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Cloud-native Apps Deliver the Scale and Performance That Developers and Organizations Need
Cloud-native Apps Deliver the Scale and Performance That Developers and Organizations Need
From the beginning, our goal at Microsoft has been to provide developers with the best tools and infrastructure to make…
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Scott Guthrie shared thisOne of the things we're seeing is that there is no single infrastructure approach that fits every AI workload. That's why we're continuing to expand Azure's AI and HPC infrastructure portfolio, giving customers more choice in how they build and run AI systems. I am excited to deepen our collaboration with AMD and bring new capabilities to Azure that support the next generation of AI applications and services. Read more at: https://aka.ms/AA11ka7d
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Scott Guthrie shared thisAs cloud systems become more complex, teams need a simpler way to understand what’s happening and respond quickly. The Observability Agent, built on Azure Monitor, brings together signals across applications, infrastructure, and services so teams can move faster from signal to action. This is a meaningful step in how we’re evolving Azure toward a more agentic model for operations, and I look forward to seeing how customers use it. #Azure #AI #CloudComputing #Observability #AIOpsScott Guthrie shared thisI had a chance to put down some thoughts on how AI is changing the way cloud systems behave. Spoiler alert: It's not just about coding agents adding yet more features, it's about understanding the complexity of these cloud native systems we have built over the last decade and continue to expand. Reliability, security and quality, these matter more than any one feature and the complexity of understanding our interconnected infrastructure and services keep growing. Systems are more connected than ever and often the details of those connections are less understood. Loosely coupled systems are way more reliable, and sadly also harder to debug when something goes wrong. New research shows that 84% of organizations report rising cloud complexity, and for 69% of them, it’s already outpacing their operating model. AI can do more than just write code. We’ve been working on an agent to help with operations also, and today, we’re announcing the GA of the Azure Copilot Observability Agent. It pulls together signals across logs, metrics, traces, and infrastructure so you can follow what’s happening. It makes it faster to get from “something broke” to “here’s why” and “here’s what to do next. Leveraging the intelligence of the cloud and the experience of delivering reliable services at scale, it democratizes insights and makes continuous improvement easier than ever. Agentic operations means faster time to understand, time to mitigate and time to root cause for everyone. Proud of the work behind this, and excited to hear from customers on how they are using it to improve workflows. https://lnkd.in/gHEmzpiFRethinking cloud operations with agentic observability - The Official Microsoft BlogRethinking cloud operations with agentic observability - The Official Microsoft Blog
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Scott Guthrie shared thisOne of the best parts of Build is connecting directly with developers, MVPs, and customers. Across conversations this week, two shifts came through consistently: - Agents are becoming a core application pattern - Context is increasingly the differentiator for what works in production You can see this taking shape across Azure from multi-agent orchestration and application tooling to advances in data services like Azure Database for PostgreSQL, along with full-stack investments across our silicon, systems, and datacenters. A key theme is choice. Teams are building in different ways, and our focus is to give developers flexibility across models, tooling, and architectures so they can build and run these systems in production. Really great to spend time with the community and hear how quickly these capabilities are moving into use. Follow the latest Build news here: https://lnkd.in/gezc6iTm #MSBuild #Azure #AI
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Scott Guthrie reposted thisOur Fairwater datacenter in Wisconsin is going live, ahead of schedule. As the world’s most powerful AI datacenter, it will bring together hundreds of thousands of GB200s into a single seamless cluster. Congrats to all the teams who made this possible!Scott Guthrie reposted thisIf intelligence is the log of compute… it starts with a lot of compute! And that’s why we’re scaling our GPU fleet faster than anyone else. Just last year, we added over 2 gigawatts of new capacity – roughly the output of 2 nuclear power plants. And today we’re going further, announcing the world's most powerful AI datacenter, located in southeastern Wisconsin. Fairwater is a seamless cluster of hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200s, connected by enough fiber to circle the Earth 4.5 times. It will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today, enabling AI training and inference workloads at a level never before seen. For AI training workloads, you need compute at exponential scale. That’s why we designed the datacenter, GPU fleet, and network together as one integrated system. This ensures a single job can run from day 1 at exponential scale across thousands of GPUs. Fairwater uses a liquid-cooled closed-loop system for cooling GPUs that requires zero water for operations after construction. And we’re matching all of the energy that is consumed with renewable sources. And of course, it is just one of several similar sites we’re lighting up across our 70+ regions. We have multiple identical Fairwater datacenters under construction in other locations across the US, in addition to our AI infrastructure already deployed in over 100 datacenters around the world, powering model training, test-time compute, RL tuning, and real-time inference at global scale. Too often during times like this, people go with the current and only later wonder, how did we get here? With Fairwater, we're charting a new path: doing the hard engineering work, bringing compute, network, and storage into one highly scaled cluster, and designing closed-loop energy systems to meet real-world computing needs. And partnering with local communities to ensure it's thoughtfully done in a way that is sustainable, creates new jobs, and expands opportunity. We are thrilled to see this take hold in Wisconsin, and we are just getting started. Learn more about Fairwater here: https://lnkd.in/gpdni9gt
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Scott Guthrie shared thisI had a great time meeting with customers in Asia this past week and keynoting the Microsoft AI Tour in Seoul. Across markets, we covered how Microsoft is helping organizations move beyond experimentation with AI and apply it to reshape core business processes, modernize applications, and empower people at scale. This is not about point solutions. It is about rethinking how work gets done end to end, from developer productivity to customer experiences, using platforms teams can trust. That means AI systems built on secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, deeply integrated with data, and engineered to operate reliably in production. Customers are no longer asking whether AI will transform their business. They are asking how to do it responsibly, securely, and in a way that delivers real, measurable value. That continues to shape how we build Azure, from our global infrastructure to our data and AI platforms. Thanks to our customers and partners for the great conversations and insights.
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Scott Guthrie reposted thisScott Guthrie reposted this𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝗗𝗕 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀. Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Azure Databases at Microsoft, is sharing what’s coming at Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026. From building globally distributed apps to handling low latency, elasticity, high availability, and agentic AI, this is what real-world development looks like today. Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 sessions are all about real architectures, real decisions, and production-ready solutions using Azure Cosmos DB and Azure DocumentDB. 📅 April 28, 2026 at 9 AM PT 📺 Streaming live https://lnkd.in/eW-8vjKS 👉 Registration details: https://lnkd.in/edq9p9ZT Come build with us. #AzureCosmosDBConf #AzureCosmosDB #AzureDocumentDBDon’t Miss Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 – Hear from Shireesh ThotaDon’t Miss Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 – Hear from Shireesh Thota
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Scott Guthrie shared thisAs AI workloads get bigger and more complex, we are engineering the full stack from our custom-built silicon all the way to the datacenter. Today we launched Maia 200, our next-generation AI accelerator chip. Maia 200 is an AI inference powerhouse: the most performant first‑party silicon from any hyperscaler, with three times the FP4 performance of Amazon’s third‑generation Trainium and FP8 performance above Google’s seventh‑generation TPU. It’s also the most efficient inference system we’ve ever deployed, delivering 30% better performance per dollar than the latest hardware in our fleet. Already running in our Iowa datacenter with impressive throughput, Maia 200 is accelerating today’s multimodal, multicall AI workloads with faster inference and higher output at scale. Read more in my blog post: https://lnkd.in/gRRc2NdvScott Guthrie shared thisOur newest AI accelerator Maia 200 is now online in Azure. Designed for industry-leading inference efficiency, it delivers 30% better performance per dollar than current systems. And with 10+ PFLOPS FP4 throughput, ~5 PFLOPS FP8, and 216GB HBM3e with 7TB/s of memory bandwidth it's optimized for large-scale AI workloads. It joins our broader portfolio of CPUs, GPUs, and custom accelerators, giving customers more options to run advanced AI workloads faster and more cost-effectively on Azure. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ghvtfJYe
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Scott Guthrie reposted thisScott Guthrie reposted thisToday, we are announcing Microsoft’s five‑point plan for building Community‑First AI Infrastructure, our pledge to build and operate datacenters responsibly as we help power the next generation of AI. Progress must go hand in hand with partnership, and these commitments set a high bar for how we work with communities across the United States. Building AI infrastructure isn’t just about technology, it’s about a long-term view that benefits everyone. https://lnkd.in/eXVJ89dM Watch the livestream: https://lnkd.in/edkNet7u
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Scott Guthrie shared thisLast week at #MSIgnite, I sat down with Corey Noles from The Neuron - AI News to talk about how we’re building the foundation for the AI era. We discussed model choice with partners like OpenAI and Anthropic, the next generation of Microsoft AI datacenters designed for both performance and sustainability, and what’s ahead as AI unlocks capabilities that help customers innovate in ways we can’t yet imagine. Watch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/g5sKpeNsHow much water does a data center use? Microsoft's Scott Guthrie explainsHow much water does a data center use? Microsoft's Scott Guthrie explains
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Great advice Uli, and thank you for all that you've done for Microsoft and our customers over your amazing career!
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Scott Guthrie liked thisScott Guthrie liked thisThroughout this past fiscal year, customers across every industry and segment moved from AI experimentation to deploying AI for real-world business outcomes. We saw the emergence of Frontier Firms as organizations moved beyond efficiency gains to focus on human ambition and embed AI at the core of how they operate, unlocking innovation and creating new opportunities for growth. Successful customers are building an intelligence platform so their unique IQ — their knowledge, data, workflows, applications, and expertise — can continuously compound, ensuring the value of AI accrues to the customer, not the model. They also have a trust platform that is pervasive, with the ability to manage, govern, secure, and measure AI across every business process. Everything we are doing at Microsoft is focused on empowering Frontier Transformation. Copilot enables AI in the flow of human ambition, Microsoft IQ amplifies and protects an organization’s IQ, and Agent 365 is the trust platform that enables observability at every layer of the stack. Businesses are not static, and neither are the AI systems that support them. As organizations evolve, AI systems must continuously learn and improve. Agentic workflows need to be built, observed, and tuned against the outcomes organizations seek and the ROI they demand. Microsoft’s open, model-diverse, and heterogenous platform powers that improvement loop. Looking back on FY26, I am inspired by what our customers are achieving: embedding AI into core business processes, building agentic systems, strengthening security, accelerating innovation, and creating new sources of value. I invite you to read my latest earnings blog to learn how they are bringing Frontier Transformation to life, demonstrating how intelligence, trust, and human ambition come together across industries. aka.ms/FY26Q4Blog
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Scott Guthrie liked thisScott Guthrie liked thisAs sovereignty and regulatory requirements tighten worldwide, infrastructure must evolve. Azure Local is extending Sovereign Private Cloud to support multi rack, high density deployments with Intel Xeon 6 processors, helping government, critical infrastructure, and regulated organizations scale locally with confidence. Find out more: https://msft.it/6045vGbcdMicrosoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local - The Official Microsoft BlogMicrosoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local - The Official Microsoft Blog
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Scott Guthrie liked thisScott Guthrie liked thisAt NVIDIA GTC today, three announcements I'm excited about: 1. Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is GA: with observability, voice, and NVIDIA Nemotron models. Build agents, deploy them at scale, keep them governed. 2. New Azure AI infra for reasoning workloads: optimized for inference, with support for NVIDIA Vera Rubin across global and sovereign environments. 3. Physical AI with NVIDIA: connecting simulation, operational data, and AI-driven action in the real world. The common thread: closing the gap between AI experimentation and production that runs at scale. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gBD2-YPgMicrosoft at NVIDIA GTC: New solutions for Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI infrastructure and Physical AI - The Official Microsoft BlogMicrosoft at NVIDIA GTC: New solutions for Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI infrastructure and Physical AI - The Official Microsoft Blog
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