Microsoft and Red Hat demonstrated how Azure Red Hat OpenShift supports modernization and production AI workloads, enabling organizations to transition from AI pilots to production systems with consistent governance, security, and scale. At the Red Hat Summit 2026, the partnership highlighted the platform’s role in addressing the shift from model development to operationalizing AI with integration to Azure identity, security, and policy capabilities. Banco Bradesco, one of the largest financial institutions in Latin America, operates on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, unifying governance across more than 200 AI initiatives. The platform serves as a secure, scalable foundation for enterprise AI, not a proof of concept. Beyond Banco Bradesco, Topicus demonstrated how Azure Red Hat OpenShift applies to regional lenders and regulated markets, running its Akkuro lending platform on the platform to meet sovereignty requirements. The solution allows lenders to scale document intelligence workflows while maintaining compliance and operational control. Customers are increasingly seeking a single platform to run applications and AI, with a consistent application environment integrated with Azure AI and governance services. Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a consistent, enterprise-ready foundation for running applications and AI at scale, with recent expansions in regions such as Mexico Central, New Zealand North, Malaysia West, Indonesia Central, and Austria East. These advancements show how enterprises are standardizing on a single platform for applications and AI at production scale. *Source: [azureai](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/red-hat-summit-2026-platform-modernization-and-ai-on-azure-microsoft-red-hat-openshift/)*