Amazon Web Services released Version 2.0 of the AWS Deploy Tool for .NET, requiring .NET 8 and adding support for Podman, .NET 10 deployments, and upgraded SDK and CLI foundations for improved developer workflows.
Microsoft released .NET Aspire 9.5 with a single-file AppHost option, a new Generative AI Visualizer, expanded integrations for GitHub Models, Azure AI Foundry, and OpenAI, along with lifecycle and logging improvements for distributed cloud-native .NET applications.
GitHub Copilot app modernization is now generally available in Visual Studio, providing AI-powered upgrades and Azure migration for .NET apps, with automated remediation, CVE scanning, and containerization support.
Azure AI Foundry’s August 2025 update brings the GPT-5 family of models, previews a new Browser Automation tool, and expands Agent Service availability to more regions.
Microsoft detailed its plans for advanced AI in its flagship IDE in September, with new modes for debugging and profiling, as well as enhancements for agentic DevOps, in the works.
Microsoft is bringing its Azure-aware Copilot experience to Visual Studio 2022. The preview extension lets developers use Copilot to inspect resources, check diagnostics and logs, run Azure CLI, and deploy inside the IDE.
At Live! 360 in Orlando this November, data & AI engineer Jean Joseph will demonstrate how to build AI-powered applications with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. His session covers vector search, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for real-world AI use cases, showing how PostgreSQL with Azure extensions can deliver semantic search, recommendations, and chatbots directly from within the database.
Microsoft is rolling out OpenAI's new open-weight models across Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry, empowering developers to run, customize, and deploy AI on their terms--from cloud to edge.
The update aims to streamline development with a native AOT-compiled CLI for application scaffolding, running, and configuration.
The tool provides automated code fixes, predefined migration tasks, and recommendations for Azure services, accelerating enterprise cloud modernization.
AWS has launched Kiro, a spec-driven, agentic AI IDE based on Visual Studio Code. It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks built for AI-assisted development, and it arrives just as Microsoft pushes to make the open-source core of VS Code fully AI-native.
Replit has partnered with Microsoft to bring its AI-powered, natural language coding platform to Azure, enabling enterprise workers to build and deploy software without writing code—marking a major step toward agentic, no-code application development at scale.
Microsoft has brought OpenAI's Deep Research model to Azure AI Foundry, giving developers API and SDK access to autonomous research agents that gather, analyze, and report on web-scale data. Now in public preview, the capability powers enterprise workflows with reasoning-grade intelligence and programmable orchestration.
GitHub Copilot for Azure just shipped with an important addition since its debut at Ignite 2024 as a private preview, becoming an autonomous operator for DevOps workflows.
.NET Aspire 9.3 brings GitHub Copilot to the Aspire dashboard and adds key improvements across publishing, Azure integrations, container management and developer experience.
Eric D. Boyd of responsiveX previews his VSLive! 2025 session at Microsoft HQ in August where he explains how Azure ML empowers teams to build, deploy, and manage machine learning models with ease and confidence.
Microsoft announced the availability of .NET Aspire 9.2 and the second preview of the .NET AI Chat Web App template, highlighting new capabilities that bring cloud-native orchestration and AI integration closer together in the .NET ecosystem.
AI powerhouse NVIDIA flexed its muscle at its GTC 2025 conference this week where several partnerships with Microsoft were announced, mostly concerning Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry offering.
Microsoft is expanding functionality for agentic AI into its Azure AI Foundry platform, furthering one of the hottest areas of development right now where AI controls computers just like humans.
With everyone scrambling to keep abreast of the rapidly advancing GenAI space, where some new tool or tech seems to be announced every week, Azure AI Foundry has emerged as a crucial end-to-end platform in the Microsoft-centric developer space.