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…
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…
Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event. Prime Day ran back in June, so this post always lands as…
From its inception, Azure Maia has been built around a single architectural philosophy: optimize the entire system for LLM inference so that every watt and every dollar delivers more intelligence. Now in its third generation, Maia 300 is the fullest expression of that philosophy. Maia 300 is built as a complete system, with software, silicon,…
Today, we’re announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions, a new form factor that lets you run standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting your code into an event handler. You can take a standard port-listening server built with Express, Hono, Fastify, Next.js, or any Node.js framework, deploy it with a single command, and Lambda automatically…
AI infrastructure is a system, and every part of that system is connected. Decisions made in silicon and systems design influence how infrastructure is sourced, deployed, and operated across the fleet. And what we learn once that hardware is running can inform what we build next. This feedback matters because the system never stands still.…