AKS Application Routing with Gateway API hits GA, simplifies Kubernetes traffic management
What is Application Routing with Gateway API? Azure Kubernetes Service now supports the Kubernetes Gateway API natively for ingress traffic management, and it’s generally available. This isn’t just another ingress controller option. The Gateway API is a different approach to routing altogether, and the AKS implementation comes with Azure DNS and Key Vault TLS integration […]
Azure DocumentDB Migration Extension for VS Code Hits GA
The Azure DocumentDB Migration Extension for Visual Studio Code has reached general availability. If you are moving MongoDB workloads to Azure and spend most of your day in VS Code, this extension lets you stay there instead of jumping between terminal windows running mongodump and mongorestore commands. The extension lets you create, run, and manage […]
Azure Sphere OS 26.06 Now Generally Available
Azure Sphere OS version 26.06 has hit the Retail feed. Quiet update, but it matters if you are running IoT devices on Microsoft’s secured Linux platform. This one is OS-only — no SDK changes, no toolchain updates. Just a security and maintenance release delivered the same way all Azure Sphere updates arrive: over the air, […]
Azure Monitor now protects AI telemetry with dedicated access controls
The problem: AI prompts in the wrong table If you’ve been sending AI application telemetry to Application Insights, your users’ prompts and LLM responses have been sitting in the same traces and custom events tables as your infrastructure logs. That means anyone with access to your Application Insights instance — typically the whole monitoring team […]
Azure DDoS Protection custom policy is now in public preview
What the public preview includes Azure DDoS Protection custom policy gives you per-resource control over DDoS mitigation thresholds for Standard Load Balancer frontend IP configurations. Instead of relying on Azure’s default detection thresholds, you can set fixed inbound detection thresholds and customize mitigation policies to match your application’s actual traffic patterns. The feature targets Standard […]
Azure Monitor adds dedicated storage for sensitive AI telemetry
If you run AI powered applications on Azure, your Application Insights logs have been storing something you might not have thought about. Every prompt you send to an LLM and every response the model returns has been sitting in the same logs as your standard application telemetry, accessible to anyone with log read permissions. That […]
Agent mode for GitHub Copilot arrives in SQL Server Management Studio
SQL Server Management Studio just got a lot more useful if you rely on GitHub Copilot. The public preview of Agent mode for Copilot in SSMS means you can describe database tasks in plain English and let the AI figure out the steps. No more clicking through half a dozen dialog boxes to check wait […]
Microsoft Defender CSPM assessments for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are now GA
Microsoft Defender for Cloud has shipped generally available CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, giving teams automated security evaluations that run continuously against their PostgreSQL deployments. The assessments are part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s CSPM framework, which evaluates Azure resources against security baselines and best practices. The […]
Azure Functions Python 3.14 support is now generally available
Azure Functions now supports Python 3.14 for local development and deployment on Linux plans, giving serverless developers access to the latest Python runtime with an extended support window through 2029. The update is relatively straightforward on the surface — another runtime added to the platform — but it has real implications if you maintain Python-based […]
Microsoft Defender CSPM for Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server Hits GA
Microsoft Defender for Cloud now includes generally available CSPM assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, giving Postgres users continuous security posture evaluations without setting up additional monitoring infrastructure. What the assessments cover The assessments check your PostgreSQL Flexible Server instances against a set of security baselines published by Microsoft. These cover the usual […]
MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB reaches GA
Microsoft has released the general availability of the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB, giving developers a standardized way to connect AI agents and copilots to operational database data. The toolkit implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Anthropic’s open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools and data sources. What MCP means for databases The […]
Azure Functions now supports Python 3.14 GA
Azure Functions has added general availability support for Python 3.14. You can develop functions locally with Python 3.14 and deploy them to Azure Functions plans on Linux, taking advantage of the latest Python runtime enhancements and extended support lifecycle. What Python 3.14 brings to Azure Functions Python 3.14 ships with a handful of quality-of-life improvements […]