I was always drawn to the Azure Portal's user-friendly interface and visual cohesiveness, never realizing how time-consuming and error-prone the process of manually setting up infrastructure could be.

At Build today, the software giant unveiled an array of infrastructure improvements for its Azure cloud, covering Azure Stack and Stack Hub, Azure Peering Service, Azure Monitor and more.

The Azure Cobalt CPU, named after the blue pigment, is a 128-core chip that’s built on an Arm Neoverse CSS design and customized for Microsoft. It’s designed to power general cloud services on ...