By Cyril Belikoff, Vice President, Worldwide Azure and Industry Go-to-Market
AI is reshaping industries—and fast. Partners like you are at the center of this transformation, helping customers modernize, innovate, and scale with confidence. To help you stay ahead, we’re launching the Azure Partner Update, a recurring update designed to keep you up to date with the latest developments and accelerate your business. Expect curated insights, bold perspectives, and the latest tools to help you lead with cloud solutions and AI and build what’s next.
Spotlight
One of this month’s top updates is the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, now a trusted central source for cloud solutions, AI apps and agents for customers, and a scale engine for partners. Marketplace continues to evolve as an extension of the Microsoft Cloud, connecting your innovations directly to customers where they work. The new AI Apps and Agents category empowers customers to discover AI solutions that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft products, creating new paths for partners to reach buyers and scale impact.
We also announced several technical updates designed to make cloud deployments faster and more flexible:
- Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes now enable Azure VMware Solution (AVS) customers to bring their own VMware Cloud Foundations license, giving them more control and potential cost savings.
- Azure AI Foundry continues to advance, and now features GPT-5-Codex, gpt-realtime, and new browser automation tools that make it easier to build and deploy intelligent applications.
- AKS Automatic has reached general availability, simplifying Kubernetes management and reducing time to production.
- Oracle Database@Azure now spans 23 regions, expanding global reach and resilience for your customers.
- New integrations across data sources, CI/CD capabilities, and agent automation within Fabric were introduced at FabCon.
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