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 […]
Mistral Large 4 opens in preview with open weights promised this month
Mistral opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4 this week, and it is the largest model the Paris company has shipped: a trillion total parameters with roughly 49 billion active, built as a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts. The company says the open weights will land by the end of the month. Until then the preview […]
Azure retires the Dv3 and Ev3 VM series
Microsoft has put the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 VM series on a retirement clock. The announcement landed on the Azure Updates roadmap on September 30, and the deadline is November 15, 2029 for public cloud regions. That sounds far away. It is not, if you have ever lived through a VM-generation migration at scale. […]
Azure Payments HSM v2 enters public preview as a managed single-tenant service
Microsoft opened a public preview of Azure Payments HSM v2 this week, a managed, single-tenant hardware security module service built specifically for payment workloads: PIN processing, credential issuance, key management, and authentication data protection. The announcement is easy to skim past if you do not work in payments, but the architecture change from v1 is […]
Azure Functions Flex Consumption gets site-scoped certificates and end-to-end TLS
TLS/SSL certificate support for Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now generally available. Microsoft announced the milestone this week alongside end-to-end TLS encryption support, and together the two close a gap that has kept some teams on the older App Service plans longer than they wanted to be. If you run function apps on custom domains, […]
The azd extension framework is generally available
The Azure Developer CLI’s extension framework is now generally available. If you haven’t followed the azd project, extensions are the plugin system that lets teams add their own commands, automation, and service integrations to the CLI without forking it or wrapping it in scripts. The GA applies to the framework itself: the parts of azd […]
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 Copilot’s Troubleshooting Agent hits general availability
Microsoft has taken the Troubleshooting Agent in Azure Copilot to general availability. It lives in the Azure portal, in both the Copilot chat experience and the Support + Troubleshooting blade, and its job is to take a vague complaint like “my VM rebooted itself last night” and turn it into a diagnosis, a fix, or […]
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 […]
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 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 […]