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 […]
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 […]
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Now Covers Azure Container Apps Posture
Security teams often treat serverless workloads like a black box, assuming the cloud provider handles everything. While the infrastructure is managed, your configuration and container images are not. Microsoft is closing this visibility gap by bringing Azure Container Apps (ACA) into the Serverless Containers Posture experience within Microsoft Defender for Cloud. This update allows organizations […]
Azure AI Search Adds Purview Sensitivity Labels to Knowledge Sources
Azure AI Search Adds Purview Sensitivity Labels to Knowledge Sources Microsoft’s public preview of Purview sensitivity labels in Azure AI Search lets organizations tag sensitive data at the source, which then flows into knowledge bases used by Microsoft Foundry agents and copilots. This means documents containing confidential information can be automatically marked with labels like […]
Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit Unveiled: Bridging AI and Databases
Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit Unveiled: Bridging AI and Databases The Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit is now generally available, offering a standardized way for AI agents and copilots to connect to operational data. This release removes the friction of custom integrations by enabling secure, enterprise-ready access to Cosmos DB through natural language queries and […]
Azure Databricks Now Powers Claude Sonnet 5 Through AI Model Serving
Azure Databricks Just Got Agentically Smarter with Claude Sonnet 5 Microsoft’s Azure Databricks platform has just leveled up its AI capabilities with the addition of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5, officially entering general availability in July 2026. This latest generation of Sonnet models brings a significant leap forward in agentic AI capabilities, positioning Azure customers for […]
Debug AI Apps Against Production Data Without Exposing Production Data
Azure Databricks just shipped something that makes me wonder why this didn’t exist years ago. You can now create copy-on-write branches of your Lakebase production database with a single command, then point GitHub Copilot agent mode at it for debugging AI apps and agents. No copy of production data floating around in staging environments that […]
Azure SQL becomes a first-class knowledge source in Foundry IQ
Microsoft has expanded Foundry IQ’s capabilities by integrating Azure SQL Database as a knowledge source, now in public preview. Enterprise developers building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can expose authoritative SQL tables and views directly as grounding data for AI models. This solves a real pain point. Before this, getting structured relational data into an […]
MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB hits GA, standardizing agent-to-database access
Microsoft has shipped the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB to general availability, giving developers a standardized way to expose Cosmos DB operations through the Model Context Protocol. If you have been wiring up custom API endpoints every time an AI agent needs to read or write database records, this one is for you. The […]
Defender for Cloud Now Covers Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now shows up in Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s serverless container posture management. If you run production workloads on Container Apps, this is the kind of visibility you have been missing: misconfigurations, overly permissive identities, and exposed endpoints that do not need to be exposed. No agents to install. No sidecars. Just control-plane […]
Network Security Perimeter Lands for Azure Event Hubs
Microsoft just flipped the GA switch on Network Security Perimeter (NSP) for Azure Event Hubs. If you run streaming data workloads, this matters: NSP gives you a way to lock down your Event Hubs namespace so that only resources inside a defined perimeter can reach it. Public internet? Blocked by default. Internal Azure services? Gated […]
Azure Site Recovery Now Handles 5x the Data Churn
Support 5x churn in Azure Site Recovery Azure Site Recovery has officially launched with support for up to 5x churn, empowering customers to confidently run high IOPS workloads with robust disaster recovery capabilities. The new High Churn feature expands the supported data change rate from 100 MB/s per VM up to 500 MB/s per VM, […]