Azure Service Updates

Azure Files now supports Entra-only identities, enabling customers to retire on-premises domain controllers while maintaining secure SMB access to file shares. This feature delivers a fully cloud-native authentication model using Microsoft Entra Kerberos More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:30:44 Z

The Azure Boost confidential device feature is now in preview. Azure Boost is a Microsoft Azure system that offloads virtualization tasks—such as networking, storage, and host management—from the hypervisor and host OS to purpose-built hardware and softwa More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Application Gateway WAF v2. HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, and traditional static controls often fall short against evolving botnets. The new HTTP DDoS Rul More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Remote storage throughput and network bandwidth performance enhancements for the latest Azure Boost architecture are now in preview. Azure Boost is a Microsoft Azure system that offloads virtualization tasks—such as networking, storage, and host managemen More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

We are announcing the public preview of NCv6 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition Virtual Machines, as the next enhancement of NC Series VMs available on Azure. Nvidia RTC PRO 6000 BSE GPUs are designed to accelerate a wide array of workloads including v More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure SRE Agent is an AI-driven solution that unifies operational workflows into a single, prompt-based automation layer—eliminating complexity and reducing overhead for modern cloud operations. Unlike traditional, static automation solutions, SRE Agent l More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure continues to embrace open standards by adding new capabilities to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro that powers Azure Monitor Application Insights. New Capabilities:Rate-limited sampling and trace-based log sampling: New sampling options in th More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) visualization in Network Watcher Topology (Public Preview) delivers end-to-end visibility of AKS clusters directly within the Azure networking experience. Customers can now explore their Kubernetes environments, including th More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) visualization in Network Watcher Topology (Public Preview) delivers end-to-end visibility of AKS clusters directly within the Azure networking experience. Customers can now explore their Kubernetes environments, including th More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

VNet Flow Log captures IP traffic flowing through VNets, Subnets, & NICs for monitoring, troubleshooting, network optimization, security, and compliance needs. This release introduces advanced filtering capabilities in VNet Flow Logs, empowering users wit More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway (ErGwScale) is our next-generation offering that brings flexibility, performance, and operational simplicity to Virtual Network Gateway deployments. With this release, you can dynamically scale gateway infrastructure to meet More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Organizations operating Azure Container Registries (ACR) require least-privilege permissions over which Microsoft Entra identities can publish or consume container images. With ACR repository permissions using attribute-based access control (ABAC), admini More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

AKS desktop delivers a modern, application-centric experience for deploying and managing workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service. Built on supported AKS features, best practices, and the open-source Headlamp project, it offers a guided, self-service interfa More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Running containerized workloads in shared environments can raise concerns around security and workload isolation. To address this, AKS now supports pod sandboxing, enabling customers to run containers in per-workload pod VMs. Each pod VM is isolated from More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Managing namespace configurations across AKS clusters has traditionally required manual setup and ongoing maintenance, creating complexity and potential for misconfiguration. With the general availability of Managed Namespaces, AKS now enables users to ea More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Managing Kubernetes clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be complex and fragmented. To simplify this, Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, enabling organizations to seamlessly manage any CNCF-complia More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Organizations running Windows-based workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) face increasing pressure to modernize as support timelines for older Windows Server versions approach retirement. To help customers prepare, AKS now offers preview support for More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic clusters now come with a pod readiness SLA, guaranteeing that eligible pods meet readiness criteria within five minutes at the 99.9th percentile. This empowers customers to confidently deploy mission critical workl More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Provisioning and maintaining system node pools in AKS requires ongoing effort to ensure proper scaling, patching, and availability, tasks that can divert resources from application development and delivery. Managed system node pools in AKS Automatic remov More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now build and host reliable production-grade AI agents using the durable extension for Microsoft Agent Framework. This integration combines the Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Functions’ durable capabilities, delivering proven orchestration a More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Managing IP address spaces across multiple regions can be complex and error-prone. With this new capability, you can now associate a single IPAM pool with virtual networks in multiple regions, simplifying governance and ensuring consistent CIDR allocatio More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager address space overlap prevention in mesh is now generally available, bringing enhanced reliability and governance to multi-virtual network environments. Unintended address overlap within mesh can lead to dropped traffic. This More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now develop functions using Node.js 24 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions on Windows and Linux. Note: Node.js 24 does not support 32-bit systems on Windows. To ensure compatibility, new Windows Function Apps for Node.js 24 now default to More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now develop functions using Java 25 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions on Windows and Linux. Upgrade your apps to Java 25 to take advantage of enhanced security, a longer support window, and continued compatibility with the Azure Function More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Slow start is now generally available as a load balancing algorithm in Application Gateway for Containers. This feature improves stability and performance during backend scale-up by gradually increasing traffic to new pods over a configurable time window. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Application Gateway for Containers now supports integration with Istio service mesh through an optional service mesh extension. This feature simplifies secure north-south communication between external clients and services within the service mesh. Single More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can run bigger, faster workloads on fewer nodes using high-performance storage for Azure DocumentDB. This update delivers up to 64 TiB capacity, 80,000 IOPS, and 1,200 MB/s throughput per physical shard (node). Storage IOPS and throughput on Azure More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a way for apps to provide capabilities and context to a large language model. A key feature of MCP is the ability to define tools that AI agents can leverage to accomplish whatever tasks they’ve been given. MCP servers can More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Earlier this year, we introduced Azure Functions durable task scheduler, an orchestration engine designed for complex workflows and intelligent agents. It automatically checkpoints progress and protects your orchestration state, enabling resilient and rel More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

We are introducing a new capability that allows you to host remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers built with the MCP SDKs on Functions. Some key benefits of hosting on the Functions platform include: Built-in server authentication Automatic and bur More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now the recommended hosting plan for serverless workloads requiring advanced scaling, networking, and cost optimization. To support customers migrating from the Azure Functions Consumption plan or from AWS Lambda, Micro More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Functions now supports OpenTelemetry in general availability (GA), enabling developers to export logs, traces, and metrics using open standards. This release builds on the public preview and delivers a production-ready observability experience for s More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps is bringing the familiar developer workflow of Docker Compose directly to Azure Container Apps. As one of the most widely adopted tools among developers, Docker Compose simplifies defining and running multi-container applications, and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Flexible workload profile represents a new option that blends the simplicity of consumption with many of the performance and control characteristics of dedicated workload profiles. This offers the same easy-to-understand, pay-per-use serverless model as C More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

To meet growing demand for GPU-powered workloads, Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs are now generally available in additional regions. This expansion enables developers to run AI inference, model training, and GPU-accelerated workloads with the simplic More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Confidential computing support in Azure Container Apps is now in public preview. This release brings hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to your containerized workloads. Azure already provides encryption of data at rest and in transit, an More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

StandardV2 SKU NAT Gateway is now in public preview, delivering next-generation capabilities for scalable and resilient outbound connectivity. New offerings: Zone-Redundancy: Built for high availability in availability zone supported regions. Traffic surv More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

SQL database in Fabric is now generally available. Built on the trusted SQL Server and Azure SQL Database engine, this fully SaaS-native solution empowers developers and data professionals to unify operational and analytical workloads with speed, security More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports Italian and Portuguese languages in full-text search, available today in public preview. This update adds to the list of supported languages, enabling you to build rich, language-aware search experiences that underst More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now offers an MCP Toolkit that can be used with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, available today in public preview. This new integration allows you to connect Microsoft Foundry Agents directly to data in Azure Cosmos DB. By dep More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports fuzzy search in full-text search. With fuzzy search, you can deliver typo-tolerant, error-resilient search experiences directly within Azure Cosmos DB, helping your users find the right results even when queries or t More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

This release gives you faster vector inserts and index builds in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, helping you reduce end-to-end ingestion and indexing times for large AI workloads. This improvement is powered by algorithmic enhancements to our vector indexing e More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Cosmos DB now supports float 16 data types for vector indexes. With this update, you can store and query vectors using half-precision floating-point numbers. Using float16 cuts storage usage in half compared to float32, while maintaining high retrie More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Developers today are building more intelligent, connected, and autonomous applications than ever before. From personalized chatbots and copilots to dynamic content engines and decision systems, data is the foundation of these agentic experiences. Azure C More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now generally available, Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring in Fabric enables you to seamlessly integrate your existing operational workloads with the analytical capabilities of Microsoft Fabric. You can take advantage of the innovations in Fabric, running SQL que More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now generally available, Cosmos DB in Fabric enables you to build operational and analytical workloads in Microsoft Fabric. You can use the AI-features in Azure Cosmos DB plus the innovations in Fabric to run SQL queries over JSON data and build real-time More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Integrated into the DocumentDB for VS Code extension, the Index Advisor enables you to view and debug database performance. It uses natural language to recommend optimal indexing and best practices for your MongoDB workloads. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now enable priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB to ensure that high-priority requests are favored during periods of contention. The system will throttle low-priority requests first, allowing high-priority operations to proceed on a best-eff More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now unify insights across your entire Azure Cosmos DB footprint using Azure Cosmos DB Fleet Analytics, available in public preview. Fleet Analytics helps you manage data across multiple accounts, subscriptions, and workloads, providing large-scale More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can more easily operate your Azure Cosmos DB accounts at scale. Azure Cosmos DB fleet pools give you new capabilities when building multitenant software as a service (SaaS) applications. You can simplify capacity management by creating a pool of More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Microsoft is announcing the general availability of Azure DocumentDB, a fully managed document database service built on the open-source, MongoDB-compatible DocumentDB, now governed by the Linux Foundation. Formerly known as Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (v More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now help protect sensitive data from unauthorized access using dynamic data masking (DDM), a server-side, policy-based security feature in Azure Cosmos DB. DDM dynamically masks data for non-privileged users, ensuring that sensitive information is More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure DocumentDB using the new Azure DocumentDB Migration extension for Visual Studio Code—now available in public preview. This seamless, zero-cost migration supports both online and offline modes, simplifying and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the general availability of seamless, self-serve online migrations from Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB RU to Azure DocumentDB—directly from the Azure portal. With this release, your organization can modernize its MongoDB workloads with zero downti More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL is now simpler and faster with the new Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tooling, available directly in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. This new tool helps you seamlessly convert your O More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the general availability of the 2025 REST API for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This release adds support for PostgreSQL 17 and 18, so you can adopt new versions without changing your automation patterns. You can also now set the default datab More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can use elastic clusters to horizontally scale Azure Database for PostgreSQL through row-based and schema-based sharding. Elastic clusters make it easy to build multitenant apps by offloading shard management and operations—such as tenant isolatio More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Foundry support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The Azure PostgreSQL MCP Server is now natively integrated with Microsoft Foundry. This integration enables you to build AI agents to securely query and analyze More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

The anon extension is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. This extension provides data anonymization tools. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can deploy general purpose and memory-optimized v6-series Azure Virtual Machines with local NVMe storage in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. The v6 series is available with either Intel or AMD processor options. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can create pg_duckdb extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, so you can accelerate analytics using DuckDB’s vectorized, columnar execution. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now stream data changes in near real time from Azure SQL Database directly into Azure Event Hubs. With the public preview of change event streaming (CES), you can streamline data integration and support enhanced analytics, event-driven architectur More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now use PostgreSQL 18 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This release introduces the latest PostgreSQL innovations along with seamless in-place upgrade support, allowing you to move from earlier versions without changing your server endpoint, recon More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing that the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available. With this powerful tool, you can connect to PostgreSQL database instances, run queries, create and manage connection profiles, and take advantage of Microsoft Entra ID More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now bring data together and simplify analytics using Microsoft Fabric mirroring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, now generally available. Mirroring in Fabric unifies your organizational data in OneLake and supports network-isolat More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing that Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server now supports the Azure Storage extension with Parquet format and multiple compression options. You can seamlessly read and write Parquet files directly from your database, enabling faster data More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

The Next‑gen General Purpose tier delivers a major performance boost while preserving the cost advantages you expect. You get more power and compute flexibility without sacrificing the simplicity of a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) experience. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the public preview of vector indexing using DiskANN in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. DiskANN is an algorithm for efficient vector similarity search, making it ideal for product recommendati More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now integrates GitHub Copilot, bringing AI-powered SQL assistance directly into your development workflow. Together, they help you reduce repetitive tasks, accelerate development, and design database schemas and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now configure immutability for Azure SQL Database LTR backups to meet compliance and regulatory needs. Once immutability is configured, the backups can’t be edited or deleted until the specified retention expires, mitigating any potential ransomwa More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has long been the trusted tool for managing SQL databases, writing T-SQL, and troubleshooting issues. With SSMS 22, built on Visual Studio 2026, you get support for SQL Server 2025, improved integration with SQL databas More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing that the mssql-python driver is now generally available. This milestone marks a major step forward in delivering a modern, high-performance, and developer-friendly experience for Python developers working with SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, an More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

A new SQL Server migration in Azure Arc solution streamlines and accelerates your journey to Azure SQL Managed Instance. Powered by Azure Database Migration Service and assisted by Copilot, it delivers an automated, end-to-end migration process that inclu More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

SQL Server 2025, the AI-ready enterprise database, is now generally available, marking a major milestone in Microsoft’s mission to modernize enterprise data platforms. This release introduces built-in AI capabilities, seamless integration with Microsoft F More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

In November 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Apply the reservation discount for a 1-year or 3-year reservation of a zone-redundant Azure SQL Managed Instance in the General Purpose tier to both the standard compute and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

In November 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: View, modify, insert rows in a table without manually writing T-SQL code using the interactive Edit Data interface in the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports dynamic shell sessions in public preview. A shell session is a platform-managed built-in container used to run and execute common shell commands in an isolated sandboxed environment. With Azure Container Apps dynamic ses More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports deployment labels in public preview as a new deployment mode. This feature simplifies environment management and enables advanced deployment strategies for your applications by allowing you to assign meaningful names—such More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps support for rule-based routing is now generally available. This feature provides greater flexibility and composability to your Azure Container Apps by simplifying your architecture for microservice applications, A/B testing, blue-gree More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps support for premium ingress is now generally available. This feature introduces environment-level ingress configuration options, with the primary highlight being customizable ingress scaling. This capability supports the scaling of th More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the preview of JSON Web Token (JWT) validation in Azure Application Gateway — enabling authentication and token validation right at the Application gateway before traffic reaches your backend applications or APIs.Why It mattersProtect at the pe More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing a new mTLS enhancement in Azure Application Gateway for backend applications that perform client certificate and authorization header validation at the backend while still requiring web traffic inspection through the Web Application Firewall (W More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Cloud operations need more than reactive troubleshooting, they demand intelligent observability that scales across resources and delivers actionable insights when services aren’t performing as expected.Introducing the Azure Copilot observability agent tha More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:30:36 Z

Announcing private preview of Active MQ/JMS connector in Azure Logic Apps. With this capability, you can now connect to enterprise messaging systems built on ActiveMQ and JMS for advanced hybrid integration scenarios. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing new capabilities in Azure Logic Apps that expand healthcare interoperability support through a rich set of connectors. The following connectors are now in public preview: HL7 connector: Enable seamless healthcare data exchange using HL7 messagi More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Schedule Actions gives the ability to manage the lifecycle of VMs at high scale on a periodic basis. Subscription throttling and retries due to transient errors are handled automatically to ensure that your operations succeed without additional overhead.W More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Marketplace — your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents — is now globally available following its launch in the United States in September. All traffic from legacy storefronts (Azure Marketplace and AppSource) is now redirecte More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

To help commercial customers maximize their technology innovation with Azure, Microsoft Marketplace is fully embracing the channel-led Marketplace opportunity with the general availability of resale enabled offers. Resale enabled offers enable software c More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing new enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization that are in Public Preview, making it easier than ever to modernize applications, databases, containers, and accelerate migration to Azure. Below are the new capabilities in public preview. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the public preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 VM series, powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® processors. The Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 VMs deliver up to and industry leading 800,000 IOPS and 14 GBps of remote disk storage throughput, providing high-perfo More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

For organizations leveraging individual user and group quotas in Azure NetApp Files to manage capacity on NFS, SMB, and dual-protocol volumes, the user and group quota reporting feature offers clear visibility into key metrics such as quota limits, used c More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing new capabilities in Azure Logic Apps that expand hybrid integration through a rich set of connectors. The following connectors are now generally available: Confluent Kafka connector: Connect Logic Apps to Confluent Cloud for event streaming and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the public preview of the redesigned designer experience for Azure Logic Apps (Standard), a major update that makes building, editing, and managing workflows faster and more intuitive. The new designer brings run history and workflow editing cl More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing a new set of capabilities for Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps, now in public preview. These updates expand how organizations can build, secure, and deploy agentic workflows across their enterprise environments enabling more flexible AI orchestra More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the public preview of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps (Consumption) — bringing agentic intelligence and adaptive workflows to the serverless Logic Apps runtime. Agent Loop enables you to move beyond traditional, static automation by creating goa More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the general availability of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps (Standard), a breakthrough capability that redefines how organizations design and automate business processes. Agent Loop enables you to move beyond traditional workflow automation by b More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of automated testing for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) in the Visual Studio Code extension. This new capability empowers developers and integration specialists to build more reliable workflows by simplifyin More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Model Context Protocol (MCP) governance in Azure API Management (APIM) is now generally available.This release extends Azure API Management’s proven governance, security, and observability model to a new generation of AI-driven workloads. Enterprises can More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

API Center Standard, previously a separate paid offering, is now included at no additional cost for all Azure API Management Standard and Premium customers, when an API Center instance is linked with a corresponding Azure API Management service (for both More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the general availability of the Azure API Management Premium v2 tier, our most powerful and scalable option for managing APIs at enterprise scale. Premium v2 delivers superior performance, the highest entity limits, unlimited included API calls More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now generally available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), enabling customers to manage virtual machines and containers from one cloud-native platform. This GA builds on feedback from the preview announced at Red Hat Sum More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning is updated to reflect a complete redesign of Foundry’s UI, delivering an agent-first experience for developers and data scientists. The new interface streamlines model creation, evaluation, and deployment, integrates with VS More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry introduces a unified platform for enterprise AI agent observability, security, and governance. The Control Plane integrates identity, monitoring, and compliance, providing centralized control, deep observability, and compliance for agent More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing new enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization that are Generally Available, making it easier than ever to modernize applications, databases, containers, and accelerate migration to Azure. Below capabilities are now Generally Available: F More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Model router in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available. Model router is an AI orchestration layer dynamically selects the optimal model for each prompt. It now supports a broader range of models including: GPT-4 family, GPT-5 family, GPT-oss, Deepse More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Foundry Local now extends its capabilities to Android, in addition to Windows and Mac supporting advanced on-device AI for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices, while Whisper model integration delivers robust, privacy-preserving speech and audio processi More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Foundry Local now extends its capabilities, supporting the Whisper model and advanced on-device AI for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices. Whisper model integration delivers robust, privacy-preserving speech and audio processing. The redesigned Foundry More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Foundry IQ, powered by Azure AI Search, is a knowledge system that delivers a smarter way to ground agents in enterprise data. Agents only need to connect to a single knowledge base to access multiple sources, removing the need to manage separate APIs and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Foundry Tools (rebranded from Azure AI Services) provide a unified suite of prebuilt, production-ready AI capabilities for audio, video, images, documents, and text. Seamlessly integrated into the Microsoft Foundry platform, these tools empower developers More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

With the general availability of Content Understanding, the service now enables connecting to Foundry models, allowing customers to use Foundry model deployments. Additional key updates include support for VNETs, Managed Identities, Customer Managed Keys More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

With these latest updates in public preview, Microsoft Foundry enables developers to enrich agents with real-time business context, multimodal capabilities, and custom business logic through a unified catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.​Unified More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

The new long-term memory in Foundry Agent Service gives developers a robust, scalable foundation for agents that can remember, adapt, and act coherently across sessions and workflows. Integrated directly into the Foundry runtime, memory provides a persist More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Developers can now build robust multi-agent workflows using both a visual designer and code-first API. These workflows provide structured orchestration, context sharing, persistent state, and error recovery for complex enterprise processes. The modular de More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service make it effortless for teams to move from local experimentation to full-scale production.Developers can now deploy custom-code agents built with Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, CrewAI, or other open-source fram More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Observability in Foundry Control Plane now in public preview for agents with a GA pre-announcement for model evals is a comprehensive suite of capabilities that enable developers to evaluate, monitor, and optimize the quality, performance, and safety of m More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry has enhanced integration to Enterprise MCP to enable secure, authenticated connections to MCP servers, allowing credentials to be passed to MCP servers securely. These updates enable enhanced flexibility, security, and compliance when in More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry now enables one-click, no-code publishing of custom agents to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature removes the complexity of pro-code deployment, allowing organizations to instantly reach millions of users while mainta More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

LLM Speech in Microsoft Foundry brings advanced large language model capabilities to speech, delivering transcription and translation with unmatched fluency and contextual awareness. With enhanced multilingual support and advanced prompt tuning, this API More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

The BYO AI Model Gateway feature allows enterprises to connect Foundry-hosted models through any AI gateway services like Azure API Management, Mulesoft, and Kong, to Foundry Agent Service. The Agent Service honors pre/post‑LLM hooks, policy‑based model s More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry now has a Developer Training tier, offering ultra-low-cost model training by leveraging spot capacity. It’s designed to match the affordability of Developer tier for hosting but applied to the training phase of fine-tuning workflows.​ Th More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry streamlines AI development and management for the enterprise. These features are now generally available, empowering IT admins to deploy AI solutions while meeting enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance requirement: Manage More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry streamlines AI development and management for the enterprise. We're introducing more granular controls for network and integration security and resource management that empower IT admins to deploy AI solutions while meeting enterprise-gr More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Introducing guardrails for agents in Microsoft Foundry Control Plane. Formerly called content filters, guardrails can now be applied at the agent level rather than only to model deployments. They include existing controls to help mitigate prompt injection More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

OpenTelemetry based visualizations in Azure Monitor are in public preview, along with an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc Servers. This release consolidates key monitoring capabilities into a single view and intro More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

The Large Volumes up to 7.2 PiB with Cool Access feature allows you to create Azure NetApp Files volumes up to 7.2 PiB on dedicated capacity, designed for workloads where most data are rarely accessed. This enhancement extends cool-access support beyond t More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Azure now offers built-in Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks in public preview for all Azure endorsed Linux distributions through Azure Machine Configuration’s new customizable security benchmarks capability, powered by azure-osconfig More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry introduces new ready-to-use, customizable AI templates for popular use cases such as live voice agents, release management, data unification, and SharePoint integration applications. These templates eliminate repetitive setup tasks, redu More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Azure Monitor now offers a unified, single-click onboarding experience for both Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and virtual machines (VMs). This new experience simplifies setup by automatically deploying the latest Azure Monitor capabilities with More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Azure Copilot introduces specialized agents (gated preview) to help migrate, operate, and modernize workloads anywhere. Copilot evolves chat into an immersive, full-screen command center (public preview) powered by GPT-5 reasoning, artifact generation, an More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

We’re bringing Azure Monitor’s dynamic threshold capabilities to Log search alerts!Using dynamic thresholds means you don't have to know the right threshold for each Log alert rule - Dynamic thresholds calculate the most appropriate thresholds for you.Key More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Custom error pages are now generally available on App Service. When using custom error pages you can configure your apps to present an error page of your choosing instead of the default error pages that are presented to your users. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

You can now minimize downtime when you copy data across containers in Azure Cosmos DB accounts. You can use online container copy in Azure Cosmos DB to copy data from one container to another in real time. Your application using the source container remai More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Taiwan North region.With this regional expansion, customers in Taiwan can now store infrequently accessed data in the cost-effective Archive tier, while meeting data residenc More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:00:03 Z

Breakthrough mode in Azure NetApp Files enables extreme performance and scalability for demanding HPC and EDA workloads. It supports large volumes up to 2PiB, delivering throughput up to 50GiBps, depending on workload characteristics. Breakthrough mode us More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:00:03 Z

Azure Backup has introduced threat detection capabilities for Azure VM backups, powered by Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC). This new capability enables customers to assess the health of their Azure VM backup restore points (RPs) by identifying maliciou More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:45:04 Z

Azure Monitor metric alerts now support all Azure metrics - including platform, Prometheus, and custom metrics - giving you complete coverage for your monitoring needs. In addition, metric alerts now offer powerful query capabilities with PromQL, the indu More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:00:28 Z

As part of our journey to make Azure the most observable cloud, we are adding a new way for you to observe your Azure Monitor Application Insights data collection pipeline. One of the foremost reasons customers file support tickets against Azure Monitor A More Information
Published: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:00:46 Z

Visual Studio 2026 is the next evolution of the world’s most trusted IDE—modernized with AI deeply integrated into everyday workflows. By seamlessly integrating GitHub Copilot and agentic workflows, Visual Studio empowers professional developers to move f More Information
Published: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:45:44 Z

Azure Site Recovery now enables failback from Azure VMs to on-premises Hyper-V, even if replication from on-premises to Azure happened to storage account and the failed-over Azure VM uses managed disks. Learn more. More Information
Published: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:12 Z

You can now perform major Linux OS version upgrades — without disabling Azure Site Recovery, interrupting their replication, or losing existing recovery points. This is supported on RHEL and SLES. (e.g. update from RHEL 8 to RHEL 9). This simplifies the O More Information
Published: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:12 Z

Azure Site Recovery now supports up to 5x churn (500 MB/s per VM). This major enhancement empowers customers to confidently run high IOPS workloads with Azure Site Recovery, ensuring robust disaster recovery for even the most demanding applications like d More Information
Published: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:12 Z

Azure Site Recovery now offers alternative VM Size recommendations during ASR failover when the current target VM Size may have limited allocation availability due to capacity constraints. This feature enhances disaster recovery by providing guidance on s More Information
Published: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:12 Z

On October 1, 2026 extended support for Python 3.10 will end. Your apps that are hosted on App Service will continue to run, but security updates will no longer be available, and we’ll no longer provide customer service for Python 3.10. Learn more about A More Information
Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:15:14 Z

Announcing the retirement of Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc in October 2026. More Information
Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:00:13 Z

Pod CIDR expansion in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS is now available in public preview. To meet the growing demands of dynamic and large-scale Kubernetes workloads, Azure Kubernetes Service now offers Pod CIDR Expansion in public preview for clusters using Az More Information
Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:30:37 Z

eBPF host routing in ACNS for AKS is now available in public preview. As containerized applications scale across distributed environments, traditional networking approaches can introduce latency and reduce throughput. To address this, Azure CNI powered by More Information
Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:00:47 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager UDR management now offers UseExisting mode, providing customers with greater flexibility and compliance control over user-defined routes (UDRs). With the UseExisting mode, Azure Virtual Network Manager detects and appends req More Information
Published: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:30:39 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management (IPAM) – Pool Association Recommendation is now generally available, bringing intelligent, large-scale automation to IP address management in Azure. As organizations expand their network footprint across More Information
Published: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:00:24 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager peering compliance is now generally available, providing a secure and compliant mechanism to protect network connectivity managed by Azure Virtual Network Manager. In large-scale environments, it’s essential to prevent uninte More Information
Published: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:00:24 Z

.NET 10 delivers a faster, more secure, and more capable platform for modern development. This release enhances performance, productivity, and security across the stack—while C# 14 introduces refinements that make coding more natural and expressive. With More Information
Published: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:15:02 Z

We are thrilled to announce the General Availability of a highly requested feature: Self-serve configuration of the lower_case_table_names server parameter during server creation. For MySQL version 8.0+ you can configure lower_case_table_names only when y More Information
Published: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:15 Z

Organizations running complex workloads on Kubernetes often face challenges in optimizing pod placement for performance, cost, or resource efficiency. To address this, Azure Kubernetes Service now offers scheduler profile configuration with in-tree plugin More Information
Published: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:15 Z

Azure Database for MySQL triggers for Azure Functions are now generally available, enabling you to set up change tracking and develop event-driven applications at scale on any MySQL table. You can trigger a function when a row in a MySQL table is created, More Information
Published: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:15 Z

Diagnosing and resolving issues in Kubernetes clusters can be complex and time-consuming, especially when navigating logs, telemetry, and diagnostics manually. To simplify this experience, Azure Kubernetes Service is introducing a new agentic AI-powered C More Information
Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:09 Z

LocalDNS for AKS is now generally available. Large-scale Kubernetes clusters often face DNS resolution delays and reliability issues, especially during upstream outages or high query volumes. To address this, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now offers Lo More Information
Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:45:46 Z

Azure Migrate now offers integrated Security insights, allowing customers to assess potential risks within their on-premises environment. The solution delivers actionable recommendations to effectively mitigate these risks as part of the migration plannin More Information
Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:30:08 Z

Azure Backup vaulted protection for ADLS Gen2 delivers secure, off‑site backups to help organizations meet resilience and compliance goals. Vaulted backups maintain an independent copy of your data, isolated from the source account - providing protection More Information
Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:16:01 Z

Azure Firewall now supports DNS flow trace logs — a new logging capability that gives you deep, end-to-end visibility into DNS traffic and name resolution paths. This enhancement provides richer telemetry to help you troubleshoot, validate, and secure DNS More Information
Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:09 Z

Cloud-native workloads face increasingly sophisticated threats—from rootkits and container escapes to unauthorized code execution—that demand stronger security guarantees. To address these challenges, Microsoft has introduced Azure Linux with OS Guard, no More Information
Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:09 Z

Maintaining consistent and secure node configurations in Kubernetes environments can be challenging due to issues like configuration drift, manual changes, and complex upgrade paths. These challenges often lead to unpredictable behavior and increased oper More Information
Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:09 Z

Announcing the general availability of JavaScript (JS) challenge for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Front Door To strengthen bot mitigation strategies, Azure WAF now introduces JS challenge as a new security feature. The JS challenge prov More Information
Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:09 Z

Object replication priority replication will allow users to obtain prioritized replication from the source to the destination storage account of their replication policy. When you enable priority replication, you can benefit from the associated Service Le More Information
Published: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:30:03 Z

Geo priority replication enhances the replication process for GRS and GZRS storage accounts by enabling accelerated data replication between the primary and secondary regions. This feature is backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA), ensuring the Last Sy More Information
Published: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:30:03 Z

Packet capture is meant to capture specific flows for customers which can be filtered based on protocol, flags and filters. Packet captures can be initiated via a portal experience or via code using PowerShell.Learn more:For more information on how to use More Information
Published: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:45:51 Z

Announcing Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) support for Azure Application Gateway for Containers is now generally available. Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution of Application Gateway + Application Gateway Ingress Controller. With More Information
Published: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:00:17 Z

Announcing openCypher support for KQL graph semantics, bringing the widely adopted open-source graph query language to your graph data. This update allows you to run openCypher queries on any Fabric Eventhouse or Azure Data Explorer, making it easier to w More Information
Published: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:00:43 Z

The labels() function in KQL graph semantics is now generally available. This function enables you to retrieve, filter, and project label information for nodes and edges in your graph queries, making it easier to work with categorized graph data.The label More Information
Published: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:00:43 Z

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in all three availability zones in Japan West.Learn more. More Information
Published: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:45:02 Z

Announcing the General Availability of Ultra Disk’s new flexible provisioning model. This enhancement gives you the freedom to configure capacity, IOPS, and throughput (MBPS) more independently—so you can tailor performance to your workload needs and opti More Information
Published: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:00:51 Z

Blob storage Object Replication metrics for pending operations and pending bytes are now generally available in all regions. These replication metrics will empower you to optimize the performance, troubleshoot replication delays, and maintain high availab More Information
Published: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:00:54 Z

Give your agents the power of cloud and redefining how developers interact with Azure. Built on Model Context Protocol (MCP), it can create a secure, standards-based bridge between Azure services—like AKS, ACA, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL, AI Foundry, and More Information
Published: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:17 Z

GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is now available in public preview. GitHub Copilot in SSMS helps you write Transact-SQL (T-SQL) faster and with greater accuracy. Using database and connection context, it can also answer general SQL q More Information
Published: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:17 Z

In early November 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Azure SQL Hyperscale now supports multiple geo-secondary replicas, making it easier to design and deploy disaster recovery topology spanning multiple regions. Learn mo More Information
Published: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:17 Z

You can now configure read replicas (in-region and geo-replicas) with Premium SSD v2 storage tier in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. Read replicas enable you to scale out read-heavy workloads and improve performance by offloading read opera More Information
Published: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:45:17 Z

Planned Failover is a customer-managed failover that provides the ability to failover your geo-redundant storage account while keeping geo-redundancy and data durability. You can seamlessly swap the primary and secondary storage endpoints of your geo-redu More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:30:04 Z

Connection Monitor integration streamlines the setup of end-to-end monitoring for ExpressRoute workloads. With this capability, you can now enable Connection Monitor directly while creating or updating your ExpressRoute connections. This removes the need More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:00:26 Z

Resiliency insights is an assessment capability designed to measure your network's reliability for ExpressRoute workloads. At the core of this capability is the resiliency index, a percentage score calculated based on factors such as route resilience, zon More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:00:26 Z

Announcing the general availability of a dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server for high availability-enabled servers. With this feature, a high availability configuration gets the benefit of a dedicated Stand More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:00:26 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL includes Query Advisor, now generally available in the .NET SDK. Query Advisor helps you write faster, more efficient queries by analyzing your query structure and providing clear, actionable recommendations. It identifies ways t More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:00:26 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports ORDER BY ST_DISTANCE for geospatial queries, now generally available. With this feature, you can sort query results by their distance from a given point or GeoJSON object directly within Azure Cosmos DB. You no longe More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:00:26 Z

Resiliency validation is a capability designed to assess the resiliency of network connectivity for ExpressRoute-enabled workloads. This feature allows you to perform site failovers for your Virtual Network Gateway, helping to evaluate network resiliency More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:30:07 Z

Now you can use the open-source DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator to run DocumentDB on Kubernetes. DocumentDB is a Mongo-DB–compatible, open-source document database built on PostgreSQL. The operator extends Kubernetes with custom resource definitions (CRDs) More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:00:17 Z

Azure HBv5-series VM is now generally availalbe in the Azure South Central US region. HBv5 VMs are optimized for memory bandwidth-intensive HPC applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, automotive and aerospace simulations, weather modeling, ene More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:45:04 Z

The Object REST API, an S3-compatible REST API, on Azure NetApp Files bridges the gap between traditional file-based storage and modern cloud services, enabling customers to use their existing data in new ways. By providing integration via Microsoft Fabri More Information
Published: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:30:04 Z

Azure Functions now supports rolling updates in the Flex Consumption plan, delivering zero-downtime deployments with a simple configuration change. Instead of forcefully restarting all instances during code or configuration updates, the platform graceful More Information
Published: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:00:45 Z

You can now increase Azure Private Endpoint’s virtual network (VNet) limits by upgrading to High Scale Private Endpoints (HSPE). Today local VNet limits are restricted to 1,000 private endpoints per Virtual Network. Any attempts to create additional endpo More Information
Published: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:30:43 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of Instant Access Snapshots for Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disks. This new capability enables you to restore new disks immediately after creating snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra disks. Restore disks deliver high performance in More Information
Published: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:00:54 Z

In alignment with the end of community support, on April 30, 2026, support for Node.js 20 in Azure Functions will end. Your apps that are hosted on Functions will continue to run, but security updates and performance optimizations will no longer be availa More Information
Published: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:00:54 Z

On March 31, 2026, the following preview features will be retired:  Group multiple steps as a whole to better organize complex pipelines  Compare pipeline jobs to debug failures or unexpected issues  Import data into a data labelling project  Use v2 data More Information
Published: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:00:13 Z

We’re announcing the public preview of Azure Front Door signed request, a powerful new feature designed to enhance access control for content delivery. This capability allows organizations to restrict access to their content—such as media streams, file do More Information
Published: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:00:34 Z

Announcing the General Availability of CAPTCHA for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Front Door.Modern web applications face evolving threats, including bots, web scrapers, and brute-force attacks, many of which can bypass traditional securi More Information
Published: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:45:07 Z

Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. The retail evaluation period for this release provides 14 days (about 2 weeks) of testing. During this time, please verify that your applications and devices operate pr More Information
Published: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:15:20 Z

Azure Storage Mover can now migrate your NFS File shares to Azure File Shares (NFS 4.1). Storage Mover is a fully managed migration service that enables you to migrate on-premises files and folders to Azure Storage while minimizing downtime for your workl More Information
Published: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:45:01 Z

PgBouncer 1.23.1 is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. As a built-in connection pooling feature, PgBouncer helps you scale to thousands of connections with low overhead by efficiently managing idle and short-lived More Information
Published: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:30:05 Z

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) software reservations are now available again for purchase on Azure following important updates to billing meters and pricing. This update addresses issues with previous billing meters and aligns with Red Hat's new pricing More Information
Published: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:45:57 Z

Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of the Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis service. Microsoft will provide full support for all existing Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis customers until 9/25/2028. During this support window, cust More Information
Published: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:15:03 Z

Azure announces the public preview of VM Customization features, a new capability that gives customers greater control over virtual CPU configurations to optimize performance and licensing costs. This feature introduces two powerful options: Disable Simul More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:15:22 Z

In mid-October 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Improve the redirect connection type to require only port 1433 and promote to default. Learn more. Convert Azure SQL Database to Hyperscale while preserving existing geo More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:30:07 Z

You can now scale your Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers that have high availability (HA) enabled with minimal impact to your users. The process usually takes less than 30 seconds, while traditional scaling can take 2 to 10 minutes. This new capabilit More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:00:32 Z

Azure Storage Mover’s new AWS S3 to Azure Blob migration feature is now generally available, empowering organizations to move data directly from AWS to Azure securely, reliably, and at scale. With this release, customers can eliminate manual pipelines and More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:00:03 Z