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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Near-zero downtime scaling for HA-enabled Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers

Azure Updates

2025-10-22

Azure Database for PostgreSQL now generally supports near-zero downtime scaling for servers with high availability (HA) enabled, reducing scaling interruptions to typically under 30 seconds instead of the previous 2–10 minutes.

security: The CISO imperative: Building resilience in an era of accelerated cyberthreats

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-22

Microsoft's Digital Defense Report 2025 highlights a changing cyberthreat landscape with a rise in financially motivated attacks and ongoing nation-state risks. The article argues that CISOs must focus on organizational response, adaptation, and resilience-building to meet accelerating threats.

vscode: Expanding Model Choice in VS Code with Bring Your Own Key

Visual Studio Code

2025-10-22

The VS Code blog post introduces the new Language Model Chat Provider API and a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) experience that lets extensions and users choose and integrate different language models for chat functionality, increasing model choice and extensibility in the editor.

security: The new Microsoft Security Store unites partners and innovation

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-21

Microsoft announced the new Microsoft Security Store, a centralized gateway that helps customers discover, purchase, and deploy vetted security solutions and AI agents from leading partners, aiming to simplify procurement and accelerate partner-driven innovation.

github: Claude Haiku 4.5 is generally available in all supported IDEs

GitHub

2025-10-20

Claude Haiku 4.5 is now generally available to Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Business, Copilot Pro, and Copilot Pro+ users and can be used in GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com and in all supported IDEs.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Cloud-to-Cloud migration made simple with Azure Storage Mover

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure Storage Mover's AWS S3 to Azure Blob migration capability is now generally available, enabling organizations to move data directly from AWS to Azure securely, reliably, and at scale while removing the need for manual pipelines.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure announced Public Preview support for sharing Capacity Reservation Groups (CRGs) with subscriptions, allowing CRGs to be used beyond the subscription where they were created. Previously, VMs could only be deployed into a CRG within the same subscription.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Enhanced cloning and Public IP retention scripts for Azure Application Gateway migration

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure released two PowerShell scripts to simplify migrating Application Gateway from V1 (Standard or WAF) to V2 (Standard_V2 or WAF_V2): an enhanced cloning script and a public IP retention script. V1 SKUs are scheduled for retirement in April 2026, so customers are advised to migrate early to V2 and take advantage of its features.

security: Inside the attack chain: Threat activity targeting Azure Blob Storage

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-20

Microsoft’s Security Blog highlights that Azure Blob Storage is an attractive, high-value target because it stores massive volumes of unstructured data across many workloads. Threat actors are increasingly using sophisticated attack chains that exploit misconfigurations, exposed credentials, and evolving cloud-specific tactics to compromise Blob Storage.

k8s: 7 Common Kubernetes Pitfalls (and How I Learned to Avoid Them)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-10-20

The article outlines seven common Kubernetes pitfalls the author encountered—missing resource requests/limits, inadequate liveness/readiness probes, overreliance on kubectl logs, treating dev and prod identically, leaving stale resources, jumping into advanced networking too early, and weak security/RBAC—and gives pragmatic, experience-based advice to avoid each one.

ai: A Developer’s Guide to Fine-Tuning GPT-4o for Image Classification on Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-10-20

This guide demonstrates how to quickly improve image classification accuracy by fine-tuning GPT-4o (a vision-language model) on Azure OpenAI via Azure AI Foundry. It targets ML practitioners, app developers, and curious users, and emphasizes that boosting performance can be done without deep learning expertise through a step-by-step walkthrough.

k8s: Spotlight on Policy Working Group

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-10-18

The Policy Working Group (now completed) worked to standardize and simplify policy management across the Kubernetes ecosystem. Led by co-chairs Jim Bugwadia, Poonam Lamba, and Andy Suderman, the group produced documentation, whitepapers, a CNCF survey, and the Policy Reports API, and helped educate the community about built-in policy APIs and CNCF policy tools. The WG coordinated with SIG Auth and SIG Security, faced contributor-time and consensus challenges, and encouraged newcomers to join meetings and review materials to get involved.