--- title: "Tigera has been awarded Microsoft’s 2022 Partner of the Year award for OSS on Azure" source: "https://www.tigera.io/blog/tigera-has-been-awarded-microsofts-2022-partner-of-the-year-award-for-oss-on-azure/" --- [Company Blog](https://www.tigera.io/category/company-blog/) [Technical Blog](https://www.tigera.io/category/technical-blog/) # Tigera has been awarded Microsoft’s 2022 Partner of the Year award for OSS on Azure By [Laura Ferguson](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/laura-ferguson/) on Jun 28, 2022 • 2 min read We are proud to announce that we have won the 2022 Microsoft OSS on Azure Partner of the Year award! The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. Tigera was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services for open source on Azure. ## Collaboration with Microsoft Since June 2021, Tigera and Microsoft Azure together provide users with active build, deploy, and runtime security with full-stack observability for securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting containers on Azure and AKS. Tigera works closely with Microsoft to offer networking, security, and observability for containerized workloads running in Microsoft Azure. ## Partner of the Year award We are very proud to be recognized as Microsoft’s Partner of the Year for OSS on Azure as it re-affirms the reach and pervasiveness of Tigera’s [Calico Open Source](https://www.tigera.io/tigera-products/calico/) solution for container networking and security on Azure and AKS. As enterprises standardize across Microsoft Azure, customers require a resource-efficient and scalable networking and security solution that protects the workloads in a hybrid environment extending from the cloud (Azure and AKS) to traditional on-premises deployments (AKS on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server). Calico is the only technology to support native Windows, eBPF, and Linux containers to match Microsoft’s breadth of offerings in AKS, AKS on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server, and self-managed Kubernetes in Azure. [https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2022/06/124750_Inspire_POTYA_Thanks_Tigera_OpenCaps.mp4](https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2022/06/124750_Inspire_POTYA_Thanks_Tigera_OpenCaps.mp4)   The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found [here](https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire/awards). For additional details about the award, see our [full press release](https://www.tigera.io/news/tigera-creator-of-calico-recognized-as-the-winner-of-2022-microsoft-oss-on-azure-partner-of-the-year-award/). ***Learn more about how [Tigera and Microsoft](https://link.tigera.io/ueIJu) work together*** [Open Source](https://www.tigera.io/tags/open-source/)[Partner/Integration](https://www.tigera.io/tags/partner-integration/)[Announcements](https://www.tigera.io/tags/announcements/) ## Related posts [![Meet Mylo: An AI-native way to work with Calico](https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2026/09/Meet-Mylo-An-AI-native-way-to-work-with-Calico.png)](https://www.tigera.io/blog/meet-mylo-an-ai-native-way-to-work-with-calico/) #### [Meet Mylo: An AI-native way to work with Calico](https://www.tigera.io/blog/meet-mylo-an-ai-native-way-to-work-with-calico/) By [Phil DiCorpo](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/phil-dicorpo/) on Sep 3, 2026 A library of Calico tools and skills — delivered through the Calico MCP Server What if your hardest network question took ten minutes instead of ten days? Anyone who has operated Kubernetes networking at scale... [Read more](https://www.tigera.io/blog/meet-mylo-an-ai-native-way-to-work-with-calico/) [![Why We Built Lynx: Bringing Control to the Age of AI Agents](https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2026/06/Introducing-Lynx-NEW-TEMPLATE-2026-Tigera-brand.png)](https://www.tigera.io/blog/why-we-built-lynx-bringing-control-to-the-age-of-ai-agents/) #### [Why We Built Lynx: Bringing Control to the Age of AI Agents](https://www.tigera.io/blog/why-we-built-lynx-bringing-control-to-the-age-of-ai-agents/) By [Ratan Tipirneni](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/ratan/) on Jun 17, 2026 For a decade, one idea has guided everything we’ve built at Tigera: How do you secure a dynamic system with a lot of moving parts that is changing rapidly, with a programmatic approach? Calico has... [Read more](https://www.tigera.io/blog/why-we-built-lynx-bringing-control-to-the-age-of-ai-agents/) [![What’s new in Calico: Spring 2026 Release](https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2026/06/Whats-New-in-Calico-NEW-TEMPLATE-2026.png)](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-spring-2026-release/) #### [What’s new in Calico: Spring 2026 Release](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-spring-2026-release/) By [Veronika Smolik](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/veronika-smolik/) on Jun 2, 2026 Kubernetes has come a long way since its debut in 2014. It’s gone from running a couple of containerized microservices to orchestrating fleets of production workloads spanning everything from AI agents to full scale VMs... [Read more](https://www.tigera.io/blog/whats-new-in-calico-spring-2026-release/)