TiDB Cloud breach: what PingCAP confirmed and what the attacker claims
A group calling itself FulcrumSec has published a leak page claiming it exfiltrated 10.6 TB of data from TiDB Cloud, the managed database service operated by PingCAP. The scale of that claim is disputed, but the intrusion itself is not: PingCAP has published an incident report on its trust hub confirming an unauthorized party used […]
Azure Monitor’s advanced platform metrics go GA, with a pricing catch
Microsoft announced that advanced platform metrics for Azure Monitor have reached general availability, dated 31 October 2026 after a public preview that started in late July. The feature adds a paid, more granular tier of platform metrics on top of the free ones every Azure resource already emits. Worth saying up front: the announcement itself […]
Azure Is Retiring the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 VM Series
Microsoft has announced the retirement of the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 Azure VM series across public cloud regions. That is 32 sizes spanning the general purpose and memory optimized families, and a very large share of Azure estates still run on them. The machines are not going anywhere tomorrow. The off-ramps around them, though, […]
AKS on bare metal now runs on Ubuntu hosts
Microsoft has expanded AKS on bare metal to support Ubuntu as a host operating system, and the new option is in public preview now. The original preview paired the service with Azure Linux 3.0 running on validated Azure Local small form factor hardware, which was a sensible but narrow starting point. If your racks were […]
Microsoft Marketplace multiparty private offers expand to Hong Kong
Microsoft keeps quietly redrawing the map of who can sell what through its marketplace. The latest marker: multiparty private offers in Microsoft Marketplace now support Hong Kong, both for customers buying and for channel partners selling. Announced on October 8 with an October 2026 effective date, it is the third market-expansion wave this year, after […]
AKS Prepared Image Specification: pre-baked node images for faster scale-out
Anyone who has run large GPU or AI workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service knows the pain: a scale-out event fires, a new node joins the pool, and then it sits there for minutes pulling container images and running initialization tasks before it can accept a single pod. When your model image is 20 GB and […]
Azure Enclave reaches GA: managed workload isolation for government and regulated workloads
Azure Enclave went generally available on October 13 in commercial Azure and Azure for US Government, after a public preview that ran through the summer. The pitch is simple to state and hard to overrate for the target audience: Microsoft now operates the network isolation layer that government agencies, defense contractors, and regulated industries have […]
Azure Storage Mover can now copy Azure Files across regions
Azure Storage Mover has spent most of its life doing one thing: dragging file data out of on-premises NAS and SMB servers and landing it in Azure. That is still its day job. But on October 15 Microsoft opened a public preview of something different, a cross-region copy and synchronization mode for Azure Files shares. […]
Deno joins Cloudflare, and the standalone runtime is now on a clock
The end of Deno as a product Deno is joining Cloudflare, Ryan Dahl announced on Thursday, and the announcement doubles as a decommissioning schedule. The entire Deno team is moving to Cloudflare to work on the Workers and Durable Objects platform. The Deno runtime itself gets one more year of monthly bug and security releases, […]
Your Architecture Diagram Is Not Your Resilience
Mark Russinovich and the Azure reliability team published a post last month that makes an uncomfortable argument: Microsoft Azure engineers have concluded that your architecture diagram proves nothing about whether your workload can survive a bad Tuesday. A diagram is a statement of intent. Only a test tells you what you actually have. The post, […]
Azure App Service drops Java 8, 11 and 17 support in September 2027
Azure App Service will stop supporting Java 8, 11 and 17 on September 1, 2027. Apps keep running after that date, but they stop receiving security updates and Microsoft stops providing customer support for those runtime versions. It is a routine lifecycle notice with a non-routine amount of work hiding behind it, because those three […]
Azure Canvases Bring Cloud Work into the GitHub Copilot App
Microsoft announced Azure canvases for GitHub Copilot on September 30, and the pitch is simple: instead of bouncing between the Azure portal, the CLI, and your editor, the Azure tools you need sit in a shared workspace next to your Copilot conversation. Three canvases ship first: one for building and debugging Azure Functions skills, one […]