Azure Event Grid namespaces now feature Autoscale, currently in public preview. This feature automatically adjusts Throughput Units based on real-time workload utilization. It eliminates the need for manual capacity provisioning and helps maintain consistent performance during traffic spikes. By dynamically scaling resources, you can optimize costs and avoid throttling.
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Microsoft will deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI platform on Azure beginning in the second half of 2026 to run large AI models for its own use, customers, and Azure AI services. Helios combines AMD GPUs, CPUs, networking chips, and software as a full-system alternative to Nvidia’s dominant rack-scale offerings. AMD CEO Lisa Su called the expanded deal a major milestone, while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stressed that customers need more choices in AI infrastructure.
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Microsoft will deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI platform at scale on Azure to handle frontier-model inference for its own services, Azure AI offerings, and customer workloads. Helios integrates 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs providing 31.1 TB of HBM4 memory, up to 1.4 exaFLOPS of FP8 and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4 compute, plus 260 TB/s scale-up and 43 TB/s scale-out bandwidth via UALink over Ethernet. The open rack-scale design also incorporates sixth-generation EPYC “Venice” CPUs, Pensando DPUs, and ROCm software for large-scale training and inference.
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Amazon Web Services recently experienced a significant technical malfunction within its billing computation subsystem that generated massive, inaccurate cost estimates. The glitch caused the AWS Cost Explorer and billing console to display projected monthly charges ranging from millions to several billion dollars for many accounts. Some users reported receiving automated budget alerts for astronomical sums, including one instance where an estimate reached $2.5 trillion despite negligible actual usage.
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As of July 2026, SQL Server migration enabled by Azure Arc supports SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines as a generally available (GA) migration target. This adds a second destination alongside Azure SQL Managed Instance and brings the entire migration lifecycle into a single guided workflow in the Azure portal. The migration method relies on backup and restore combined with log shipping, using Azure Blob Storage as an intermediary staging area. This article covers what the feature does, prerequisites, how the migration works, and its limitations.
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Publicly exposed serverless cloud functions, such as Google Cloud Run, have become a critical attack surface for harvesting secrets and pivoting to internal resources. These environments often run custom code with third-party packages vulnerable to command injection and file inclusion attacks. The risk is currently amplified by the rapid adoption of generative AI workflows, which frequently rely on unauthenticated serverless functions to process user tasks.
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The cloud trade body CISPE has intensified its legal battle against Broadcom by filing a formal antitrust complaint with the European Commission. This action is now supported by four additional industry groups from Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The coalition argues that Broadcom’s post-acquisition changes to VMware represent an existential threat to European cloud infrastructure providers and their customers.
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Amazon Web Services experienced a significant service disruption on July 16, 2026, primarily affecting the CloudFront content delivery network. The outage specifically targeted the VPC Origins feature, which allows private back-end resources to connect to the public edge without exposure to the open internet. Users attempting to access affected applications encountered widespread 5xx server errors and generic connectivity failure messages.
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Microsoft is implementing a system-wide overhaul of its partner ecosystem to mitigate risks associated with Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). These partners are frequent targets for nation-state actors seeking a vector to compromise downstream customer environments and steal sensitive data. To counter this, Microsoft is transitioning from reactive controls to a proactive, integrated security model that emphasizes continuous validation and identity verification.
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