Azure Workloads
What’s new?
- 🚀 Transition an existing Azure environment to the Azure landing zone reference architecture
Deep links
- Transition an existing Azure environment to the Azure landing zone reference architecture: Recommendations to help your organization navigate changes based on your existing Azure environment that’s transitioning into the Azure landing zone reference architecture. This article describes considerations for moving resources, subscriptions, and scenarios for alignment. (Microsoft Learn)
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Data & AI Workloads
What’s new?
- 🔎 IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms
- 📈 The New Future of Work Report 2025
- 🐘 Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users
- 🤖 AI Agents for Beginners - A Curriculum
- 🎙️ Engineering a Local-First Agentic Podcast Studio
Deep links
- IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms: Microsoft recognized as a Leader for 2025-2026, underscoring its commitment to safe and responsible enterprise AI through end-to-end unified governance. (IDC)
- The New Future of Work Report 2025: Research exploring the impact of AI on communication, collaboration, and productivity in the workplace, with recommendations for building a future-ready workforce. (Microsoft Research)
- Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users: OpenAI shares how Azure PostgreSQL flexible server scales to millions of queries per second for hundreds of millions of global ChatGPT users—architecture, optimization, and best practices. (OpenAI Engineering)
- AI Agents for Beginners - A Curriculum: A 12+ lesson course covering foundational and advanced topics in building AI agents, with practical code examples using Microsoft technologies. (GitHub)
- Engineering a Local-First Agentic Podcast Studio: Deep dive into multi-agent orchestration using Microsoft Agent Framework and local SLMs, with privacy-focused edge deployment scenarios. (Tech Community)
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Digital Apps and Innovation Workloads
What’s new?
- 🚀 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms
Deep links
- Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms: Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms, and is positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision. Microsoft Foundry is presented as the unified platform for building, deploying, and governing AI applications. (Gartner 2025)
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Power Platform Workloads
What’s new?
- 🧑💻 Architecting agent solutions: Principles and patterns
Deep links
- Architecting agent solutions: Principles and patterns: Guidance for architecting agents using established patterns and best practices, covering fit for purpose, operability, trust and transparency, and search and tool use architectures. (Microsoft Learn)
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Security Workloads
What’s new?
- 🛡️ SFI Patterns and Practices Library: Actionable security guidance aligned to the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) pillars
- 🤖 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense: Microsoft recognized as a leader in AI defense and governance
Deep links
- SFI Patterns and Practices Library: Explore actionable security patterns and practices to scale securely, organized under six SFI security pillars. (Microsoft Trust Center)
- KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense: Microsoft earns recognition as an overall leader for enterprise-grade AI security and governance. (Microsoft Tech Community)
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