Jeremy Winter introduces the latest Azure Copilot agents and groundbreaking AI infrastructure at Microsoft Ignite 2025, focusing on modernization, resilience, security, and streamlined operations across cloud environments.

Announcing Azure Copilot Agents and AI Infrastructure Innovations

Author: Jeremy Winter
Event: Microsoft Ignite 2025

Learn about the new capabilities and improvements in Microsoft Azure unveiled during Microsoft Ignite 2025:

Azure Copilot and Agentic Cloud Operations

Azure introduces Azure Copilot—a next-generation AI-powered agentic interface orchestrating specialized agents for platform automation. Key features include:

  • Automation of migration, modernization, optimization, troubleshooting, and resiliency operations
  • A unified governance framework with role-based access control and auditing
  • Six Copilot agents (for migration, deployment, optimization, observability, resiliency, troubleshooting) now in preview
  • Deep compliance, governance, and customer data control (bring-your-own-storage for agent data)

Teams benefit from reduced repetitive tasks, streamlined workflows, and increased focus on architecture and innovation instead of administration.

Learn more about Azure Copilot.
Sign up for the Copilot preview.

Azure’s Expanding AI Infrastructure

Azure continues its investment in advanced infrastructure, with major highlights including:

  • Fairwater Datacenter: The most powerful AI datacenter to date, built for planetary-scale workloads with high-density liquid cooling and a massive interconnect of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs.
  • AI Superfactory: Interconnected sites for global-scale model training and deployment
  • AI WAN: High-speed networking linking sites for rapid data transfer and distributed AI training
  • 1.1 Million Token/Second Processing: Unprecedented language model throughput supporting faster, larger workloads

Latest hardware and network advances empower customers to train larger models, deploy faster, and serve broader audiences with enhanced compliance and trust.

Innovations in Cloud-Native Apps and Data

Azure is lowering the barrier for cloud-native development:

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic: Simplifies Kubernetes cluster management with automation of patching, upgrades, observability, and security
  • Azure Boost: Offloads worker processes for greater throughput (20GB/s managed disk, 1M+ IOPS)
  • New database services: Azure HorizonDB (PostgreSQL-compatible, scalable with AI integration), DocumentDB, and Cosmos DB enhancements
  • SAP and Microsoft Fabric: Improved data sharing and analytics integrations across platforms

Modernizing Workloads and Operations

  • Agentic migration and modernization tools streamline modernization of .NET, Java, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and legacy workloads, minimizing code changes and operational friction
  • App Service Managed Instance allows migration of existing .NET apps without refactoring or containers

Read more on GitHub Copilot app modernization.

Resiliency, Security, and Operational Excellence

Reliability and trust are central to Azure’s infrastructure. New features to strengthen platform operations include:

  • Availability Zones and Zone-Redundant Services: Further expanded and automated for improved reliability
  • Azure Resiliency (public preview): Enables co-engineered recovery objectives, failover testing, and health validation

Security Enhancements

  • Azure Bastion Secure by Default: Automatic hardening for VM remote access
  • Network Security Perimeter: Centralized firewall for secure PaaS access
  • Web Application Firewall with Captcha: Enhanced verification and defense
  • Confidential VMs and containers, hardware attestation, and deep encryption underpin platform-wide protection

Looking Ahead

Azure is doubling down on the agentic, AI-powered, and human-centered vision for the cloud, with innovations spanning infrastructure, services, AI, and operational excellence. The next cloud era is designed to scale smarter, operate securely, and accelerate business transformation.

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