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- Aug 21
- 6 min read
Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms
We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for a second year in a row, and the furthest to the right in Completeness of Vision.

- Announcements
- Jul 7
- 4 min read
Introducing Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
Announcing the public preview of Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry—an API and SDK-based offering of OpenAI’s advanced agentic research capability.

- Announcements
- Jun 23
- 4 min read
Celebrating innovation, scale, and real-world impact with Serverless Compute on Azure
We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has been recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025.

- Announcements
- Nov 12, 2024
- 4 min read
Microsoft is a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Application Platform
We are excited to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. In this report, Gartner placed Microsoft furthest in Completeness of Vision.

- Announcements
- Aug 13, 2024
- 6 min read
GitHub scales on demand with Azure Functions
Flex Consumption delivers fast and large scale-out features on a serverless model and supports long function execution times, private networking, instance size selection, and concurrency control.

- IT implementors
- Jun 13, 2024
- 6 min read
Get the best value in your cloud journey with Azure pricing offers and resources
This blog post will show you how to approach and think about pricing throughout your cloud adoption journey.

- Announcements
- Mar 12, 2024
- 4 min read
Microsoft named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service
We’re thrilled to announce that Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service. It’s the sixth time in a row that we’ve been recognized.

- Partnerships
- Dec 15, 2023
- 5 min read
Key customer benefits of the Microsoft and MongoDB expanded partnership
Microsoft’s mission is to empower everyone to achieve more, and we know that our customers like using MongoDB to build applications.
- Thought leadership
- Sep 14, 2023
- 4 min read
Real-world sustainability solutions with Azure IoT
With technologies like open industrial IoT, advanced analytics, and AI, Microsoft Azure ensures manufacturing organizations are well-equipped to understand, mitigate, and validate their environmental impacts.
- Announcements
- May 25, 2021
- 4 min read
Build cloud-native applications that run anywhere
It is Microsoft’s mission to empower the next generation of developers with world-class tools and cloud services that allow them to build the applications of the future. These applications of the future will be intelligent, infused with AI to provide advanced insights.
- Announcements
- Mar 30, 2021
- 2 min read
Microsoft named a Leader in Forrester Wave: Function-as-a-Service Platforms
There are some use cases of serverless that need to be stateful—such as long-running workflows, human approved processes, and e-commerce shopping cart applications. Durable Functions, an extension to the Azure Functions runtime that brings stateful and orchestration capabilities to serverless functions.
- Best practices
- Oct 7, 2020
- 4 min read
Three ways serverless APIs can accelerate enterprise innovation
With the wrong architecture, application programming interface (APIs) can be a bottleneck to not only your applications, but to your entire business. Bottlenecks such as downtime, low performance, or high application complexity, can result in exaggerated infrastructure and organizational costs as well as lost revenue.
