Deep dives into Azure, cloud architecture, modern web development & IT topics.
This week's Azure updates include instant snapshot access for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks, AKS node autoprovision encryption at host and local DNS, AKS MCP Server and Agentic CLI previews, Azure Functions .NET 10 support, Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Azure, and the Agent Monitoring Dashboard in Microsoft Foundry.
This week's Azure updates include Azure Monitor Pipelines for pre-ingestion data transformation, AKS Kubernetes 1.34 with stable dynamic resource allocation, Azure Disk vaulted backups, the Entra source of authority user change going GA, and Claude Opus 4.6 on Azure Databricks.
A practical guide to Azure Privileged Identity Management covering both Entra ID and Azure roles. Covers activation workflows, approval configurations, access reviews, and Terraform automation with real-world patterns.
This week's Azure updates include a new VNet routing appliance in preview, Azure Container Storage 2.1 with Elastic SAN support, App Gateway DRS 2.2 rule set, namespace-scoped placement for Kubernetes Fleet Manager, and Claude Opus 4.6 in Azure AI Foundry.
How to build an Azure governance framework with management groups, policy assignments, compliance monitoring, and automated remediation that actually scales.
This week's Azure updates cover the GA of ExpressRoute scalable gateways with autoscaling, new Intel and AMD VM SKUs, the automatic passkey profile rollout for all tenants, and Azure Databricks Agent Bricks going GA.
Advanced EPAC patterns for real environments: policy exemptions with expiry dates, assignment strategies that scale, initiative design, and how to debug the things that go wrong.
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