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Series: Building Serverless Applications with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB In the first post of this series , we focused on establishing the fundamentals of serverless architecture by building and deploying a simple HTTP API using Azure Functions and FastAPI. The post centred on serverless compute, showing how Azure Functions handles execution, scaling, and infrastructure management while FastAPI provides a modern, developer-friendly API framework. In this post, we extend that foundation by introducing serverless data. You’ll build a Python-based CRUD inventory API and persist data using Azure Cosmos DB Serverless, learning how to securely connect to a NoSQL database, model and validate data, and structure clean CRUD operations while keeping the application fully serverless. By the end of this post, you’ll understand how serverless compute and serverless data work together to form the core of a production-ready serverless application. Posts in this series Part 1: Building You...

If you use editor productivity extensions for Visual Studio 2026, there's good news—they can now load faster! Extension developers with existing MEF-based editor productivity extensions should read this blog to learn about recent changes and how they might be affected.   We introduced  VisualStudio.Extensibility  to simplify the creation of Visual Studio extensions for developers. Previously, handling  threads  in VSSDK-based extensions was often difficult, requiring knowledge of thread affinity and even the ins and outs of COM just to avoid freezing Visual Studio. The new extensibility model abstracts these technical details away seamlessly.   Despite this advancement, we recognize most Visual Studio extensions still use VSSDK, so we're striving to make targeted improvements there as well - especially regarding performance. For Visual Studio 2026, we've added the ability to load MEF-ba...

AWS Multi-Party Approval now requires approvers to verify their voting actions with a one-time password (OTP) sent to their registered AWS Identity Center email address. This additional security layer prevents AWS IAM Identity Center administrators from bypassing multi-party approval controls by impersonating approvers through credential resets or authentication endpoint modifications. When approvers access the Approval Portal and attempt to cast their vote on protected operations, the system generates a six-digit verification code and sends it to their email. Approvers enter this code within 10 minutes to complete their vote, with up to three attempts allowed. The OTP verification process activates only when approvers submit their vote decision, they can review all approval request details before verification is required. If approvers don't receive the email or the code expires, they can request a new code through the interface. AWS Multi-party approval with OTP verification f...

AWS Network Firewall now supports flexible cost allocation through AWS Transit Gateway native attachments in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions , enabling you to automatically distribute data processing costs across different AWS accounts. Customers can create metering policies to apply data processing charges based on their organization's chargeback requirements instead of consolidating all expenses in the firewall owner account. This capability helps security and network teams better manage centralized firewall costs by distributing charges to application teams based on actual usage. Organizations can now maintain centralized security controls while automatically allocating inspection costs to the appropriate business units or application owners, eliminating the need for custom cost management solutions. Flexible cost allocation is available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can enable these features using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line ...

Amazon Connect now offers APIs to configure and run tests that simulate contact center experiences, making it easy to validate workflows, self-service voice interactions, and their outcomes. With these APIs, you can programmatically configure test parameters, including the caller's phone number or customer profile, the reason for the call (such as "I need to check my order status"), the expected responses (such as "Your request has been processed"), and business conditions like after-hours scenarios or full call queues. With this launch, you can also integrate testing directly into CI/CD pipelines, run multiple tests simultaneously to validate workflows at scale, and enable automated regression testing as part of your deployment cycles. These capabilities allow you to rapidly validate changes to your workflows and confidently deploy new customer experiences to production. To learn more about these features, see the Amazon Connect API Reference and Amazon Conne...

AWS HealthImaging now supports storing and retrieving lossy compressed medical images in the JPEG XL transfer syntax (1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.112). It is now simpler than ever to integrate HealthImaging with applications that require JPEG XL encoded DICOM data, such as digital pathology whole slide imaging systems. With this launch, HealthImaging stores your JPEG XL Lossy image data without transcoding, which maintains the fidelity of your data and reduces your storage costs. Further, you can retrieve stored image frames in the JPEG XL format without the latency of transcoding at retrieval time. Post Updated on February 02, 2026 at 04:29PM