As a leader in cloud infrastructure, Microsoft ensures that Azure’s IaaS customers always have access to the latest hardware. Our goal is to consistently deliver technology to support business critic...

Over the past several years of working with large enterprises, a clear pattern has emerged in conversations about modernizing backup infrastructure. Teams managing large on‑premises estates often usi...

In this post, I’ll share my perspective on designing cloud architectures for near-zero downtime. We’ll explore how adopting multi-region strategies and other best practices can dramatically improve r...

Why observability matters for generative AI Generative AI systems operate in complex and dynamic environments. Without systematic evaluation and monitoring, these systems can produce outputs that a...

Introduction: When an Azure subscription is shifted between directories (Azure AD tenants), the Azure Container Registry (ACR) cannot be directly transferred in its current state. This blog outline...

In the next major step in our AI Infrastructure evolution, last week we introduced Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator engineered to dramatically improve the economics of AI token generati...

Every Copilot prompt or Microsoft Teams call runs on infrastructure most users never see. Behind these experiences across general purpose compute and AI is a purpose-built, end-to-end hardware and so...

Audience: Platform Engineering, Cloud Architects, Security Teams, and Developer Leads Purpose: A practical, opinionated guide to plan, implement, and scale Microsoft Dev Box—covering decisions, tra...

Maia 200 is a breakthrough inference architecture engineered to dramatically shift the economics of large-scale token generation. As Microsoft’s first silicon and system platform optimized specifical...

Introduction As datacenters scale to support modern digital life, so does the challenge of keeping memory reliable. Even very rare DRAM faults can translate into an unacceptable number of uncorrect...