Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA Transform Cloud AI Infrastructure
On March 19, 2026, at the NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft announced a deep integration of Azure with NVIDIA for industrial AI. Updates to Foundry and Azure AI infrastructure focus on inference tasks and real-world deployment. This strengthens Azure's position in the competition with AWS and Google Cloud, where the AI market is growing by 40% annually. It is important for businesses in Central Asia to monitor these shifts to optimize AI costs.






