Announcements and updates

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Compute Retirement: Azure VMware Solution AV36P and AV52 node retirement on June 30, 2029 Microsoft has announced the retirement of Azure VMware…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity, and support for large AI models in fully disconnected environments Microsoft has expanded Microsoft Sovereign…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Compute Encryption at host and disk encryption sets now supported in node auto-provisioning Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters now support both Encryption at…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Compute AMD v6 confidential VMs (DCa/ECa v6) now available in additional regions AMD-based confidential virtual machines in the DCa v6 and ECa…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Microsoft named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025–2026…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Microsoft’s strategic AI datacenter planning for large-scale NVIDIA Rubin deployments Microsoft stated that its long-range Azure datacenter strategy has been designed…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms Microsoft has been recognized as a…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Perth Azure Extended Zone Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of the Perth Azure Extended Zone. Azure Extended Zones are…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Last week marked an important milestone with Microsoft Ignite, which brought a wealth of key updates and innovations from Microsoft. To explore the…

This post is a special edition of my regular “Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates” series, dedicated entirely to the wave of news coming from Microsoft Ignite 2025. As every year, Ignite condenses in a few days an impressive number of announcements across infrastructure, networking, management, AI, and sovereign cloud – so this…