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[Launched] Open Source: Containerization Assist MCP Server
Containerization Assist solves the challenge of manual, error-prone containerization by automating Dockerfile creation...
[In preview] Public Preview: Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups
The ability to share Capacity Reservation Groups (CRGs) with subscriptions is now in Public Preview. Previously,...
[Launched] Generally Available: Enhanced cloning and Public IP retention scripts for Azure Application Gateway migration
Azure Application Gateway introduces two new PowerShell scripts to simplify migration from V1 (Standard or WAF) to V2...
AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers
Monday got off to a bad start for Amazon Web Services users served by the company’s US-EAST-1 region, when a DNS...
Should enterprise developers care about Nvidia?
Let’s be honest. If you’re a Java developer at a bank or a JavaScript developer at a retailer, you’ve probably spent...
8 platform engineering anti-patterns
Some say platform engineering has entered its trough of disillusionment phase. A combination of high cognitive load,...
How AI is reshaping the future of startups
What if AI could identify the next big opportunity for your startup? Yes, it is possible! With 71% of organizations...
Implementing predictive monitoring with AIOps
Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) has become a hot topic, often described as the future of IT...
Threat actors are spreading malicious extensions via VS marketplaces
Careless developers publishing Visual Studio extensions to two open marketplaces have been including access tokens and...
[In development] Private Preview: New planned datacenter region in Malaysia (Southeast Asia 3)
Microsoft is expanding its digital infrastructure footprint further with a new datacenter region, Southeast Asia 3,...
[Launched] Generally Available: New OS SKU enum to migrate to Azure Linux 3.0
You can now migrate to Azure Linux 3.0 with a new OS SKU enum, ‘AzureLinux3’, in Kubernetes version 1.28-1.36. This...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Python 3.13
You can now develop functions using Python 3.13 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions. Starting with Python 3.13,...
A mini-CrowdStrike moment? Windows 11 update cripples dev environments
Just as Windows 10 has reached its end of life (EOL), issues with Windows 11 abound, the most recent an update that...
Agents of chaos
The dream of self-directed AI is becoming real, and companies can’t wait to turn their agents loose on everyday...
An EU breakup with US cloud providers
European organizations are increasingly vocal about their desire to reduce their reliance on US-based hyperscalers...
[Launched] Generally Available: Prescaling in Azure Firewall
Azure Firewall now supports prescaling, a feature that enables admins to provision and reserve capacity units in...
Retirement: Confidential Containers preview on AKS is Closing Down
The public preview of Confidential Containers on AKS will be shutting down.This feature has been available in preview...
[Launched] Generally Available: Observed capacity metric in Azure Firewall
Azure Firewall now includes the observed capacity metric — a new observability signal designed to help administrators...
Rethinking operations in an agentic AI world
IT operations have long been defined by one overriding goal: keep applications running at all costs. Success was...
Using Valkey on Azure and in .NET Aspire
Big changes to the license used by the popular open source key/value store Redis prompted a fork, with the launch of...