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Azure Files makes it easy to run your file shares in the cloud without the overhead of on-premises file servers or NAS devices. Until now, managing file shares in Azure…

We've reached another exciting milestone in our automation journey, after introducing Agent loop at Build this year. We're excited to announce enhancements that make Azure Logic Apps the multiagentic business…

As AI agents evolve, they increasingly need to do more than just respond to text—they must analyze structured data, reason over complex patterns, and perform custom computations on demand. This…

This blog was originally posted to the App Service team blog We’re excited to announce that Azure App Service now supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for JBoss Enterprise Application…

by Mark Gitau (Software Engineer) Introduction  For the MLPerf Inference v5.1 submission, Azure shared performance results on the new ND GB200 v6 virtual machines. A single ND GB200 v6 VM…

We’re excited to announce a new Azure Policy definition that lets you enforce or audit policy inheritance in Azure API Management. With this capability, platform and governance teams can ensure…

Today, Microsoft is announcing preview of the new Azure AMD-based Virtual Machines (VMs), powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Turin) processors. The preview includes general purpose (Dasv7 & Dalsv7 series),…

When it comes to connecting systems and automating tasks, n8n has built a passionate community around a powerful, extensible workflow engine. With hundreds of integrations and the ability to share workflows…

Authored by Sarah Zhou, Product Manager We’re excited to announce the addition of the D192 size to the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series Virtual Machines families, powered by the 5th Generation…

What Is the Azure Well-Architected Framework? The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding principles that help cloud architects build high-quality solutions on Azure. It is structured around five…

Using Logic Apps (Standard) as MCP servers transforms the way organizations build and manage agents by turning connectors into modular, reusable MCP tools. This approach allows each connector—whether it's for…

We recently announced the ability to create MCP servers using Logic Apps connectors. In this post we are going to share some demo videos that will help you get started…

Container Insights is Azure Monitor’s solution for collecting logs from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.  As the adoption of AKS continues to grow, we are seeing an increasing number…

We are excited to announce the general availability of network security perimeter support for Azure Storage accounts. A network security perimeter allows organizations to define a logical network isolation boundary for…

We’re excited to announce a major resiliency enhancement for Azure Container Registry (ACR): Zone redundancy is now enabled by default for all ACR SKUs in regions that support Availability Zones. This means…

Introduction: The Evolution of AI-Powered App Service Applications Over the past few months, we've been exploring how to supercharge existing Azure App Service applications with AI capabilities. If you've been…

A new HTTP/2 vulnerability, CVE-2025-8671 (MadeYouReset), was recently disclosed on August 13, 2025. This attack leverages carefully crafted protocol frames to force servers into repeatedly resetting streams on a single…

What’s New? The updated experience introduces a dedicated App Service Quota blade in the Azure portal, offering a streamlined and intuitive interface to: View current usage and limits across the…

When we think about human intelligence, memory is one of the first things that comes to mind. It’s what enables us to learn from our experiences, adapt to new situations,…

Introduction We’re excited to announce that Trusted Launch in-place upgrade support is now available to help you strengthen the security of your Azure virtual machines and scale set resources—without the need for…

If you've been itching to go beyond basic Python scripts and dive into the world of AI-powered applications, this is your moment. Join Pamela Fox and Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza Gwthrilled to…

Introducing Azure Local Training: Empowering You to Succeed We’re excited to announce the launch of the Azure Local Training Program — a comprehensive, self-paced learning experience designed to empower customer…

Accelerate Innovation and Business Growth with Azure In today’s digital-first world, organizations are reimagining their cloud architectures to drive agility, resilience, and growth. Migrating your application load balancing from AWS…

We are proud to announce the general availability of Teams Phone extensibility (TPE) powered by Azure Communication Services. This enables Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) vendors to integrate seamlessly…

  Broadcom has announced changes are coming to its VMware licensing model on hyperscalers beginning in its new fiscal year on November 1, 2025. If you’re an Azure VMware Solution…

We’re excited to announce that Azure Linux 3.0 has successfully passed the Level 1 Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks, reinforcing our commitment to delivering a secure and compliant platform…

We’re thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Enhanced Azure Security Baseline for Linux—a major milestone in cloud-native security and compliance. This release brings powerful, audit-only capabilities to…

Azure Cloud Shell is an online shell hosted by Microsoft that provides instant access to a command-line interface, enabling users to manage Azure resources without needing local installations. Cloud Shell…

This tiny app just does one thing: upload an image → get a natural one-line caption. Under the hood: Azure AI Vision extracts high-confidence tags from the image. Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini)…

In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group Community Playbook News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month September’s Ace Aviator: Kritika Singh Kritika…

At Build, we unveiled the Azure SRE Agent with a powerful end-to-end incident handling experience - detecting, diagnosing, mitigating, and handing off issues to development teams. Since then, it’s evolved…

We are excited to announce that Premium v4 is now Generally Available on Azure App Service for both Windows and Linux customers!  Key benefits of Premium v4 include: Fully managed…

Architecture at a glance Diagram: “AGC with AKS Networking Models (Overlay & Flat)” – attached below. Left: internet ↦ AGC Frontend (Public/Private) Middle: AGC (Gateway) ↦ AGC Subnet (/24) ↦ AKS…

Multi‑agent systems turn complex, cross‑department processes into reliable, scalable AI workflows. Here’s a practical guide to designing, wiring, and shipping them with Azure AI Foundry—plus three real‑world scenarios you can…

We’re excited to announce that Azure Communication Services (ACS) is now Generally Available in Azure Government, including Video and Chat capabilities. This milestone empowers U.S. government agencies and their partners…

What are Azure CNI Overlay and Application Gateway?  Azure CNI Overlay leverages logical network spaces for pod IP assignment management (IPAM). This provides enhanced IP scalability with reduced management responsibilities.   Application Gateway for Containers is the latest and most recommended container L7 load-balancing solution. It introduces a new…

Background Following Red Hat's transition to a scalable vCPU-based pricing model in early 2024, Microsoft Azure implemented corresponding pricing updates for RHEL services. As part of ensuring our billing infrastructure…

Introduction The DeepSeek R1 model represents a new frontier in large-scale reasoning for AI applications. Designed to tackle complex inference tasks, R1 pushes the boundaries of what’s possible—but not without…

Introduction: Many customers run multiple Teamcenter-SPDM solutions across the enterprise, mixing multiple instances, multiple ISV vendors, and hybrid cloud/on-prem implementations. This fragmentation reduces the customer’s ability to uniformly access data.…

Introduction Looking to automate your Azure Logic Apps code deploymentsin a faster way? Deployment Center - a built-in feature in Azure Logic Apps Standard - in now available, with built-in…

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create an AI agent that can send emails on your behalf. We'll use Microsoft Copilot Studio and the robust infrastructure of Azure Communication…

K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and originally developed by Rancher. It is optimized for on-premises environments with limited resources, making it…

Introduction Following our previous evaluation of Llama 3.1 8B inference performance on Azure’s ND-H100-v5 infrastructure using vLLM, this report broadens the scope to compare inference performance across a range of…

Introduction The pace of development in large language models (LLMs) has continued to accelerate as the global AI community races toward the goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Today’s most…

In this post, we’ll demonstrate how to build a simple yet powerful workflow using Azure Logic Apps, Log Analytics queries, and LLMs to automate log analysis, save time, and spot issues…

Why capacity reservations matter now Cloud isn’t running out of metal; demand is compounding and spiky. Peaks concentrate by region, zone, and VM SKU, especially for popular CPU families, memory-optimized…

Greetings from Las Vegas! I’m writing today from VMware Explore, where my team and I are thrilled to present the latest updates for Azure VMware Solution (AVS). We’re hosting breakout sessions, showcasing…

Background: Azure Machine Configuration remains committed to enabling greater security and simplicity in at-scale server management for all Azure customers. Machine Configuration (previously known as Azure Policy Guest Configuration) enables…

The Kubernetes environment comes with its own unique challenges, particularly at enterprise level scale. Hundreds or thousands of pods may exist at any given point in time and are continuously…

As enterprises accelerate their adoption of generative AI and machine learning to transform operations, enhance productivity, and deliver smarter customer experiences, Microsoft Azure has emerged as a leading platform for hosting and…