As applications evolve, the cloud-native foundation must evolve with them.

Learn how Azure brings together infrastructure, open-source innovation, smarter operations and cost visibility to help organizations modernize and drive business value: msft.it/6018axcP6

What would you ask Natalie and Hector about building AI for HR?

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Less about which hypervisor to run, more about operating consistently everywhere.

Azure Local and Azure Arc are built for that, and Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms. msft.it/6016aaf9n

Maia 300 is part of an end-to-end Azure system, co-designed across silicon, software, networking, cooling, and datacenter infrastructure.

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Join Azure at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America, Nov. 9–12. Start the week at Microsoft Azure Day with Kubernetes for expert sessions, hands-on labs, and roundtables with the AKS team.

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Digital sovereignty requirements vary by workload, and they keep changing. Microsoft and @intel are building a consistent foundation from edge to cloud, so you can run AI where your data lives, with controls you can verify.

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See how Azure designs across silicon, networking, power, cooling, and security, and collaborates with the OCP community to help the industry scale intelligence more efficiently, reliably, and responsibly: msft.it/6017avzrt

AI agents are moving from answers to actions. But how do you safely run what they create? On Azure Friday, @shanselman and Jan Kalis explore how Azure Container Apps Sandboxes isolate agentic AI workloads.

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Scale cloud native workloads in Azure Linux. In this episode of #AzureFriday, @shanselman and Poorvi Narang explore Azure Linux across WSL, Azure VMs, and AKS, plus its minimal footprint, built-in securities, and Azure Linux 4.0.

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New: the IBM® Spectrum Symphony Provider Plugin for Azure Compute Fleet. Symphony orchestrates the workload, Compute Fleet supplies elastic capacity across Spot and pay-as-you-go VMs.

Partners, here is your burst-to-Azure motion: msft.it/6014aUKSk

Failures happen. But resilience at cloud scale is designed for the assumption that hardware will fail. The question isn't whether components fail. It's whether your architecture assumed they wouldn't.

Read the blog by Mark Russinovich to learn more: msft.it/6014aobJg

IoT helps people learn. Industrial AI helps systems learn. Physical AI helps the process learn. Azure brings the loop together, and Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms. msft.it/6010aoBDE

More compute from every rack. More useful work from every watt. More value from every server and component.

See how Microsoft is modernizing Azure infrastructure while giving retired hardware its next useful life through Circular Centers: msft.it/6012aWaZM

Resiliency is no longer just about disaster recovery. It starts with how you modernize. Learn how Azure helps organizations modernize with confidence through resilient design and operational continuity.

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Azure Red Hat OpenShift with hosted control planes is now in public preview. Modernize applications faster, increase developer velocity, streamline operations, and strengthen security with a fully managed OpenShift experience.

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Every resilient architecture starts drifting the moment it goes live. Code changes. Config changes. Dependencies change.

Read the blog by Mark Russinovich to learn more: msft.it/6019aYTRN

Voice AI usually means a new vendor, a new pipeline, a new dashboard. In Microsoft Foundry, voice is just another agent type: same runtime, same governance, same tools you already use.

Ship it to web, Teams, or phone without rebuilding infrastructure. msft.it/6012acT9s

AI agents need secure places to execute code, run tools, and complete tasks.

Now generally available, Azure Container Apps Sandboxes provide fast, isolated environments for agent workloads without exposing the broader application environment.

See how it works: msft.it/6015a95RR

Claude Opus 5.5 advances agentic coding, knowledge work, collaboration, and adaptive thinking, while using fewer tokens. Lower per-token pricing and cheaper cache reads add to the efficiency gains.

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Your Architecture Diagram is not Your Resilience. A workload can be healthy from an infrastructure perspective and still fail its users, because the dependency that broke was an AI model, not a machine.

New blog and interview with Mark Russinovich: msft.it/6011age7U

AI agents are only as good as the context they can reason over.

That's why we've launched Microsoft IQ Live, a bi-weekly series showcasing hands-on demos, practical architectures, and live product discussions.

If you're building enterprise AI agents to scale your business, Learn more: msft.it/6013a5V97

What if AI could help modernize integration workloads? In this episode of #AzureFriday, @shanselman sits down with Harold Campos to show how the Logic Apps Migration Agent uses agentic refactoring to transform BizTalk and legacy workloads. Watch the full episode: msft.it/6010adzhw

PostgreSQL gives you flexibility. How you operate it is up to you. Whether you're self-managing or using a managed service, understanding the trade-offs matters. Explore key considerations around control, security, cost, resilience, and effort: msft.it/6017admY1

SQL has powered critical business systems for decades. 30 years later, it’s still powering what’s next. Explore the Azure SQL Database Foundations series to modernize workloads, scale for the future, and build intelligent apps faster: msft.it/6017aj5lW

Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. What we build for: solving the coordination challenges that emerge as Kubernetes environments grow across regions, clouds, and the edge. msft.it/6019aZJ6R

We're excited to announce the general availability of Troubleshooting Agent, a unified, built-in Azure Copilot capability that brings together troubleshooting insights, operational context, and recommended actions in a single experience.

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We believe customers make an AI platform choice for what is underneath: governed data and grounded agents. That's how Azure is built, and it's why this recognition matters.

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Azure SRE Agent now offers a 30-day trial with no always-on charges.

Connect to your environments, investigate production issues, automate alert response, and build AI-powered operational workflows. Learn more: msft.it/6012aXmxg

GPT-6 Astra is now generally available. Azure customers can deploy now, in Microsoft Foundry.

With Astra, hosted agents in Foundry automate full workflows right in your environment, with enterprise-grade security, governance, and control.

In F1, the data can't be late.

Michael Taylor explains how the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team streams car data to Azure and creates virtual sensors for split-second engineering decisions: msft.it/6012aViZg

Every AI agent depends on context. Learn how context engineering helps organizations improve answer quality, reduce retrieval costs, and optimize AI agents with Microsoft Foundry.

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Now available in Microsoft Foundry, Fable 5.1 is built for the long jobs: complex coding, multi-step research, enterprise workflows, and agents that plan, use tools, recover from failures, and keep going.

Don’t just test it on a prompt. Try it in a workflow. msft.it/6014aT9yA

Connecting workloads across cloud environments should not take weeks or months. See how organizations can streamline private connectivity between Azure and AWS with a simplified cloud native experience: msft.it/6013aTViD

Proof, not theory: Microsoft Foundry agents help remove operational drag. Leveraging Microsoft IQ and Foundry, AI agents created efficiencies, gave rapid feedback on content, and thousands of Microsoft employee hours have been repurposed to strategic work.

Learn more here: msft.it/6018aroTp

AI cost is about more than tokens. Every agent decision affects the cost of a successful outcome. Learn four ways Microsoft Foundry helps optimize agent costs through smarter routing, caching, and evaluation.

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Grok 4.6 from @spacexai is now available in Microsoft Foundry Models. It brings strong capabilities for coding agents, technical reasoning, and enterprise workflows.

See benchmarks, capabilities, and how to get started: msft.it/6016aPNy2

Intelligent discovery in Marketplace is now generally available worldwide. It helps teams find, compare, and choose cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents faster.

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Vulnerabilities can be exploited within hours of disclosure. Learn how Azure plans to help organizations reduce risk and protect workloads before teams validate and deploy fixes. Read the blog: msft.it/6010aPzce

Model router in Foundry Models now supports the GPT-5.6 family and Claude Opus 4.8, with expanded regional availability.

Read the latest blog to learn why model selection is becoming a continuous optimization loop: msft.it/6016a3D7w

Third consecutive year as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms.

We believe cloud-native platforms are no longer only where modern apps run. They are becoming the foundation for AI transformation. msft.it/6014azhZw

Introducing PostgreSQL Hub. Explore resources, guidance, and tools to help organizations build, optimize, and scale PostgreSQL workloads on Azure.

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See how TeamDynamix uses Azure Cosmos DB, AKS, and Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models to automate IT support, cutting workloads by up to 70%, deflecting up to 60% of tickets, and resolving issues up to 90% faster.

Read the story: msft.it/6016a1Vae

See how Multitude is using Azure to modernize, scale, and innovate with PostgreSQL and MySQL in the cloud.

Discover their journey, key learnings, and what's possible with a cloud-native data platform: msft.it/6019aEsgh

Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Al-Augmented Code Modernization Tools.

The full story: msft.it/6016a1zcu

1,000+ databases. Hundreds of terabytes. Zero data loss.

See how CDK Global migrated its business-critical CRM platform to Azure SQL Managed Instance and built a blueprint for what's next in automotive retail.

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Scale PostgreSQL reads the easy way. In #AzureFriday, @shanselman and Paula Berenguel show how PostgreSQL on Azure uses read replicas and virtual endpoints to handle heavy read workloads, just like OpenAI powers ChatGPT on Postgres.

Watch now: msft.it/6019aBjVL

Kimi K3 is now available on Microsoft Foundry through Fireworks AI. It's a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model from Moonshot AI with a 1 million-token context window.

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Now in Microsoft Foundry: GPT-transcribe and GPT-live-transcribe. Build with high-accuracy transcription for recorded audio and low-latency transcription for live speech.

Read more here: msft.it/6019a6Uzl

OTel2.0 is now available in Microsoft Foundry and the Hugging Face collection. Built by AT&T, it showcases how organizations can move AI from pilot projects to production at scale using Foundry Managed Compute, open models including Phi-4, Gemma-4, GPT-OSS, and AMD MI300X.

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Your agent works in a demo, but does it hold up in production? In this #AzureFriday episode, @shanselman and Sebastian Kohlmeier explore Foundry Observability and show how to trace, evaluate, and optimize agents.

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Meet Claude Opus 5, Anthropic's most advanced Opus model now in Microsoft Foundry. Combined with Microsoft Foundry, organizations can evaluate, build, deploy, and scale enterprise AI with native security controls, governance, and data controls.

Learn more: msft.it/6017v7zMv

Ready to design your app for scale, security, and global demand? Explore how Exclaimer built its high-volume digital signatures solution using Azure Databases to support enterprise workloads: msft.it/6011vfzSP

Your agent worked, it shipped… but it leaked your data.

In this #AzureFriday, @shanselman and Sajeetharan Sinnathurai show how Agent Kit helps catch missing partition key filters, fix fan-out queries, and prevent cross-tenant data leaks.

Watch: msft.it/6016v2QpI