Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI

By Dustin Ward

Building a cloud-native foundation for AI The relationship between model innovation and AI infrastructure has never been more clear; as AI becomes more capable, the platform underneath it matters even more. Agents are fundamentally changing how applications work, and with that, what organizations need from the cloud. Learn how to build a cloud-native AI foundation…

Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel

By Dustin Ward

Developers building web and AI applications on Vercel can now add Amazon S3 storage resources directly from the Vercel Marketplace and v0, combining the durability, scalability, and performance of S3 with the convenience of Vercel’s provisioning workflow. Starting today, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), including Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon S3 Vectors, is natively…

Advancing hardware security with open-source Integrated HSM technology

By Dustin Ward

At this year’s OCP Global Summit, Microsoft announced Project Tessera, the evolution of the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module (HSM), into a fully open-source initiative developed in collaboration with Marvell®, Oracle, and Open Compute Project (OCP). Project Tessera advances our broader commitment to open, industrywide standards for platform security. The motivation behind Project Tessera is…

Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft, our vision is to build a Frontier Firm: one where people and technology work together, combining human expertise, context, and judgment with technology that can extend intelligence throughout everyday work. The potential is significant: helping people create, solve complex problems, and make progress on some of society’s most consequential challenges. But realizing that…