Welcome to AZDevOpsDojo! Introduce yourself. What do you hope to get out of this community? My name is Jonathan. I’m a Cloud Engineer by day and a home lab enthusiast by night. I’m obsessed with Iron Man. I’m hoping to create a space where we can all grow and learn about Azure, DevOps, and Kubernetes.

1. Microsoft disables certain Azure/AI services used by an Israeli military unit. Following investigative reporting and an internal review, Microsoft says it has ceased and disabled a set of Azure and AI services used by a unit of the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD). Microsoft says the decision targets particular services used by that unit after finding evidence consistent with the reporting; the company also emphasized it did not access customer content during the review. The move follows employee protests and public pressure and represents a rare case of a major cloud provider limiting customer access on human-rights grounds. 2. Critical Entra ID (Azure AD) elevation-of-privilege patched (CVE-2025-55241) Microsoft patched a severe Entra ID vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2025-55241) that could lead to cross-tenant token impersonation and global privilege escalation. The flaw — tied to legacy token/actor-token validation paths — received a top severity rating and prompted an emergency patch; Microsoft reports no confirmed exploitation in the wild but urged tenant owners to validate fixes. Security teams are advised to audit token issuance, rotate high-value credentials, and retire deprecated Graph flows.

Hello all! I did not realize how much it takes to create a course. I’m currently finishing up the labs. I was hoping to get everything done sooner but I didn’t want to sacrifice quality for speed. I’ll keep you guys in the loop. Hope everyone has a great week!

1) Microsoft commits $30 billion to the UK for AI & cloud infrastructure Microsoft announced a $30 billion investment in the United Kingdom to be spent across 2025–2028, with roughly $15 billion earmarked for capital expenditures to build cloud and AI infrastructure (including a UK supercomputer). The commitment includes partnering with local data-centre firms, deploying thousands of advanced AI GPUs, and expanding operations and talent in the UK. Microsoft framed the move as a long-term bet on British AI capacity and digital sovereignty; UK officials welcomed the investment as a major jobs and infrastructure boost. This announcement dominated last week’s cloud headlines and will reshape local Azure capacity and AI compute availability. 2) Azure launches at-cost data transfer between Azure and external endpoints (GA) Azure announced general availability of an “at-cost data transfer” option for customers and CSP partners in Europe moving data between Azure and external endpoints. The new pricing option aims to reduce barriers for hybrid and multi-provider architectures by lowering the cost penalty for cross-provider data flows. Microsoft’s docs and the Azure updates feed explain how customers can request and configure at-cost transfer for supported scenarios—an important change for architects balancing vendor portability, data gravity, and cost. Expect this to influence multi-cloud designs and edge workflows in the region. 3) Databricks updates: Runtime 17.2 GA + Delta Sharing on Lakehouse Federation (beta) Databricks published September release notes (Sept 16) announcing Databricks Runtime 17.2 is now generally available and that Delta Sharing on Lakehouse Federation is in public beta. These updates improve performance and interoperability for data teams using Azure Databricks—allowing easier schema federation and table sharing across lakehouses. For Azure customers, the release streamlines large-scale data collaboration and reduces friction when sharing analytics across teams, partners, or cloud providers.

Hope everyone is having a great week so far! I wanted to let you know that my Kubernetes 101 course is scheduled to be released by the end of this weekend. 💪