GitHub Copilot modernization goes GA for estate-wide app upgrades
Microsoft has announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot modernization, an agentic toolchain that assesses, upgrades, and migrates application portfolios to Azure. The announcement landed on the Azure Updates feed this week, and it closes out a preview cycle that started earlier this year for the parts teams actually touch: the IDE experience for language […]
Azure VM Image Builder goes GA in sovereign and air-gapped clouds
Running the same image pipeline across commercial Azure and government or China-hosted clouds has always meant maintaining two setups. Azure VM Image Builder now removes part of that split: the service is generally available in Azure Government, China North 3, Azure Government Secret, and Azure Government Top Secret, according to Microsoft’s announcement. Teams that build […]
Lakebase Branching Lets Copilot Agent Mode Debug Against Production Data Without Touching Production
Microsoft has put a new capability into public preview for Azure Databricks: copy-on-write branching for Lakebase, wired directly into GitHub Copilot agent mode. In one command, a developer can branch a production Lakebase database, point Copilot agent mode at the branch endpoint, and debug an AI application against realistic data while the production database stays […]
Azure Sphere OS 26.06 Reaches Production Devices with CVE Fixes Aboard
Microsoft has released Azure Sphere OS version 26.06 to the Retail feed, which means the update is rolling out automatically to internet-connected Sphere devices right now. It is an OS-only release: there is no updated SDK, so developers do not need to touch their toolchain. Devices that can reach the cloud will pick up the […]
Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration Reaches General Availability with Private Network Controls
Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) integration for Azure SRE Agent. The capability allows operations and platform teams to deploy and operate Microsoft’s autonomous site reliability engineering agent entirely within their private virtual network topology. By routing the agent’s outbound management traffic through dedicated subnets, organizations can enforce corporate Network […]
Azure Launches 248 and 372 vCPU Sizes for D and E v7 Virtual Machines
Massive Compute Densities Reach General Availability Azure has officially made the largest tiers of its Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 virtual machine lines generally available, offering VM configurations scaling up to 248 and 372 vCPUs. Powered by Intel Xeon 6 6973PC processors (Granite Rapids architecture), these instances represent a significant leap in raw CPU core density […]
eBPF Host Routing Hits General Availability in Advanced Container Networking Services for AKS
Running high throughput or low latency distributed systems on Kubernetes often hits an unexpected bottleneck inside the Linux kernel network stack. Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of eBPF Host Routing within Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This release fundamentally transforms how network packets move between pods and nodes […]
Azure SQL Database Provisioning in VS Code MSSQL Extension Reaches General Availability
Bridging Local Development and Cloud Databases Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Database provisioning directly within the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. This release streamlines how developers create, configure, and connect to managed cloud databases without leaving their code editor. The feature includes direct support for the Azure SQL Database free […]
Offline Cryptographic Auditing: Azure Confidential Ledger Releases Local Ledger Verification Tool
Verifying the cryptographic integrity of tamper-proof audit trails has traditionally required direct network connectivity to the underlying enclave infrastructure. For organizations operating under stringent compliance frameworks, external auditing engagements create an operational friction point: how do you grant third-party auditors or security analysts the ability to inspect transaction history and validate mathematical proofs without exposing […]
Azure VMware Solution license-included service gets retirement date as Broadcom licensing shift bites
What changed Microsoft confirmed the Azure VMware Solution (AVS) license-included service will retire on August 30, 2027. The decision follows Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) licensing policy changes, which now require customers to bring their own portable licenses across all hyperscaler platforms. For AVS customers on license-included SKUs, this means a mandatory transition to bring-your-own-license […]
AKS control plane metrics now generally available with Managed Prometheus
Azure has made control plane metrics collection for AKS generally available, and it runs on Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus. Until now, getting visibility into the managed Kubernetes control plane meant either accepting whatever Azure surfaced in its own dashboards or standing up your own Prometheus and scraping whatever you could reach. This closes […]
Batch Rule Updates for Azure Front Door Are Now Generally Available
Anyone who has managed Azure Front Door for any length of time has felt the pain of touching a rule set. Rule sets are where you define how traffic gets inspected, rewritten, and routed, and they sit right at the edge of your application where a bad change is immediately visible to real users. Historically, […]