Incubating the next wave of cloud-native innovation.
The Azure Office of the CTO is where Azure experiments, innovates, and collaborates to shape the future of the cloud through cutting-edge research and open-source projects.
Radius
A cloud-native application platform that enables developers and platform engineers to collaborate on delivering and managing cloud-native applications.
Drasi
A data processing platform that simplifies detecting changes in data and taking immediate action.
Dapr
A portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications.
KEDA
Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling. KEDA allows for fine-grained autoscaling (including to/from zero) for event driven Kubernetes workloads.
The Azure Incubations team drives innovation across Azure, Microsoft, and the broader cloud ecosystem through bold experimentation and strategic collaboration. By developing open technologies that address emerging cloud-native challenges, the team transforms ideas into impactful solutions that advance the state of the industry.
In keeping with Microsoft's commitment to open innovation, Azure Incubations donates key intellectual property to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), advancing an open, sustainable cloud-native ecosystem shaped by contributors worldwide.
— Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
Our Focus
We incubate technologies that shape the future of cloud computing.
Cloud-native Platforms
Boosting developer productivity with modern cloud-native toolchains
Microservices & Distributed Systems
Resilient patterns for building and connecting modular cloud systems
Event-driven & Serverless
Scalable, on-demand architectures that respond to events in real time
Observability & Operations
Ensuring reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence at scale
Our Approach
How we innovate and collaborate
Open Source
We believe open source is the fastest path to innovation. Our projects are built in the open, contributing to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and strengthening the cloud-native community.
Collaboration
Great ideas grow when shared. We work side by side with Microsoft teams, open source contributors, and enterprise partners to turn innovation into solutions that scale.