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At Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows.
Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for scalable, agentic applications.
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving developers and enterprises access to Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work.
With Cilium-based cross-cluster networking, we are delivering a managed, high-performance network that can span your entire fleet.
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Entra-Only identities for Azure Files SMB. With native Microsoft Entra ID authentication, organizations can now grant secure, identity-based access to SMB file shares using cloud-native-only identities.
PostgreSQL has become foundational to how modern applications are built. It powers everything from early‑stage startups to some of the most demanding production systems in the world.
As cloud workloads become more agentic and AI systems handle increasingly sensitive data, trust must be engineered directly into infrastructure. Azure Integrated HSM brings hardware‑enforced key protection into Azure, extending cryptographic trust from silicon to services through verifiable and transparent design.
Azure Local scales Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud, supporting AI and data workloads with full control, compliance, and disconnected operations.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work.
Azure Accelerate for Databases helps organizations modernize their databases and build AI-ready capabilities.
By continuously optimizing data placement, smart tier ensures your storage costs are aligned with actual usage.
Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Sovereign Cloud Platforms, recognizing Microsoft Sovereign Cloud leadership in evolving sovereignty needs.
