Storage Mover can now migrate SMB shares to Azure Files without agents
Azure Storage Mover now supports agentless migration from on-premises SMB file shares to Azure Files, in public preview. Until now, moving file shares into Azure with Storage Mover meant deploying and managing migration agents on VMs near the source data. The agentless path removes that step entirely: the service reads the SMB share over the […]
Azure says goodbye to OS Guard: what AKS operators should do before December 10
The short version Microsoft will retire Azure Linux with OS Guard on Azure Kubernetes Service on December 10, 2026. On that date you will not be able to create new OS Guard node pools, and existing ones stop receiving support. The stated replacement is Azure Container Linux, which went generally available on AKS starting with […]
Extended Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now billing
If you run PostgreSQL 11, 12 or 13 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, a quiet billing change went live on September 1. Azure automatically enrolled servers on unsupported PostgreSQL versions in Extended Support when standard support ended on July 31. A one-month grace period covered August at no charge. The meter started running […]
Defender for Cloud brings serverless container posture to Azure Container Apps
Microsoft has made Azure Container Apps environments available in Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, now generally available. Security teams can pull their Container Apps estate into posture management from a single workflow instead of treating each serverless platform separately. The capability also covers Azure Container Instances and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. The […]
Tottenham Hotspur cut VMware licensing costs by 85 percent with HPE Morpheus
Tottenham Hotspur cut its virtualization licensing bill by more than 85 percent by moving its stadium infrastructure off VMware. The English Premier League club confirmed this week that it replaced VMware with HPE’s Morpheus VM Essentials, delivered through HPE’s GreenLake hybrid cloud platform, and that the savings were the biggest single reason for the switch. […]
Azure Storage SAS tokens can now be locked to an Entra ID identity
Azure Storage has made user-bound user delegation SAS generally available. The feature ties a shared access signature not just to who created it, but to who is allowed to use it. The delegator names a specific Entra ID security principal inside the token, and that principal has to authenticate to Entra ID before the token […]
Nvidia’s $21 billion SpaceX stake came from a chain of deals
Nvidia’s quarterly filing dropped a surprise this month: the company holds about 122.8 million Class A shares of SpaceX, worth roughly $21 billion at the end of Q2 2026. It’s the second largest position in Nvidia’s equity portfolio, at around a third of it, and the paper trail shows the stake was never bought directly. […]
Azure Firewall Auto-Learn SNAT Routes Is Generally Available
The SNAT problem that needed solving Here is a scenario that plays out in half the hybrid networks I have seen: traffic from Azure toward an on-premises range that is not one of the standard private ranges silently gets source-NATted by Azure Firewall. The on-prem firewall sees an unexpected source IP, a policy match fails, […]
AKS Artifact Streaming Reaches General Availability
Pulling images is the slow part nobody budgets for If you have ever watched a scale-out event on AKS with one eye on the pod list, you know the pattern: the scheduler places pods in seconds, then everything sits in ContainerCreating while each node drags a multi-gigabyte image out of Azure Container Registry. Your autoscaler […]
Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs reach sovereign clouds, and log pricing gets interesting
Azure Monitor’s Auxiliary Logs plan is now generally available in the sovereign clouds, specifically Azure Government (Fairfax) and Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Mooncake). The September 1 update closes a gap that has mattered to anyone running compliance or audit logging for public-sector or regulated workloads, and it caps a year of quiet expansion for […]
Azure Multicloud Interconnect: Microsoft and AWS finally wired the clouds together
Microsoft and AWS announced a joint service this week that neither company would have shipped five years ago: a managed private connection between the two clouds, provisioned from both portals, operated by both providers. Azure Multicloud Interconnect is in public preview now, with AWS as the first supported partner, and it replaces what has historically […]
Azure App Service drops Node 22 support in April 2027: start planning now
Azure App Service will end extended support for Node.js 22 LTS on April 30, 2027. The announcement went out on the Azure Updates feed on August 24, and it follows the pattern anyone running Node workloads on the platform already knows: your apps keep running after the cutoff, but they stop receiving security updates, and […]