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  1. Azure Cost Management July–August 2025: Partner automation and multi-cloud cost control

    Microsoft revealed a compact but meaningful set of Cost Management updates for July and August 2025 that aim to reduce friction for partners, trim logging costs, simplify multi-cloud migrations, and strengthen the programmatic access story for Enterprise Agreement (EA) indirect partners—changes...
  2. Azure VMs Default Outbound Access Ends in September: What It Means for Cloud Security

    Cloud computing has always promised agility, productivity, and unlimited scale, but rarely do the default settings underpinning these promises curtail security in as direct a way as Microsoft's implementation of default outbound access for Azure virtual machines. As Azure races toward retiring...
  3. Mastering Azure Application Network Security: Subnets, Endpoints, DNS, and Terraform

    Breaking through the learning curve of securing application networks in Azure is a challenge that virtually every Windows professional or DevOps engineer will encounter. The importance of robust cloud security has only magnified as businesses migrate mission-critical workloads and sensitive data...
  4. Important Changes: Azure Update Delivery Service Tag to Be Deprecated in 2024

    Azure Update Delivery service tag is a component that assists in facilitating the delivery of Windows updates to Azure Firewall. As of July 1, 2024, the Azure Update Delivery service tag will be deprecated. This change necessitates a shift away from using this service tag towards utilizing Azure...