Azure Service Updates

On May 12, 2026, extended support for .NET 9 (STS) 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 .NET 9 (STS). Learn more about Ap More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:00:17 Z

Announcing that you can now use user-assigned managed identity and system-assigned managed identity Entra authentication to connect your Azure Database for PostgreSQL instance with Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory. This feature enhances secu More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:15:26 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports mounting Network File System (NFS) Azure Files volumes to your containerized applications. NFS Azure Files volumes provide a scalable and high-performance file system for your apps and jobs. You can use NFS Azure Files vo More Information
Published: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:00:06 Z

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Upsert method and Script activity support in Microsoft Fabric when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This enhancement enables you to perform efficient, scalable, and declarative data transformations More Information
Published: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:00:30 Z

Announcing that pg_cron is now supported in PostgreSQL 17 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. This extension brings powerful, built-in job scheduling to PostgreSQL 17—previously available only in earlier versions. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:00:30 Z

Announcing the public preview 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 Standard Lo More Information
Published: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:00:30 Z

You can now enable high availability (HA) with Azure Premium SSD v2 disks while deploying Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. You can configure zonal HA options using SSD v2 achieving a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:00:30 Z

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL bindings for Azure Functions. With this integration, Azure Functions can seamlessly interact with Azure Database for MySQL databases using input and output bindings. By simpli More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:45:05 Z

You can now upgrade your Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server instance to PostgreSQL 17 using a simple, in-place upgrade—now available in public preview. This release allows you to move from previous PostgreSQL versions (14, 15, or 16) to Postgre More Information
Published: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:15:21 Z

Starting April 30, 2025, private endpoint approvals from the Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Foundry managed network will no longer be handled by the internal networking service. Moving forward, either the Azure AI Enterprise Network Connection Approv More Information
Published: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:00:11 Z

Azure Migrate now supports migration to ZRS Disks. Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks synchronously replicates data across three physically separate availability zones within a region – each with independent power, cooling, and networking – enha More Information
Published: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:00:21 Z

Azure Storage Mover can now migrate your SMB shares to Azure Blob container. 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 workload. Togeth More Information
Published: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:45:38 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks. ASR provides seamless disaster recovery for Virtual Machines across Azure Regions and from on-premises to Azure, helping organizations maintain busi More Information
Published: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:45:38 Z

Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now offers a backup solution for supporting long-term backup retention and improved compliance for your PostgreSQL databases using Azure Backup. This release enables you to take advantage of a rich set of c More Information
Published: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:00:58 Z

Azure Quota Groups is now generally available, offering improved flexibility and control for Enterprise Agreement (EA) and internal customers. This feature enables quota sharing across a group of subscriptions, reducing the number of individual quota tran More Information
Published: Fri, 30 May 2025 17:45:01 Z

In September 2022, we announced that Language Understanding (LUIS) would be retired on October 1, 2025. Based on feedback from you, we are extending the retirement date to October 31, 2025, to give you more time to plan for your migration. On October 31, More Information
Published: Fri, 30 May 2025 11:15:51 Z

End of Support for Microsoft Fabric Runtime 1.2 has been announced. Microsoft Fabric Runtime 1.2 will be deprecated and disabled March 31, 2026.   We strongly recommend upgrading your Fabric workspace and environments to use Runtime 1.3 (Apache Spark 3.5 More Information
Published: Fri, 30 May 2025 11:15:51 Z

End of Support Announcement for Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4. Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 will be deprecated and disabled March 31, 2026. More Information
Published: Fri, 30 May 2025 11:15:51 Z

Announcing the public preview of Live Resize for Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra NVMe Disks. This feature allows you to dynamically expand the storage capacity of your disks without any disruption to your applications. To optimize costs, you can start with More Information
Published: Thu, 29 May 2025 17:00:19 Z

Azure Firewall enhances the DNAT rule configuration to support port translations on its Private IP address. DNAT on Azure Firewall Private IP address helps connect overlapped IP networks, which is a common scenario for enterprises when onboarding new part More Information
Published: Thu, 29 May 2025 16:00:12 Z

Azure Backup now supports Elastic SAN, offering a fully managed solution for backing up and restoring Elastic SAN volumes. This integration helps protect data against accidental deletions, ransomware attacks, and application updates by exporting Elastic S More Information
Published: Thu, 29 May 2025 15:15:41 Z

Announcing App Service Hybrid Connection has been updated, and the latest version is now generally available. This new version has an updated look and feel and provides the following advantages over the previous version:Support for both Windows and Linux More Information
Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 17:45:41 Z

Azure Application Gateway supports use of Server-sent events in preview, enabling real-time data streaming from server to client. Server-sent events utilize server push technology on a persistent HTTP connection for seamless updates to the clients. To imp More Information
Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 17:45:41 Z

Azure NetApp Files volume encryption choices have expanded to offer support customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption with Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. This capability offers increased security from FIPS 140-2 Level 2 to FIPS 140-2 Le More Information
Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 17:30:53 Z

Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro is a comprehensive geospatial data platform designed to accelerate the generation of geospatial insights and their integration into enterprise Data & AI workflows. It offers robust capabilities to ingest, manage, and disse More Information
Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 17:15:01 Z

A key step in any cloud transformation plan is a current state analysis of the entire IT estate covering workloads and applications, and relationships/dependencies among them. More often, customers are looking to set their migration goals in terms of the More Information
Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 17:15:01 Z

Azure Migrate now supports migration to Ultra Disk, enabling customers to seamlessly migrate their on-premises workloads to Azure while taking advantage of Ultra Disk’s cutting-edge performance and scalability. Designed for I/O-intensive workloads, such a More Information
Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:26 Z

Azure Migrate now supports migration to Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) disks, offering customers a seamless experience to migrate their on-premises workloads to Azure and benefit from the greater flexibility and enhanced performance of Pv2 disks in Azure. Pv2 disks More Information
Published: Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:26 Z

Introducing the Microsoft DocumentDB Docker Image, a local development environment you can use to build and test apps with DocumentDB. This image simulates the DocumentDB on your local machine, providing a fast, cost-effective, and isolated environment fo More Information
Published: Tue, 27 May 2025 21:45:10 Z

Integration between Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) is now available in public preview. You can now respond to changes in your collections using Azure Functions triggers and bindings, enabling you to easily build real-time, event-d More Information
Published: Tue, 27 May 2025 21:45:10 Z

The Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript SDK 4.0 is now generally available. This major update brings a range of enhancements to help you build more efficient and scalable applications, whether you're working with large datasets, securing sensitive information, or More Information
Published: Tue, 27 May 2025 21:45:10 Z

You can now configure Azure Container Apps and Azure Functions as Private Link enabled origins in your Front Door Premium profile. Private Link enabled origins in Front Door allow you to deliver content to your end-users through public Front Door endpoint More Information
Published: Tue, 27 May 2025 19:30:40 Z

Front Door Standard and Premium now supports sending authenticated requests to its origins using Managed Identities. This feature allows customers to secure their origins by allowing only approved Front Door profiles to access the origins.Using Managed Id More Information
Published: Tue, 27 May 2025 19:30:40 Z

We are announcing the general availability of private subnet functionality in Azure. Currently, when virtual machines are created in a virtual network without any explicit outbound connectivity, they are assigned a default outbound public IP address. Thes More Information
Published: Tue, 27 May 2025 15:45:24 Z

Announcing the general availability of the inbound private endpoint feature for the Azure API Management Standard v2 tier. This update enables organizations to securely expose their API Management gateway exclusively over Azure Private Link, ensuring that More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 18:15:02 Z

Announcing Azure API Center is transitioning from a 90-day free trial period to offering a free tier. Azure API Center serves as a centralized hub to catalog, discover, and manage MCP servers and APIs, regardless of their type or deployment location withi More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing the public preview of the Applications feature in Azure API Management. This new capability introduces a more streamlined and secure way to manage OAuth-based access to your APIs and products. With Applications, API publishers and developers More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing the public preview of the Premium v2 tier for Azure API Management designed to support enterprise-scale API programs with higher capacity, advanced networking options, and unmatched flexibility. The Premium v2 tier introduces a new architectur More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing the general availability of autoscaling in Azure API Management workspace gateways. With the introduction of autoscaling in workspace gateways, customers can now increase the reliability of their deployments. Autoscaling dynamically adjusts th More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing the public preview of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Azure API Management and Azure API Center. With this new capability, enterprises can transform their existing APIs into dynamic, agent-ready tools, while improving security and simpl More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing expanded support for AWS Bedrock model endpoints across all Generative AI policies in Azure API Management’s AI Gateway. This release enables you to apply advanced management and optimization features such as Token Limit Policy, Token Metric Po More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing the general availability of importing model endpoints from Azure AI Foundry directly into Azure API Management’s AI Gateway. This capability simplifies onboarding of large language model (LLM) APIs by enabling seamless integration through the A More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing the general availability of session-aware load balancing in Azure API Management. With this feature, requests from the same user session are consistently routed to the same backend, enabling support for advanced stateful scenarios such as the O More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 14:30:44 Z

Announcing the general availability of LLM logging in Azure API Management’s AI Gateway. This capability allows you to capture and store LLM prompts, completions, and token usage metrics, enabling deeper insights into AI usage and the performance of intel More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 14:30:44 Z

Announcing the General Availability of Workspace Gateway Metrics in Azure API Management!Two new metrics—CPU Utilization (%) and Memory Utilization (%)—are now available for API Management workspace gateways, offering deeper visibility into resource usage More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 14:30:44 Z

Announcing the General Availability of Federated Logging in Azure API Management! With federated logging, platform teams gain a centralized view of logs across the entire API Management instance, while API teams get scoped access to logs for APIs within More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 14:30:44 Z

Unity Catalog access to Amazon S3 data on Azure Databricks is now generally available. This release gives you seamless, multicloud data governance by unifying permissions and access controls across S3 and Azure Data Lake Storage.With cross-cloud data gove More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 02:45:39 Z

You no longer need to manage the key version for customer-managed keys (CMKs) in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. Versionless keys automate the propagation of newly rotated CMKs independent of the rotation method (auto-rotation or manual). L More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 02:45:39 Z

Now you can easily capture real-time data changes using change streams in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore). This new capability eliminates polling overhead and enables real-time analytics, automation, and synchronization across distributed systems. And More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 02:45:39 Z

Announcing the general availability of the Azure Logic Apps Rules Engine, bringing low-code, flexible business logic capabilities to your cloud-native workflows.Business Rules Engines (BRE) enable organizations to define, manage, and update business logic More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 21:00:58 Z

Introducing the agent loop, a groundbreaking new action now in public preview in Azure Logic Apps. Unlike traditional business processes that follow step-by-step instructions, the agent loop enables goal-based automation. Just define the outcome, and the More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 20:45:20 Z

Announcing the public preview of native Azure Logic Apps integration with Azure AI Search, delivering a seamless Bring Your Own Search (BYOS) experience for document ingestion in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) scenarios. This new experience empowers More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 20:45:20 Z

Announcing the public preview of native integration between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Logic Apps for document ingestion enabling a faster, low-code path to bring your data into Cosmos DB from a wide variety of sources. With out-of-the-box templates and c More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 20:30:38 Z

We’re expanding the capabilities of Azure Integration Environment with powerful new features that further simplify how you monitor and manage integration applications across Azure. Now in public preview, Azure Integration Environment offers: A simple, i More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 20:30:38 Z

Announcing the public preview of the Automated Testing Framework for Azure Logic Apps (Standard)! This new capability empowers developers and integration specialists to build more reliable workflows by simplifying the unit testing experience within their More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 20:15:07 Z

Azure AI Foundry supports Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with the o4-mini model in Azure OpenAI, enabling adaptive learning for context-aware applications. Alongside RFT, we introduced Global Training, allowing fine-tuning from 12+ Azure regions at reduc More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:23 Z

Azure AI Foundry Agent Service is now generally available, empowering developers to design, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. It supports multi-agent workflows, allowing specialized agents to handle complex tasks, accelerate decisions, and boo More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:23 Z

Over the past decade, Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Azure in China) has been expanding the Azure cloud infrastructure in China, demonstrating long-term investment in the market. Azure in China is committed to building a compliant, flexible, and in More Information
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 01:00:05 Z

Now generally available, Azure Managed Redis brings the latest Redis innovations with enhanced availability and cost-effective operations. Azure Managed Redis boosts AI application performance, supports session management, and interoperates seamlessly wit More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Azure Traffic Manager has raised its service level agreement (SLA) to 100% for global DNS resolution, ensuring that all DNS queries consistently resolve to a healthy endpoint. No changes are required from customers to benefit from this SLA update. All exi More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 18:45:50 Z

Upgrading and modernizing applications can be complex and time consuming for developers. GitHub Copilot now offers app modernization capabilities that enable developers to rapidly update, upgrade and modernize Java and .NET applications using autonomous A More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 17:30:45 Z

In this new update, we are making it easier than ever for developers to get started creating their AI application with Azure. We are expanding the capabilities beyond the templates we offer out of the box, now giving the developers the option to describe More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 17:30:45 Z

GitHub Copilot for Azure is now generally available, bringing disruption-free cloud development, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support, and intelligent diagnostics to streamline your workflow. With features to help you create deployments with Bicep and Ter More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 17:00:13 Z

In mid-May 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code introduces Schema Designer—an intuitive, visual interface to create, edit, and manage database tables, relationships, and constrain More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 17:00:13 Z

Premium SSD v2 delivers high-performance block storage with sub-millisecond latency, high IOPS, and throughput—at a low cost. With Geo Redundant Storage (GRS) and Cross-Region Restore (CRR) support, you can safeguard VMs against data loss and perform on-d More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 16:45:21 Z

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that's always running on the latest stable version of the Microsoft SQL Server database engine. You get an updated operating system with 99.99% high availability and close to 100% feature com More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 16:00:03 Z

The Kubernetes community releases a new minor version approximately every four months, with a support window for each version for one year. In Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), this support window is called community support. AKS supports versions of Kubern More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:15:08 Z

Connected registry in Azure Container Registry (ACR) is now generally available. Connected registry is a local resource managed using a cloud-based ACR registry. It can be deployed via the Azure Portal and Command Line Interface (CLI) as an Arc extension More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:15:08 Z

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports DNS-based public load balancing, delivered via a Kubernetes-native integration with Azure Traffic Manager. Kubernetes services placed on multiple clusters in a fleet can be included in a TrafficManagerBackend wh More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:15:08 Z

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager’s cluster resource placement has two new preview features to provide more control over placement conflict resolution. Using the new “applyStrategy”, an operator can define how Fleet Manager resolves conflicts when attempti More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:15:08 Z

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports automated deployments in public preview. This feature adds support for attaching GitHub repositories to a Fleet Manager hub cluster, allowing the application to be built and staged ready for placement. Automate More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:15:08 Z

Smart VM defaults are now generally available in AKS. Smart VM defaults automatically select the optimal default VM SKU based on available capacity and quota. This feature ensures that deployments are matched with the best possible SKU, enhancing performa More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:15:08 Z

This capability provides comprehensive vulnerability assessment and remediation for container images, regardless of their registry source. With this, organizations expand vulnerability assessment coverage to include running containers with images from any More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:15:08 Z

Azure Load Testing now offers AI-driven actionable insights (Preview) to help you identify and resolve performance issues more quickly and confidently. This new capability automatically analyzes test run data to detect regressions, highlight bottlenecks, More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:30:29 Z

AKS supported Kubernetes version release updates are available in AKS release tracker. Users can check current in-support Kubernetes versions and LTS versions for a specific region and track new patches version release progress with release tracker. Learn More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:30:29 Z

Azure offers a variety of services for different application use cases, and it can be time-consuming to select, create, deploy, and connect a service to your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. The recommended services feature, now in public preview, provi More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:30:29 Z

Enhanced Availability Zone support for Azure App Service is now generally available. This update simplifies the pre-requisites to enable zone resilience, reduces the cost of running in high availability, and enhances reliability and resilience for your ap More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:04 Z

Core Kubernetes extensions for AKS offers an ARM-driven experience for the installation and lifecycle management of essential components that can be integrated into your AKS cluster to enhance its functionality. Compared to the existing cluster extension More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

Custom certificate authority (CA) support in AKS is now generally available. CAs allow you to establish trust between your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster and your workloads as private registries, proxies, and firewalls. A Kubernetes secret is use More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

The HTTP proxy feature adds HTTP proxy support to AKS clusters, exposing a straightforward interface that you can use to secure AKS-required network traffic in proxy-dependent environments. With this feature, both AKS nodes and pods are configured to use More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

Automated deployments in AKS now supports the following features:Azure DevOps support: You can now easily generate Azure DevOps (ADO) pipelines to deploy your applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Automated deployments also helps you containeriz More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

Cluster operators and platform teams managing shared Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments often face challenges with conflicting update requests—especially when multiple users or systems interact with the same resource simultaneously. This can resu More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

Microsoft Defender for Cloud now supports, in public preview, onboarding of individual AKS clusters. Instead of having a pre-requisite for onboarding an entire subscription, Microsoft Defender for Cloud now allows for resource level onboarding for AKS clu More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) security dashboard, now in public preview, provides comprehensive visibility and automated remediation capabilities for security issues through the Azure portal, empowering platform engineering teams to secure their Kube More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

Microsoft Defender for Cloud now offers, in preview, vulnerability assessments and malware detection for nodes within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). By securing these Kubernetes nodes, organizations can enhance their overall security posture, maintain co More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

Microsoft Defender for Cloud gating vulnerable deployments feature for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now in public preview. This feature allows you to evaluate deployments in Kubernetes and ensure each image is safe before deployment, based on Vulnera More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:15:47 Z

Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides comprehensive runtime vulnerability assessment and guided remediation for vulnerable container images that are owned, maintained, and deployed by a cloud service, including those in Azure Kubernetes Service. Remediati More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:00:10 Z

Custom Events offer developers a way to track user or system actions that matter to their business or observability objectives. For example, a developer may want to track an end-user action such as selecting a button, submitting a form, or completing a pu More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:00:10 Z

Customers can identify blocked ports faster with the Azure Portal's latest enhancement. The VM Overview blade in the Azure Portal has a new troubleshooter tool allowing users to run network diagnostics and check for common ports being blocked. This greatl More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:00:10 Z

Container insights visualizations were previously powered by metric data from Log Analytics. This new feature offers customers the option to power these visualizations using managed Prometheus data, offering a more cost-efficient and performant solution. More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Managed Prometheus visualizations in Azure Monitor are now generally available, along with an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This release brings comprehensive monitoring capabilities into a single, streamlined More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of Prometheus recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters. These alerts, based on enhanced Prometheus community rules, provide comprehensive coverage across cluste More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of Prometheus recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for AKS clusters. These alerts, based on enhanced Prometheus community rules, provide comprehensive coverage across cluster, node, and pod levels. More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Log Analytics Workspace Replication. Cross-regional workspace replication enhances resilience to regional incidents by enabling workspace owners to switch over to another region as necessary. A copy o More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI now supports up to 100,000 records per query, a significant increase from the previous 30,000-record limit. This enhancement enables deeper investigations and broader data analysis directly within the portal, allowing users More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Many organizations emphasize the need to segregate and control access to data in a granular manner, while maintaining a centralized logging platform. On top of the existing capabilities of Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace and table level access, you More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Azure Functions integration with AI Foundry Agent service is now generally available. Integrating Azure Functions with AI Foundry Agent service enables you to build intelligent, event-driven applications that are scalable, secure, and cost-efficient. Azur More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Planned maintenance is now generally available in Azure Container Apps. This feature allows you to control when non-critical updates are applied to your Container Apps environment to minimize downtime and impact to applications. Non-critical updates inclu More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Private endpoints are now supported in general availability for workload profile environments in Azure Container Apps. This enables customers to connect to their Container Apps environment using a private IP address in their Azure Virtual Network, elimina More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

The capability to run Azure Container Apps on your own Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters (AKS and AKS-HCI) is now generally available. The cluster can be on-premises or hosted in a third-party cloud. This approach allows developers to take advantage More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Dedicated GPU support in Azure Container Apps is now generally available. Dedicated GPUs provide additional compute options tailored for AI applications, making them ideal for AI scenarios which require continuous availability and don’t scale to zero. T More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs now support Azure AI Foundry models in public preview. Azure AI Foundry Models have two deployment options - serverless APIs and managed compute. Azure Container Apps serverless GPU offers a balanced deployment option More Information
Published: Wed, 21 May 2025 03:30:39 Z

You can now use filtered DiskANN in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL to run fast, filter-aware vector searches that adapt dynamically to your data and query shape. Filtered DiskANN delivers even lower latency, higher recall, and lower cost efficiency on filtered More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 19:30:06 Z

Azure Files NFS shares now support in-transit encryption using AZNFS Mount Helper, ensuring end to end encryption of all traffic between clients and servers. The AZNFS mount helper enables seamless, flexible mounting of shares with or without TLS helping More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 19:00:10 Z

.NET Aspire simplifies cloud-native development with opinionated APIs, integrations, and orchestration features. It boosts productivity, and provides a dashboard for managing services, making it easier to build and deploy distributed applications. With .N More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:04 Z

We are introducing a new, streamlined method for running Azure Functions directly in Azure Container Apps. This integration allows you to leverage the full features and capabilities of Azure Container Apps while benefiting from the simplicity of auto-scal More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 17:30:18 Z

The new Premium v4 offering provides faster processors, NVMe local storage, and memory-optimized options, running on the latest Azure hardware. Premium v4 includes sizes starting from 1 vCPU and 4GB of memory all the way up to 32 vCPU and 256GB memory. Le More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 17:30:18 Z

These capabilities enhance your troubleshooting experience and streamline diagnosing and resolving health degradation of your application and infrastructure. AI-powered Investigations enable fast troubleshooting, diagnosing and resolving problems efficien More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 16:45:48 Z

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new feature in Azure Monitor: Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2, available during May.Key Benefits:Personalized Alert Emails: This feature enables customers to personalize the subject lines of More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 16:30:08 Z

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor, available starting in mid-May. This new feature is designed to provide a simplified and more intuitive experience for monitoring and alerting, enhancing your ability to d More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 16:30:08 Z

Announcing the general availability (GA) of vaulted backups by Azure Backup for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - flexible server, a robust and scalable backup solution designed to meet the needs of enterprises and developers alike. Key features include pol More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 15:30:04 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk are now available in Indonesia Central region. Azure Ultra Disks are the highest-performing storage option for Azure virtual machines (VMs), offering high throughput, high IOPS, and consistent low sub-millisecond latenc More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 14:15:16 Z

Support for Availability Sets is now available with Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) disk storage in regions without Availability Zones: Australia Southeast, Canada East, North Central US, UK West, West Central US and West US.Pv2 disk delivers low-latency, consisten More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:30:08 Z

Foundry Local makes it easy to run AI models, tools and agents directly on-device, whether Windows 11 or MacOS . Foundry Local includes model inferencing, models, agents as a service, and model playground for fast and efficient local Al development. This More Information
Published: Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:01 Z

SQL Server 2025, now in public preview, is built on a foundation known for best-in-class security and performance. This release empowers you to develop modern AI applications using your data. It provides built-in, extensible AI support, enhanced developer More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 23:15:54 Z

You can control your application's throughput consumption by configuring throughput buckets in a container and specifying a maximum throughput percentage for each one. When a bucket exceeds its assigned limit, incoming requests are throttled to maintain i More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 23:15:54 Z

In mid-May 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:New JSON index can be used to index JSON documents stored in a column of JSON type. JSON index allows for efficient searching of JSON documents using JSON functions and relatio More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 23:00:56 Z

The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now works with GitHub Copilot, bringing AI-powered SQL assistance directly into your development workflow. This integration enables you to work with your database schema using GitHub Copilot. With just a few clic More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 23:00:56 Z

Azure Cosmos DB is renowned for its active-active resiliency, allowing write operations to any region by trading off consistency for 99.999% availability. We are pleased to announce that we have now expanded active-active support to strong consistency thr More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 23:00:56 Z

You can now quickly turn documents into searchable data using new Azure Logic Apps workflow templates designed to streamline semantic search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. With just a few clicks, you can extract text from files—including PDFs, Microsoft Of More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 22:15:41 Z

Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an AI assistant to help with writing, editing, and fixing T-SQL queries using natural language. Copilot in SSMS grounds its responses in database context, providing responses customized to your environment More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 22:15:41 Z

Filtered vector search is now generally available in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore). With this release, you can narrow down your search space, filtering before running a vector search to make results more accurate and performance significantly faster More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 22:00:41 Z

The redesign of the At-scale Insights dashboard for Azure Cosmos DB provides a central view for monitoring Azure Cosmos DB workloads, along with new features and integrations to help you manage your resources at scale. The updated dashboard enables you to More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 22:00:41 Z

The Aggregated Diagnostics Logs (Preview) feature is designed to deliver significant cost savings and enhanced troubleshooting capabilities with Azure Cosmos DB diagnostics logs. Traditionally, logging detailed per-request traces in the diagnostics logs c More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 22:00:41 Z

For two decades, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has been the primary tool for SQL database administrators and database developers. SSMS provides a powerful and user-friendly interface for managing SQL databases, writing T-SQL, and troubleshooting pro More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 22:00:41 Z

In mid-May 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Experience faster failovers with continuous priming and enhanced data ingestion with a 150 MiB/s log generation rate, now available in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.Streamlin More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 21:45:03 Z

Native full-text and hybrid search capabilities in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL are now generally available. You can now seamlessly build advanced search and GenAI scenarios without relying on external search services. Key capabilities include: Full-text se More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

You can now change the capacity mode of an Azure Cosmos DB account from serverless to provisioned capacity in-place using the Azure portal or Azure CLI. This new capability makes it easy for you to transition to the performance and comprehensive service-l More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:18 Z

Azure announces the public preview of our very first Network Optimized VMs built on the new 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8537C (Emerald Rapids) offering unparalleled performance and flexibility. These Intel-based VMs come with three different memory-to-c More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 20:30:01 Z

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a way for apps to provide capabilities and context to a large language model. Azure Functions recently introduced an MCP extension as an early preview to enable conversations with the community. The extension makes it e More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Beyond the already generally available regions, you can now create Flex Consumption apps in the following regions: Australia Southeast Brazil South Canada Central Central India Central US France Central Germany West Central Italy North Japan East Korea C More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Starting on May 19, 2025 you can create and edit Grafana dashboards directly in the Azure Portal without any additional cost and less administrative overhead than self-hosting Grafana or using managed Grafana services. Grafana dashboards for Azure Kubern More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure SRE agent is a new agentic AI service that can free developers from the constant stress of late-night alerts by monitoring production systems 24/7, responding to incidents in real time, and autonomously troubleshooting issues as they arise. It can c More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

You can now easily create AI agents in Azure AI Foundry with Azure Databricks data. Using the new Azure Databricks Azure AI Foundry connector, you can: Connect Azure AI Foundry agents with Azure Databricks for real-time data processing. Build and dep More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:45:02 Z

Durable task scheduler, a fully managed backend for durable execution, is now available in public preview in Azure Container Apps. The durable task scheduler features a managed workflow engine responsible for scheduling workflow execution and persisting w More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 18:30:40 Z

Vector search is now generally available in DocumentDB, the open-source engine powering vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. With this feature, you can build smarter applications that go beyond keyword search. Vector search helps you find similar item More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

DiskANN is now generally available in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, giving you powerful vector search capabilities directly within your database. This means you can now build intelligent applications that search across high-dimensional vector d More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

The DocumentDB Visual Studio Code extension is now available in public preview. This free, open-source extension integrates seamlessly into VS Code, giving you a powerful and intuitive graphical user interface for managing databases across various environ More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

The Azure Cosmos DB global secondary index public preview now offers more functionality to optimize queries and help you get started. Previously known as materialized views, global secondary indexes are read-only containers that automatically sync data fr More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

Now you can more easily operate your Azure Cosmos DB accounts at scale. Azure Cosmos DB fleets give you new capabilities when building multitenant software as a service (SaaS) applications. You can simplify capacity management by creating a pool of throu More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

When designing and customizing AI apps and agents, you can now use the data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB accounts to power AI solutions built in Azure AI Foundry. Azure Cosmos DB is the first Azure database able to power Azure AI Foundry agents and mod More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

You can now use phrase search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL to find exact sequences of words. This capability makes your full-text search more precise and powerful. With phrase search, your applications can match entire phrases rather than just individual More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

You can now perform full-text search and scoring in multiple languages with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. Previously limited to English, full-text indexing and BM25-based ranking now support a growing set of languages, enabling you to build intelligent, mult More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

You can now use fuzzy search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL to deliver more flexible and forgiving search experiences—directly within your database. With fuzzy search in public preview, your applications can return relevant results even when users make typo More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) now supports authentication via Microsoft Entra ID, enhancing security and simplifying identity management. With this update, you can now add Entra ID accounts directly to your MongoDB vCore clusters and use them for se More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

We are introducing a cost-effective, simple, and efficient solution for migrating from RU-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB to vCore-based. You can now move to vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB at no cost using the Azure portal, with no additional r More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:23 Z

With the new capabilities in Dev Box, developers can build AI apps effectively with quick, controlled access to serverless GPU resources, streamlined project-based configurations, and new AI-powered workflows. Ready-to-code environments for AI developmen More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports premium ingress in public preview. This feature introduces environment-level ingress configuration options, with the primary highlight being customizable ingress scaling. This capability supports the scaling of the ingres More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure Container Apps .NET 8’s Aspire dashboard is now generally available, so you can access live data about your project and containers in the cloud to evaluate the performance of your applications and debug errors with comprehensive logs, metrics, trace More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

OpenTelemetry agent in Azure Container Apps is now generally available. This feature enables you to use open-source standards to send your app’s data without setting up the OpenTelemetry collector yourself. You can use the managed agent to choose where to More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Durable functions extension v3 in Azure Functions is now generally available. Major improvements in this new major version include improved cost efficiency for usage of Azure Storage v2 accounts and an upgrade to the latest Azure Storage SDKs, as well as More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure Functions triggers and bindings enable you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications. This feature enables you to use types from service SDKs and frameworks, providing more capability beyond what is currently offered. More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python is now GA. With this feature, customers can stream HTTP requests to and responses from their Function Apps, using function exposed FastAPI request and response APIs. Previously with HTTP requests, the am More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure Functions triggers and bindings enable you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications. This feature enables you to use types from service SDKs and frameworks, providing more capability beyond what is currently offered. S More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

You can now enable availability zones for your Flex Consumption apps during create or post-create. You can also choose the 512 MB instance memory size. Availability zones are physically separate groups of datacenters within each Azure region. When one zo More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Semantic operators in Azure Database for PostgreSQL bring a new intelligence layer to relational algebra, directly integrated into the SQL query engine. Semantic operators use large language models to understand operational data. You can use them to extra More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:41 Z

With managed identity support in the Azure AI extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, you no longer need to store secrets (access tokens) to your Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, and Azure Machine Learning services within the Postgre More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:41 Z

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. With this powerful tool, you can connect to PostgreSQL Database instances, run queries, create and manage connection profiles, and take advantage of Entra I More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:41 Z

We are excited to announce the general availability of the Apache AGE extension for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. With this release, you can unlock powerful graph database capabilities, enabling you to efficiently manage and analyze complex relationships More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:41 Z

We are excited to announce support for confidential computing in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. With confidential computing enabled, you can enhance the security of sensitive and regulated data, helping mitigate unwanted data access by clo More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:41 Z

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of DiskANN—one of the fastest vector indexing algorithms on the market—on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Developed at Microsoft Research and used extensively at Microsoft in global services such as Bing More Information
Published: Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:41 Z

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of carbon optimization in Azure — a built-in solution to help you measure, manage, and reduce carbon emissions from your Azure workloads.With Carbon Optimization, organizations can:Track progress over tim More Information
Published: Fri, 16 May 2025 22:15:06 Z

Cross-zone-region replication builds on the existing capabilities of cross-region replication and cross-zone replication. It enables you to replicate volumes across regions and across availability zones within the same region, combining disaster recovery More Information
Published: Fri, 16 May 2025 22:15:06 Z

Cross-subscription replication is a feature for Azure NetApp Files that allows replication across different subscriptions under the same tenant. This enhances disaster recovery and operational agility by leveraging NetApp SnapMirror technology, which ensu More Information
Published: Fri, 16 May 2025 22:15:06 Z

Azure File Sync enables seamless tiering of data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files for hybrid use cases and simplified migration. It also enables you to leverage the performance, flexibility and compatibility of your on-premises File Server More Information
Published: Fri, 16 May 2025 17:00:41 Z

WebJobs allow for the execution of background tasks and scheduled processes, which unlike traditional web applications, are not triggered by HTTP requests. The WebJobs feature is now generally available (GA) for Linux code and container scenarios, bringin More Information
Published: Wed, 14 May 2025 23:00:01 Z

MongoDB Atlas is now available as an Azure Native Integration, offering a fully managed document database with native vector search capabilities and direct integration with the Azure ecosystem. Developed through collaboration between Microsoft and MongoDB More Information
Published: Wed, 14 May 2025 23:00:01 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) Disk Storage is now available in Japan West. Pv2 is Azure’s next-generation general-purpose block storage designed to deliver an ideal balance of low-latency performance, flexible scalability, and cost efficiency. With sub-milli More Information
Published: Wed, 14 May 2025 15:00:15 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager high-scale private endpoints in connected groups is now in public preview, delivering enhanced scalability for complex Azure network environments. As organizations grow, the need to large numbers of private endpoints becom More Information
Published: Tue, 13 May 2025 21:15:04 Z

To provide a new flexible and cost-effective option for developers, Azure App Configuration now offers a Developer pricing plan. This new plan is ideal for development teams looking for a reliable configuration store for development and testing, and for More Information
Published: Tue, 13 May 2025 18:15:37 Z

We are announcing the public preview of the Perth Azure Extended Zone. Azure Extended Zones are small-footprint extensions of Azure placed in metros, industry centers, or a specific jurisdiction to serve low latency and data residency workloads. They sup More Information
Published: Tue, 13 May 2025 18:00:02 Z

Bing Search APIs will be retired on  August 11, 2025. Any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will no longer be available for usage or new customer signup. Note that this retirement will apply to part More Information
Published: Mon, 12 May 2025 21:15:58 Z

Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account feature is now generally available. The feature allows each NetApp account to connect to its own Active Directory Forest and Domain, providing the ability to manage more than on More Information
Published: Mon, 12 May 2025 20:30:43 Z

In September 2022, we announced that Language Understanding (LUIS) would be retired on October 1, 2025. Based on feedback from you, we are extending the retirement date to October 31, 2025, to give you more time to plan for your migration. On October 31, More Information
Published: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:00:37 Z

Now you can interact with your Mongo DB data directly from your applications through a simple RESTful, HTTPS interface. The Data API for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB eliminates the need for traditional database drivers or complex queries. The More Information
Published: Wed, 07 May 2025 16:00:30 Z

Now you can use Azure Database Migration service to migrate to Azure SQL offerings in the China North 3 region. As a fully managed service, Azure Database Migration Service enables seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure data platforms More Information
Published: Wed, 07 May 2025 16:00:30 Z

Neon Serverless Postgres – an Azure Native Integration is now generally available. Neon Serverless Postgres offers a modern, serverless, and fully managed Postgres service. Developed through collaboration between Microsoft and Neon, this integration simpl More Information
Published: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:00:33 Z

We are excited to announce Premium SSD v2 in the following non-AZ regions: US West, UK West, Canada East, Australia Southeast, North Central US, West Central US, Australia Central 2, and Norway West. Azure Premium SSD v2, a next-generation general-purpose More Information
Published: Tue, 06 May 2025 17:00:15 Z

The Azure Container Registry (ACR) team is pleased to introduce continuous patching, a new capability that simplifies vulnerability management for container images stored in your registry. The continuous patching feature automates the detection and remedi More Information
Published: Tue, 06 May 2025 16:45:38 Z

Azure Storage Actions, our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage, is now generally available in select Azure regions. Azure Storage Actions enables you to quickly comp More Information
Published: Tue, 06 May 2025 15:30:51 Z

To focus on supporting users of the Standard pricing plan, the Static Web Apps Dedicated pricing plan (currently in Public Preview) will be retired on October 31, 2025. Deployments using the Dedicated pricing plan can be migrated to the Static Web Apps More Information
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 19:15:53 Z

Enhanced Cost Management exports are now generally available across all Azure regions and clouds.This release improves how customers automate and analyze cost and usage data. Key enhancements include expanded dataset support (price sheets, reservation rec More Information
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 18:45:26 Z

We are excited to announce our May updates for Azure API Center. This public preview release includes several exciting new features designed to enhance user experience and streamline API management: Users can now configure and granularly assign ac More Information
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:22 Z

United Arab Emirates (UAE) North is now a supported region for Microsoft Dev Box. For more information on Dev Box regional availability, see here. More Information
Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 20:30:19 Z

By June, we introduce improvements that will provide more detailed and accurate information on reservations (RIs), Azure Saving Plans (ASP), and 3rd party purchases from the Azure Marketplace. RIs and ASP purchases will now show their billing subscription More Information
Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 20:15:35 Z

We’re announcing the upcoming end of standard support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on May 31, 2025, as we focus on delivering a more secure and optimized Linux experience. You can continue using your existing virtual machines, but after this date, security featu More Information
Published: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:45:39 Z

In late-April 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: The MSSQL extension for VS Code now includes Schema Compare in its April release—making it easier to compare database schemas, identify differences, and apply updates acros More Information
Published: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:00:32 Z

Azure Container Instances now supports larger container size instances in public preview. You can now deploy workloads with higher vCPU and memory for standard containers, confidential containers, containers with virtual networks, as well as containers ut More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:00:25 Z

To improve the security of Generation 2 (Gen2) virtual machines (VMs) in Azure DevTest Labs, we’re excited to introduce Trusted Launch for Gen2 VMs, now in public preview. Trusted Launch protects against advanced and persistent attack techniques and is co More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:00:25 Z

Virtual network TAP enables customers to continuously stream virtual machine network traffic to a network packet collector or analytics tool. Unlike traditional packet capture solutions that require the deployment of additional agents or network appliance More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:30:43 Z

Cross-tenant customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption. This feature enables individual customers to manage their own keys across different tenancies. In scenarios such as SaaS provider/user configurations, it ensures that the end use More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:15:51 Z

Announcing the public preview 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 security c More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:00:28 Z

We’re introducing service update settings for Azure API Management, giving customers greater control over when and how their instances receive platform updates—including new features, security patches, and reliability improvements. Customers can now:Selec More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:45:38 Z

We’re announcing the open public preview of inbound private endpoint support for the Azure API Management Standard v2 tier. This capability enables private, secure access to the API Management gateway from within your virtual network using Azure Private L More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:45:38 Z

Azure Virtual WAN hub router, also called virtual hub router, acts as a route manager and provides simplification in routing operation within and across virtual hubs. The virtual hub router exposes the ability to peer with it, thereby exchanging routing i More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:30:02 Z

The Azure Firewall integration in Security Copilot helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions. The following capabi More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:00:19 Z

Today, you can control an AKS cluster's egress traffic using Azure Firewall. While this configuration is intended to isolate the cluster to protect sensitive business or customer data, it adds an additional layer of management complexity and cost. AKS n More Information
Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:00:20 Z

You can now develop functions using Python 3.12 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans. Python 3.12 builds on the performance enhancements that were first released with Python 3.11 and adds several performance and language readability featu More Information
Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:00:03 Z

Azure Compute Fleet is now generally available in all regions. Azure Compute Fleet allows users to easily obtain large amounts of compute capacity algorithmically mixing and matching a variety of available and VM sizes suitable to a user's workload, up to More Information
Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:30:27 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of ‘metrics usage insights’, a feature currently designed for Azure Managed Prometheus users which will analyze all metrics ingested in Azure Managed Workspace (AMW), surfacing actionable insights to optimize your observabili More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:00:35 Z