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#azure

Microsoft launched a review on August 15, shortly after the Guardian article was published. According to Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith, the review is based on two principles that the company applies worldwide. Firstly, not supplying technology for the mass surveillance of citizens. And secondly, protecting the privacy rights of customers. He emphasized that Microsoft is not a country or a government, but a company that independently determines which products and services it offers.

GitHub Copilot app modernization now is generally available via agentic AI tools for Java and .NET, Github said. For both platforms, the intentions are to help modernize applications and move them to the Azure cloud. In a blog post on September 23, GitHub said that developers using Copilot can access applications, apply code transformations, containerize services, and patch builds, all in days rather than months.

Mollema has studied Entra ID security in depth and published multiple studies about weaknesses in the system, which was formerly known as Azure Active Directory. But while preparing to present at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas in July, Mollema discovered two vulnerabilities that he realized could be used to gain global administrator privileges-essentially god mode-and compromise every Entra ID directory, or what is known as a "tenant."

A key aspect of Microsoft's hardware security is isolation. Encryption keys are stored in an integrated hardware security module (HSM), while VMs are isolated from one another using trusted execution environments (TEE) baked into modern CPUs and GPUs. The control, data, networking, and storage planes are all offloaded to smartNICs and an open source Root of Trust (RoT) module ensures everything is what it purports to be.

On July 29, 2025, enterprises relying on Microsoft Azure's East US region experienced an unexpected disruption that reverberated across numerous organizations. The root cause wasn't a network breach, misconfiguration, or other complex technical mishap. It was something shockingly basic: a lack of capacity.

Managing cloud costs in Azure has become one of the biggest challenges for technology teams. While Azure offers flexibility and power, it also makes it easy to overspend.

Microsoft is cutting prices by 60% on generative AI (genAI) technologies in Azure designed to provide better understanding and insights for videos, text, speech, and images.

A well-configured network is critical for deploying SQL Server FCI across multiple availability zones and regions in Azure, enabling seamless high availability and disaster recovery.