Migrate AWS FSx to Azure Files with Azure Storage Mover
Moving file workloads between clouds used to mean a painful mix of scripts, third-party tools, and manual downtime. Microsoft just made part of that easier with a new public preview that migrates files from AWS FSx for Windows File Server straight into Azure Files. If you run SMB-based Windows file workloads on AWS and want […]
Microsoft Azure Launches India South Central Region
Microsoft opened a new Azure datacenter region in Hyderabad, Telangana, making it the company’s fourth cloud region in India. The India South Central region went live on July 28, 2026, and it brings Azure services closer to customers in the southern part of the country. The new region sits on a campus in Hyderabad with […]
Microsoft moves Foundry agent security to Agent 365 licensing
Microsoft moved the Foundry agent security capabilities from Defender for Cloud into its Agent 365 license, effective July 1, 2026. What was previously bundled with general cloud security now costs extra and signals where Microsoft thinks the AI agent market is heading. What is changing Up until now, organizations running AI agents in Microsoft Foundry […]
Microsoft Agent Framework Adds GitHub Copilot and Claude Code Connectors
Microsoft released generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code in the Microsoft Agent Framework this week. The connectors let .NET and Python agents delegate coding tasks to either system through a standard tool interface, without writing custom adapter code for each backend. This is one of those releases that sounds small on paper […]
Defender for Cloud Now Covers Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now shows up in Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s serverless container posture management. If you run production workloads on Container Apps, this is the kind of visibility you have been missing: misconfigurations, overly permissive identities, and exposed endpoints that do not need to be exposed. No agents to install. No sidecars. Just control-plane […]
Network Security Perimeter Lands for Azure Event Hubs
Microsoft just flipped the GA switch on Network Security Perimeter (NSP) for Azure Event Hubs. If you run streaming data workloads, this matters: NSP gives you a way to lock down your Event Hubs namespace so that only resources inside a defined perimeter can reach it. Public internet? Blocked by default. Internal Azure services? Gated […]
Claude Fable 5 Lands in Microsoft Foundry, and It Actually Works Autonomously
Anthropic dropped Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026, and it is already live inside Microsoft Foundry. That means Azure developers can now call a frontier-grade, long-horizon reasoning model through the same enterprise fabric they already use for OpenAI models, internal deployments, and agent orchestration. No separate vendor contract. No custom integration layer. What is […]