Azure Service Updates

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs are retiring on September 30th, 2025 More Information
Published: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:28 Z

Migrate your AKS cluster from Pod Security Policy to Pod Security Admission More Information
Published: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:21 Z

Please note that Azure Object Anchors (AOA) will be retired on May 20, 2024. Object anchoring capability is generally available (GA) in Dynamics 365 Guides. More Information
Published: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:15 Z

Please note that Azure Spatial Anchors (ASA) will be retired on November 20, 2024. More Information
Published: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:06 Z

TLS 1.3 will be enabled for Availability Tests in Azure Monitor Application Insights starting on 4 December 2023 More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:37:01 Z

Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 runbooks (General Availability). More Information
Published: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:12 Z

The general availability of Defender for APIs, a new offering as part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, that helps organizations prevent, detect, and respond to API threats with an integrated cloud security context. More Information
Published: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:00:07 Z

You can now create and manage Azure Managed Prometheus rule groups, alert rules and recording rules in the Azure Portal More Information
Published: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:27:59 Z

Extended support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends 12 November 2024 - upgrade your apps to .NET 8 (LTS) More Information
Published: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:00:13 Z

Extended support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024 - upgrade your apps to .NET 8 (LTS) More Information
Published: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:00:04 Z

Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:00:16 Z

You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:20 Z

Transfer your database schema from source to target Azure SQL DB using DMS from the Azure Portal. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:19 Z

You can ingest events in protobuf format into Azure Stream Analytics using a built-in deserializer. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:19 Z

The new Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) allows you to perform seamless migrations from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL Targets using DMS. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:18 Z

Support for SKU recommendation in the Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio is in GA. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:18 Z

Pgvector 0.5.1, includes support for HSNW indexing, l1_distance, and sum aggregates since the prior supported version 0.4.0 More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:17 Z

Enhance your database monitoring with the new server log feature for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, offering customizable retention and straightforward downloading for operational excellence. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:17 Z

We are announcing the general availability of the time travel capability in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and MongoDB API. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:16 Z

We are announcing the general availability of the CDC capability from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:15 Z

Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:00:03 Z

Default and individual user/group quotas allows you to stay in control of capacity consumption on volumes; the feature is now Generally Available (GA) More Information
Published: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:00:03 Z

Standard network features for azure NetApp files are now available in the US Gov regions More Information
Published: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:00:02 Z

Azure Static Web Apps now supports .NET 8, enabling you to build and deploy frontend and full-stack .NET 8 web applications. With .NET 8 support, you can build and deploy Blazor WebAssembly apps to Azure Static Web Apps. You can also deploy .NET 8 managed functions to your Azure Static Web Apps. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:00:02 Z

Encryption of data in Backup vaults using Customer Managed Keys is now in Public Preview. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:00:01 Z

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Italy North region. More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:13:36 Z

Azure Monitor Application Insights Node.js customers can enable real user monitoring (RUM) with a simple configuration. More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:11:44 Z

Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:00:03 Z

Use your preferred Socket.IO APIs, while letting Azure handle messages and scaling for you More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:00:02 Z

The Syslog collection feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is generally available. More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:00:29 Z

All records in cost and usage file will now match the part numbers in an invoice for EA customers. This will allow leveraging the part number to match invoice and cost details data. Please note that when comparing charges, refunds for purchases done in past billing periods should be excluded. More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:00:24 Z

All records in cost and usage file will now match the part numbers in an invoice for EA customers. This will allow leveraging the part number to match invoice and cost details data. Please note that when comparing charges, refunds for purchases done in past billing periods should be excluded. More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:00:21 Z

GA release for bulk delete support for Azure Digital Twins More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:00:11 Z

The ability to encrypt health data in the cloud with customer-managed keys using Azure Health Data Services is generally available. More Information
Published: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:00:02 Z

You can now save up to 40.5% on Microsoft Fabric capacity when you commit to one-year reservations. More Information
Published: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 23:00:09 Z

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, the latest version of RHEL 9 from Red Hat is now generally available on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Availability of RHEL 9.3 for VMs on Azure is a step forward towards offering a more scalable, flexible Linux platform that pairs container innovation with a strong security posture. More Information
Published: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:08:38 Z

Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity across ARC enabled endpoints as sources and destinations More Information
Published: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:00:05 Z

Private subnet is a new feature that allows you to create subnets that prevent the creation of insecure default outbound public IP address creation More Information
Published: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00:05 Z

You can now easily bring existing VMs to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set with Flexible Orchestration Mode to take advantage of the scaling orchestrations offered by scale sets. You can now detach a VM from the scale set for isolation and troubleshooting. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:00:12 Z

Data Mapper is Azure Logic Apps' new visual data transformation tool. Now, in general availability, as a Visual Studio Code extension, it can create and edit maps between source and target schemas. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:00:39 Z

Get improved performance and higher reliability for your memory-optimized workloads with the public preview of the new generation Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:00:39 Z

Currently, in public preview starting from version 2.80.0, the installation process of the VS Code Extension for Azure Logic Apps Standard will be significantly simplified. The extension will automatically identify and install any required dependencies, such as other extensions or frameworks. This will also encompass all the necessary extensions, including the C# extension essential for debugging. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:00:37 Z

We are also excited to announce the general availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard). This new capability gives you a simplified experience for discovering insights about your Logic App workflows and more control over filtering events at the source and reducing your storage costs. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:00:37 Z

We are pleased to announce the general availability of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (standard). This capability allows customers to extend their low-code solutions with the power of custom code. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:00:29 Z

We are excited to introduce a new Azure service that provides unified experience to help customers effectively manage and monitor their integration resources. This service comprises two core components: the Azure Integration Environment and Business Process Tracking, both currently in public preview. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:00:22 Z

Bringing the power of AI to Azure Logic Apps for the first time, this workflow assistant answers any questions you have about Azure Logic Apps from directly within the designer. Currently in public preview, this chat interface provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring you to navigate documentation or search online forums. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:00:12 Z

Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for PostgreSQL- Flexible server. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:38 Z

Azure Ultra Disk Storage now provides maximum throughput of up to 10 GBps and IOPS of up to 400K IOPS per disk. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:38 Z

The stateful entities feature for Durable Functions is now available for .NET apps on the isolated worker model. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:37 Z

Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest update, you can deploy Azure Container Storage on Azure Linux container host. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:37 Z

You can now request for access to try out Flex Consumption, a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:36 Z

Azure IoT Operations is now in Public Preview. Azure IoT Operations addresses an enterprise’s fundamental needs, but also wrangles edge data to generate local insights and brings interoperability and scalability to IoT solutions. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:22 Z

Partitoned namespaces for Azure Service Bus, allowing the use of partitioning for the premium messaging tier, is now generally available. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:15 Z

You now have increased visibility and transparency into cluster costs. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:07 Z

You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:00 Z

You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:00:52 Z

You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:00:51 Z

You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:00:37 Z

You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:00:36 Z

You can now more easily deploy machine learning (ML) models on AKS using the Kubernetes AI toolchain operator. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:00:22 Z

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is now generally available and offers an update orchestration feature so you can create an update strategy once and reference it in multiple update runs. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:00:11 Z

The Azure confidential ledger Basic SKU gated preview will allow select customers using other Azure products to uplevel integrity protection by storing periodic data, blobs, and application signatures in Azure confidential ledger. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:02:01 Z

The general availability of Azure Chaos Studios provides a fully managed experimentation platform for discovering challenging issues through experiment templates, dynamic targets and a more guided user interface. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:59 Z

Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:57 Z

We're thrilled to introduce the rebranding and feature enhancements of Azure API Management's Credential Manager, formerly known as Authorizations. The updated Credential Manager now boasts additional capabilities for user-delegated permissions. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:57 Z

Deploy and build decentralized governance applications with granular confidentiality amongst members. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:56 Z

Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs is open for preview. Please use the sign-up at aka.ms/accgpusignup for your onboarding request. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:55 Z

AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE) More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:54 Z

Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:54 Z

Storage customers will now be able to use a marketplace application to connect their immutable blobs with enhanced integrity protection from Azure confidential ledger. Signatures from blobs will be stored and validated, as needed. In addition, the Azure confidential ledger portal experience has been enhanced to allow exploring transactions and retrieving cryptographic proof. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:53 Z

The disk integrity tool for confidential VMs is now in preview. This enables you to measure and attest that your OS disk is launched as expected. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:52 Z

Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:52 Z

RHEL 9.3 is now available in public preview as the guest OS for all AMD-based confidential VMs. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:51 Z

Three features now available in public preview enable you to choose which models/datasets are right for you without having to run any job, seamlessly read/write data from a Fabric datastore; and Model-as-a-Service with inference APIs and hosted fine-tuning. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:50 Z

AMD confidential VMs now in Italy North, Germany West Central, UAE North. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:50 Z

Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:49 Z

Today, we are excited to announce the Azure AI Advantage customer offer. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:48 Z

Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:48 Z

Managed online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance allows near real-time database replication and bidirectional online failover to Azure and back. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:47 Z

The November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now available for all subscription types for instances running in new subnets. It includes faster provisioning, zone redundancy, start/stop and support for distributed transactions. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:47 Z

Public Preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2023. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:46 Z

VBS enclaves in Azure SQL Database brings the benefits of secure enclaves, rich confidential queries, and in-place cryptographic operations, to all Azure SQL Database offerings, independent from the underlying hardware. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:46 Z

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2023. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:45 Z

The Azure SQL Migration, an Azure Data Studio extension powered by Azure Database Migration Service, now has a new improved UI experience. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:44 Z

New preview features available including vector search, turnkey major version upgrades, turnkey replication, and write-through cache! More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:44 Z

Benefit from long term data retention and improved compliance using Azure Backup. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:43 Z

Leverage integrated Azure AI services to build intelligent apps in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:43 Z

We are announcing public preview of networking with private endpoints for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:42 Z

Benefit from the enhanced performance and scalability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL to improve mission-critical workloads. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:42 Z

Unlock your potential with our free tier. Start building, testing, and growing your projects without any upfront costs. Scale up when you're ready for more. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:41 Z

Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:41 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers a fully-managed database for your MongoDB workloads and AI applications, backed by native Azure integrations, flexible pricing, and seamless migration capabilities. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:40 Z

Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB enables customers to prioritize critical high priority requests for execution during high traffic, while potentially throttling low priority requests. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:38 Z

You can use offline cross-account container copy to migrate data across Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API accounts seamlessly using Azure CLI. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:37 Z

Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI models using the "Use your data" feature in Azure OpenAI Studio. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:36 Z

Autoscale gets even better with two new improvements -- scaling per partition and per region! More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:36 Z

Turn your questions into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:35 Z

Azure Arc provides enhanced manageability for SQL Server, on-premises or across multi-cloud, to enable better visibility, flexibility and security. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:27 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in select regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:17 Z

With ExpressRoute Direct, you can enable rate-limiting for your circuit to match the traffic volume with the configured bandwidth rate. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:09 Z

Customers can now use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance at a time that is most convenient for their business. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:01:02 Z

Build new and highly scalable applications on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale with lower pricing! More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:00:54 Z

Migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore using Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension in Azure Data Studio. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:00:51 Z

ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:00:38 Z

The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:00:36 Z

ExpressRoute Direct customers can now generate an authorization key for your ExpressRoute Direct resource and use it to make an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:00:21 Z

ExpressRoute customers can now store MACSec secrets in an Azure KeyVault. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:00:11 Z

Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:36:10 Z

Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:31:35 Z

Microsoft Dev Box is introducing new capabilities to support greater customization and simplify Dev Box setup for development teams. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:00:36 Z

Partners can now publish solutions built for Arm-based architecture to the Azure Marketplace. Enabling has broader support for ARM64 for all customers and partners in Azure. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:00:36 Z

Azure Deployment Environments is adding new capabilities to deliver an end-to-end developer experience, broader infrastructure-as-code (IaC) template support, and the ability to control costs by configuring auto-delete schedules. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:00:36 Z

VMs can now be put into a hibernate state in which you don't pay for any VM usage, while the VM state can be saved and be restored at a later time. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:00:35 Z

Zonal expansion for VMs and VM Scale Sets empowers users to smoothly transition their regionally configured VMs or VM scale sets into a zonal configuration across Azure availability zones, resulting an increased availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) from 99.95% to 99.99%. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:00:28 Z

Azure Boost is one of Microsoft Azure’s latest and most significant infrastructure innovations, enabling greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security, and reduced servicing impact. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:00:20 Z

Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:00:10 Z

Create and customize an experiment from a template. Chaos Studio currently supports AAD Outage and Availability Zone Down scenarios. More Information
Published: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:38:44 Z

Add a previously created load test (from Azure Load Testing) to your chaos experiment. Choose when exactly in your chaos experiment you would like to start and stop load. More Information
Published: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:38:31 Z

Azure Functions now supports .NET 8, using the isolated worker model. More Information
Published: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:00:21 Z

Upgrade from Ubuntu Server (16.04 or higher) to Ubuntu Pro on your existing Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) without redeployment or downtime. More Information
Published: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:00:21 Z

Customers now have the power to expose GraphQL APIs through Azure API Management's self-hosted gateway. More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:08 Z

Azure Monitoring Agent team has released for public preview JSON log collection. New collection types enable customers to migrate from other competing data collection services to Azure Monitor. More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:08 Z

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of gRPC support in Azure API Management through the self-hosted gateway. This exciting feature empowers customers to seamlessly manage their gRPC services as APIs within Azure API Management. More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:07 Z

​​​​​​​Azure Monitor alerts as a destination in Event Grid event subscriptions allow you to receive notification of critical events via action groups as Short Message Service (SMS), email, push notification, and more. You can leverage on the low latency event delivery of Event Grid with the flexibility and direct-to-customer notifications of Azure Monitor alerts. More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:06 Z

Sign up for an early preview of Cost Management exports that provide cost data aligned to the open-source FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). More Information
Published: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:00:06 Z

If you have resources that interact with Azure services and still use TLS 1.1 or earlier, transition them to TLS 1.2 or later by 31 October 2024 More Information
Published: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:00:03 Z

Encrypt traffic between multi-tenant App Service front-ends and workers using the new End-to-end (E2E) TLS Encryption (Preview) feature. More Information
Published: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:00:10 Z

The NGads V620 Series are now in public preview in the East US2, Europe West and West US3 regions. This new series enables service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:00:13 Z

Azure Monitor Logs extends archive retention to up to 12 years More Information
Published: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:00:12 Z

Easily manage public-facing and private-facing traffic on a common port. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:03:42 Z

Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:00:11 Z

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-November 2023. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:00:11 Z

Customer-Managed Keys (preview) integration with Azure Chaos Studio More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:00:15 Z

Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution is available in US Government (VA, AZ) regions. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:01:28 Z

Azure Red Hat OpenShift now offers extended support, larger cluster size, and tagging support. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:01:22 Z

You can now use an open-source provider for running Karpenter on AKS to improve the efficiency and cost of running workloads on Kubernetes clusters. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:01:15 Z

You can now use the KEDA add-on for AKS in production. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:01:08 Z

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.28 features in production. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:01:00 Z

You can now enable an ingress controller with SSL termination to quickly and securely access your applications in AKS More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:00:55 Z

You can now use dual-stack networking to communicate with services requiring IPv6 communication.. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:00:42 Z

You can now scale your AKS workloads without having to fully wait for images to be pulled into the clusters. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:00:25 Z

You can now ensure that only signed container images are deployed to your AKS clusters. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:00:15 Z

You can now easily deploy and use Azure Container Storage (in preview) seamlessly via the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) preview CLI experience. More Information
Published: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:30:02 Z

New latency metrics on OS, data and temporary disks are now available in preview, allowing you to see how long it takes to complete input/output (IO) requests to Azure Disks . In addition, new performance metrics for temporary disks are generally available now and allow users to see the IOPS, throughput and queue depth for virtual machines with temporary disks. More Information
Published: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:00:11 Z

Introducing the latest update to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), which now offers snapshot capabilities, enhanced security features, new features for a more simplified use experience, and an entirely new integration with Azure VMware Solution More Information
Published: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:00:01 Z

Enable disks to tolerate zonal failures without causing disruptions to your application. To learn more, visit Reliability recommendations - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn More Information
Published: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:00:28 Z

Alerts help you detect and address issues before users notice them by proactively notifying you when Azure Monitor data indicates there might be a problem with your infrastructure or application. We added to the Custom properties section in the alert payload ability to add dynamic value extracted from the alert payload, or a combination of both can be added to the alert notification payload. More Information
Published: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:00:18 Z

Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications. More Information
Published: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:00:10 Z

Azure Managed Prometheus was announced GA in May 2023 and is available in 19 regions, with this new update Azure Managed Prometheus will be available in 7 additional regions. More Information
Published: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:00:01 Z

Announcement of Azure Game Dev VM retirement More Information
Published: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:00:01 Z

Azure Guest Patching Service and Azure Kubernetes Service will now apply the same package update from a specific date to all regions following safe deployment principles. More Information
Published: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:00:14 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance More Information
Published: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:00:04 Z

TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage More Information
Published: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:00:17 Z

Host your gRPC workloads on App Service Linux. More Information
Published: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:00:17 Z

Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now generally available on the regional WAF with Application Gateway More Information
Published: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:59:28 Z

The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service. More Information
Published: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:23:29 Z

During November, we will replace log search alerts (API version 2021-08-01 and up) that uses non-common schema template with an upgraded and more informative email template. More Information
Published: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:00:19 Z

Azure Blob Batch operations now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier. More Information
Published: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:00:09 Z

Participate in retail evaluation now to ensure compatibility. The Azure Sphere team has also updated the trusted keystore of Azure Sphere devices, resulting in an additional reboot for production devices. More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:00:02 Z

Split traffic to your Azure Static Web Apps across multiple environments to gradually rollout features and compare versions being tested. More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:00:12 Z

Inject snippets into your website’s pages to add analytics, customizations and integrations, or to optimize performance without changing your source code. More Information
Published: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:00:01 Z

Major cold start improvements are available to .NET apps on the Azure Functions isolated worker model. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:00:37 Z

Functions using the ServiceBusTrigger can perform message settlement actions in the isolated worker model for .NET applications More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:00:37 Z

You can now disable secure shell (SSH) in AKS More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:00:36 Z

You can now encrypt OS and Data disks of your AKS nodes in production with your own managed keys. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:00:36 Z

Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access is now in public preview. With the new cool access feature, you can enable standard volumes with the ability to transparently store data more cost-effectively on Azure storage accounts based on its access pattern. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:42 Z

SQL Server 2014 will reach its end of ten-year product lifecycle on July 9th, 2024. To provide you with the flexibility to stay secure while you plan for the future, we are announcing SQL Server 2014 Extended Security Updates. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:41 Z

Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:41 Z

With auto-grow enabled, Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server will automatically increase the size of your provisioned storage. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:40 Z

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 15.4, 14.9, 13.12, 12.16, 11.21. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:39 Z

Basic, Standard, and Premium tier caches now support a built-in flush operation that can be started as a management operation. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:39 Z

Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB enables near real time analytics, now available for existing MongoDB collections in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:38 Z

Receive early updates by configuring the update channel for your Basic, Standard and Premium tier cache instances. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:38 Z

Now Azure Cosmos DB customers using continuous backup can enable Synapse Link in their database accounts. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:37 Z

You can now choose PostgreSQL 16 when creating PostgreSQL clusters in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a managed service for distributed Postgres database. More Information
Published: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:35 Z

The availability of Azure compute reservations exchanges extended until at least July 1st, 2024 More Information
Published: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:00:24 Z

Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The rename and new product icon are being rolled out across experiences from Microsoft. Most updates will be complete by mid-November of this year. Resources are also now available to support the renaming of your product experiences. Additionally, Identity emails will now be sent from Microsoft Security (MSSecurity-noreply@microsoft.com). The emails are currently coming from Microsoft Azure (azure-noreply@microsoft.com). You may need to update Outlook rules as a result. More Information
Published: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:00:09 Z

New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 23:00:31 Z

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Norway East and UAE North regions. More Information
Published: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:00:14 Z

Default outbound access connectivity for virtual machines will be retired in September 2025 -- updates and more information More Information
Published: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:00:13 Z

Azure AI Content Safety, now generally available, is a service that enables developers to build safer online environments by detecting and assigning severity scores to unsafe images and text across content categories and languages. These capabilities empower businesses to effectively prioritize and streamline the review of both human and AI-generated content, enabling the responsible development of next-generation AI applications. Learn more: https://aka.ms/contentsafety  Get started in Azure AI Content Safety Studio: https://aka.ms/contentsafetystudio More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:00:18 Z

New recovery options available on automatic instance repairs provides the capability for less-disruptive repair actions on sensitive workloads. More Information
Published: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:59:51 Z

Three features now available in GA enable you to streamline your network isolation experience, deploy your model locally prior to production, and automate the ML lifecycle without accruing extra compute hours or requiring manual intervention. More Information
Published: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:00:32 Z

Four features now available in Public Preview enable you to customize your compute instance experience by using curated or custom environments, collect all model dependencies in a single operation to generate a package than can be move and deployed across environments, label your images at each pixel level with high quality, and conenct and fine-tune Azure OpenAI models with Azure Machine Learning. More Information
Published: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:00:31 Z

Upgrade Azure Functions to use Python 3.9 or above. More Information
Published: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:00:20 Z

Windows Server 2012/R2 reaches end of support today on October 10, 2023. Microsoft has several options for organizations to remain protected. More Information
Published: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:00:16 Z

Resize capability for Azure dedicated hosts is now generally available More Information
Published: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:00:34 Z

Starting November 2023, Virtual Machine Scale Sets created on PowerShell and Azure CLI will automatically default to Flexible orchestration mode. More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 20:00:10 Z

Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario. More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:00:09 Z

Use Azure Private Link for private connectivity with MySQL – Flexible Server. More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:00:24 Z

Provision up to 10 read replicas in universal regions on Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:00:18 Z

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-October 2023. More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:00:08 Z

We're thrilled to announce the public preview launch of our latest Azure API Management pricing tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2. These new tiers address highly sought-after customer requests, bring quality-of-service enhancements, and offer a flexible starting point for API Management, allowing organizations of any size to embark on their API journey. More Information
Published: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:00:07 Z

Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters. More Information
Published: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:00:08 Z

Use ExpressRoute Traffic Collector to enable collection of flow logs for traffic sent over your ExpressRoute direct circuit. More Information
Published: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:00:07 Z

On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services. More Information
Published: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:00:06 Z

Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets. More Information
Published: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:00:15 Z

Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired. More Information
Published: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 23:00:48 Z

Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023 More Information
Published: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 23:00:42 Z

On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client. More Information
Published: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 23:00:36 Z