15 verified briefings on Azure. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
A post-mortem of Azure's 2023 global outage reveals a crucial lesson: "human error" is a myth. Engineering leaders should instead focus on fixing systemic flaws to build truly resilient systems and protect their teams from blame.
Microsoft has updated its Azure Kubernetes Service with new features for AI, bare metal servers, and managing multiple clusters. This helps teams run more demanding applications and simplifies large-scale operations on the cloud.
Azure Functions now has a serverless agents runtime in public preview. It lets developers build AI-powered automations without the usual cold start delays or extra costs on the Flex Consumption plan.
A threat actor called PCPJack has hijacked over 230 servers on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. The compromised servers are being used to create a covert email relay network, turning them into proxies for sending mail.
A new security bulletin highlights several critical issues. Key reports include a new security plugin for the Claude AI model, a potential privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Azure, and a technique for bypassing multi-factor authentication in Kali Linux environments. The bulletin also covers ongoing FIFA-themed scams.
Security researchers found critical vulnerabilities in the Azure-specific Linux kernel. These flaws could allow a local attacker to gain higher privileges or even break out of a container, posing a serious risk to cloud infrastructure security.
A critical vulnerability, known as Copy Fail, has been found in the Linux kernel for Azure. The flaw affects cryptographic operations and could allow a local attacker to gain higher privileges or escape from a container, posing a significant security risk for cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
A critical security update has been released for the Azure-specific Linux kernel. The update addresses several vulnerabilities, including a major flaw (CVE-2026-31431) that could allow an attacker to gain higher privileges or escape from a container. Teams operating on Azure should apply the patch immediately.
Microsoft Azure now offers sandboxes to safely run untrusted code from AI agents. The isolated environments start in under a second, scale massively, and cost nothing when idle, making AI experimentation much safer for developers.
Microsoft's new AI platform, Microsoft Discovery, is now available on Azure. It helped develop a new quantum chip that is 1,000x more reliable, halving the company's timeline for a scalable quantum computer to just 2029.
Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a 244-acre data center campus in Caledonia, Wisconsin, following significant community opposition. The decision highlights growing local resistance to large-scale infrastructure projects, which can impact cloud service expansion plans for major tech companies and their customers.
Microsoft has updated Azure Logic Apps with sandboxed code interpreters. This allows AI agents within workflows to safely generate and execute Python, JavaScript, C#, and PowerShell code, positioning Logic Apps as a platform for building AI-powered integrations.
Microsoft has officially released Azure Linux 4.0, its first server-grade Linux distribution. The new OS is designed for cloud environments and can be run on Azure infrastructure or locally on desktops using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, marking a significant step for the company.
Microsoft details an attack where a threat actor used a single compromised identity to breach an entire cloud environment. The attack began with social engineering and escalated through Microsoft Entra ID and M365 to compromise critical Azure services, including databases and virtual machines.
Microsoft has taken down a major malware code-signing service that enabled ransomware groups to make their malicious software appear legitimate. The operation involved seizing a website, revoking over 1,000 abused certificates, and shutting down hundreds of virtual machines hosted on Azure.