Terraform
2025-08-28
Policy as code automates the verification of compliance with IT and business requirements during infrastructure deployments, providing rapid checks within minutes or seconds.
GitHub
2025-08-27
GitHub Copilot now supports creating sub-issues and managing issue relationships via chat on github.com/copilot, available in public preview.
Copilot code review is now generally available in Xcode. A new enterprise and organization setting for Copilot code review has been introduced for admins.
.NET
EFCore.Visualizer is a Visual Studio extension that lets developers visualize and analyze Entity Framework Core query execution plans directly inside the IDE.
Azure Updates
Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports schema migration for Azure SQL Database, allowing users to migrate missing schema objects along with data using a simple checkbox option.
Azure SQL Database introduced a replication lag metric in late August 2025, enabling real-time monitoring of the recovery point objective (RPO) for Geo-DR configurations.
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) now supports adding physical shards and rebalancing data as clusters scale, leveraging its elastic compute and storage capabilities.
Terraform Google Cloud provider version 7.0 is now generally available, introducing ephemeral resources, write-only attributes, and enhanced validation logic.
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft reports that financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 has shifted from deploying on-premises endpoint ransomware toward cloud-based ransomware tactics, increasingly focusing on cloud-specific TTPs after previously targeting hybrid cloud environments.
GitHub Copilot's code completion feature has been upgraded to use the GPT-4.1 Copilot model, which enhances coding capabilities and includes updated training data beyond the previous knowledge cutoff.