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Microsoft Fabric and SQL innovations announced at FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026 help organizations build trusted data foundations for AI. The post FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and agents appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Our Virtual Machine Lifecycle policy guides how we manage these transitions, giving Azure customers transparency, predictability, and guidance. The post Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine lifecycle appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

The best model for your business will keep changing. Adopting it should move your business forward, not send your team back to rebuild the architecture around it. The post Ship agents faster with expanded model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

For years, resilience was something you set up once. That kept the lights on, but it treated resilience as a project with an end date rather than a property you maintain. The post Your architecture diagram is not your resilience appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

The organizations pulling ahead are not simply adding AI to what they already have. They are designing for a different kind of software. The post Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Explore GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and GPT-6 Luna in Microsoft Foundry, with scalable model options for production AI agents, complex workflows, and high-volume tasks. The post GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a multi-step business process. The post Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Gartner highlighted Microsoft’s unified single-product architecture, flexibility across hyperconverged and disaggregated architectures, and more. The post Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. Discover how AKS, Azure Arc, and Azure Container Apps help organizations run AI and hybrid workloads at scale. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Modernization only succeeds when organizations have confidence that their infrastructure can withstand disruption and continue supporting critical operations. The post The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .