The countdown to Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost over— Microsoft Ignite - November 18–21, 2025! Whether you’ll be joining us in person or tuning in virtually, this guide is your essential resource for everything Azure Compute. Explore the latest advancements, connect with product experts, and expand your cloud skills through curated sessions and interactive experiences.
Attendees will have the opportunity to dive deep into new product capabilities and solutions, including ways to boost virtual machine performance, enhance resiliency, and optimize cloud operations. Be sure to add these sessions to your schedule for a personalized and can’t-miss Ignite experience.
Bookmark this guide for quick access to all the latest Azure Compute news and updates throughout Ignite 2025!
Featured sessions
Tuesday
BRK171: What's new and what's next in Azure IaaS
Level: Intermediate 200
In this session, we’ll introduce the latest capabilities across compute, storage, and networking. Uncover the advancements in Azure IaaS, driving performance, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We will present how Azure’s global backbone, enhanced capabilities, and expanding portfolio can support mission-critical, cloud native and AI workloads —while built-in security and flexible tiering help right-size app deployments and accelerate modernization.
Tuesday, November 18 | 2:30 PM-3:15 PM PST
Wednesday
BRK430: Inside Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich
Level: Advanced 300
Join Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure. Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge. Featuring some of the latest Compute announcements with Azure Boost.
Wednesday, November 19, 2:45 PM PST
Other related IaaS sessions
Use the following as a guide to build your session schedule with an emphasis on our Azure Compute topics. These sessions will be in person and recorded. Sessions Tuesday-Thursday will be live streamed.
Thursday
BRK176: Driving efficiency and cost optimization for Azure IaaS deployments
Level: Intermediate 200
Control cloud spend without compromising performance. This session shows how Azure IaaS helps IT leaders optimize costs through flexible pricing, built-in tools, and smart resource planning. Learn how to align infrastructure choices with workload requirements, reduce TCO, and make informed decisions that support growth and innovation. You will gain a deeper understanding of how Azure delivers a comprehensive set of services, tools, and financial instruments to optimize your cloud costs at scale.
Thursday, November 20th, 9:45 AM PST
BRK217: Resilience by design: Secure, scalable, AI-ready cloud with Azure
Level: Advanced 300
Resiliency is foundational. Explore how resiliency on Azure enables secure, scalable, AI-ready cloud architectures. Learn to set resilience goals, simulate failures, and orchestrate recovery. See live demos and discover how shared responsibility empowers teams to deliver trusted, resilient outcomes.
Thursday, November 20th, 1:00 PM PST
BRK178: Architecting for resiliency on Azure Infrastructure
Level: Intermediate 200
Discover how to build resilient cloud solutions on Azure by leveraging availability zones, multi-region deployments, and fungible products. This session explores architectural patterns, platform capabilities, and best practices to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and business continuity for mission-critical workloads in dynamic and distributed environments.
Thursday, November 20, 1:00 PM PST
BRK148: Architect resilient apps with Azure backup and reliability features
Level: Advanced 300
Learn to use self-serve tools to strengthen zonal resiliency for critical workloads. Assess and validate resilience across VMs, DBs, and containers. Explore enhanced data and cyber resiliency with immutability and threat detection to guard against ransomware. Discover expanded workload coverage and real-time insights to proactively protect your applications and infrastructure.
Thursday, November 20, 3:30 PM PST
Friday
BRK146: Resiliency and recovery with Azure Backup and Site Recovery
Level: Advanced 300
This session will show how to secure, detect threats, and quickly recover critical workloads across Azure environments using advanced backup and disaster recovery solutions. It covers modern techniques like threat-aware backups, container protection, and seamless disaster recovery to help meet compliance and recovery objectives.
Friday, November 21, 9:00 AM PST
BRK149: Unlock cloud-scale observability and optimization with Azure
Level: Advanced 300
In this session, we'll deep dive into how Azure Monitor delivers end-to-end observability across your cloud and hybrid environments, helping you detect issues early and reduce mean time to recovery. We'll also share how new Copilot in Azure agents can extend this visibility into actionable cost and carbon efficiency insights—helping you identify optimization opportunities, validating recommendations, and streamlining resource performance for business impact.
Friday, November 21st, 10:15 AM PST
BRK173: Azure IaaS best practices to enhance performance and scale
Level: Advanced 300
Azure IaaS can deliver excellent performance and scalability across a broad range of workloads. With high-throughput storage, low-latency networking, and intelligent auto-scaling, Azure supports demanding apps with precision. Learn how to optimize compute, storage, and network resources to meet performance goals, reduce costs, and scale confidently across global regions. Dive into the latest capabilities Azure Boost, Compute Fleet, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage and Networking offer.
Friday, November 21, 10:15 AM PST
BRK172: Powering modern cloud workloads with Azure Compute
Level: Advanced 300
Uncover new VM offerings announcements and explore innovations like Azure Boost. Dive into the latest compute innovation at the core of Azure IaaS. Whether you're running mission-critical enterprise apps or scaling cloud-native services, discover how these innovations are unlocking new value for customers and get a preview of what’s coming next.
Friday, November 21, 11:30 AM PST
BRK168: Azure IaaS platform security deep dive
Level: Advanced 300
As organizations accelerate their cloud adoption, robust security for your Infrastructure as a Service platform is more critical than ever. This session will provide a comprehensive exploration of Azure’s security architecture, best practices, and innovations across four pillars: foundational security, compute security, network security, and storage security. Attendees will gain actionable insights to strengthen their cloud posture, ensure compliance, and protect sensitive workloads.
Friday, November 21st ,11:30 AM PST
Upskill yourself with hands on labs
This section explains that live demos and hands-on labs are exclusively available to those who attend in person, providing them with a direct, firsthand experience.
Tuesday
LAB500: Attain unified observability and optimization in Azure
Level: Intermediate 200
Get an AI-powered view of your Azure workload health and performance while uncovering cost and carbon savings. In this lab, use AI to investigate anomalies, correlate telemetry, and drive optimization. Apply FinOps and sustainability insights, align health with SLI/SLO targets, and improve monitoring posture for lasting efficiency. Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.
Tuesday November 18th, 2:45 PM PST
LAB520: Start, Get and Stay Resilient with Azure
Level: Intermediate 200
Understand the Start, Get, and Stay Resilient journey. Get equipped with tools & insights to architect mission critical applications with Azure’s Resiliency and Configuration experiences. Assess your resiliency posture, apply recommendations, validate your posture and orchestrate recovery. With the Essentials Machine Management bundle from Azure, manage and maintain the state of your resources, enforce configurations across devices and ensure resilience is not a one-time goal but an ongoing state. Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.
Tuesday, November 18th, 4:30 PM PST
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