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  • Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 Now Available on Azure Databricks

    Claude Sonnet 5 lands on Azure Databricks Azure Databricks added Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 to its AI Model Serving catalog, and this one is worth paying attention to. Sonnet 5 is Anthropic’s latest mid-tier model, and the claim that matters is “near-Opus-level intelligence at Sonnet pricing.” If that holds up in practice, it changes the…

  • Azure Front Door Edge Actions: Serverless Compute at the Edge

    Microsoft just put serverless compute on Azure Front Door Azure Front Door now lets you run JavaScript functions at the edge during request processing. It is called Edge Actions, and it is in public preview. The idea is simple: instead of routing traffic to an origin server for every decision, you execute lightweight code at…

  • Connecting AI Agents to Operational Data with MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB

    What is this thing? Microsoft just shipped the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB as generally available. If you have been following the AI agent space, you know MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard Anthropic kicked off last year that lets AI models plug into external tools and data sources through a single…

  • Network Security Perimeter for Azure Event Hubs Reaches GA, Simplifying Network Isolation

    Network Security Perimeter Support for Azure Event Hubs Reaches GA Azure Event Hubs now supports Network Security Perimeter (NSP) at general availability, giving organizations a way to define logical network isolation boundaries for their event streaming infrastructure without resorting to complex firewall rules or private endpoint sprawl (source). For anyone running event-driven architectures on Azure,…

  • GitHub Copilot Agent Mode Lands in SSMS, Bringing Autonomous Database Ops to SQL Server

    GitHub Copilot Agent Mode Comes to SSMS Microsoft just shipped a public preview of Agent mode for GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio. This isn’t the Copilot you already know from VS Code. Instead of inline completions or chat responses, Agent mode can execute multi-step database tasks autonomously – running queries, analyzing execution plans,…

  • MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB Hits GA, Standardizing AI Agent Database Access

    Summary Microsoft has moved the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB from preview to general availability, giving developers a standardized way to connect AI agents directly to operational data. The toolkit implements the Model Context Protocol, an open specification that lets large language models discover and invoke database operations through a common interface. Version 1.1.2…

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