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ai: What’s new in Azure AI Foundry | August 2025

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-09-03

August 2025 update for Azure AI Foundry: GPT-5 is available, Model Router adds GPT-5 support, Responses API reaches general availability, Browser Automation enters public preview, and there are additions and updates including Sora, Mistral Document AI, FLUX image models, OpenAI gpt-oss with Foundry Local, plus SDK and documentation improvements.

github: CodeQL 2.22.4 adds support for Go 1.25 and accuracy improvements

GitHub

2025-09-03

GitHub released CodeQL 2.22.4 (2025-09-02), adding support for Go 1.25 and delivering accuracy improvements to its static analysis engine used by GitHub Code Scanning to find and remediate security issues.

terraform: 5 tips for credential management across multi-cloud

Terraform

2025-09-02

An InfoCert platform engineer outlines five best practices for securely managing credentials across multiple cloud providers, emphasizing principles (least privilege, short-lived/dynamic secrets), operational controls (centralized secret store, automated rotation, auditing), and using purpose-built tools to implement them safely and consistently.

azure: Retirement: Confidential VM SKUs DCesv5, DCedsv5, ECesv5, ECedsv5 SKUs

Azure Updates

2025-09-02

Microsoft is retiring the Confidential VM SKUs DCesv5, DCedsv5, ECesv5, and ECedsv5. These SKUs will be succeeded by the next-generation DCesv6 and ECesv6 sizes, which were recently announced in public preview.

azure: Retirement: Azure CDN – Migrate to Azure Front Door on December 1, 2025

Azure Updates

2025-09-02

Azure CDN in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Azure China) will be retired on December 1, 2025. Customers using Azure CDN in China must migrate to alternative services such as Azure Front Door before that date. The service is built on local CDN providers' POPs.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Playwright Workspaces in Azure App Testing

Azure Updates

2025-09-02

Azure App Testing's Playwright Workspaces is now generally available, enabling highly parallel end-to-end testing across multiple browsers and devices to validate application functionality.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in West US 2

Azure Updates

2025-09-02

Azure has launched a generally available price reduction for Ultra Disks in the West US 2 region. Ultra Disks are Azure's highest-performance block storage offering, providing consistent sub-millisecond latency and very high throughput/IOPS, and the price cut lowers storage costs for demanding enterprise workloads in that region.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in UK South

Azure Updates

2025-09-02

Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available with a price reduction in the UK South region. Ultra Disk is Azure's highest-performance block storage for virtual machines, offering consistent sub-millisecond latency and very high throughput and IOPS, making it suitable for demanding enterprise production workloads.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in Central US

Azure Updates

2025-09-02

Azure has made a price reduction for Ultra Disks in the Central US region generally available. Ultra Disks provide extremely high performance and sub-millisecond latency for demanding VM workloads, and the price cut reduces costs for those workloads in that region.

github: Updating license-based budgets to accept license counts

GitHub

2025-09-02

GitHub updated license-based budgets so they now use license counts instead of dollar amounts, simplifying management for enterprise and organization licenses.