Microsoft Azure

1. Azure Databricks delivers proven business value

   Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value. It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-engineered with Microsoft and delivered as a native Azure service, so it fits naturally into the Microsoft tools, identity, and governance your organization already runs.

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2. Frontier models and production agents: Advancing Microsoft Foundry for the agentic era

   Introducing OpenAI's latest frontier model series, the Asia Pacific Data Zone, and product agent capabilities, all generally available in Microsoft Foundry.

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3. Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved

   Cloud resiliency is about ensuring systems can adapt, recover, and keep functioning within real-world constraints.

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4. External key management for Azure Managed HSM is now in public preview

   Azure Key Vault Managed Hardware Security Module (HSM) provides strong sovereignty over your encryption keys. Keys are generated and stored in a single-tenant, FIPS 140-3 Level 3 HSM that only you control: Microsoft has no access to your key material, and you govern who can use each key.

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5. Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability

   Learn how Microsoft is building a digital twin of Azure Service Health and why it changes how hyperscale operates.

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6. Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio

   Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production.

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7. Azure IaaS: How to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure for long-term cost efficiency

   As organizations modernize infrastructure, migrate mission-critical workloads, build cloud-native applications, and scale AI—cost efficiency remains a foundational principle of cloud architectures.

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8. Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available

   Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available, hosted on Azure, and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra, giving teams a faster path from agent experimentation to production.

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9. The 2026 Agent Confidence Index: Where 300 builders see real momentum

   At Microsoft, building trustworthy AI agents is as critical as building powerful ones. New research from the 2026 Agent Confidence Index shows where teams trust agents today—and why human judgment remains the defining skill in the age of AI.

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10. Accelerate modern Linux workloads with Azure Files

    Azure Files combines familiar file access with built-in performance, data protection, security, and Azure service integration.

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