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Welcome to Microsoft Ignite 2023! The past year has been one of true transformation.
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.
Microsoft Azure delivers purpose-built cloud infrastructure in the era of AI
With Azure, you can trust that you are on a secure and well-managed foundation to utilize the latest advancements in AI and cloud-native services.
Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2023
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.
Come build with us: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership unveils new AI opportunities
With these announcements from OpenAI DevDay, developers and enterprises are now poised to explore new horizons, empowered by the combined strengths of Microsoft and OpenAI, and the limitless possibilities of generative AI.
Microsoft recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
This year, Gartner introduced a Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI). We are thrilled to share that Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in this new category.
Introducing Azure Bastion Developer: Secure and cost-effective access to your Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Bastion Developer is a groundbreaking solution that simplifies secure access to Virtual Machines for developers by addressing the common issues of discovery, usability, and cost.
Project Flash update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring
Sharing the latest advancements in improving VM availability monitoring for customers with Project Flash.
FOCUS: A new specification for cloud cost transparency
Get ready for FOCUS, a new open specification for cloud billing data that’s redefining how you manage and optimize cloud costs. Learn about the new “language” of FinOps, why it’s important, and how you can get started today with resources from the Microsoft FinOps toolkit.
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud
The Microsoft Azure Incubations team is excited to announce Radius, a cloud-native application platform that enables developers and platform engineers who support them to collaborate on delivering and managing cloud-native applications that follow corporate best practices for cost, operations, and security, by default.
Microsoft empowers health organizations with generative AI and actionable data insights
We’re making several exciting announcements about new capabilities in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare that will be introduced across Azure to help health organizations improve patient experience, gain new insights with machine learning and AI, and handle health information securely.
Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
We are excited to announce the preview of Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests easily at scale.
Microsoft Azure achieves HITRUST CSF v11 certification
Azure is dedicated to helping healthcare organizations accelerate their digital transformation while ensuring security and compliance in the cloud. Azure provides a secure and compliant cloud platform that enables healthcare organizations to build innovative solutions that improve patient care, operational efficiency, and business agility.