A few weeks back I wrote that Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 was coming your way on May 19-21, 2026, and that we were building it for the people who actually keep the lights on, IT pros, platform engineers, SREs, and infrastructure teams.
Hello Folks,
I promised the full agenda would drop soon. Today’s the day. The schedule is locked in, the approved sessions are on the board, and I want to walk you through what three days of deep-technical, engineering-led Azure content looks like.
A quick refresher before we get into the content: this event is free, it’s virtual, and it’s built by engineering for engineering. Most sessions are at the L300–L400 level, which means we’re skipping the marketing slide and getting straight to the architecture, the gotchas, and the “here’s what actually happens in production” stories you came for.
We’re starting at 8:00 AM Pacific each day and running solid technical content through the afternoon. You can still register here (https://aka.ms/MAIS-reg)
We organized the three days around the pillars our community keeps coming back to, Build, Operate, and Optimize. Day 1 leans into Build so you leave the keynote with momentum, Day 2 bridges Build into Operate (where most of us actually spend our workdays), and Day 3 is pure Optimize, resiliency, cost, performance, and networking, before we close things out.
The full 3-day agenda (all times Pacific) Online Schedule Here
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Day 1, Mon, May 19 · BUILD |
Day 2, Tue, May 20 · BUILD + OPERATE |
Day 3, Wed, May 21 · OPTIMIZE + Closing |
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8:00 KEYNOTE: Welcome & Azure Infrastructure Vision |
8:00, Build and Optimize a Data Lakehouse for Unified Data Intelligence |
8:00, Achieving Zonal Resiliency in Azure Infrastructure |
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9:00, Build a Sovereign Private Cloud with Azure Local |
8:45, Designing Azure Networks That Scale: From Small Deployments to Enterprise-Grade |
8:30, Architecting Resilient Azure Platforms: Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR by Design |
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9:45, The Azure Deployment Agent: How AI Turns a Prompt into a Production-Ready Workload |
9:30, From Alert to Resolved: Building a Self-Healing Azure Platform with SRE Agent |
9:00, Optimizing EDA & HPC Pipelines on Azure: High-Performance Shared Storage with Azure NetApp Files |
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10:15, ALZ IaC Accelerator: Deploy Your Azure Platform Landing Zone with IaC |
10:15, Agentic Migrations & Modernization |
9:30, Elastic SAN for AVS Datastores: Best Price-Performance External Storage |
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11:00, Building Secure, Well-Architected Azure Workloads by Default with Azure Verified Modules and GitHub Copilot |
10:45, Simplifying File Share Management and Control for Azure Files |
10:00, Premium SSD v2 Disk: Best Price-Performance Block Storage for VMs and Containers |
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11:45, Best Practices for Infrastructure as Code CI/CD on Azure |
11:30, Marketplace Image Protection: Safeguarding Workloads Through Patching and Graceful Deprecation |
10:45, Optimizing File Storage for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads on Azure |
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12:30, Modern Ingress for AKS: Introducing Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) |
12:00, Operating Hybrid at Scale: Real-World Azure Arc Patterns for Governance, Security, and Cost Control |
11:30, Cut Storage Costs, Boost ROI: Optimizing Your Storage TCO on Azure Object Storage |
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13:15, End-to-End Security on AKS Using Azure Application Gateway for Containers with Managed Cilium |
12:45, Run At-Scale On-Premises and Cloud Assessments and Migrations to Azure Storage |
12:15, How to Build Resilient Networks Using Azure Networking, What’s New in Azure Software Load Balancing |
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14:00, Deployment Stacks: Getting Started |
13:30, Modernize VDI with Azure Files and Entra Cloud-Native Identities |
13:00, AKS Networking at Scale, CNI, Security, and Multi-Cluster Networking with Accelerated Performance |
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14:30, Accelerating Automated VM Image Pipelines with Azure Image Builder and Azure Compute Gallery |
14:15, Operating Azure Backup at Scale: Day-2 Excellence for IaaS, PaaS, and Storage Workloads |
13:45, Kubenet Deprecation, Futureproofing AKS IPAM and Dataplane Configurations |
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15:00, Troubleshooting Kubernetes Networking with an AI Diagnostic Assistant |
14:15, Implement Zero-Tolerance Downtime Web Apps with Azure Front Door |
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14:45, Closing: Azure Infrastructure Applied Skills and Certifications |
What to do right now
- Block your calendar, May 19, 20, and 21, 8:00 AM PT start each day. Check out www.azureinfrasummit.com for more information.
- Register, it’s free.
- Pick your sessions, the online schedule has ICS files for each session. Build your personal track across Build, Operate, and Optimize.
- Bring your team, the agenda is deliberately wide: platform engineers, SREs, storage folks, network folks, AKS operators, IaC builders, and backup/DR owners will all find their sessions.
We put a lot of work into making sure every slot earned its place, these are engineering-delivered, production-grounded, no-fluff sessions. The speakers are the people shipping the features you’re using in Azure.
Can’t wait to see you online May 19–21.
Until then,
Cheers!
Pierre Roman
Microsoft