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Azure Updates – Number 125 – Saturday November 15th, 2025

Microsoft Ignite is just around the corner, and the excitement is building! This year promises groundbreaking announcements across cloud, security, and AI—shaping the future of enterprise technology. Before we dive into the latest updates, let’s set the stage: Ignite is where innovation meets implementation, giving IT leaders and developers the tools to transform ideas into reality. Stay tuned for highlights that will redefine productivity, security, and intelligent automation. This summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

Posted on 11:02 am
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Azure Updates – Number 124 – October 31, 2025

The Haunted Highlights of Azure

Welcome, brave souls, to your bi-weekly descent into the crypt of cloud updates! We’ve summoned the latest Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel news from the depths of Microsoft’s blogosphere—so you don’t have to go grave-digging for them yourself.

Whether it’s a spectral preview, a ghostly GA release, or a technical incantation from the Azure Blog, Sentinel Blog, or the Security Copilot crypt, this curated collection will keep your cloud cauldron bubbling with fresh insights.

Inside this eerie edition:

Phantom features rising from preview to general availability

Bewitched architecture patterns and spectral scalability tips

Sentinel sightings and security spells to ward off digital demons

💀 This is just a taste of the haunted harvest—visit the Azure Blog, Sentinel Blog, or Security Copilot Blog to uncover the full tomb of updates.

Stay safe out there in the cloud… and don’t forget to patch your pumpkins. 🎃🧙‍♂️

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Querying Logic App Performance with KQL: A Practical Guide

This post explores how to query Logic App performance using Kusto Query Language (KQL), with a focus on measuring workflow run durations. It breaks down telemetry sources based on Logic App type—Consumption vs. Standard—and guides readers through using AzureDiagnostics, Traces, and LogicAppWorkflowRuntime tables. The article includes practical KQL examples for schema discovery, execution tracking, and duration analysis, along with tips for instrumentation and production monitoring. Whether you’re optimizing ingestion pipelines or validating SLAs, this guide equips you with actionable insights to make your Logic Apps smarter and more efficient.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Use Case: Governance Rules in Action

Security at scale isn’t just about visibility—it’s about enforcement. As organizations grow their cloud footprint across multiple subscriptions, management groups, and even cloud providers, maintaining consistent security posture becomes exponentially harder.

Enter Governance Rules in Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC). These rules allow security teams to define, enforce, and monitor security policies across their environment using automation and policy-as-code principles.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Deep Dive

In today’s cloud-first world, security isn’t just a checkbox—it’s a continuous discipline. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is the cornerstone of Azure’s native security posture management and threat protection. Whether you’re running workloads in Azure, AWS, GCP, or on-premises via Azure Arc, Defender for Cloud provides unified visibility, intelligent recommendations, and active threat detection.

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Part 2: Visualizing DDoS Defense—Workbooks, Mitigation Reports & GitHub Tooling

Today we start the second phase of our DDoS protection journey—where visibility becomes your superpower, and raw telemetry transforms into strategic insight.

You’ve done the hard work: diagnostic logging is enabled, your DDoS protection plan is active, and telemetry is flowing into Log Analytics.  Now it’s time to elevate your defense posture from reactive to predictive.  Because in cloud security, knowing what happened isn’t enough—you need to know what’s happening now, and what’s likely to happen next.

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