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  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud Now Covers Azure Container Apps Posture

    Security teams often treat serverless workloads like a black box, assuming the cloud provider handles everything. While the infrastructure is managed, your configuration and container images are not. Microsoft is closing this visibility gap by bringing Azure Container Apps (ACA) into the Serverless Containers Posture experience within Microsoft Defender for Cloud. This update allows organizations…

  • Azure AI Search Adds Purview Sensitivity Labels to Knowledge Sources

    Azure AI Search Adds Purview Sensitivity Labels to Knowledge Sources Microsoft’s public preview of Purview sensitivity labels in Azure AI Search lets organizations tag sensitive data at the source, which then flows into knowledge bases used by Microsoft Foundry agents and copilots. This means documents containing confidential information can be automatically marked with labels like…

  • Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit Unveiled: Bridging AI and Databases

    Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit Unveiled: Bridging AI and Databases The Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit is now generally available, offering a standardized way for AI agents and copilots to connect to operational data. This release removes the friction of custom integrations by enabling secure, enterprise-ready access to Cosmos DB through natural language queries and…

  • Azure Databricks Now Powers Claude Sonnet 5 Through AI Model Serving

    Azure Databricks Just Got Agentically Smarter with Claude Sonnet 5 Microsoft’s Azure Databricks platform has just leveled up its AI capabilities with the addition of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5, officially entering general availability in July 2026. This latest generation of Sonnet models brings a significant leap forward in agentic AI capabilities, positioning Azure customers for…

  • Debug AI Apps Against Production Data Without Exposing Production Data

    Azure Databricks just shipped something that makes me wonder why this didn’t exist years ago. You can now create copy-on-write branches of your Lakebase production database with a single command, then point GitHub Copilot agent mode at it for debugging AI apps and agents. No copy of production data floating around in staging environments that…

  • GitHub Copilot Unleashed in SSMS: Agent Mode Lets You Command Your Database Like a Pro

    Remember when database administration meant wrestling with query optimizers and hunting through logs? Microsoft’s new GitHub Copilot Agent mode for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is like giving your database a personal assistant. You no longer need to micromanage every step. Just state your goal in plain English, and Copilot will autonomously execute queries, analyze…

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