We're excited to announce the public preview of automatic zone balance for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. This new capability helps you maintain zone-resilient workloads with zero manual inter...

Co-authors: Mukhtar Ahmed, Shekhar Agrawal, Harish Luckshetty, Vinay Nagarajan, Jie Su, Sri Harsha Kanukuntla, David Maldonado, Shardul Dabholkar. Keeping virtual machines running smoothly is essen...

Today, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of Azure’s new AMD based Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ (Turin) processors. These VMs include general-purpose (Dasv7, Dals...

In a competitive landscape, Microsoft Azure, like other major cloud service providers, must continuously balance two competing objectives: maximizing performance and improving power efficiency. By us...

Ignite 2025 highlighted a clear trend across customer and partner discussions: modern workloads—AI inference, data-intensive analytics, and globally distributed applications—require infrastructure th...

We’re excited to announce the public open-source release of Golazo! Golazo is an open-source framework designed to help engineering teams work efficiently and transparently. It’s designed for real-...

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Metadata Security Protocol (MSP), an industry-first innovation designed to mitigate vulnerabilities at the platform layer. Azure becomes th...

Authored by Misha Bansal, Product Manager, Azure Compute  We are excited to announce the public preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 Virtual Machines, powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Pl...

Managing VMs at scale in Azure can be a pain. Subscription throttling can prevent your operations from being received, and having to track and retry intermittent failures adds extra overhead. Schedul...

In today's cloud-driven world, ensuring the resiliency and recoverability of critical resources is top of mind for organizations of all sizes. Azure Compute Gallery (ACG) continues to evolve, introdu...