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Azure Weekly Update – 29th August 2025John Savill presents a detailed weekly Azure update, highlighting new infrastructure, security, and AI features, and enhancements for developers and administrators across Microsoft’s cloud platform.
John Savill's Technical Training
2025-08-29
Surge in DevOps Platform Incidents: 2025 Mid-Year Analysis of GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Jira DisruptionsAlan Shimel analyzes the 2025 surge in disruptions and security incidents across DevOps platforms such as GitHub and Azure DevOps, summarizing impacts on resilience, uptime, and developer productivity.
DevOps Blog
2025-08-29
Provider-Managed Azure Subscriptions: Cost Control and Commitment ClarityDirk_Brinkmann analyzes how enterprise customers can maintain cost control and commitment clarity in Azure by allowing service providers to manage subscriptions, detailing billing and governance implications.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-29
Azure Red Hat Enterprise Linux Billing Meter ID Migration: What You Need to Knowabbottkarl explains changes coming to Azure billing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, describing the shift to new meter IDs, how it affects customers, and the steps required to update your...
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-29
Performance Analysis: DeepSeek R1 Inference with vLLM on Azure ND-H100-v5CormacGarvey examines the deployment and benchmarking of the DeepSeek R1 reasoning model on Azure ND_H100_v5 nodes using vLLM, providing practical insights into infrastructure demands and performance.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-29
Implementing Siemens Teamcenter Simulation Process Data Management on Azure CycleCloud with SlurmSunita_AZ0708 explains how to implement Siemens Teamcenter SPDM on Azure CycleCloud with Slurm, covering secure multi-tier PLM architecture, simulation job workflow, and dynamic HPC resource management.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-28
Getting Started with the Aspire CLIJeffrey Fritz presents an in-depth walkthrough of the Aspire CLI, illustrating its use for .NET application development—from installation to running, integrating Azure services, and publishing distributed systems.
Microsoft .NET Blog
2025-08-28
Passed the Microsoft AI-900 Exam for Azure AI Fundamentals CertificationThomas Maurer discusses his achievement in earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) certification, summarizing the exam focus areas and Azure’s AI services.
Thomas Maurer's Blog
2025-08-28
Automating Azure Logic Apps Deployments with Deployment Center and VS CodeWSilveira explains how the Deployment Center in Azure Logic Apps Standard streamlines code deployments from VS Code and source control, integrating easily with DevOps workflows.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-28
Build an AI Email Agent with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure Communication Servicesfarhanhussain presents a practical guide to building an AI-powered agent that sends emails using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure Communication Services, including backend setup, conversation flow, and troubleshooting.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-28
Azure Top 3 Reliability ActionsJohn Savill presents the top three reliability actions for Azure, providing architects and cloud practitioners with actionable strategies and links to key Microsoft documentation.
John Savill's Technical Training
2025-08-27
General Availability of the Responses API in Azure AI FoundryBalaPV announces the general availability of the Responses API in Azure AI Foundry, empowering developers to easily build intelligent, multi-turn agents with built-in tool support and robust integration features.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-27
Deploying Hybrid Azure Logic Apps on K3s for Lightweight, On-Premises Integrationpraveensri demonstrates how to deploy Hybrid Azure Logic Apps on a lightweight K3s Kubernetes cluster, detailing infrastructure setup, Azure Arc integration, and hybrid configuration for on-premises or edge environments.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-27
Roadmap for AI and GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: September UpdateRhea Patel presents the September roadmap for integrating AI, agentic tools, and GitHub Copilot within Visual Studio, outlining major enhancements for developers, including new agents, customizable modes, and improved DevOps...
Microsoft VisualStudio Blog
2025-08-27
BrainKey Leverages Microsoft Azure and AI to Advance Brain Health ResearchIn this news feature by stclarke, learn how BrainKey harnesses Microsoft Azure and advanced AI for scalable, secure brain health research, leveraging both medical imaging analytics and cloud innovation.
Microsoft News
2025-08-27
Storm-0501’s Evolving Cloud-Based Ransomware Tactics: Microsoft Analysisstclarke provides an in-depth analysis of recent Storm-0501 attacks leveraging cloud-based ransomware techniques to compromise hybrid Microsoft environments, with actionable recommendations for security professionals.
Microsoft News
2025-08-27
Freeform Tool Calling with GPT-5 in Azure AI FoundryApril from Microsoft Developer demonstrates how to use freeform tool calling with GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry, showing a seamless workflow from natural language to code, data artifacts, and visualization....
Microsoft Developer YouTube
2025-08-27
Using Agentic Protocols (MCP, A2A, and NLWeb)Microsoft Developer presents an overview of MCP, A2A, and NLWeb agentic protocols, explaining their use and code implementation for building AI agents, as part of the “AI Agents for Beginners”...
Microsoft Developer YouTube
2025-08-27
Agent Factory: Top 5 Agent Observability Best Practices for Reliable AIYina Arenas shares best practices for implementing observability in AI agents, covering lifecycle evaluation, monitoring, security, and governance with Azure AI Foundry Observability.
The Azure Blog
2025-08-27
Enabling Healthcare Compliance with Microsoft Purview DLP Policies in FabricMicrosoft Fabric Blog presents a thorough overview of using Purview DLP policies to safeguard healthcare data, outlining compliance strategies and actionable steps for security administrators.
Microsoft Fabric Blog
2025-08-27
August 2025 Microsoft Fabric Feature Summary: Data Engineering, ML, and Platform EnhancementsMicrosoft Fabric Blog highlights the August 2025 Fabric Feature Summary, revealing core updates for developers and engineers, including new deployment pipeline features, Spark improvements, machine learning endpoints, Python Notebook integrations,...
Microsoft Fabric Blog
2025-08-27
Service Mesh Architecture Pattern in Azure: Managing Microservices Communication, Security, and ObservabilityDellenny discusses how Service Mesh architectures on Azure, using options like Istio and Open Service Mesh, streamline microservices communication, enhance security, and expand observability for cloud-native applications.
Dellenny's Blog
2025-08-27
Mandatory Explicit Azure Authentication in Semantic Kernel Python 1.36.0Dmytro Struk explains how Semantic Kernel Python 1.36.0 now requires explicit Azure authentication, replacing the former DefaultAzureCredential fallback. Learn the impact of this change and how to update your code....
Microsoft Semantic Kernel Blog
2025-08-27
Benchmarking Llama 3.1 8B Inference with vLLM on Azure GPU and CPU VMsCormac Garvey evaluates the inference performance and cost-efficiency of Llama 3.1 8B using vLLM across Azure GPU and CPU virtual machines, offering actionable benchmarks and deployment strategies for enterprise AI...
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-27
Connecting Azure Static Web Apps with Azure Functions for Dynamic Imagesfcc_archivist describes the challenge of connecting an Azure Static Web App with an Azure Functions API that generates images dynamically in C#. The guide covers typical pitfalls and configuration requirements....
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-26
Azure Service Groups Quick OverviewJohn Savill’s Technical Training presents a concise video outlining the fundamentals of Azure Service Groups for better cloud resource management on Microsoft Azure.
John Savill's Technical Training
2025-08-26
Exploring GraphRAG: AI-Powered Graph Search for Security Data AnalysisMicrosoft Developer features Anisha Latchman demonstrating how GraphRAG leverages Azure OpenAI and advanced graph embeddings to transform security data search and analysis in this practical and insightful video.
Microsoft Developer YouTube
2025-08-26
Benchmarking Llama 3.1 8B AI Inference on Azure ND-H100-v5 with vLLMCormac Garvey offers an in-depth benchmarking study of Llama 3.1 8B model inference using vLLM on Azure ND-H100-v5 GPUs. The article explains AI inference stages, optimization techniques, and reports on...
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-26
Mastering Declarative Data Transformations with Materialized Lake ViewsMicrosoft Fabric Blog explains how organizations can use materialized lake views in Fabric’s Lakehouse architecture to automate, monitor, and scale data transformation from Azure SQL Databases. The article covers step-by-step...
Microsoft Fabric Blog
2025-08-26
How Chemist Warehouse Uses Azure AI Foundry for HR Transformationstclarke reports on how Chemist Warehouse transformed its HR operations by deploying AIHRA, an AI-powered solution leveraging Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, delivering significant efficiency and engagement gains.
Microsoft News
2025-08-26
Transforming Scientific Discovery with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIAOmar Khan details how leading innovators leverage Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA GPU technologies to advance scientific research, healthcare, and digital twin solutions, showing real-world benefits of scalable AI and ML...
The Azure Blog
2025-08-26
Automate Log Analytics Workflows with Azure Logic Apps and Azure OpenAINoyaBlanga explains how to automate log analysis workflows using Azure Logic Apps, Log Analytics, and Azure OpenAI, enabling developers to deliver actionable, AI-driven insights via scheduled workflows.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-26
Gain Deeper Insights into Spark Jobs with JobInsight in Microsoft FabricMicrosoft Fabric Blog showcases how JobInsight empowers developers and data engineers to analyze Spark applications in Microsoft Fabric, offering metrics extraction, log diagnostics, and advanced troubleshooting directly within Fabric Notebooks....
Microsoft Fabric Blog
2025-08-26
Enhanced Monitoring for Spark High Concurrency Workloads in Microsoft FabricMicrosoft Fabric Blog announces enhanced monitoring for Spark workloads running in high concurrency mode. Discover new features for job insights, notebook-aware logging, and hierarchical views to boost developer productivity.
Microsoft Fabric Blog
2025-08-26
Enhancing Fabric Notebooks: Native Pandas DataFrame Support in User Data FunctionsMicrosoft Fabric Blog introduces a major update by enabling native Pandas DataFrame and Series support in User Data Functions within Fabric Notebooks. This enhancement, powered by Apache Arrow, streamlines large-scale...
Microsoft Fabric Blog
2025-08-26
Mine Your Azure Backup Data to Identify Hidden CostsAdeelaziz shares a practical method for identifying hidden costs in Azure by analyzing backup data with Power BI and PowerShell, providing tips for optimizing cloud storage spend.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-25
GitHub Copilot for Azure Public Preview Launched in Visual Studio 2022 with MCPYun Jung Choi brings news of the public preview launch of GitHub Copilot for Azure in Visual Studio 2022, highlighting how developers can now access Azure tools through Copilot Agent...
Microsoft VisualStudio Blog
2025-08-25
Announcing More Azure VMware Solution EnhancementsChristophe Herrbach introduces new enhancements for Azure VMware Solution, highlighting expanded regional availability, technical upgrades, and resources for Azure migration at VMware Explore.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-25
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in Azure AI: A Step-by-Step GuideDellenny presents a hands-on step-by-step guide to building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions with Azure AI, offering practical advice and architectural insights for developers and architects.
Dellenny's Blog
2025-08-25
Context Window: Answering 3 Developer Questions to Save on AI CostsMicrosoft Developer hosts “Context Window,” addressing developer questions from the Azure AI Foundry Community about saving costs with Azure AI services.
Microsoft Developer YouTube
2025-08-25
Designing for Certainty: How Azure Capacity Reservations Safeguard Mission‑Critical WorkloadsGoutham_Bandapati explores strategic use of Azure Capacity Reservations and Reserved Instances, detailing how they can be combined to reliably support mission-critical workloads while optimizing costs.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-25
Protecting Azure Infrastructure: Defense-in-Depth from Silicon to SystemsAuthored by Mark Russinovich, Omar Khan, and Bryan Kelly, this article examines Microsoft’s holistic approach to securing Azure, covering innovations like Azure Boost, confidential computing, and root-of-trust hardware for end-to-end...
The Azure Blog
2025-08-25
Azure Service Groups: Flexible Resource Organization ExplainedJohn Savill introduces Azure Service Groups, detailing how this new feature enables more adaptable and hierarchical resource organization in Azure, with deep dives into setup, permissions, and practical uses.
John Savill's Technical Training
2025-08-25
System-Assigned Identity-based Access for Azure Machine Configuration Packages Now Generally Availablemutemwamasheke details the new support for System Assigned Identities to enable secure, private access to configuration packages in Azure Machine Configuration, making it easier to manage and secure VMs and...
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-25
Why Did the Cost of My AI Agent Exceed the Set Budget?Microsoft Developer discusses why Azure AI Agent costs can exceed budgets, sharing tips from the Azure AI Foundry community on monitoring and optimizing spending.
Microsoft Developer YouTube
2025-08-25
Copy Job Activity Now in Preview for Microsoft Fabric Data Factory PipelinesMicrosoft Fabric Blog announces the Preview release of Copy job Activity, a new orchestration feature in Data Factory pipelines, enabling streamlined data movement and workflow automation for engineers working on...
Microsoft Fabric Blog
2025-08-25
Azure Storage: Fundamentals, Services, and Community Best Practicesfrankfalvey presents a practical guide to Azure Storage, outlining key storage types, cost optimization strategies, and real-world use cases for building reliable cloud applications.
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-23
Kickstart Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra: Free Starter Pack with Policies & AutomationSoaebRathod shares a practical starter pack for implementing Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra ID, complete with policy templates, PowerShell deployment scripts, and a GitHub Actions workflow for secure, automated rollout....
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-23
Enhancing Identity Protection with Azure Entra Security CopilotSoaebRathod highlights the real-world impact of Azure Entra Security Copilot, showing how AI-driven tools can elevate identity protection across Azure environments. Insights cover breach detection, policy recommendations, and incident response....
Microsoft Tech Community
2025-08-23