Open Source on Azure: Executive Guide to Accelerate AI Innovation with Azure Database for PostgreSQL and AMD Infrastructure

To help you understand open source on Azure, Microsoft, AMD, and LAB³, have teamed up to compile a practical and comprehensive Executive Guide. It covers everything from architectures to solutions, and in the spirit of open source, you are welcome to download it. No catches! Why are we offering you such easy access to the Executive Guide?

There’s a shift happening in enterprise technology that a lot of organizations are overlooking in their AI strategy. Market leaders are changing their entire architectural philosophy to embrace open source. This shift is unlocking rapid modernization and innovation and delivering early AI-wins for those that embrace it.

Why? Three letters: TCO. Total Cost of Ownership as an ongoing focus into future financial years.

“Organizations that have taken the open source approach consistently reclaim their CapEx to be used more effectively, converting migration and modernization savings into deployable investment into innovation for AI initiatives.” – Lachlan White, CTO LAB³

With mounting hardware and chip supply chain risks, and exponential growth to licensing and maintenance costs associated with on-premises solutions, there’s never been a more compelling time for an enterprise to modernize their digital estate.

“Specifically, we are advising many industry-leading clients to move to the open source stack on Azure, leveraging Azure Database for PostgreSQL on AMD infrastructure. This approach can cut infrastructure costs, provide a staged approach to modernization, and deliver quick wins by making existing data AI-ready.” – Lachlan White, CTO LAB³

For the last decade, Microsoft has invested heavily in adopting and supporting open source technologies natively on Azure. Two-thirds of all compute cores running on Azure today are Linux. The most recommended managed database for new AI workloads is PostgreSQL. The container orchestration layer is Kubernetes. Microsoft’s AI approach shares the same story. The Microsoft Agent Framework, which reached its 1.0 production release in April 2026, is fully open source.

In addition, AMD invests heavily to ensure open source technologies run optimally on its processors and on Azure services. AMD is a top 10 contributor to Linux kernel development with a focus on day-zero enablement for new CPUs and GPUs, and has served as a longstanding member of the Linux Foundation. 

Everything you read in the Executive Guide is grounded in LAB³’s real-world experience delivering for clients. Not theory, but practice. We’ve seen firsthand how the combination of open source flexibility with Azure gives enterprises the best of both worlds: innovation velocity without sacrificing governance, and cost-performance without sacrificing support.

Learn how to leverage open source on Azure as the foundation for your AI ambitions:

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