Azure Service Updates

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

Containerization Assist solves the challenge of manual, error-prone containerization by automating Dockerfile creation and Kubernetes manifest generation. Unlike basic AI coding tools, it is a full containerization platform built on AKS Draft’s proven rea More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:00:03 Z

The ability to share Capacity Reservation Groups (CRGs) with subscriptions is now in Public Preview. Previously, customers could deploy VMs in a Capacity Reservation Group within the same subscription only. On-demand Capacity Reservation Group (CRG) can More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:15:20 Z

Azure Application Gateway introduces two new PowerShell scripts to simplify migration from V1 (Standard or WAF) to V2 (Standard_V2 or WAF_V2) services. As V1 SKUs’ is scheduled to retire by April 2026, we advise migrating early and take advantage of Appl More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:00:28 Z

Microsoft is expanding its digital infrastructure footprint further with a new datacenter region, Southeast Asia 3, planned in Malaysia. This datacenter region will feature Microsoft's most comprehensive and strategic cloud services, designed to support a More Information
Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:15:35 Z

You can now migrate to Azure Linux 3.0 with a new OS SKU enum, ‘AzureLinux3’, in Kubernetes version 1.28-1.36. This new option provides increased control over OS upgrades by decoupling them from Kubernetes upgrades. Customers using LTS version 1.28-1.31 More Information
Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:15:35 Z

You can now develop functions using Python 3.13 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions. Starting with Python 3.13, Functions introduces runtime version control, a new opt-in feature that lets you target specific versions of the Functions Python runt More Information
Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:00:03 Z

Azure Firewall now supports prescaling, a feature that enables admins to provision and reserve capacity units in advance to handle expected traffic loads – such as seasonal peaks or planned business events. This helps to ensure consistent throughput, fast More Information
Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:15:32 Z

The public preview of Confidential Containers on AKS will be shutting down.This feature has been available in preview since 2023, and as part of our commitment to delivering secure and reliable services, we are streamlining our confidential computing offe More Information
Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:15:32 Z

Azure Firewall now includes the observed capacity metric — a new observability signal designed to help administrators understand how their firewalls are scaling in practice. Observed capacity tracks the number of capacity units actively utilized over time More Information
Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:00:55 Z

Announcing the general availability (GA) of automation support for Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) through PowerShell, custom cmdlets, and the Python SDK. Using Azure PowerShell Az.DataMigration or Azure CLI az datamigration, you can migrate databa More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:15:50 Z

You can now enable availability zones for your Azure Functions Flex Consumption apps during both creation and post-deployment. When enabled, instances are automatically distributed across zones, enhancing reliability and fault tolerance. New Region Suppor More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:00:12 Z

Azure Storage Discovery provides enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Storage data estate. Insights that weren’t available before are now at your fingertips. Deeply analyze used capacity and activity, optimize costs, enhance security, and drive oper More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:00:38 Z

SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connect to Azure Databricks is now generally available, enabling secure, bi-directional, zero-copy data sharing between SAP BDC and Azure Databricks using Delta Sharing, so teams can unify SAP and external data for analytics, More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:00:38 Z

Azure Private Link service allows you to make your applications available to your customers privately and securely. The current setup procedure requires you to configure a private link service and place applications behind a standard load balancer. Privat More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:00:38 Z

The F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B series of Azure Virtual Machines will retire on November 15th, 2028. These VMs will no longer be able to be used or purchased after this date.   To ensure any applications and workloads running on these VMs w More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:15:01 Z

To align with evolving compliance and regulatory requirements, Azure is updating the geographyGroup and regionalDisplayName metadata for UK-based regions in the Locations API. These changes will take effect this month, October 2025, and will apply to the More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:00:24 Z

Multiple new Azure Event Grid features have reached General Availability, supporting real-time telemetry, automation, and hybrid workloads.Features now in General Availability:MQTT OAuth 2.0 Authentication Authenticate MQTT clients using JSON Web Tokens ( More Information
Published: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:15:14 Z

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Placement Score, a feature that allows you to assess the likelihood of deployment success for your Spot virtual machines. Spot availability can vary across different combinations of Azure loc More Information
Published: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:00:50 Z

Announcing the General Availability of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) support for Virtual Machines with Ultra Disks. This release enables organizations to replicate, failover, and failback virtual machines with Ultra Disks across Azure regions with minimal imp More Information
Published: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:30:39 Z

Azure API Management now supports environmental sustainability features in public preview. These capabilities help organizations minimize the carbon footprint of their API infrastructure by making API traffic and policy behavior carbon-aware.With these ne More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:30:27 Z

You can now try PostgreSQL 18 in public preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. PostgreSQL 18 introduces new performance, scalability, and developer productivity improvements. With this preview, you get early access to the latest commu More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:00:05 Z

Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of the Azure Custom Vision service. Microsoft will provide full support for all existing Azure Custom Vision customers until 9/25/2028. During this support window, customers are encouraged to begin planning More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:00:05 Z

We are announcing the release of Azure Integrated HSM, a Hardware Security Module (HSM) cache and crypto accelerator designed to enhance the security and performance of cryptographic operations in virtual machines. For customers who heavily rely on crypto More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:30:40 Z

You can now access code samples for Entra ID token refresh using Python and .NET in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. These samples are designed to help you securely manage authentication tokens when connecting to your PostgreSQL database with Entra ID, ensu More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:00:46 Z

You can now configure a custom port (25001–26000) during server creation for both public and private access-enabled servers—enabling you to integrate more easily with existing applications and improve alignment with security postures. By default, MySQL se More Information
Published: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:30:09 Z

Azure Firewall in Virtual WAN secured hubs now supports the use of customer-provided public IP addresses. This capability enables organizations to bring their own public IP addresses when deploying Azure Firewall in a secured Virtual WAN hub, providing gr More Information
Published: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:00:43 Z

Firmware analysis enabled by Azure Arc is now generally available. Firmware analysis brings deep visibility into the software that powers IoT/OT and network devices—systems that often operate as “black boxes” with limited insight into their security postu More Information
Published: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:15:20 Z

As part of a strategic review of our AI portfolio, Azure AI Health Insights service and the Clinical Trials Matcher and Radiology Insights models will be retired on December 31, 2025, and will no longer be available for use or integration. As a result, e More Information
Published: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:45:35 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of Vaulted Backup for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)!Azure Backup now supports vaulted protection for ADLS, delivering secure, off-site backups that ensure business continuity and compliance—even in cases of accidental deleti More Information
Published: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:23 Z

Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise and Enterprise Flash tiers is retiring on March 31, 2027 and we recommend you migrate your workloads to use Azure Managed Redis by that date. Starting April 1, 2026, users will not be able to create new instances of Azure More Information
Published: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:15:04 Z

Azure Cache for Redis (Basic, Standard and Premium) will be retired on September 30, 2028 and we recommend you migrate your workloads to use Azure Managed Redis before September 30, 2028. Azure Cache for Redis instances that are not migrated by September More Information
Published: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:15:04 Z

On September 30, 2026, we’ll end support for Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) on Windows nodes in AKS. To ensure your setup continues to receive support, security updates, and deployment compatibility, please explore alternative options, such as using N More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:30:21 Z

Azure Firewall Policy now supports up to 600 IP Groups per policy, up from the previous limit of 200. This enhancement enables users to: Reduce rule complexity by replacing long lists of IPs with more well-organized IP Groups, making rule sets easier to m More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:30:20 Z

Azure NetApp Files short-term clones enable space-efficient, instant read/write access to data by creating temporary thin clones from existing volume snapshots, eliminating the need for full data copies and enabling capacity savings. Ideal for software de More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:30:18 Z

Legacy Authentication in Azure Monitor - Container Insights will be retired on September 30, 2026. Legacy authentication has been replaced by the more secure Managed Identity authentication method. Migrating to Managed Identity also gives customers acces More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:00:16 Z

The AI toolchain operator add-on (KAITO) is now generally available on AKS, streamlining the deployment of AI inference and fine-tuning workflows using popular open-source frameworks. With vLLM as the default inference engine, this addon reduces managemen More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:00:49 Z

PostgreSQL minor versions 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, 13.22, and 18 Beta 3 are now supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. These minor version upgrades are automatically performed as part of the monthly planned maintenance in Azu More Information
Published: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:45:03 Z

In 2017, we launched Azure Managed Disks. Since then, we've been enhancing our capabilities. We will begin deprecating unmanaged disks on September 30, 2022, because Azure Managed Disks now have full capabilities of unmanaged disks and other advancements. More Information
Published: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:00:56 Z

After September 30, 2026, customers will no longer be able to access the service. Please see our retirement documentation for more details. Recommended action If your goal is to monitor on-premises workloads, please transition to Operations Manager on-pre More Information
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:15:20 Z

Availability Sets and the basic load balancer are being deprecated on September 30 2025. AKS now supports, a simple Azure CLI command that will automatically migrate your AKS cluster from Availability Sets to the new Virtual Machines node pool and upgrade More Information
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:45:25 Z

Cross-tenant Customer-Managed Keys (CMK) for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption is now generally available, empowering customers to manage their own encryption keys across different Azure tenancies. This capability enhances control and flexibility in mu More Information
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:15:04 Z

Due to changes in underlying infrastructure, the database connections feature of Static Web Apps this feature (currently in public preview), will be deprecated effective November 30, 2025. To avoid issues in deployments using this feature you can refacto More Information
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:15:04 Z

Azure NetApp Files now supports integration with FreeIPA, OpenLDAP, and Red Hat Directory Server—available in public preview. This LDAP integration enables secure LDAP over TLS connectivity for NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 volumes, allowing enterprises to use these More Information
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:01:01 Z

Due to its limited scalability and suboptimal performance, support for SSTP will be phased out. We strongly recommend transitioning to IKEv2 or OpenVPN, which offer significantly enhanced capabilities—including support for up to 10,000 connections and 10 More Information
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:01:01 Z

As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, we are announcing the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts. This includes legacy blob stor More Information
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:15:21 Z

Azure Traffic Manager has introduced new health check infrastructure to improve the resiliency and scalability of the service. This infrastructure is now available, and customers are being moved onto the new infrastructure. The rollout of the new probing More Information
Published: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:36:44 Z

The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) now brings SQL database in Fabric directly into your development workflow. With the new Fabric connectivity option in the Connection Dialog, you can sign in using Microsoft Entra ID, browse your Fabric More Information
Published: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:30:57 Z

On September 30, 2026, Azure Machine data labeling will be retired. Please transition to 3rd party data labeling providers by 30 September 2026. From today to September 30, 2026, you can continue to use data labelling without disruption. On September 30, More Information
Published: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:30:57 Z

On September 30, 2028, we’ll end support for Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) on Linux nodes in AKS. To avoid disruptions, migrate AKS clusters running Linux nodes from NPM to Cilium Network Policy by that date.      Transitioning to Cilium Network Poli More Information
Published: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:15:18 Z

In late September 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Protection from ransomware attacks to long-term retention (LTR) backups via immutability. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:00:52 Z

The Soft Delete feature in Azure Compute Gallery lets you recover accidentally deleted images within a 7-day retention period. This grace period gives users time to restore any images that were mistakenly deleted. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:30:35 Z

Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30, 2026. After this date, Service Connector (preview) will no longer be supported on Azure Container Apps. If you created service connections using the Azure Portal, your e More Information
Published: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:30:02 Z

On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure will retire the Standard_NV4as_v4, Standard_NV4ahs_v4,Standard_NV8as_v4, Standard_NV8ahs_v4,Standard_NV16as_v4, Standard_NV16ahs_v4, Standard_NV32as_v4, and Standard_NV32ahs_v4 virtual machines (VMs) in the NVv4-seri More Information
Published: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:15:32 Z

Starting October 1, 2025, the Spark native connector will be officially retired. This decision is based on internal analysis indicating low usage, high maintenance costs, and potential security vulnerabilities. To ensure continued support and improved sec More Information
Published: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:45:49 Z

We are announcing that Azure Resource Manager now offers enhanced integration with Azure Monitor Metrics for your subscriptions! You can now have deeper visibility and more granular monitoring capabilities for your Resource Manager operations.You can acce More Information
Published: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:30:44 Z

Microsoft is announcing the retirement of the AV36 node type on June 30, 2028. The terms of your current AV36 Reserved Instance (RI) are not affected by this announcement. At this time, we recommend that you review your current AV36 RI expiration timeline More Information
Published: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:30:39 Z

Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of Entity Linking from Azure AI Language. We recommend considering a replacement solution; Named Entity Recognition from Azure AI Language also supports entity identification. Microsoft will provide full supp More Information
Published: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:00:37 Z

The Azure Functions Linux Consumption hosting plan is being retired. Customers are advised to migrate to the Flex Consumption plan, which offers faster scaling, advanced networking, cold start mitigation, and concurrency control. To identify affected reso More Information
Published: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:30:29 Z

We recommend upgrading from BlobFuse v1 to BlobFuse v2,as all future enhancements and innovations related to Azure Blob Storage file system access will be focused exclusively on BlobFuse v2. Please note that support for BlobFuse v1 will be discontinued ef More Information
Published: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:00:55 Z

Beginning on September 30th 2025, Azure App Service on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes will be retired, and customers will no longer be able to install the extension.To continue to host your application workloads, we request you migrate to other solutions su More Information
Published: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:45:02 Z

Flexible service level allows you to independently configure storage capacity and throughput, optimizing costs and performance by right-sizing based on your needs. This new service level avoids overprovisioning by supporting a customizable throughput whic More Information
Published: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:00:08 Z

The Insights blade in AKS has been renamed to Monitor and relocated from the Monitoring section to the top level of the table of contents for increased visibility. You’ll continue to have access to the same monitoring data and features—there are no change More Information
Published: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:00:02 Z

Planning the next move for your PostgreSQL workloads just got easier. Azure Migrate now enables you to discover and assess PostgreSQL resources across VMware, Hyper‑V, physical servers, and other cloud environments. Azure Migrate provides a centralized hu More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:00:24 Z

You can now manually trigger on-demand backups in Azure DB for MySQL - Flexible Server instead of solely relying on the system-initiated automated backups and schedule. As part of August 2025 release, you can delete on-demand backups that are no longer ne More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:00:24 Z

Azure Disk Encryption will be retired on September 15, 2028 and we recommend you transition to Encryption at Host by that date. Alternate disk encryption solutions such as Encryption At Host and CVM OS disk encryption offer broader operating system supp More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:45:14 Z

Announcing the General Availability 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 maintai More Information
Published: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:30:13 Z

On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure will retire the Standard_NV12s_v3, Standard_NV12hs_v3, Standard_NV24s_v3, Standard_NV24ms_v3, Standard_NV32ms_v3, and Standard_NV48s_v3 virtual machines (VMs) in the NVv3-series virtual machines (VMs). To avoid any d More Information
Published: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:00:30 Z

App modernization is essential for enterprises to stay secure, scalable and innovative—but traditionally it requires a lot of effort that can be redundant and complex. With GitHub Copilot app modernization, developers can now stay focused on innovation wh More Information
Published: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:00:40 Z

Azure Application Gateway supports use of Server-sent events in general availability, 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 cl More Information
Published: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:00:22 Z

Announcing the General availability of vaulted backup for Azure Files shares premium! Azure Backup brings vaulted protection to Azure Files shares premium, to ensure business continuity and compliance, even in the face of accidental deletion, malicious a More Information
Published: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:15:14 Z

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager has a new auto-upgrade channel that allows you to set a target Kubernetes minor version. Using this channel means clusters on the target Kubernetes minor continue to receive only patch updates until the minor reaches the end More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:30:11 Z

Container Insights is Azure Monitor’s solution for collecting logs from your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters. Announcing the general availability of High scale mode in Container Insights to help customers achieve a higher log collection throughput fr More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:30:10 Z

Announcing the Azure Managed Service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal at no additional cost. This integration marks a major milestone in our mission to simplify observability reducing the administrative overhea More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:00:39 Z

Azure Data Box Next Gen is now Generally Available in NEW regions including: India, Qatar, South Africa and Korea. With this new addition, we now have: Both Azure Data box 120TB and 525 TB generally available (GA) in the US, UK, Europe, US Gov, More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:00:46 Z

Broadcom announced changes to their VMware licensing policies. The change now requires new customers to bring their own portable VCF subscriptions when using hyperscaler platforms. Our current Azure VMware Solution (AVS) customers can continue to operate More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:45:29 Z

Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the new DCa/ECa v6 series AMD based confidential virtual machines (VMs) in the UAE North and Korea Central regions with 4th generation AMD EPYC™ processors. Featuring Secure Encrypted Virtualization – Se More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:00:07 Z

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager update runs now support approval gates. Gates can be placed before and after update groups and stages and provide additional control over the flow of the update run. Gates allow you to either manually approve the update run More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:30:18 Z

Distributed tracing V2 for Durable Functions introduces a robust and comprehensive tracing model that enables developers to correlate operations in orchestrations, activities, and durable entities. This capability is particularly useful for Durable Functi More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:00:27 Z

Azure Functions now supports .NET 10 in Public Preview. To use .NET 10, adjust the target framework in your Functions project, and update references to Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Sdk to version 2.0.5 or later. .NET 10 projects can be deployed to app More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:15:04 Z

The Azure Firewall Manager experience has been expanded and rebranded as the Network Security Hub—a centralized interface that brings together Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and DDoS Protection. This change is part of a broader effort to More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:30:45 Z

Databricks One in Azure Databricks delivers a unified, simplified experience that brings together data engineering, analytics, and AI development in a single, governed platform. By integrating collaborative workflows, enterprise-grade governance, and perf More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:30:45 Z

Announcing support for confidential computing in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. Azure Confidential Computing encrypts data in hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs), processing data only when the cloud environment has been ve More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:45:39 Z

We support customer choice, including the choice to transfer your data between Azure and environments outside of Azure. Azure now offers at-cost data transfer for customers and CSP partners in Europe transferring data via the internet between Azure to ano More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:30:32 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service on VMware (preview) will be retired on March 16, 2026. Please transition to a supported Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Local by that date if needed. We encourage you to transition to Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Local befo More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:45:51 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: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:45:04 Z

Kubernetes is a game-changer for modern apps, but it’s often slowed by operational complexity and a steep learning curve. Many teams spend too much time managing clusters, tuning infrastructure, and troubleshooting security or reliability risks when they’ More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:30:21 Z

Azure Container Storage (ACStor) v2.0.0 is now generally available. This release delivers up to 7× higher IOPS and 4× lower latency on local NVMe compared to v1.3.1, making Container Storage v2.0.0 the fastest storage available for Azure Kubernetes Servic More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:30:41 Z

We are announcing the retirement of Azure Databricks Standard Tier. Azure subscriptions will no longer support creation of Azure Databricks Standard Tier workspaces after April 1st, 2026. Starting October 1st, 2026, all Azure Databricks Standard tier wo More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:15:32 Z

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving security and performance, we will be retiring support for hsmPlatform 1 keys, effective September 15, 2028. To ensure the continued security and functionality of your operations, we recommend transitioning to More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:30:04 Z

Azure Application Gateway V2 now supports enabling dedicated connections from Application Gateway to backend server. By default, Application Gateway reuses the idle backend connections to optimize the resource usage of TCP connections helping both the gat More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:45:57 Z

Azure Application Gateway V2 announces general availability of customer-controlled backend TLS validations. When the HTTPS protocol is selected in the Backend Settings of Azure Application Gateway, by default, it performs all validations in the TLS handsh More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:30:18 Z

Choosing the right Azure SQL service can be challenging. To make this easier, you can now visit the Azure SQL hub, a new home for everything related to Azure SQL in the Azure portal. Whether you’re new to Azure SQL or an experienced user, the hub helps yo More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:30:18 Z

Azure Linux 2.0 on AKS will be retired on November 30, 2025, please transition to Azure Linux 3.0 by that date. Azure Linux 2.0 has been replaced by the newer supported version Azure Linux 3.0. We encourage you to transition to Azure Linux 3.0 prior to More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:45:52 Z

Announcong that Azure App Service now supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), enabling enterprise customers to deploy Java workloads with greater flexibility and cost efficiency.If you’ve evaluated Azure App More Information
Published: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:30:17 Z

You can now create a replica cluster of your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) in the same region where the primary cluster is hosted. This replica is continuously synchronized with the primary (read-write) cluster, ensuring data consistency. Same-regio More Information
Published: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:45:05 Z

Now you can streamline identity lifecycle operations using Azure Databricks automatic identity management. With this new, generally available capability, you can automate user provisioning and deprovisioning through native integration with Microsoft Entra More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:30:10 Z

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the Austria East and Chile Central regions. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:30:10 Z

You can now use self-healing tools to proactively resolve common server issues—without opening a support case. The new Self-Heal feature in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server, is now available in Public Preview. Whether your server is unresponsive More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:30:10 Z

To help you manage your MySQL upgrade timelines with greater flexibility, we’re introducing Extended Support for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server, starting in spring 2026. If your server is running on a MySQL version that has reached the end of More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:30:10 Z

Announcing the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server version 8.4. With this release, you can now create new MySQL 8.4 servers for your production workloads and benefit from the latest features, performance enhancements, and se More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:30:10 Z

Data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) cluster is automatically and seamlessly encrypted with keys managed by Microsoft. Now, in addition to this service-managed key encryption (SMK), you have the option to add another layer of security b More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:30:10 Z

To simplify the experience of creating and managing file shares in Azure, Azure Files now supports a file share-centric management model offered by the Microsoft.FileShares resource provider. With this update, file shares become top-level resources in Azu More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:30:42 Z

Announcing the addition of the D192 size to the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series Virtual Machines families, powered by the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor. Dsv6-series virtual machines use Azure managed disks only, while D More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:15:43 Z

The general purpose Dasv7 and Dalsv7, memory-optimized Easv7, and compute-optimized Fasv7, Falsv7, Famsv7 VMs, are now available in preview with and without local disk support. These VMs are now available in the East US 2, North Europe, and West US 3 regi More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:45:15 Z

The Multitenant Managed Logging feature in Container Insights is now generally available, offering customers who operate shared AKS clusters the ability to segregate container logs by team. This functionality enables teams to independently manage and acce More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:30:49 Z

Last August, we introduced Azure App Testing, a unified testing service that brings together two powerful testing capabilities—Azure Load Testing and Microsoft Playwright Testing—to help developers and QA teams run large-scale functional and performance t More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:15:09 Z

As part of our ongoing commitment to improve customer experience, we continuously evaluate our product portfolio to ensure it meets the evolving needs of our customers. To better align with current usage patterns and future investments in disk performance More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:00:36 Z

We’re adding Graph Query Language (GQL) support to KQL graph semantics, aligned with the ISO standard. This update allows you to run GQL queries on any Fabric Eventhouse or Azure Data Explorer, making it easier to work with graph data using an industry-st More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:00:02 Z

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in two new regions: UAE Central and US Gov Texas, bringing enterprise-grade managed OpenShift capabilities to customers in the Middle East and southwestern United States. These expansions provide local de More Information
Published: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:15:48 Z

Azure NetApp Files migration assistant (with SnapMirror) provides efficient and cost-effective data migration leveraging ONTAP's built-in replication engine for seamless transition from on-premises or CVO/other cloud providers to Azure NetApp Files (ANF). More Information
Published: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:45:57 Z

Azure CDN will be retired on December 1, 2025 in China. We recognize that this change may affect your operations, and we are committed to supporting you throughout the transition. Required action: To avoid service disruption: Please migrate to Azure Front More Information
Published: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:45:50 Z

You can now develop functions using Python 3.13 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions. Starting with Python 3.13, Functions introduces runtime version control, a new opt-in feature that lets you target specific versions of the Functions Python runti More Information
Published: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:15:38 Z

Announcing .NET 10 Preview is now available on Azure App Service for both Windows and Linux! Whether you’re building modern web apps with ASP.NET, experimenting with Blazor, or exploring the simplicity of Minimal APIs, you can now take advantage of the la More Information
Published: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:15:34 Z

Support for multiple address prefixes in a subnet is now generally available in Azure Virtual Networks. Azure Virtual Network subnets supported only a single address prefix, which limited the scale out for certain applications when the address space was e More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:00:07 Z

Announcing general availability support to enable Trusted launch on existing Azure Gen1 VMs by upgrading the Gen1 VM to Gen2-Trusted launch. This will help improve the foundational security of existing Azure VMs. Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational co More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:15:11 Z

You can now take advantage of near-zero-downtime maintenance for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with high availability (HA) enabled. This capability is now generally available and is supported by our new HA architecture based on a dedicated Az More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:30:46 Z

Announcing the general availability of the Azure Logic Apps Standard Automated Test Framework, enabling developers to build, test, and maintain enterprise-grade workflows with confidence. The framework allows teams to create unit tests for workflow defini More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Announcing the general availability of Custom Code support in Azure Logic Apps Standard with .NET 8. This release enables developers to embed .NET 8 code directly in workflows, unlocking advanced logic scenarios, code reuse, and seamless integration with More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Announcing the general availability of Business Process Tracking in Azure Logic Apps (Standard). This capability provides business stakeholders with timely insights by tracking key data properties throughout your workflows in production environments. With More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Announcing gateway-level metrics and native autoscaling for Azure API Management v2 tiers: Basic v2, Standard v2, and Premium v2. These updates give you deeper visibility into gateway performance and enable automatic scaling based on real-time usage. Gate More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Announcing the general availability of the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model, offering customers unprecedented flexibility and control over where their integration workloads run. You can now host Logic Apps on customer-managed infrastructure, including o More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Announcing the public preview of Organizational Templates in Azure Logic Apps. This feature empowers teams to author, share, and reuse automation patterns within their own organization, helping standardize integration practices at scale. Organizational Te More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Announcing the public preview of the Confluent Kafka Connector in Azure Logic Apps (Standard). This new connector allows you to both send and receive messages between Logic Apps and Confluent Kafka. Confluent Kafka is a distributed streaming platform wide More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Announcing the general availability of workspaces and workspace gateways in the Premium v2 tier of Azure API Management. (Note: Premium v2 remains in preview at the time of this announcement.) Workspaces enable organizations to manage and govern APIs at s More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

We’re announcing expanded support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Azure API Management with two new capabilities: MCP in v2 SKUs and the ability to expose existing MCP-compliant servers. These updates make it easier to connect APIs and AI agents w More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Introducing the redesigned Data Mapper UX in the Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. The new experience, which was in public preview, becomes the default for creating and editing maps. This release is a More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:15:04 Z

Microsoft is announcing the retirement of Confidential VM SKUs DCesv5, DCedsv5, ECesv5, ECedsv5 SKUs, which will be succeeded by the DCesv6 and ECesv6 SKUs.  We recently announced the public preview of our next-generation Confidential VM sizes: DCesv6 and More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:45:30 Z

Azure CDN which is currently provided in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (“Azure China”) will be retired on December 1, 2025. This change affects all customers currently using Azure CDN in China. Azure CDN is built on top of local CDN providers’ POPs More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:00:44 Z

Playwright Workspaces capability in Azure App Testing is now generally available. Playwright Workspaces enables you to run end-to-end tests with high parallelization across multiple browsers and devices, to validate the functionality of your applications More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:00:13 Z

Ultra Disks are the most performant block storage option for Azure virtual machines offering consistent low sub-millisecond latency, extremely high performance. This makes Ultra disk ideal for a broad spectrum of the most demanding enterprise production w More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:00:13 Z

Ultra Disks are the most performant block storage option for Azure virtual machines offering consistent low sub-millisecond latency, extremely high performance. This makes Ultra disk ideal for a broad spectrum of the most demanding enterprise production w More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:00:13 Z

Ultra Disks are the most performant block storage option for Azure virtual machines offering consistent low sub-millisecond latency, extremely high performance. This makes Ultra disk ideal for a broad spectrum of the most demanding enterprise production w More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:00:13 Z

The new Premium v4 offering provides faster processors, NVMe local storage, and memory-optimized options, running on the latest Azure hardware. Premium v4 is available for both Windows and Linux customers, and includes sizes starting from 1 vCPU and 4GB o More Information
Published: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:00:58 Z

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium are now generally available in the Azure China regions (China North 3 and China East 3), operated by 21Vianet. With this release, customers in China can deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance applications usin More Information
Published: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:00:54 Z

The public preview of Entra ID group login using user credentials, now available on newly provisioned servers. This anticipated feature simplifies user management and improves security within the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server environments. More Information
Published: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:45:15 Z

In late August 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL and SQL Server: Easily spin up local SQL Server containers. Now generally available, the local SQL Server container enables container creation in the MSSQL extension for V More Information
Published: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:45:15 Z

In late August 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Azure SQL Database now offers a replication lag metric, providing real-time visibility into the recovery point objective (RPO) when Geo-DR is enabled. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:00:53 Z

Announcing that Azure DMS now supports schema migration for Azure SQL Database—making your cloud migration journey smoother and more efficient than ever. With just a single checkbox, you can now migrate missing schema objects along with your data. This i More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:00:53 Z

Now you can add physical shards as your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) clusters grow. Thanks to the elasticity of compute and storage configurations in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore), a single physical shard (node) typically delivers the desired More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:00:53 Z

To align with security best practices, Entra ID and RBAC support is now generally available for the following APIs for Azure Storage: Get Account InformationGet Container ACLSet Container ACLGet Queue ACLSet Queue ACLGet Table ACLSet Table ACL To learn mo More Information
Published: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:45:29 Z

Announcing the public preview of custom block response code and body for WAF integrated with Application Gateway.Azure WAF integrated with Application Gateway now supports customizable response status codes and bodies for blocked requests, enabling greate More Information
Published: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:00:18 Z

Azure CNI Overlay with Application Gateway for Containers and AGIC is now generally available.Azure CNI Overlay enables AKS clusters to use pod IPs from a separate CIDR, conserving VNet IP space and simplifying multi-cluster deployments. Paired with Appli More Information
Published: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:00:15 Z