A weekly Azure update covering several new features: instant restore for application-consistent snapshots (VSS for Windows, pre/post-scripts for Linux), CRC64 NVMe integrity checks in Azure Storage SDKs, Azure Storage Mover support for Google Cloud Storage migration via S3-compatible endpoints, PostgreSQL Flexible Server PowerShell module GA with PostgreSQL 18 support, Azure AI Foundry Toolboxes GA enabling MCP client tool aggregation, Claude models (including Sonnet 3.5) now hosted natively on Azure infrastructure, Kimi K2.7 available in GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's quantum-safe program acceleration including TLS 1.3 adoption, and updated PII detection samples in Azure AI Language playground.

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