Azure Migration
The latest Azure Migration coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
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...
Inside Levi’s AI Transformation: How Microsoft Azure and 1,000 Agents Are Modernizing a Denim Giant
Levi Strauss & Co. has completed a sweeping migration of its core technology workloads to Microsoft Azure, unleashing a wave of AI-driven modernization that leans heavily on Microsoft Fabric,...
Alef Education and TMRW Partner on Azure AI Classroom for GCC Schools
Alef Education and TMRW Edtech have signed a memorandum of understanding to build an AI-powered education ecosystem for schools across the Gulf Cooperation Council region. The deal, inked at the...
GitHub’s January 2026 outages, repo theft, and AI risk spike spark mass exodus to GitLab and self-hosted.
GitHub rang in 2026 with three major outages in January alone, leaving millions of developers unable to push code, access pull requests, or trigger CI/CD pipelines for a combined 14 hours of...