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Articles by Greg Crist
Global Cloud Solutions Architect, Elastic

The essential Elastic 2026 wrap-up for Microsoft Build attendees and Azure developers
Elastic's 2026 releases included multimodal search via Elastic Inference Service, OpenTelemetry metrics at 3.75 bytes per data point, agent context memory at scale, and open source CI/CD pipeline security. It’s the catch-up your stack needs.
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Elasticsearch: The context engine for grounding and orchestration in Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
The native integration of Elasticsearch with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Agent Service ensures that AI agents are always grounded in enterprise truth, delivering verifiable and relevant outcomes without using organization data to train public LLMs.

Elastic strengthens AI security integration with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Model Catalog
Elastic’s partnership with Microsoft and integration with the Azure AI Foundry Model Catalog showcases our dedication to harnessing a full range of AI capabilities and enhances our security frameworks to remain agile and robust against cyber threats.

Elasticsearch achieves Certified Software Solution status for Microsoft Azure
Elastic has achieved another significant milestone by becoming a Certified Software Solution for Microsoft Azure. This rigorous validation process ensures that Elastic adheres to Microsoft’s high standards for security, performance, and reliability.

Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure: Coming soon!
Elastic is expanding cloud capabilities via a serverless product on Microsoft Azure. This new solution simplifies deployment, scales automatically, and integrates seamlessly with Azure services, enhancing performance and reducing management overhead.
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