Cloud platform
Learn how we’re building, operating, and scaling cloud platforms across Microsoft using Azure, AI services, and enterprise-scale architectures.
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Protecting anonymity at scale: How we built cloud-first hidden membership groups at Microsoft
Some Microsoft employee groups can’t afford to be visible. For years, we supported email‑based communities internally here at Microsoft whose very existence depends on anonymity.…
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Powering data governance at Microsoft with Purview Unified Catalog
Data fuels everything that we do here at Microsoft, from the daily operations that keep the business running to the innovations that shape the future.…
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Moving from a ‘Scream Test’ to holistic lifecycle management: How we manage our Azure services at Microsoft
Nearly a decade ago, as we began our journey from relying on on-premises physical computing infrastructure to being a cloud-first organization, our engineers came up…
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Vuln.AI: Our AI-powered leap into vulnerability management at Microsoft
In today’s hyperconnected enterprise landscape, vulnerability management is no longer a back-office function—it’s a frontline defense. With thousands of devices from a multitude of vendors,…
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Keeping our in-house optical network safe with a Zero Trust mentality
When it comes to corporate connectivity at Microsoft, a minute of lost connection can lead to catastrophic disruptions for our product teams, sleepless nights for…
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Unleashing API-powered agents at Microsoft: Our internal learnings and a step-by-step guide
Agentic AI is the frontier of the AI landscape. These tools show enormous promise, but harnessing their power isn’t always as straightforward as prompting a…
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Making transportation seamless and efficient with the power of data and AI at Microsoft
It’s full speed ahead for the future of transportation at Microsoft. Five years ago, as a global pandemic shut down offices and commuting ground to…
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Modernizing IT infrastructure at Microsoft: A cloud-native journey with Azure
At Microsoft, we are proudly a cloud-first organization: Today, 98% of our IT infrastructure—which serves more than 200,000 employees and incorporates over 750,000 managed devices—runs…
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Smarter labs, faster fixes: How we’re using AI to provision our virtual labs more effectively
Microsoft Digital stories Providing technical support at an enterprise of our size here at Microsoft is a constant balancing act between speed, quality, and scalability.…
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Eight steps for managing your support team content with AI tools
Microsoft Digital stories Like many large organizations, our support team develops thousands of troubleshooting guides, self-help resources, knowledge base articles, and process documents to guide…
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Securing the borderless enterprise: How we’re using AI to reinvent our network security
The modern enterprise network is complex, to say the least. Enterprises like ours are increasingly adopting hybrid infrastructures that span on-premises data centers, multiple cloud…
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Five principles that guided our network journey to Microsoft Azure and the cloud at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we operate one of the world’s largest IT infrastructures. So, when we embarked on the journey nearly a decade ago to move from…