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Steve Berg — Corporate Vice President & GM, Server CPU Cloud at AMD — joins Kirill Gavrylyuk at Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 to talk about the silicon quietly powering one of the world’s largest distributed databases.
Inside this clip from the keynote:
• Why every Request Unit ultimately lands on a CPU core — and why that matters
• Nearly a decade of AMD EPYC in the Azure cloud, generation over generation
• How AMD EPYC powers Azure Cosmos DB across datacenters worldwide
• 3D V-Cache, higher core counts, and what they unlock for database workloads
• Up to 35% more performance and performance-per-dollar with the newest EPYC generation
• How AMD ↔ Microsoft co-engineering feeds features like autoscale, RU pooling, and serverless
• The hardware/software feedback loop optimizing for performance per dollar per watt
👤 Connect with Steve Berg
📝 Steve Berg is CVP & GM, Server CPU Cloud at AMD, leading platform enablement for AMD hyperscale accounts with 29+ years in cloud infrastructure and semiconductors.
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/berg-steve/
🎤 https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/steve-berg
👤 Connect with Kirill Gavrylyuk
📝 Kirill Gavrylyuk is Vice President for Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft, leading product and engineering since the Cosmos DB launch in 2017.
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirillgavrylyuk/
🎤 https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/kirill-gavrylyuk
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Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 is a free virtual developer event focused on building modern, scalable applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Sessions feature Microsoft engineers, product teams, and members of the global developer community sharing real-world solutions and best practices.
Originally streamed on April 28, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM PT
🔗 Useful Links
• Watch the full keynote — https://aka.ms/CosmosConf26Keynote
• Explore all sessions on-demand — https://aka.ms/CosmosConf26Playlist
• Take the Cosmos Conf Challenge. First 500 to complete gets a voucher for 100% free certificate exam for DP-420 — https://aka.ms/CosmosDBConfChallenge
• Azure DB Cosmos Conference 2026 Post-Event Survey — https://aka.ms/CosmosConf2026Survey
• Visit the conference website — https://aka.ms/azurecosmosdbconf
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