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Azure Local Well-Architected Framework and Review Assessment by Thomas Maurer #Azure www.thomasmaurer.ch/2025/11/azur...
Azure Local Well-Architected Framework and Review Assessment
As organizations increasingly adopt Azure Local to run modern and traditional applications across on-premises and edge environments, ensuring a robust and scalable architecture becomes essential. That’s...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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#AzureKubernetesService Automatic with Azure Linux by Flora Taagen #AzureKubernetesService #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/linux-and...
AKS Automatic with Azure Linux | Microsoft Community Hub
Earlier today Microsoft announced that AKS Automatic is officially Generally Available (GA) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). AKS Automatic enables...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Good analysis of user assigned managed identities vs service principals. I also default to UAMI for Terraform, although I hope App Roles - for Entra ID roles etc. - become easier to create.
September 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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September 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Broadcom will be enforcing VCF on cloud VMware platforms on Nov 1st. If you are thinking of getting Azure VMware Services then you can insulate yourself by getting Reserved Instances for 1/3/5y whilst they're still available before the Oct 15th deadline.

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Broadcom VMware Licensing Changes: What Azure VMware Solution Customers Need to Know | Microsoft Community Hub
  Broadcom has announced changes are coming to its VMware licensing model on hyperscalers beginning in its new fiscal year on November 1, 2025. If...
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September 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Communications of the ACM (CACM) published our article, "The Price of Intelligence", which describes three key risks inherent in LLMs that enterprises must consider when designing and operating AI systems: hallucinations, jail breaks, and indirect prompt injection:

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August 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Terraform Provider for #MicrosoftFabric: 2 Using MCP servers and Fabric CLI to help define your fabric resources by Richard Cheney blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-GB/blog/t...
Terraform Provider for Microsoft Fabric: #2 Using MCP servers and Fabric CLI to help define your fabric resources | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric
The Microsoft Fabric tooling ecosystem has evolved in recent months as both the Fabric CLI and the Terraform Provider for Microsoft Fabric have become generally available, providing new opportunities...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Terraform Provider for #MicrosoftFabric: 1 Accelerating first steps using the CLIs by Richard Cheney #Azure blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-GB/blog/t...
Terraform Provider for Microsoft Fabric: #1 Accelerating first steps using the CLIs | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric
The Microsoft Fabric tooling ecosystem has evolved in recent months as both the Fabric CLI and the Terraform Provider for Microsoft Fabric have become generally available, providing new opportunities...
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July 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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We've made major enhancements to Azure virtual machine availability monitoring, including aggregated and individual health views, detailed impact and root cause reporting for disruptions, and trend analysis. Read more in my blog post:

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July 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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This will massively simplify Front Door configs.
azureweekly.endj.in Azure Weekly @azureweekly.endj.in · Jul 3
#AzureFrontDoor now supports managed certificate for wildcard domains (GA) by The Azure Updates Team #Azure azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=4...
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July 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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85% of Fortune 500 companies have made their choice – have you?
A fascinating pattern is emerging in UK enterprise boardrooms: nearly 70% of Fortune 500 companies have integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot into their workflows since 2023, while others are still eval…
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June 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Finally. Although why only half of our protected marine areas? We need to push for a worldwide ban on bottom trawling.
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Campaigners hail plan to ban bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas
Campaigners hail plan to ban bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas
Environmental groups welcome government proposals to clamp down on destructive fishing practice Environmental groups have welcomed government proposals to ban the destructive fishing practice known as bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas. The plan, to be announced on Monday by the environment secretary, Steve Reed, came before a UN summit in Nice to tackle the ocean’s failing health. It follows pressure from conservationists and the release of a David Attenborough film featuring rare underwater footage of the devastation to the seabed caused by bottom trawling in British waters. Continue reading...
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June 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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So proud to announce that the Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source!

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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever iss...
blogs.windows.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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#AzAPI v2.4 is here!
One major improvement is support for ephemeral properties and resource actions. Check out the usage guide here: registry.terraform.io/providers/Az...
#Azure #Terraform #security #ephemeral
Terraform Registry
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May 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Explore this newly refreshed series of Plans on Microsoft Learn that aim to supply your team with the tools and knowledge to leverage the latest AI technologies.

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Learn how to develop innovative AI solutions with updated Azure skilling paths | Microsoft Community Hub
The rapid evolution of generative AI is reshaping how organizations operate, innovate, and deliver value. Professionals who develop expertise in generative...
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April 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Microsoft completes landmark EU Data Boundary, offering enhanced data residency and transparency by Julie Brill And Paul Lorimer blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
EU Data Boundary
Microsoft has completed the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, enabling European customers to store and process their data within the EU and EFTA regions, reflecting Microsoft's commitment to data...
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March 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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A major release. I’ve always been impressed by Jared’s AVM work. Seriously robust and well crafted.
January 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM