Azure Service Updates

All newly deployed ExpressRoute Virtual Network Gateways will use auto-assigned Public IPs. This change simplifies gateway configuration by removing the requirement to explicitly assign a Public IP address. This model streamlines deployment and improves More Information
Published: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:00:47 Z

Following our 2024 announcement to modernize Azure Resource Manager throttling, we are announcing that Azure Resource Manager will be bringing parity between public and sovereign clouds by the end of 2026. This update will ensure that the same throttling More Information
Published: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:30:26 Z

A Search Job is an asynchronous query that runs on any data in your Log Analytics workspace, including data from the long-term retention period, making the results available for further queries in a new Analytics table within your workspace. We’ve recent More Information
Published: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:30:03 Z

Kubernetes network solutions are challenging to plan due to rapidly evolving business needs. AKS users often face difficulties balancing simplicity, security, and scalability, while environmental changes further increase management costs. Many AKS users n More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:00:59 Z

Announcing the general availability of Summary rules in Log Analytics. Summary rules let you summarize high-ingestion-rate streams across Analytics, Basic, or Auxiliary plans, providing robust analysis, dashboarding, and long-term reporting experiences on More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:15:02 Z

Azure Managed Lustre now supports Virtual Network (VNet) Encryption, enabling encryption of data in transit between Azure Managed Lustre and client virtual machines. This feature helps customers meet compliance requirements for data confidentiality in reg More Information
Published: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:45:55 Z

Application Gateway for Containers, Azure’s application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management solution for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster, now supports Web Application Firewall (WAF) in public preview. Application Gateway for More Information
Published: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:00:45 Z

Azure Firewall now supports ingestion-time transformation of logs in Log Analytics, enabling selective logging and advanced filtering. Why it matters: For customers using Log Analytics to analyse firewall logs, the cost of log ingestion and storage itself More Information
Published: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:45:54 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: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:15:19 Z

The Geo-Replication feature for Azure Event Hubs in the premium and dedicated tier is now generally available. The Event Hubs Geo-Replication feature is one of the options to insulate Azure Event Hubs client applications against outages and disasters, pro More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:15:19 Z

Availability Sets and the Basic load balancer are being deprecated on September 30 2025. AKS now supports, in public preview, a simple Azure CLI command that will automatically migrate your AKS cluster from Availability Sets to the new Virtual Machines no More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:00:35 Z

Virtual Machines node pools support in AKS is now generally available. With Virtual Machines node pools, Azure Kubernetes Services directly manages the provisioning and bootstrapping of every single node. When deploying a workload onto Azure Kubernetes More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:00:35 Z

The max blocked nodes allowed feature for AKS lets you specify how many nodes that fail to drain (blocked nodes) can be tolerated during upgrades or similar operations. This feature only works if the undrainable node behavior property is set; otherwise, t More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:00:35 Z

Extension Manager, the core component responsible for managing the lifecycle of AKS cluster extensions, has been moved from customer worker nodes to the AKS control plane. This transition enhances security, simplifies networking, and reduces operational o More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:00:35 Z

Managing dynamic workloads in Kubernetes can often lead to overprovisioning, idle resources, and additional operational overhead from maintaining pre-configured node pools. To address this, Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP) support in AKS is now generally avai More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:00:17 Z

The Durable Functions PowerShell SDK is now available as a standalone module in the PowerShell Gallery: AzureFunctions.PowerShell.Durable.SDK. This SDK is now generally available and is the recommended approach for authoring Durable Functions apps with Po More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:45:08 Z

When building Durable Functions apps, it’s inevitable that orchestrations need to be changed. You might need to modify or remove activity functions, or maybe even completely rewrite the orchestration logic. Without any functionality built around versionin More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:45:08 Z

Kafka Extension for Azure Functions in Consumption plan is now in public preview. This extension enables you to detect and respond to real time messages streaming into Kafka Topics, or write to a Kafka Topic through the output binding. You can now focus More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:45:08 Z

For customers requiring NFS 3.0 protocol support or POSIX compliance, Azure Blob Storage natively supports NFSv3 (aka BlobNFS). BlobNFS is accessed via the Linux NFS client with our AZNFS mount helper package, which streamlines mounting and reliably conne More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:45:08 Z

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the Indonesia Central region. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:00:23 Z

Trusted Launch support with standard backup policies enables seamless backup configuration for secure VMs, aligning with Trusted Launch becoming the default across VM creation interfaces. This enhancement ensures continuity for automation workflows using More Information
Published: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:15:04 Z

On July 31, 2026, Support for Enterprise Security Package on Azure HDInsight will end, clusters running ESP on HDInsight will start facing service disruptions, as they would be deleted and associated data will be lost. Required Action To avoid potent More Information
Published: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:45:14 Z

Announcing the general availability of Mirroring for Azure Databricks Unity Catalog in Microsoft Fabric—a secure, high-performance integration that provides seamless access to Azure Databricks tables from Fabric. With Fabric and Azure Databricks, we are More Information
Published: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:15:05 Z

Azure Cloud HSM is a FIPS 140-3 Level 3, highly available, single-tenant Hardware Security Module (HSM) service built to meet the most stringent security and compliance requirements. It provides customers with full administrative control over their HSMs, More Information
Published: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:15:41 Z

Starting August 15, 2025, Azure Front Door (classic) and Azure CDN from Microsoft Classic SKUs will no longer support new domain onboarding or profile creation. Additionally, DigiCert is deprecating CNAME-based Domain Control Validation (DCV) on the same More Information
Published: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:45:46 Z

Take advantage of the innovations in Fabric to unify your operational data and analytics in OneLake using real-time intelligence, Copilot-powered Microsoft Power BI, and SQL queries—without having to stitch together separate services. At Microsoft Build 2 More Information
Published: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:45:47 Z

Beginning on September 30, 2025, Azure AI Speaker Recognition will be retired, and your applications will no longer be able to access its APIs.To continue providing speaker verification and/or speaker identification capabilities in your applications, we r More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Backup now supports migration to the enhanced policy for Azure VM backups using standard policy. The migration of VM backups to enhanced policy enables you to schedule multiple backups per day (up to every 4 hours), retain snapshots for longer durat More Information
Published: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:30:24 Z

Azure Automation is pleased to announce a series of releases: General Availability of in-support PowerShell 7.4 and Python 3.10 runbooks Runtime Environment GA, enabling customers to seamlessly upgrade their outdated scripts to supported More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:45:50 Z

Azure File Sync now offers two dedicated, built-in RBAC roles, designed to enhance security and operational efficiency for businesses managing file synchronization across on-premises and cloud environments. These new roles, Azure File Sync Administrator a More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:45:50 Z

Announcing preview support to enable Trusted launch on existing Virtual machine Flex scale set by upgrading the scale set resource to Gen2-Trusted launch. This will help improve the foundational security of existing Azure Virtual machine Flex scale set re More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:45:50 Z

Announcing general availability of support to enable Trusted launch on existing Virtual machine Uniform scale sets by upgrading the scale set resource to Gen2-Trusted launch. This will help improve the foundational security of existing Azure Virtual machi More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:45:50 Z

Announcing public preview for key security enhancement in Azure: Trusted Launch as default (TLaD) for new deployments of Gen2 Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Machine Scale Sets (Scale set) and Azure Compute Gallery (ACG) resources. This will help enhance More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:45:50 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

Azure Firewall enables users to set a maintenance window with a minimum duration of 5 hours, recurring daily, to best accommodate their requirements and minimize unexpected downtime. Firewalls with an associated maintenance configuration will not undergo More Information
Published: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:15:40 Z

Azure Storage Mover—a free, fully managed service— now supports data transfers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 to Azure Blob Storage, ideal for multi-cloud architectures or full migrations to Azure. The new Cloud-to-Cloud migration capability enables si More Information
Published: Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:30:52 Z

PostgreSQL minor versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21 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 Azure Database for More Information
Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:30:06 Z

DNS security policy is now generally available. This release brings visibility of DNS traffic at the VNET level with the flexibility to send logs to storage account, log analytics workspace, or event hubs. It also includes DNS filtering based on lists of More Information
Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:00:55 Z

We are excited to announce that Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) clusters now support secondary users, enabling more flexible and granular access control for your database. Previously, each cluster could have only one user with full privileges, limitin More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:30:38 Z

You can now use PostgreSQL 17 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. With this release, you gain access to the latest PostgreSQL features along with the ability to perform seamless in-place upgrades from previous PostgreSQL versions—all without More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

In early-July 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Convert Azure SQL database to Hyperscale while keeping existing active geo-replication or failover group configurations. Learn more. Try the mssql-python driver with new pl More Information
Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:45:14 Z

In early-July 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Enhanced server audit for Azure SQL Database boosts performance, availability, and reliability. Learn more. Server audit action groups are now available to achieve compli More Information
Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:15:42 Z

Dependency Agent and VM Insights Map will be retired on June 30, 2028 and no longer be supported. With this retirement, all functionality associated with the VM Insights Map and the Dependency Agent will be completely retired. After this date, customer More Information
Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:15:12 Z

Azure Firewall supports the use of Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) in DNAT (Destination Network Address Translation) rules, allowing inbound traffic to be routed to backend resources using domain names instead of static IP addresses. This feature i More Information
Published: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:45:57 Z

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub 25R1 is now available for customers to download and update their Azure Stack Hub deployments. What's New? This release contains a number of new capabilities, updates to application stacks and improvements to Azure App More Information
Published: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:45:29 Z

Azure Files NFS shares now support Encryption in Transit (EiT) using TLS 1.3 to secure all NFS traffic, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authentication. This layer of added security helps enterprises meet end-to-end compliance needs while maintain More Information
Published: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:00:02 Z

We're announcing the General Availability of Query Editor in Azure Metric Explorer through Azure Monitor Workspace (AMW). With this update, customers can directly query Prometheus metrics using PromQL within their Azure Monitor workspace. This empowers us More Information
Published: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:45:57 Z

Two-Way Forest Trusts for Microsoft Entra Domain Services are now Generally Available. This capability allows organizations to create forest trusts between Microsoft Entra Domain Services and on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environmen More Information
Published: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:45:57 Z

Microsoft has announced the General Availability of Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines (VMs), which are powered by the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C processor. These VMs offer significant improvements in CPU performance, memory capacity, and More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:45:52 Z

Customers can now transition existing volumes from platform-managed keys (PMK) to customer-managed keys (CMK) seamlessly. This provides customers flexibility of encryption key lifecycle (renewals, rotations) and additional security for regulated industry More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:00:16 Z

The new Draft & Deploy feature for Azure Firewall Policy introduces a streamlined, two-phase approach to managing firewall policies, significantly reducing deployment time and disruption. Traditionally, any policy update would trigger a full deployment of More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:00:16 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager IP address management feature, a feature designed to enhance your network management, is generally available. In complex network environments, managing IP addresses effectively is essential. This feature centralizes IP planni More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:00:16 Z

Azure Managed Prometheus sends metrics into Azure Monitor Workspace. Customers can now view and monitor issues with ingestion of Prometheus metrics as part of the platform metrics for the Azure Monitor Workspace. Ingestion errors are issues that occurred More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:30:44 Z

Microsoft Cost Management now supports exporting cost and usage data in the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.2 schema. This update introduces key enhancements that help FinOps teams streamline reporting, unify billing data across clouds, More Information
Published: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:15:30 Z

Azure Advisor has improved its VM right-sizing recommendations by extending coverage for newer VM series. This broader SKU coverage across the D, E, and F VM families enables a more comprehensive evaluation of CPU performance, providing your teams with re More Information
Published: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:30:54 Z

Azure SQL now supports vector data types for efficient storage, querying of embeddings, and semantic search, making it an ideal database for AI. Now you can integrate advanced AI capabilities into your applications, resulting in smarter and more responsiv More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Azure Front Door standard and premium profiles now support managed certificate for wildcard domains. Previously, you can only bring your own certificate for wildcard domains on Azure Front Door. This enables customers to secure multiple subdomains with a More Information
Published: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:15:34 Z

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security has reached general availability. This integration supports both Azure Front Door WAF and Azure Application Gateway WAF. By integrating Azure WAF with the Security Copilot More Information
Published: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:15:34 Z

We're announcing significant improvements to OpenTelemetry support in Azure Functions, expanding on the limited preview announced last year. These enhancements deliver better observability, improved performance, and more detailed insights into your func More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk are now available in Malaysia West 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 latency. U More Information
Published: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:30:35 Z

On August 14 2025, Azure Kubernetes Service will no longer support the skip-gpu-driver-install node pool tag to skip automatic driver installation on GPU node pools. Starting on August 14 2025, you will no longer be able to use this node pool tag at AKS n More Information
Published: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:30:15 Z

Ubuntu 24.04 is now available on AKS in Kubernetes version 1.32 and above. Containerd 2.0 is enabled by default. AKS now supports Ubuntu 24.04 as a separate OS SKU, meaning that you can create new node pools or update existing node pools to Ubuntu 24.04 b More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

Azure Linux now also supports AKS LTS starting with Kubernetes version 1.28 and above. This means you can now pair a stable, enterprise-grade node operating system with the extended lifecycle benefits of AKS LTS — providing a consistent, secure, and well- More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

Kubernetes versions 1.31 and 1.32 are now available in all regions as Long term Support (LTS) versions. Every Kubernetes version supported by community is now LTS compatible. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

You can now create and update your Azure SQL Managed Instance with improved speed and precision. The new faster management operations experience enhances elasticity by enabling you to provision any configuration of your instance in under 30 minutes—whethe More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

In mid-June 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Increase the resiliency of your General Purpose Azure SQL Managed Instance using zone redundancy. Improve your operational efficiency with faster management operations of Azur More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

In mid-June 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Data virtualization for Azure SQL Database empowers you to harness the full potential of SQL to query CSV, Parquet, and Delta Lake files stored in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

The migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL now simplifies the process of moving your PostgreSQL databases to Azure with support for PostgreSQL 17. The migration service offers migration options from various PostgreSQL-supported sources, includ More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

A new customizable memory option helps you optimize costs in Azure SQL Managed Instance. Now you can independently configure RAM from the vCores, helping you to save on compute and licensing costs. Previously, increasing memory meant adding more vCores—a More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:00:12 Z

Announcing the expansion of Azure VM Backup disk capacity. VMs can now be protected with individual disks up to 64 TB and a total of 512 TB per VM. This enables large disk support for business continuity and recovery from disasters or ransomware attacks. More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:00:51 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for Virtual Machines with Ultra disks. ASR provides seamless disaster recovery for Virtual Machines across Azure Regions and from on-premises to Azure, helping organizations maintain business con More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:00:51 Z

The first cloud region in Chile is now available with Azure Availability Zones and provides organizations across the globe with access to scalable, highly available, and resilient Microsoft Cloud services, confirming its commitment to promoting cloud tran More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:00:49 Z

Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.17 is now available as an installation option. This latest release brings enhanced capabilities and improved performance for enterprise workloads running on the Azure cloud platform. Additionally, Azure Red Hat OpenShif More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:15:27 Z

After September 30, 2025, new virtual networks will default to requiring explicit outbound connectivity methods instead of having a fallback to default outbound access connectivity.  All virtual machines that require public endpoint access will need to us More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:00:36 Z

On May 12, 2026, 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 App Service More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:00:17 Z

Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, is expanding its integrated diagnostics capabilities with the Public Preview of Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Linux VMs. On-demand Performance Dia More Information
Published: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:00:04 Z

On June 30, 2026, DCsv2-series Azure virtual machines (VMs) will be retired. After that date, they will no longer be available for use. Please migrate your workloads before June 30, 2026. Options: To continue using the enclave-based Intel SGX technolog More Information
Published: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:15:03 Z

Cross-tenant customer managed keys (CMK) for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now in public preview in select regions. Encrypting managed disks with cross-tenant CMK enables encrypting the disk with a CMK hosted in an Azure Key Vault in a different Micr More Information
Published: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:30:06 Z

The Laosv4 series and Lasv4 storage optimized VMs, based on the 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor (Genoa), and the Lsv4-series VMs, based on the 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor (Emerald Rapids), are now generally available. Laosv4 VMs have sizes ranging from 2 More Information
Published: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:00:35 Z

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs running Linux OS is Generally Available. Azure Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational compute security to Azure Generation 2 VMs by enabling Secure Boot and vTPM capabilities. This Generally Availa More Information
Published: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:45:48 Z

Now you can easily connect Azure Databricks with Microsoft Power Apps in several new ways. The new connector enables you to: Support real-time data access without the need for data copying. Create dynamic applications that take advanta More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:15:10 Z

Announcing the private preview of jaz, a new JVM launcher optimized specifically for Azure. This tool provides better default ergonomics for Java applications running in containers and virtual machines, ensuring more efficient use of resources right from More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:30:59 Z

In September 2022, we announced the upcoming retirement of SAP HANA Large Instance (Gen4 and Gen4.5) products on Azure, initially scheduled for 30 June 2025. Based on your valuable feedback and to provide additional time for your migration planning, we ar More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:00:40 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager’s connectivity, security admin, and routing configuration features are now generally available in Azure China. This enables centralized management of connectivity, security rules, and routing across subscriptions at scale and More Information
Published: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:00:05 Z

Container Network Logs in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) introduces a powerful capability for capturing and analyzing network traffic across Kubernetes clusters. By surfacing rich metadata—including source and destination IPs, pod and service names, ports More Information
Published: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:00:09 Z

We are announcing the private preview of profile and route-based Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies on Azure Front Door. Previously, to protect your applications from malicious attacks, a WAF policy had to be linked to a Front Door via one or more Fr More Information
Published: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:30:02 Z

The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Italy North region. With this regional expansion, customers can now store infrequently accessed data in the cost-effective Archive tier while meeting data residency and com More Information
Published: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:00:57 Z

Azure Data Explorer now offers Persistent Graphs in public preview, enabling durable graph data structures that persist beyond individual query executions for enterprise-scale relationship analysis. Unlike transient Graphs which exist only in memory durin More Information
Published: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:00:57 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

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