Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
Today, we are announcing AWS Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive within AWS Lambda that lets you run code generated by users or AI in isolated, stateful execution environments.…
You get virtual machine level isolation, near-instant launch and resum…
Lambda MicroVMs are powered by Firecracker, the same lightweight virtu…
Why customers need this Over the past few years a new class of multi-t…
Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager
If you manage TLS certificates for your applications, you know the challenge: certificates expire, and when they do, your customers see errors or your service goes down.…
As certificate validity periods get shorter (the Certification Authori…
You need automation.
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) is an open protoco…
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available
When you run compute-intensive workloads like real-time analytics, batch processing, video encoding, scientific modeling, or CPU-based machine learning inference, every percentage point of performance matters.…
You need instances that deliver higher throughput per vCPU, faster mem…
Today I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon Elasti…
C9g instances are compute-optimized and deliver up to 25% higher perfo…
Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode
Today, we’re announcing AWS CloudFormation Express mode, a new deployment mode that accelerates deployments for developers and AI tools iterating on infrastructure.…
Express mode accelerates deployments by completing when CloudFormation…
This reduces deployment time by up to 4 times for iterative developmen…
How it works Every CloudFormation deployment performs stabilization ch…
Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio
Takeaway: Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production.…
You don’t know with certainty that your application is resilient until…
Better to learn it isn’t by deliberately breaking it in a test environ…
Azure Chaos Studio is our managed service for doing exactly that, safe…
Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved
In this article Resiliency as a shared responsibility, not a handoffPlatform foundations that reflect reality: zones, regions, and sovereigntyAzure features and capabilities strengthen resiliency outcomesBridging intent to execution through experiences on AzureHow you can build Resilience in AzureAzure Essentials Resiliency in the cloud is often described in terms of availability, such as how quickly a system fails over, how many replicas exist, or what a service-level agreement guarantees.…
But for most organizations today, especially those operating in regula…
It is the ability to continue operating under pressure, protect what m…
A useful way to think about this is not a system problem, but a city p…
Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks
Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door.Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back.…
The community is making real progress here, and KEP-4330 introduces em…
But in practice this constraint has pushed organizations to build elab…
With Kubernetes releasing three minor versions per year, teams managin…
Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.…
We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way …
If one service called another directly and that service was slow or un…
Message queuing solved this by letting services communicate asynchrono…
What’s new todayGPT‑5.6 is generally available in Microsoft Foundry, alongside the Asia-Pacific Data Zone, and hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service.…
AI only creates value when it shows up in real systems—systems that ar…
More than 100,000 organizations are already building on Microsoft Foun…
At Microsoft Build, we laid out a simple promise for the agentic era: …
Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value.…
It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-enginee…
Discover Azure Databricks The advantage is built-in, not bolted on.
Microsoft and Databricks co-engineer the service, share one integratio…
AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD
First-of-its-kind telecom AI deployment Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operations.…
To address that gap, AT&T created their Open Telco (OTel) models, the …
Building OTel2.
0 required more than training a large language model, it reflected a b…
What customers value most in Microsoft Databases—from reliability to AI readiness
In this article What customers consistently value Turning customer feedback into innovation Thank you to our customers and community Every day, customers trust Microsoft Databases to power their most critical applications, business processes, and AI-powered experiences.…
Continuous customer feedback provides valuable insights into how these…
I’m honored to share that Microsoft Databases have received multiple 2…
This year, PeerSpot recognized: SQL Server as a Tech Leader in Databas…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)
Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners.…
What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a …
People traded architecture ideas over coffee, sketched out solutions o…
It’s a good reminder that, for all the tooling we build, the community…
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools
In this article Cloud-native modernizationThe problem we set out to solveHow it worksWhere we believe we stand apartThe results that make it realThis is the starting line Microsoft has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools, which recognizes software solutions that use specialized AI agents, generative AI, and deterministic analysis to accelerate the transformation of legacy systems.…
We are proud of our placement as a Leader in this first edition of the…
For years, modernization and innovation competed for the same budget, …
Now the math has changed: modernization is no longer the tax teams pay…
The Economics of Agent Optimization: From pilots to measurable returns
This blog post is the first of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry.…
The AI conversation in most enterprises has moved from the whiteboard …
Two years ago, the question was whether AI could work.
The question leaders are asking now is sharper and less comfortable: i…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)
Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community.…
The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global …
Day 1 started with an inspiring fireside chat from AWS CEO Matt Garman.
From an insightful AMA with James Hamilton on Day 2 to breakout sessio…