Azure Migration
The latest Azure Migration coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Your Azure Blueprints Migration Deadline Is October 31, 2026 — Here’s How to Prepare
On January 31, 2027, Microsoft will pull the plug on Azure Blueprints entirely, deleting any unexported definitions and assignments. But for most teams, the real operational deadline arrives nine...
Your Azure Computer Vision APIs Will Fail on September 13, 2026 — Here’s the Fix
Microsoft has set a hard deadline: as of September 13, 2026, any application calling Azure Computer Vision API versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, or 3.1 will receive error responses instead of analysis...
Microsoft Sets August 2026 Deadline to Retire Assistants API, Pushing Azure AI Developers to Foundry Agents
Microsoft has given developers a firm deadline: migrate any application dependent on the Azure OpenAI Assistants API before August 26, 2026, or face service disruption. The retirement, confirmed this...
Microsoft Sets September 30, 2026 as Hard Deadline for Non-AZ Azure VPN Gateways
Microsoft has set September 30, 2026 as the final cutoff for Azure VPN gateways running the older VpnGw1 through VpnGw5 SKUs—those not backed by availability zones. On that date, any gateway still...
Azure Spring Apps Privilege-Escalation Flaw Intensifies Retirement Urgency
Microsoft disclosed a high-severity privilege-escalation vulnerability in its Azure Spring Apps managed service on July 14, 2026. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-50338, lets an attacker who already...
The Blueprint for a Smooth AWS-to-Azure Move: 8 Apps, 16 Sites, Zero Downtime
In late 2025, a Houston construction company moved its entire IT backbone from Amazon Web Services to Microsoft Azure without a moment of downtime — an eight-app, 16-site migration completed in...
Two Councils Walk Away from Managed Cloud, Deploy 800 Windows 11 Laptops In-House
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils have completed a sweeping exit from a nearly decade-long outsourced IT model, bringing management of 800 Windows 11 laptops, 14 legacy...
Computacenter Tackles SAP Cloud Complexity with New Azure Managed Service
Computacenter has officially launched its Hosted SAP on Azure service, a managed offering that bundles end-to-end SAP migration, Azure infrastructure management, and ongoing cost optimization, as...
Lancom Technology Clinches Microsoft Azure Migration Specialization, Proving Its Database Prowess
Lancom Technology, an Auckland-based managed services provider, has earned Microsoft’s Azure Infrastructure and Database Migration Specialization, a credential that puts its database migration...
Virginia Migrates 72,000 State Accounts to Microsoft 365 on Azure in Massive Cloud Consolidation
Virginia has completed one of the largest state-level cloud migrations in the United States, moving more than 72,000 user accounts from a fragmented mix of Google Workspace and on-premises Microsoft...
A1 Technologies Passes Independent Audit for Microsoft Azure Migration Specialisation
A1 Technologies, an Australian IT services firm, has secured the Microsoft Infrastructure and Database Migration to Azure specialisation. The achievement comes after the company underwent an...
Microsoft to Offload GitHub Strain to AWS as AI Coding Boom Overwhelms Infrastructure
Microsoft is preparing to tap Amazon Web Services to handle a crushing infrastructure load on GitHub, as the explosive growth of AI-assisted coding and agentic development pushes the platform past...