1. Executive Summary Enterprise cloud adoption increasingly prioritizes trust boundaries that extend beyond traditional infrastructure isolation. While encryption at rest and in transit are foundat...

Overview Azure Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) provide hardware-enforced protection for sensitive workloads by encrypting data in use using AMD SEV-SNP technology. In enterprise environments...

Building reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines is crucial for modern cloud applications. Harness — with its powerful pipeline orchestration — integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Azure, enabling teams ...

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...