Elastic and Microsoft partnership achievements in 2025

Highlights of another successful year of customer-centric collaboration

Jake Pollock Lisa Troshian Brian Bergholm Greg Crist

December 12, 2025

Once again, our partnership delivered an impressive year of innovation with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure OpenAI. This blog highlights our continued collaboration with Microsoft to better serve customers throughout 2025 and our key moments at Microsoft Ignite.

Another year of innovation in a multiyear journey with Microsoft

When you work as closely with a partner as we do with Microsoft, the synergies surface rapidly. We’ve spent the year building joint solutions across a variety of areas. Below is a snapshot of our combined efforts to help customers benefit from advancements in infrastructure, AI, and security.

Microsoft Azure	Launched Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure and expanded into additional regions with support for Azure native integration using Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service and CosmosDB to build a highly scalable and resilient solution Launched a vector search optimized hardware profile and single sign-on support with Microsoft Entra ID in Elastic Cloud Implemented encryption in Elastic Cloud with BYOK in Azure Key Vault
AI	Launched the availability of hybrid search capabilities in the .NET Elasticsearch Semantic Kernel connector. Deepened our large language model (LLM) monitoring with content filter monitoring enhancements with Azure OpenAI content filtering and cost analysis Implemented Elastic as the first vector database in Semantic Kernel Launched LLM observability: Azure OpenAI integration
Security	Elastic strengthened AI security integration with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry model catalog Launched Elastic AI SOC Engine (EASE) to add AI capabilities for Microsoft Sentinel customers using Elastic Attack Discovery and Elastic AI Assistant

Customer case studies

We love to help customers address their use cases and overcome challenges using Elastic solutions on Microsoft Azure. Below are a handful of these examples.

With Elasticsearch, Seismic saw a 10x improvement in search speed and relevancy for its sales organization.
Stack Overflow was able to combine the power of human experts with generative AI to accelerate the retrieval of trusted information from developer knowledge bases.
SNC established a robust, in-house security operations center using Elastic Security on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud while scaling to ingest data 10x.
For Legora, Elasticsearch plays a vital role in managing and searching through large volumes of legal documents. Azure’s GDPR-compliant models were crucial for the European market, ensuring data processing remains within the EU.
With Elastic Observability and Elastic AI Assistant, Hexaware reduced new-hire training from one year to three months and improved operational efficiency by 50%.

Microsoft Ignite welcomed over 17,000 in-person attendees in San Francisco alongside an online audience of 200,000. The event served as a capstone to another productive year of partnership, particularly around the burgeoning space of agentic AI.

Elastic at Microsoft Ignite 2025

Accolades

Elastic was delighted to be named LATAM Partner of the Year and a Finalist for Americas and the Netherlands. This marks our fourth consecutive year earning top honors in the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards.

Infrastructure improvements

Elastic has always been an early adopter of Microsoft’s advanced cloud infrastructure. Scott Guthrie, executive VP of the Cloud + AI Group at Microsoft, mentioned how we have benefited from doing so as part of his Azure Cobalt CPU announcement in the opening keynote:

Microsoft Azure's Cobalt silicon delivers industry-leading ARM64 price performance compute in the cloud. Cobalt-based VMs provide up to two times the performance improvement with .NET apps and developers from Elastic, and our own Microsoft teams are already taking advantage of Azure Cobalt in production, seeing up to 45% better performance, which translates into 35% fewer compute cores and VMs needed, which ultimately saves a lot of money.

Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of the Cloud and AI Group, Microsoft

Scott Guthrie talking about Azure Cobalt VMs

Events

To ensure our developers were part of the excitement at Ignite, Elastic and Microsoft kicked off the week with Bad Takes, Good Beans: A Night of AI Hardware Experiments & Demos. With over 200 attendees across Elastic and the Microsoft developer community, it was definitely a hit.

Keeping the momentum high, Elastic co-hosted a reception with the Elastic AI Ecosystem and Microsoft. This event not only celebrated our partner of the year award but also fostered valuable conversations about industry developments within the vector space.

Thought leadership

Elastic’s thought leadership was prominently showcased through two engaging speaking slots, where we highlighted our latest innovations to help customers be more efficient with AI.

Sunile Manjee, senior principal solutions architect at Elastic, showed how Elasticsearch’s powerful vector database capabilities and the robust Azure AI Foundry Agent Framework combine to power smarter agents. He demonstrated how to synthesize information from diverse data sources and how to use Agent-to-Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for orchestrating complex tasks. Those in attendance learned how to design and apply intelligent agents for scalable information retrieval, task coordination, and integration across systems.

Dhrumil Patel, senior product manager at Elastic, took the stage to help security operations center (SOC) leaders with their daily battle against alert fatigue. He spoke about AI-powered Attack Discovery that automatically surfaces high-fidelity threats, Elastic Workflows, a native automation engine, and Elastic Agent Builder to investigate and monitor using out-of-the-box AI agents or to build custom agents. Attendees left with an understanding of how you can build agentic AI for security operations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at the speed and scale of cloud.

Lastly, Greg Crist, principal cloud ecosystem architect at Elastic, presented in the GitHub booth on how to debug code with Elastic’s custom agent as part of the larger announcement.

Announcements

An event like Ignite isn’t complete without important product announcements, including:

Looking forward

Our partnership with Microsoft continues to evolve rapidly as we seek to support our customers’ objectives. Our presence during Ignite and throughout the year was a powerful demonstration of this combined success.

See below for some interesting upcoming announcements and events.

Resale enabled offers (REO) and multiparty private offers (MPO):Launching this month!
Retail focus: Check out our retail story and associated case studies with Blue Yonder and Kyndryl during the NRF Big Show.
Agentic AI innovations: Learn more about our joint AI story during the Elastic{ON} and Microsoft AI Tour events.
Serverless region expansion: We’ll continue our geo-expansion of Elastic Cloud Serverless with new Azure zones slated for 2026.
Microsoft Americas Enterprise Partner Accelerate conference: Join us in Bellevue, WA from January 12–14.

Learn more about our partnership, or get started with a 7-day free trial of Elasticsearch, Elastic Observability, or Elastic Security on Microsoft Azure now!

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