth in customer demand for cloud and AI services. Recently we announced Fairwater sites in Wisconsin and Atlanta, and now we are expanding with the launch of our East US 3 region in the Greater Atlanta Metro […]
Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in the United States
Today, we are sharing progress on our infrastructure expansions across the United States that are supporting the tremendous growth in customer demand for cloud and AI services. Recently we announced Fairwater sites in Wisconsin and Atlanta, and now we are expanding with the launch of our East US 3 region in the Greater Atlanta Metro […]
New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure
Organizations running mission‑critical workloads operate under stricter standards because system failures can often affect people and business operations at scale. They must ensure control, resilience, and operational autonomy such that innovation does not compromise governance. They need agility that also maintains continuity and preserves standards compliance, so they can get the most out of AI, […]
Introducing Mistral Large 3 in Microsoft Foundry: Open, capable, and ready for production workloads
Enterprises today are embracing open-weight models for their transparency, flexibility, and ability to run across a broad range of deployment architectures. As the number of open models grows, the bar for reliability, instruction-following quality, multimodal reasoning, and long-context performance continues to rise. Today, we’re excited to announce that Mistral Large 3 is now available in Azure, bringing one of the […]
A decade of open innovation: Celebrating 10 years of Microsoft and Red Hat partnership
Ten years ago, Microsoft and Red Hat began a partnership grounded in open source and enterprise cloud innovation. This year, we celebrate a decade of collaboration. Our journey together has helped customers accelerate hybrid cloud transformation, empower developers to innovate, and strengthen the open source community to drive modern application innovation. Accelerate modernization with Azure […]
Azure networking updates on security, reliability, and high availability
Enabling the next wave of cloud transformation with Azure Networking The cloud landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by the exponential growth of AI workloads and the need for seamless, secure, and high-performance connectivity. Azure Network services stand at the forefront of this transformation, delivering the hyperscale infrastructure, intelligent services, and resilient architecture […]