Guardrails That Hold: RAI Filters & a Governed MCP Gateway
Part 2 of the governed AI platform: a custom RAI content filter with harm thresholds, plus an MCP gateway that tiers tool access.
Azure Weekly CW33: Firewall Premium 22 Gbps & MAI-Thinking-1
Azure CW33 2026: the Firewall Premium deny-mode throughput numbers, Markdown for Agents in App Service, and MAI-Thinking-1 in Microsoft Foundry.
Building a Governed AI Platform on Microsoft Foundry
How I built an internal AI platform on Microsoft Foundry with governance first: data residency, secret-less identity, and central audit.
Azure Weekly CW31: APIM AI Gateway & Azure Enclave
Azure CW31 2026: AI Gateway in API Management, Azure Enclave preview, Key Vault symmetric keys, and reservation exchanges ending February 2027.
Azure Weekly CW30: Standard Service Endpoints & AI Telemetry
Azure CW30 2026: standard service endpoint preview, IPv6 on VPN Gateway GA, DDoS custom policies, and a protected table for generative AI telemetry.
Azure Weekly CW29: Passkeys by Default & Edge Actions
Azure CW29 2026: Entra passkeys become the default in September, SMS and voice retire February 2027, plus Front Door edge actions on Hyperlight.
Azure Weekly CW27: Claude Sonnet 5 GA in Foundry
Azure CW27 2026: Claude Sonnet 5 GA in Microsoft Foundry, and why its data residency still blocks regulated Swiss workloads.
Azure Weekly CW24: Azure Boost RDMA & Anthropic Fable 5
Azure CW24 2026: Azure Boost guest RDMA preview, NCv6 GPUs with RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, GPv1 retirement, and Fable 5 in Foundry.
Azure Weekly CW23: Build 2026 Special
Build 2026 round-up: Cobalt 200 ARM VMs, confidential VM live migration, Container Apps microVM sandboxes, and Foundry IQ.
Microsoft AI Monthly: May 2026
May 2026 AI round-up: Claude Opus 4.8 across Foundry and Copilot, GPT-5.5, Grok 4.3, and Foundry managed virtual networks GA.
Azure Weekly CW22: VNet Flow Logs in Sentinel & AVNM
Azure CW22 2026: VNet flow logs connector for Sentinel, Virtual Network Manager with Virtual WAN as hub, and Istio on AKS.
Azure Weekly CW20-21: Container Apps Express & Linux 4.0
Azure CW20-21 2026: Container Apps Express, Azure Linux 4.0, Azure Files SMB managed identity, and ANF 64 TiB file support.
Azure Weekly CW19: Durable Functions & Elastic SAN on AVS
Azure CW19 2026: Functions consumption durable task scheduler, Elastic SAN on AVS Gen2, and bulk Azure Backup VM restore.
Azure Weekly CW18: AKS WireGuard & Agent Framework 1.0
Azure CW18 2026: AKS pod traffic encryption with WireGuard, Front Door WAF HTTP DDoS rule set, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0.
Azure Weekly CW17: ANF Ransomware & Claude Opus 4.7
Azure CW17 2026: AKS Ubuntu 22.04 retirement, ANF ransomware protection, Elastic SAN autoscaling, Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 in Foundry.
I Built My Own Personal AI Infrastructure (PAI)
I adopted Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure to add memory, skills, and lifecycle hooks to Claude Code. A cloud engineer's take.
Azure Weekly CW16: NAT Gateway V2 for AKS & Smart Tiering
Azure CW16 2026: Standard V2 NAT Gateway for AKS, Smart Tiering GA for blob and Data Lake, Azure Files granular encryption-in-transit.
Azure Weekly CW15: AKS CNI Expansion & Foundry Local
Azure CW15 2026: AKS CNI overlay CIDR expansion GA, Functions MCP resource triggers GA, ARO H100/H200 GPU support, Foundry Local GA.
Azure Weekly CW14: Ephemeral OS Caching & Cosmos PG Sunset
Azure CW14 2026: VM ephemeral OS disk full caching preview, App Configuration with Front Door, and Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL retirement.
Azure Weekly CW13: AKS App Network & Blue-Green Upgrades
Azure CW13 2026: AKS application network mesh, blue-green agent pool upgrades, SQL DB automatic index compaction, and Entra external MFA.
Azure Weekly CW12: Foundry Agent Service & Entra Blob SFTP
Azure CW12 2026: Foundry Agent Service GA with native voice, Entra ID for Blob SFTP, WAF DRS 2.2, and standard HDD retirement announced.
Azure Weekly CW11: SRE Agent & PostgreSQL IaC
Azure CW11 2026: SRE Agent gains new capabilities, private AWS S3 to Blob migration, PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster IaC GA, Grafana dashboards.
Azure Weekly CW10: Confidential VMs v6 & GPT-5.4
Azure CW10 2026: Intel TDX confidential VMs GA, Azure Firewall draft-and-deploy, Databricks Lakebase, Arc Gateway down to 7 endpoints.
Azure Weekly CW9: WAF Insights & Copilot CLI
Azure CW9 2026: App Gateway WAF Insights preview, Entra-restricted blob SAS tokens, AI Search sensitivity labels, and GitHub Copilot CLI goes GA.
Azure Weekly CW8: PSSD v2 Snapshots & AKS MCP
Azure CW8 2026: Premium SSD v2 instant snapshots, AKS MCP Server preview, node autoprovision encryption, and Azure Functions .NET 10 support.
Azure Weekly CW7: Monitor Pipelines & Entra SoA
Azure CW7 2026: Monitor Pipelines preview, AKS Kubernetes 1.34 GA, Azure Disk vaulted backups, and Entra source of authority goes GA.
Azure Weekly CW6: VNet Routing & Container Storage
Azure CW6 2026: VNet routing appliance preview, Container Storage 2.1 with Elastic SAN, App Gateway DRS 2.2, and Claude Opus 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry.
Azure Weekly CW3: AKS Ubuntu 24.04 & GPT-5.2-Codex
Azure CW3 2026: AKS gets Ubuntu 24.04 GA, Cosmos DB adds private networking for Fabric mirroring, and GPT-5.2-Codex brings 400k token context.