Announcing the availability of Azure OpenAI Data Zones and latest updates from Azure AI
Summarizing new capabilities this month across Azure AI portfolio that provide greater choices and flexibility to build and scale AI solutions.
Announcements
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Windows Server 2025 now generally available, with advanced security, improved performance, and cloud agility
Generally available today, Windows Server 2025 builds on our mission to deliver a secure and high-performance Windows Server platform tailored to meet customers’ diverse needs. -
Microsoft Cost Management updates—September 2024
We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. -
Microsoft named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services
We are honored to again be recognized by Gartner® as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. -
Microsoft recognized once again as a Leader for its Ability to execute and Completeness of vision in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
Microsoft recognized again as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure for the second consecutive year. -
Leverage Microsoft Azure tools to navigate NIS2 compliance
Microsoft Azure helps organizations build NIS2 compliance strategies with robust cybersecurity, centralized management, and continuous monitoring. -
Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines are now generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Azure Cobalt 100 Virtual Machines (VMs). -
Unlocking next-generation AI capabilities with healthcare AI models
Existing language models have revolutionized how we interact and use powerful AI models for text-based use cases in healthcare. -
Unlock your data with AI solutions from the Microsoft commercial marketplace
The Microsoft commercial marketplace offers AI solutions to enhance data interaction, streamline processes, and accelerate innovation for businesses. -
Drasi: Microsoft’s newest open-source project simplifies change detection and reaction in complex systems
Drasi is Microsoft’s new open-source project that simplifies change detection and reaction in complex systems, enhancing real-time event-driven architectures. -
Microsoft launches latest Azure virtual machines optimized for AI supercomputing, the ND H200 v5 series
Our customers rely on Azure AI infrastructure to develop innovative AI-driven solutions, which is why we are delivering new cloud-based AI-supercomputing clusters built with Azure ND H200 v5 series virtual machines (VMs) today. -
Announcing new products and features for Azure OpenAI Service including GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview with audio and speech capabilities
We are thrilled to announce the public preview of GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview for audio and speech, a major enhancement to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service that adds advanced voice capabilities and expands GPT-4o’s multimodal offerings.
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