Inside Azure Innovations

Explore the latest innovations in Azure architecture with Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure, in this 47-minute conference talk. Discover how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge. Learn about cutting-edge technologies such as single-phase immersion cooling, live migration, hot patching, hypervisor hot restart, storage offload, accelerated networking, Azure Elastic SAM, containerization, Azure Functions, warm pooling, confidential computing, trusted execution enclaves, Azure Key Vault with Managed HSM, key release policy, and quantum computing. Gain insights into superconducting qubits, trapped ions, and topological qubits. The talk concludes with a discussion on the "Mega Godzilla Beast" concept, providing a comprehensive overview of Azure's advanced capabilities and future directions in cloud computing.