Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local
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Announcements
Stay informed with the latest breakthroughs and innovations in cloud technology, directly from the experts at Microsoft Azure. Our announcements section is your go-to source for new features and pathways to empower your digital transformation.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform
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.
Introducing Azure Accelerate for Databases: Modernize your data for AI with experts and investments
Azure Accelerate for Databases helps organizations modernize their databases and build AI-ready capabilities.
Optimize object storage costs automatically with smart tier—now generally available
By continuously optimizing data placement, smart tier ensures your storage costs are aligned with actual usage.
Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Sovereign Cloud Platforms
Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Sovereign Cloud Platforms, recognizing Microsoft Sovereign Cloud leadership in evolving sovereignty needs.
Building sovereign AI at the edge: Microsoft and Armada collaborate to deliver Azure Local on Galleon modular datacenters
Explore how Microsoft and Armada bring sovereign AI to the edge with Azure Local, enabling secure, resilient workloads in disconnected and regulated environments.
AI for nuclear energy: Powering an intelligent, resilient future
To break the infrastructure bottleneck and shift the industry from ambition to delivery, Microsoft is announcing an AI for nuclear collaboration with NVIDIA, to provide end-to-end tools that streamline permitting, accelerate design, and optimize operations across the industry.
FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform
We’re bring attendees together to share real experiences and solve challenges side-by-side. Only together can we move into meaningful results.
Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC: New solutions for Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI infrastructure and Physical AI
Microsoft combines accelerated computing with cloud scale engineering to bring advanced AI capabilities to our customers. For years, we’ve worked with NVIDIA to integrate hardware, software and infrastructure to power many of today’s most important AI breakthroughs.
Many agents, one team: Scaling modernization on Azure
We’re announcing the first agentic end-to-end modernization solution that brings IT and developers into a single, connected workflow.
Introducing Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry: Bringing high performance, low latency open model inference to Azure
We’re announcing the public preview of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry, bringing high‑performance open model inference into Azure.
Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry
Today, we’re announcing OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 to be generally available soon in Microsoft Foundry: a model designed to help organizations move from planning work to reliably completing it in production environments.