Inside Microsoft Azure Fabric Controller: The Intelligence Behind Cloud Management

When you use Microsoft Azure, you interact with a sleek interface. You spin up virtual machines, deploy apps, set up storage. But behind all of that, Azure is orchestrated by something much deeper: the Fabric Controller. Think of it as the central nervous system of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. It’s what keeps everything running smoothly, efficiently, and resiliently. What Is the Azure Fabric Controller? The Fabric Controller (FC) is an in-house orchestration component that is part of Azure’s architecture. It manages Azure’s physical infrastructure—servers, storage, network, clusters—as well as health and density of virtualized resources.