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Steven Truitt shares a hands-on walkthrough of using Microsoft Discovery as AI assistance to take a small chip-design project from a rough spec through C and HLS, into Verilog RTL, and finally to physical layout and basic timing/power optimization using open-source EDA tooling.

mnshnth announces that workload orchestration for Azure Arc is now available in the Azure portal, focusing on a portal-first onboarding flow that lets teams deploy a pre-packaged app to an Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster in minutes and then scale the same approach across distributed sites.

kchoi announces a public preview feature in Azure Arc Site Manager that centralizes monitoring and management of Azure Local workloads across multiple sites, including Azure Local virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters, with bulk actions plus grouping, filtering, and search to speed up day-to-day operations.

AzureAndrewChen announces the general availability of Dell Managed PowerScale for Microsoft Azure, a Dell-operated managed file storage service that can be provisioned and managed through Azure-native interfaces. The post highlights supported protocols, scale limits, and how the service integrates with Azure networking and Blob Storage tiering.

HilaryWang announces a public preview feature for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets that lets Azure automatically choose availability zones based on SKU availability, capacity signals, and your placement constraints, reducing the need to maintain region-specific zone lists for multi-region zonal deployments.

willchap describes a practical framework for evaluating scientific AI systems—execution, optimization, and exploration—using three RF engineering design challenges. The post shows how Microsoft Discovery orchestrates agentic workflows that combine analytical reasoning with HFSS simulations, while surfacing assumptions, trade-offs, and decision points for human guidance.

ellievail announces general availability of user-bound user delegation SAS for Azure Storage, which restricts a user delegation SAS token so it can only be used by a specific Microsoft Entra ID identity. The post explains how it works with RBAC, cross-tenant scenarios, and how to generate and share tokens safely.

Sudha Mahajan explains how Azure Migrate Network Planning adds network-aware discovery and assessment to VMware lift-and-shift migrations, helping teams capture dependencies, translate source constructs into Azure networking recommendations, surface readiness issues, and include network costs and security intent in the migration business case.

viveksingla announces the general availability of Ephemeral OS Disk full caching for Azure VMs and VM Scale Sets, explaining how caching the entire OS image on local storage improves OS disk read reliability and latency, and showing how to enable it via Azure CLI and ARM templates.

MinseokSong walks through a reference implementation that uses Microsoft Foundry and an Azure Function to classify incoming support emails, then uses Power Automate to validate the AI recommendation against a SharePoint allow-list, require human approval, and create an Outlook draft (without sending).

christinchen announces the general availability of Azure Copilot’s Troubleshooting Agent, a built-in experience in the Azure portal that helps teams investigate and resolve operational issues faster by combining resource context, supported diagnostics, and recommended actions—while keeping customers in control through identity and RBAC.

MarkRussinovich lays out a practical decision framework for choosing between two availability zones, three zones, or service-managed zone redundancy in Azure, focused on meeting single-zone failure objectives while balancing capacity, durability, and operational complexity.

bharadwajr explains how the Azure team built GEM (Great Experiences Matter), an AI-enabled “feedback-to-fix” loop that aggregates customer feedback at scale, turns it into prioritized insights, and creates actionable Azure DevOps work items with an auditable evidence trail and human review.

pratikpanda explains a practical way to make shared Azure DevOps pipeline templates easier to adopt by replacing long parameter lists with a manifest object built at pipeline-assembly time, then validating that manifest with versioned JSON Schema checks so deployments fail fast when the contract is broken.

kshatzkamer outlines a reference architecture for “orchestrated media intelligence”: an orchestration layer that connects trusted data, specialized AI models/agents, cloud infrastructure, and governance across end-to-end media workflows. The post uses Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, and Azure AI Foundry examples to show how to keep humans accountable while scaling automation.

newmancheng explains how Microsoft Discovery combined agentic AI, computational predictors, and wet-lab feedback to design and validate a novel organic negolyte for redox flow batteries, with a focus on preserving negative results as durable knowledge that improves subsequent design rounds.

carlottacaste introduces “Inside Microsoft Foundry: Quickstart”, a video series focused on the practical work of building and shipping AI agents with Microsoft Foundry and the Microsoft Agent Framework, including model selection, grounding in your own data, tracing, evaluation, and moving from prototype to production.

devanshirastogi rounds up five recent Azure Firewall capabilities—some now generally available and others in public preview—covering explicit proxy support, IPv6 dual-stack filtering, HTTP header insertion, auto-learned SNAT routes via Azure Route Server, and higher-throughput IDPS with TLS inspection for Azure Firewall Premium.

rgarofalo walks through a hands-on build that locks down Azure AI Foundry both inbound (Private Endpoint) and outbound (agent egress via network injection), including the DNS zones you must create, how to prove public access is actually blocked, and how to troubleshoot opaque agent tool-call failures like 424 errors.

Christine Caggiano, Joshua Bradley, Steven Truitt, and William Chappell describe how Microsoft Discovery’s Discovery Engine adds CLIO (a self-adaptive “cognitive loop”) to improve agentic scientific problem-solving, and share benchmark results from Agent’s Last Exam showing higher scores and better consistency through multi-model, evidence-driven exploration.

wolfgangdesalvador introduces a public preview optimization for Azure Blob Storage List Blobs that returns results in Apache Arrow format, cutting response size and client parsing cost. The post explains the required REST headers and SDK versions, shows a Python decoding example, and shares rclone benchmarks demonstrating large speedups with parallel listing.

pranabpaul walks through the first part of building a retail assistant demo using Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry, focusing on setting up the Azure environment, provisioning Fabric capacity, loading sample data into a Lakehouse, creating an ontology, and wiring a Fabric Data Agent to query that data.

pranabpaul continues the 3IQ Retail Assistant demo by wiring unstructured PDF content into an Azure AI Foundry agent using Azure Blob Storage and Azure AI Search, including the RBAC permissions needed for managed identities and the networking trade-offs involved when publishing the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Mohammed Barqawi introduces Logic App Storage Inspector, a read-only Kudu site extension that helps troubleshoot Azure Logic Apps Standard by inspecting the underlying storage for workflow history, versions, and queue health, with guidance on installation, configuration settings, and managed identity permissions.

Dalibor Kovacevic explains how to use Azure SRE Agent’s advanced ServiceNow filtering to route the right incidents to the right response plan, then control how much autonomy the responder has (Autonomous vs Review) while you preview and tune matching before enabling it.

yairgil explains how the Azure Copilot Observability Agent can use Azure Monitor Log Analytics Basic and Auxiliary table plans as investigation evidence, helping teams reduce log costs while still correlating alerts, metrics, traces, topology, and recent changes during incident response—especially in high-volume AKS environments.

kinfey explains why “AI agent infrastructure” needs stronger security boundaries than traditional model hosting, using kars (an open-source Agent Reference Stack for Kubernetes) to show how to isolate agent runtimes, broker identity, govern tools/MCP, control egress, enforce token budgets, and produce auditable evidence for incident response.

reshmarahim announces the public preview of Radius Canvas for the GitHub Copilot app, a Canvas extension that builds a versioned application model from a repository so developers can visualize architecture, review PR impact via an application-level diff, and deploy across environments using generated GitHub Actions workflows with OIDC-based credentials.

devanshirastogi announces the general availability of explicit proxy in Azure Firewall, explaining how to steer selected HTTP/HTTPS traffic through a single proxy port for centralized inspection. The post highlights managed-identity access to PAC files in Azure Blob Storage, a streamlined portal workflow, and hybrid scenarios like securing Azure Arc connectivity over ExpressRoute or VPN.

budzynski summarizes the August 2026 updates to the AI Gateway tier (preview) of Azure API Management, focusing on improved OpenTelemetry-based observability for AI workloads and new controls for monitoring and enforcing model spend via budgets and cost-limit policies.

ChethanRaj outlines a practical way to design Azure access using RBAC and Managed Identities, with an emphasis on least-privilege permissions across people, applications, and deployment pipelines. The post highlights common design mistakes and how to avoid over-scoping access (for example, granting Contributor when only Key Vault secret read is needed).

ChethanRaj outlines the key trade-offs when designing Dev, UAT, Staging, and Production environment boundaries in Azure, focusing on when to separate by resource group versus subscription, how to place shared services, and how operational and security boundaries should drive the overall structure.

ChethanRaj outlines practical considerations for structuring Dev, UAT, Staging, and Production environments in Azure, focusing on when to separate by resource group vs subscription, where to place shared services, and how operational and security boundaries should drive the design.

wolfgangdesalvador breaks down Azure’s MLPerf Storage v3.0 results for Azure Managed Lustre, focusing on how sustained throughput and fast checkpoint I/O help keep large AI training clusters from stalling.

Alex-wdy explains an upcoming Azure Key Vault control plane API retirement and the required tooling upgrades to avoid breaking vault management operations. The post lists minimum Azure CLI and Az PowerShell versions, how to check what you have installed, and the exact upgrade commands to run before the February 27, 2027 deadline.

Sithu explains why long-running Azure Batch tasks on Ubuntu nodes can get interrupted and re-queued on a daily schedule, even when the app itself never fails. The post shows how to confirm the cause on a node and how to stop the restarts without breaking your pool operations.

gurjsing shows how to turn Microsoft’s published compliance scope (using Germany’s C5 as the example) into enforceable Azure controls by extracting the certified-service list from the Service Trust Portal, mapping it to ARM resource types, and deploying a deny/audit Azure Policy with a reviewable, automated workflow.

Amit Ganguli announces the public preview of the Resiliency Agent in Azure Copilot, which helps teams assess zonal resiliency across subscriptions, prioritize fixes with cost-aware indicators, and generate deployment-ready Bicep/Terraform templates and scripts to remediate gaps.

Sreekanth Thirthala introduces APIOps CLI, an open-source command-line tool for managing Azure API Management configuration as source-controlled artifacts, enabling reviewable pull-request workflows and repeatable promotions across environments using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipelines.

Nicolas Mondada announces the GA release of Certificate Management for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, a Microsoft-managed extension that automates TLS certificate issuance/renewal and trust bundle distribution across edge fleets, including support for disconnected operation, broad distro validation, and ARM64 edge hardware.