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, […]
Entra ID Makes Azure Blob SFTP Access Seamless for Everyone
Entra ID Makes Azure Blob SFTP Access Seamless for Everyone Microsoft just unlocked a game-changer for cloud storage security: Entra ID-based access for Azure Blob Storage SFTP is now generally available. This means organizations can authenticate users via Microsoft Entra ID, including guest accounts through Entra External Identities, to connect to blob storage over SFTP […]
Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit: Powering AI Agents with Production-Grade Database Access
Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit: Powering AI Agents with Production-Grade Database Access The Azure Cosmos DB Model Context Protocol (MCP) Toolkit has officially reached general availability, ushering in a new era of AI agent integration with operational data. This standardization initiative eliminates the need for custom connectors while solving longstanding security and scaling challenges for […]
Databricks Just Put Git Inside Your Database And Pointed Copilot At It
Databricks Just Put Git Inside Your Database (And Pointed Copilot At It) Azure Databricks announced a public preview that combines two things developers have been cobbling together manually: copy-on-write database branching for Lakebase Postgres, and a direct line from GitHub Copilot agent mode to those branches. The pitch is simple. One command creates an isolated […]
Microsoft Just Made It Way Easier to Plug AI Agents Into Your Database
Microsoft Just Made It Way Easier to Plug AI Agents Into Your Database Microsoft has announced the general availability of the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB (v1.1.2), giving developers a standardized way to connect AI agents and copilots directly to their operational data. The toolkit, which first appeared in preview at Ignite 2025, is […]
Azure Functions Can Now Run AI Agents Declared in Markdown Files
At Microsoft Build 2026, the Azure Functions team shipped something that blurs the line between serverless compute and autonomous AI. The serverless agents runtime is now in public preview, letting developers define entire AI agents in .agent.md markdown files and deploy them like any other function app. You write the agent’s instructions in plain text, […]