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- Announcements
- Oct 9
- 3 min read
Microsoft Azure delivers the first large scale cluster with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for OpenAI workloads
Microsoft delivers the first at-scale production cluster with more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs connected through the next-generation NVIDIA InfiniBand network.

- Thought leadership
- Sep 23
- 4 min read
How Azure Cobalt 100 VMs are powering real-world solutions, delivering performance and efficiency results
Cobalt 100 systems are designed to deliver high performance, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness for a wide range of workloads.

- Best practices
- Aug 25
- 4 min read
Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems
At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud.

- Announcements
- Jul 23
- 5 min read
Project Flash update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring
Flash enables rapid detection of issues originating from the Azure platform, helping teams respond quickly to infrastructure-related disruptions.

- Events
- May 5
- 4 min read
Unlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025
Learn more about the solutions that Microsoft and Red Hat have to offer that drive technological advancements and empower organizations.

- Announcements
- Mar 18
- 7 min read
Microsoft and NVIDIA accelerate AI development and performance
Together, Microsoft and NVIDIA are accelerating some of the most groundbreaking innovations in AI. We are excited to continue innovating with several new announcements from Microsoft and NVIDIA that further enhance our full stack collaboration.

- Announcements
- Oct 16, 2024
- 8 min read
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). These VMs run on Microsoft’s first fully custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU and represent a significant milestone in our end-to-end approach to building cloud infrastructure.

- Announcements
- Oct 2, 2024
- 2 min read
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.

- Announcements
- Apr 1, 2024
- 4 min read
New infrastructure for the era of AI: Emerging technology and trends in 2024
We recently published our Microsoft Azure: The State of AI Infrastructure report. This is the first-ever report of its kind, which discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with leveraging AI infrastructure.

- Thought leadership
- Mar 27, 2024
- 4 min read
Microsoft Azure delivers game-changing performance for generative AI Inference
Microsoft Azure has delivered industry-leading results for AI inference workloads amongst cloud service providers in the most recent MLPerf Inference results published publicly by MLcommons.

- Announcements
- Oct 30, 2023
- 6 min read
Project Flash update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring
Sharing the latest advancements in improving VM availability monitoring for customers with Project Flash.
- Announcements
- Jun 1, 2023
- 4 min read
Increase gaming performance with NGads V620-series virtual machines
The NGads V620 series has GPU, CPU, and memory resources that are balanced to generate and stream high-quality graphics for a high-performance, interactive gaming experience hosted in Azure. This allows online gaming providers the power and stability that they need while remaining cost conscious.
