Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Networking skills in Copilot, an extension of Copilot in Azure and Security Copilot designed to enhance cloud networking experience. Azure Networking Copilot is set to transform how organizations design, operate, and optimize their Azure Network by providing contextualized responses tailored to networking-specific scenarios and using your network topology.
With networking skills, Copilot can now make your tedious tasks of searching through docs and Azure portal to design and operate your network a breeze. This will enrich your Azure experience finding context aware information about your network with an AI-powered tool.
Key Features:
- Integrated experience | Chat directly embedded into the Azure Portal interface
- Accelerated outcomes | Faster network design, deployment, troubleshooting, and optimization to increase resiliency and security
- Simplified tasks | Reduce complexity through network topology & other visuals
- Tailored insights | Based your specific environment, topology and usage of Azure Networking products.
Capabilities
Here are some of the capabilities in detail:
Purposeful Network design
Describe desired outcomes using natural language to create configurations, infrastructure, and topology tailored to your needs:
- Get recommendations for network resources and guidance for Well Architected Framework, Cloud Adoption Framework
- Right fit Azure Networking products for your specific business needs
- Increase the resiliency of your network with deeper queries and feature recommendations
User can ask Copilot how to make their network more resilient and get recommendations based on your environment and the applications you are hosting. Above the user simply asks "How do I make my Application Gateway more resilient?".
Directed network management and troubleshooting
Resolve incidents quickly by diagnosing issues, pinpointing root causes, and implementing smart suggestions:
- Bring together health signals and resource insights for affected services
- Troubleshoot & understand errors using natural language queries
- Expedite the resolution by copying the Copilot findings to create support tickets
As seen above, use can ask a question about their connectivity issue and Copilot can automatically troubleshoot the connectivity path, analyze the status of all the network elements in the path to pinpoint issues such as blocked ports, unhealthy network devices, or misconfigured Network Security Groups (NSGs).
Faster threat isolation & mitigation
Elevate the skills of security teams and boost their productivity with Security Copilot. This is accessible via Azure Portal with an one-time activation. This allows security teams in your organizations to more easily detect, investigate, and respond to threats caught by Azure Firewall.
- Enhanced Efficiency with Generative AI
- Improve security outcomes at machine speed and scale
- Accelerate outcomes for security professionals in end-to-end scenarios such as incident response, threat hunting, intelligence gathering, and posture management
Join the Revolution
Customers who previewed our networking skills explicitly called out the "ease of use", "speed", "accuracy" and "ability to understand me" as highlights, particularly for the troubleshooting and security capabilities.
Azure Networking skills for Copilot in Azure & Security Copilot is set to become the ultimate Azure Networking Guru, revolutionizing how organizations manage their cloud networks. With its advanced capabilities and visionary roles, it is poised to transform the cloud networking landscape, making it easier for organizations to connect, scale, secure, and optimize their Azure networks.
Stay tuned for upcoming monthly series of deeper topics on how Networking Copilot can help your teams. Join us in embracing the future of cloud networking with Networking Skills in Copilot.
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