Azure Service Updates

Experience seamless online migration for PostgreSQL with migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:00:36 Z

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-June 2024. More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:00:36 Z

Delete multiple items at once now in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer. More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:00:35 Z

vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB has expanded its capabilities and now supports Mongo Version 7.0. More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:00:35 Z

Long term backup retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL– Flexible Server is now available. More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:00:35 Z

Now Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB customers can migrate to continuous backup. More Information
Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:00:35 Z

Azure Resource Health helps you diagnose and get support for service problems that affect your Azure resources. Azure Resource Health now supports log search alert rules, so that you can use the activity log to check the health status of your log search alert rules. More Information
Published: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:21:00 Z

Starting July 2024, alert rules using linked storage will require a managed identity to access the linked storage. This requirement will be enforced on alert rules created with API version 2023-12-01 or newer. Creating or updating linked storage rules using an older API version will be blocked. More Information
Published: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:12:19 Z

We are excited to announce that audit logging for user actions in the Azure API Management developer portal is now generally available. API administrators and managers can now enable a diagnostic setting in Azure API Management to send developer portal audit logs to a storage account, event hub, or Log Analytics workspace. More Information
Published: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:00:10 Z

We’ll retire Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 31 May 2024 21:01:42 Z

Azure Monitor Logs is excited to introduce the next leap in log experience: Simple mode.  Simple Mode allows users to utilize Azure Monitor Logs in a simple, point-and-click experience, eliminating the need for KQL for most common use cases. More Information
Published: Thu, 30 May 2024 19:30:51 Z

Customers using action groups with the notification type Email Resource Manager Role may see that different or more users are getting emails than were previously. More Information
Published: Thu, 30 May 2024 18:32:55 Z

Override Azure Load Balancer’s health probe behavior on a per backend pool instance basis using the new Load Balancer Admin State feature to make taking your VM out of rotation for maintenance easy. More Information
Published: Thu, 30 May 2024 17:00:13 Z

Azure NetApp Files support for one Active Directory connection per NetApp account now enables connecting a NetApp account to its own distinct Active Directory Forest and Domain. Azure NetApp Files can now be used with more than one Active Directory Forest and Domain in a region under a subscription. More Information
Published: Thu, 30 May 2024 17:00:13 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier feature is now in public preview, enabling you to check if your network policies allow or disallow traffic between your Azure network resources. More Information
Published: Thu, 30 May 2024 16:00:13 Z

Azure Bastion Premium SKU secures customers’ highly sensitive workloads with advanced monitoring and security features More Information
Published: Thu, 30 May 2024 16:00:12 Z

Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering is now in Public Preview. Gain richer context and improved visibility into their workloads! More Information
Published: Wed, 29 May 2024 20:00:01 Z

Azure NetApp Files backup expands the data protection capabilities of Azure NetApp Files by providing fully managed backup solution for long-term snapshot archive, recovery, and compliance. More Information
Published: Wed, 29 May 2024 17:00:00 Z

Azure Load Balancer now supports health event logs to help you identify and troubleshoot ongoing issues affecting your load balancer resource’s health. More Information
Published: Wed, 29 May 2024 17:00:00 Z

Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines. More Information
Published: Tue, 28 May 2024 18:00:18 Z

Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a suite of services that tackles observability, security, and compliance challenges in your containerized applications. Gain deep insights with Advanced Network Observability, our first feature of the suite that unlocks Hubble metrics, CLI, and UI for powerful traffic monitoring and performance optimization. More Information
Published: Tue, 28 May 2024 17:03:11 Z

You can now create Azure NetApp Files large volumes between 50TiB to 500TiB in size. More Information
Published: Tue, 28 May 2024 17:00:17 Z

Activity log alert rules can now be saved in European regions, ensuring the alert metadata and processing remains within EU Data Boundary. More Information
Published: Tue, 28 May 2024 16:00:29 Z

Hibernate VMs when not in use to save compute costs, while persisting the in-memory state. More Information
Published: Tue, 28 May 2024 16:00:23 Z

The Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. You can use this extension to build, discover, try, and consume APIs in your API center. More Information
Published: Tue, 28 May 2024 16:00:17 Z

Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation More Information
Published: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:00:35 Z

New option helps developers manage Web PubSub resources More Information
Published: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:00:33 Z

Application volume group for Oracle is designed to greatly simplify the deployment of Azure NetApp Files volumes required to install and operate Oracle databases on Azure virtual machines at enterprise scale, with optimal performance and according to best practices. More Information
Published: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:00:23 Z

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now surfaces default alerts via Azure Monitor for critical events such as replication health turning unhealthy, failover failures, agent expiry, and so on. You can monitor these alerts via the Azure Business Continuity Center, Azure Monitor dashboard, or your Recovery Services vault and route these alerts to various notification channels of choice (Email, ITSM, Webhook, SMS). More Information
Published: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:00:16 Z

Azure Site Recovery is introducing reporting capabilities to enable your BCDR Admin get rich insights into your estate protected with Site Recovery for audit and tracking purposes. These reports are highly customizable and are available out of box on Business Continuity Center, Recovery Service Vault and Backup Center. These reports provide historical evidence on failover jobs and replicated items. More Information
Published: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:00:09 Z

The Graph Semantics extension to Kusto is now generally available. Users are encouraged to integrate this tool into their production workflows to enhance understanding of complex datasets and uncover hidden patterns. More Information
Published: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:00:02 Z

Azure Firewall Basic, Standard, Premium and Azure Firewall Manager are now generally available in four new regions. More Information
Published: Mon, 27 May 2024 15:00:02 Z

Azure App Configuration extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to install and manage Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider on your AKS cluster via Azure Resource Manager (ARM). More Information
Published: Thu, 23 May 2024 20:55:13 Z

View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal More Information
Published: Wed, 22 May 2024 22:00:30 Z

Container insights now supports out of the box visualizations using only managed Prometheus. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 May 2024 22:00:30 Z

gRPC support for App Service Windows now in preview More Information
Published: Wed, 22 May 2024 16:00:27 Z

Azure Log Analytics is announcing Workspace Replication, a new capability that enhances workspace resilience by enabling you to switch your workspace operation to another region if your primary region isn’t healthy. More Information
Published: Wed, 22 May 2024 16:00:27 Z

Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 18:30:15 Z

The Azure Firewall integration helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions in the Copilot for Security standalone experience. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 18:19:31 Z

Increase your security posture and receive an analysis of the top Azure WAF rules triggered, top offending IPs in the environment, SQL injection and Cross-site scripting attacks blocked by WAF, along with natural language explanation of the analysis. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 18:17:40 Z

You can now access the Aspire dashboard in Azure Portal for your Azure Container Apps project. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:25:25 Z

Use HTTP streams in Python for processing large data streaming OpenAI responses and delivering dynamic content More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:24:20 Z

Enterprise-grade features for advanced use cases More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:00:15 Z

Additional support for Azure Event Hubs means customers can run existing Kafka workloads More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:00:15 Z

Dev Box has been updated with several new developer productivity and enterprise management capabilities. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:00:14 Z

Azure Compute Fleet is a game changer in scaling and optimizing Azure compute resources across different virtual machine (VM) types, availability zones, and pricing models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:39 Z

We're excited to announce the Public Preview for the Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management! This innovative feature empowers customers to optimize token usage by leveraging semantic caching, which intelligently stores completions for prompts with similar meanings. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:38 Z

The circuit breaker, now generally available in Azure API Management, is seamlessly integrated to provide customers with an easy-to-use solution for enhancing the resilience of their API environments. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:37 Z

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This exciting addition extends Azure API Management's capabilities to include OData APIs, allowing users to apply standard API protections such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, alongside OData-specific policies for request validation. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:37 Z

The General Availability of the Load Balancer feature in Azure API Management is here! Now, customers can effortlessly create a pool of backends and efficiently distribute the load across multiple endpoints. By establishing backend pools, users can seamlessly balance the load across various backends when integrating multiple backends for an API. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:36 Z

We're thrilled to announce the general availability 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: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:36 Z

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management! This new feature enables customers to effortlessly configure token usage metrics to be sent directly to Azure Application Insights, providing insights into the utilization of Azure OpenAI models across various applications and teams. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:35 Z

We're excited to announce the General Availability of the Import Azure OpenAI as an API feature in Azure API Management! With this new capability, customers can seamlessly import Azure OpenAI endpoints as an API with just a single click, streamlining the entire process. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:35 Z

We're excited to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management! This feature empowers customers to effectively manage and enforce limits on API consumers based on their usage of OpenAI tokens. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:34 Z

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of the improved onboarding experience for the Logic Apps standard VS Code extension. This enhancement aims to streamline the process of transitioning from developing workflows in the cloud to a local environment, making it easier for developers to get started with Logic Apps development. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:34 Z

We’ve extended our built-in action capabilities to include support for calling .NET 8 custom code, now available in public preview. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:34 Z

We're excited to introduce support for Zero Downtime Deployment scenarios in Azure Logic Apps Standard, now available in Public Preview. This feature addresses one of the primary challenges in developing and maintaining mission-critical applications: ensuring continuous availability and responsiveness, even during updates or maintenance activities. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:33 Z

We're excited to introduce the Logic Apps Standard Deployment Scripting Tools in Visual Studio Code, now available in Public Preview. With this enhancement, users can streamline the development, testing, and storage of Standard logic app workflows running in single-tenant Azure Logic Apps directly within VS Code, using any source control system. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:33 Z

We're excited to announce the Public Preview release of UI dashboards for Logic Apps Standard, designed to enhance the monitoring, diagnosis, and troubleshooting of Logic Apps workflow runs and failures. This dashboard provides users with valuable insights into the health and performance of their workflows, empowering them to quickly identify and address any issues that may arise. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:32 Z

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of EDI capabilities in Azure Logic Apps Standard, featuring built-in operations for processing B2B workloads at scale. With this release, customers can leverage native connectors to handle both single and batched EDI messages efficiently, including larger payloads. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:32 Z

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker that ensures secure and efficient delivery of data messages between different parts of your system, even when they're disconnected or processing tasks at different speeds. We're thrilled to announce a new feature to streamline message management and improve operational efficiency: batch delete. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:31 Z

We're excited to introduce enhancements to the Azure Integration Account in Public Preview, aimed at providing users with increased flexibility, resilience, and security in managing their integration artifacts. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:31 Z

You can now now have easy access to fast, ephemeral, sandboxed compute on Azure without managing infrastructure. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:30 Z

We're adding a new Dashboards experience within the Azure Portal. You can use this feature in parallel to the current experience and it can be found in the Dashboard Hub and the Mobile App More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:30 Z

Java application log levels can now be set dynamically in Azure Container Apps. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:29 Z

Use Azure Monitor to see Java metrics in Azure Container Apps and take advantage of all the Azure Monitor features. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:29 Z

You can now stream HTTP requests to, and responses from, your Functions Apps. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:28 Z

You can now use Dapr’s powerful cloud native building block API with Azure Functions. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:28 Z

Flex consumption is a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:27 Z

You can now use a fully browser based end-to-end development environment for Azure Functions, starting from the Azure Portal. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:27 Z

The Azure Functions extension for OpenAI enables you to build intelligent applications with OpenAI. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:27 Z

SDK type bindings for Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions in Python allow you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:26 Z

You can now quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:26 Z

You can now set taints and tolerations and rollout upgrades to only available resources. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:25 Z

You can now easily create and monitor your scaled objects all within the Portal interface. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:25 Z

You can now benefit from the latest enhancements available in Kubernetes 1.30 when using AKS. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:25 Z

You can now scan your manifests to ensure you are following best practices. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:24 Z

You can now customize cluster-specific resources and schedule workloads to clusters based on new heuristics. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:24 Z

Deployment safeguards in AKS can now adjust your deployment resources by applying best practices. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:23 Z

Automated deployments for AKS simplifies the process of setting up the authorization of a workflow to a repository, generation of a starter application, and more. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:23 Z

AKS Automatic clusters are optimized to run most production workloads and provision compute resources based on Kubernetes manifests. The streamlined configuration follows AKS best practices and recommendations for cluster and workload setup, scalability, and security. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:23 Z

You can now leverage storage support up to 32TB on the Business Critical service tier. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:22 Z

Microsoft Copilot in Azure extends capabilities to Azure Database for MySQL. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:22 Z

Gain a performance boost in the Business Critical service tier of Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with accelerated logs. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:21 Z

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-May 2024. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:21 Z

This feature provides an ability to export at-moment physical backup of the server to Azure storage account (Azure Blob Storage). More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:21 Z

In-place major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:20 Z

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-May 2024. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:20 Z

New Copilot skills assist in efficient management and operation of Azure SQL Database. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:20 Z

Create text embeddings with sub 10ms latency from an LLM deployed within your Azure Database for PostgreSQL instance. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:19 Z

Optimize your workload by creating suggested indexes and dropping duplicated or unused indexes. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:19 Z

Easily change the capacity mode of an Azure Cosmos DB account from serverless to provisioned capacity using Azure portal or Azure CLI without any hassle. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:18 Z

The Azure AI extension allows customers to leverage large language models and build rich PostgreSQL GenAI applications. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:18 Z

We're excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB integration with Vercel Generally Available. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:18 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL built-in vector search powered by DiskANN is in public preview. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:17 Z

The Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK is now available with improved support for global distribution. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:17 Z

Cross region DR allows you to switch to another region in case of an outage. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:17 Z

Implement your RAG pipelines with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain and Semantic Kernel! More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:16 Z

Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise will offer yet another smaller 1GB SKU for your vector search and semantic caching needs levering the powerful capabilities of RediSearch module. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:16 Z

Trigger serverless functions through Azure Cache for Redis. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:16 Z

Computed properties make it easy to write NoSQL query logic once and reference it many times! More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:16 Z

Enables online experimentation for web, mobile, and Generative AI apps More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:15 Z

Azure Cache for Redis now offers a password-free authentication mechanism by integrating with Microsoft Entra. This integration is complemented with the role-based access control that open source Redis supports. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:15 Z

One new feature now available in GA enables you to create and customize AI workflows using task-specific Language skills/models to complete business use cases. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:14 Z

Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs are now available in preview. Please use the sign-up form at https://aka.ms/Cobalt100-VM-Preview-Signup to request access. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:14 Z

Three features now available in preview enable you to enjoy simplified management of the customer-managed key (CMK) encrypted workspace, take advantage of our content filtering system alongside models that you can access through Models as a Service, and bring in indexes from Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore and Pinecone for use in RAG workflows. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:14 Z

Azure will not charge for the data transfer across availability zones to help customers build more resilient and efficient applications on the cloud by leveraging availability zones. This will enable customers to leverage the benefits of zonal and zone-redundant services without extra costs for data transfer between availability zones. More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 15:59:42 Z

Azure Backup now supports migrating virtual backups using standard backup policy to enhanced backup policy. More Information
Published: Sun, 19 May 2024 18:36:42 Z

Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 17 May 2024 23:00:26 Z

Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change More Information
Published: Thu, 16 May 2024 19:00:00 Z

ExpressRoute customers can now deploy a second gateway to the Gateway Subnet. This will enable a seamless migration to an Az-enabled Gateway SKU and upgrade your Public IP configurations. More Information
Published: Thu, 16 May 2024 16:00:46 Z

Initially planned to end on January 1, 2024, the availability of Azure compute reservation exchanges for Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Dedicated Host and Azure App Service has been extended until further notice. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 May 2024 16:00:21 Z

Add a feature-rich data API to an Azure database or on-prem database using Microsoft's open-source Data API builder. More Information
Published: Wed, 15 May 2024 16:00:13 Z

Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door. More Information
Published: Tue, 14 May 2024 18:00:11 Z

Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model, now available on Azure AI in preview. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, vision, and audio capabilities, setting a new standard for generative and conversational AI experiences. GPT-4o is available now in Azure OpenAI Service, in preview, with support for text and image. Azure OpenAI Service customers can explore GPT-4o’s extensive capabilities through a preview playground in Azure OpenAI Studio starting today in two regions in the US. This initial release focuses on text and vision inputs to provide a glimpse into the model's potential, paving the way for further capabilities like audio. More Information
Published: Tue, 14 May 2024 16:05:28 Z

Azure Front Door supports capturing URL path and URL case transformation in rules set and server variable. More Information
Published: Tue, 14 May 2024 16:00:41 Z

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the latest Ubuntu LTS release from Canonical, is now available for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) More Information
Published: Mon, 13 May 2024 17:00:39 Z

Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs More Information
Published: Mon, 13 May 2024 16:00:59 Z

Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application Load Balancer solution and don’t require high scalability and the advanced features. More Information
Published: Mon, 13 May 2024 16:00:53 Z

The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service. More Information
Published: Mon, 13 May 2024 16:00:46 Z

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 10 May 2024 23:00:05 Z

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the upcoming Build conference. For deployment details and future enhancements, including JSON mode and function calling for image inputs, please refer to our Azure OpenAI Service resources and updates. More Information
Published: Fri, 10 May 2024 14:53:10 Z

You can now take advantage of new enhancements available in version 1.4.3 More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 20:46:15 Z

You can now use node initialization taints in AKS e.g. in scenarios where you may need extra time to setup your nodes. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 20:43:23 Z

You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 20:42:01 Z

You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 20:41:36 Z

Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB account. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 16:01:08 Z

Customers can now choose Premium SSD v2 for the Ebdsv5 and Ebsv5 virtual machine series with the additional ability to opt-in for NVMe support. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 16:01:02 Z

Upgrade to the latest TimeScaleDB extension on Azure for enhanced time-series data handling and improved performance. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 16:00:56 Z

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 16:00:49 Z

Work Smarter: Enhance Productivity with Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer shortcut keys. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 16:00:43 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports MongoDB v5 and v6. More Information
Published: Wed, 08 May 2024 16:00:35 Z

Microsoft has announced the opening of its first hyper-scale cloud region in Mexico. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 May 2024 16:35:52 Z

Now available in Italy North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 May 2024 16:32:09 Z

Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.14 is now available at install time. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 May 2024 16:00:20 Z

Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management operations for object storage and data lakes. The preview is now available in 14 more regions. More Information
Published: Tue, 07 May 2024 15:00:20 Z

Azure Front Door supports removing sensitive data from Azure Front Door access log. More Information
Published: Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:06 Z

Azure API Center is now generally available, providing a centralized solution to manage the challenges of API sprawl, which is exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of APIs and AI solutions. Azure API Center offers a unified inventory for seamless discovery, consumption, and governance of APIs, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location. More Information
Published: Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:05 Z

Azure Classic roles will be retired by 31st August, 2024 – transition to using only additional email addresses for Azure Autoscale Notifications as Azure Autoscale is dependent on the Azure Classic Roles. More Information
Published: Fri, 03 May 2024 23:00:02 Z

Beginning May 3, 2024, Azure will start enabling the root management group for tenants that have not enabled it yet. Using Azure management groups leverages best practices when applying Azure Policy and having it pre-enabled reduces the initial set up work to follow the best practices. More Information
Published: Thu, 02 May 2024 19:00:10 Z

UDR management in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in public preview, enabling users to describe their desired routing behavior via configuration, simplifying the management of routing behaviors at scale. More Information
Published: Thu, 02 May 2024 16:00:08 Z

The Azure IoT Edge release of v1.5 is the latest LTS version of Azure IoT Edge. More Information
Published: Wed, 01 May 2024 17:00:10 Z

Announcing the exciting feature updates for Azure Spring Apps in Q1 2024. Save up to 47% with Azure Savings plan. More Information
Published: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:00:42 Z

HDInsight is now generally available in Mexico Central.  Azure HDInsight is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source analytics service in the cloud for enterprises. You can use open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, LLAP, Apache Kafka, and more. For more information about HDInsight, see the Azure HDInsight documentation. More Information
Published: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:00:40 Z

Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in seven new regions - East US 2 EUAP, West US, Japan East, Australia East, Canada Central, North Europe, Brazil South. Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation. More Information
Published: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:00:39 Z

Azure Chaos Studio is now supporting resource tags. More Information
Published: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:00:39 Z

We are announcing public preview Azure Monitor pipeline (for edge). With this, we are now extending our Azure Monitor pipeline capabilities from the cloud to the edge, enabling seamless and high-scale data ingestion with centralized configuration management. More Information
Published: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:00:26 Z

ACR now supports expanded registry capacity of up to 40TiB and optimized geo-replication performance. More Information
Published: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:00:25 Z

Introducing redeploying capability for Azure dedicated hosts More Information
Published: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:24 Z

Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups integrated with actionable connectivity and traffic insights More Information
Published: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:44:07 Z

Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024 – migrate to Microsoft Purview More Information
Published: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:00:04 Z

Azure Deployment Environments is adding a new extensibility model that empowers customers to customize deployment workflows using Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or any other infrastructure-as-code (IaC) framework of their choice. More Information
Published: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:00:37 Z

Viewing changes to your Azure resources just became easier! With Azure Resource Graph’s Change Analysis, you can now view all your resource changes across all your tenants and subscriptions in the Azure Portal. More Information
Published: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:00:46 Z

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over request body inspection, and maximum size limits for request bodies and file uploads. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:00:33 Z

Reduce RU-costs and improve query speeds with Index Advisor! More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:01:07 Z

Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain! More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:01:00 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB improves its vector search capabilities with filtered vector search, now in preview. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:53 Z

Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:46 Z

Store cluster backup in another region. Restore cluster in the primary or another region. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:39 Z

The HNSW vector index is now generally available in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:33 Z

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:34:34 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally. More Information
Published: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:15 Z

Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs. More Information
Published: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:00:01 Z

.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date, it won’t be possible to use the feature. Please transition to JavaScript user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:59 Z

Azure Notification Hubs support for GCM/FCM legacy will be retired on 1 July 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:53 Z

Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:47 Z

Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:39 Z

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:32 Z

The bulk delete operation allows deletion of FHIR resources across different levels, enabling healthcare organizations to comply with data retention policies while providing asynchronous processing capabilities. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:12:17 Z

Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:10:54 Z

Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:42:10 Z

HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:42:38 Z

Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:00:08 Z

A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:00:04 Z

Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:00:04 Z

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:55:05 Z

Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival. More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:51:09 Z

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:00:37 Z

Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability. More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:08:19 Z

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:00:23 Z

Ensures predictable and reliable flow of communication among MQTT clients during unexpected disconnections. More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:00:23 Z

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated. More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:00:22 Z

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2024. More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:00:24 Z

New features include support for ARO in Azure Terraform provider, ability to bring your own NSG, new GPU instance types for Day 2 operations, and more! More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:00:11 Z

Extensible key management (EKM) using Azure Key Vault in SQL Server on Linux is now generally available from SQL Server 2022 CU12 onwards. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:13 Z

For enhanced security in your virtual network architectures where outbound connectivity is not allowed. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:12 Z

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports Private Endpoints in General Availability. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:12 Z

The feature will allow you to retain/manage backups for up to 10 years in the standard tier according to your compliance and auditing needs. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:11 Z

You can now protect Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:11 Z

Get near-real time analytics on your Azure Cosmos DB data in Microsoft Fabric with zero-ETL. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:10 Z

Load test your web apps directly from Azure App Service in Azure portal. More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:05:18 Z

The native support for Delta Lake output in Azure Stream Analytics is now generally available. More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:00:21 Z

Azure Load Testing GA in Fairfax cloud - USGov Virginia. US Government customers on the Fairfax cloud can now use Azure Load Testing to simplify their end-to-end load testing process. More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:00:10 Z

We're excited to announce that the multi plan subnet join for virtual network integration is now available in preview in all regions! More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:00:43 Z

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now Generally Available More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:00:41 Z

Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process. More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:00:42 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally. More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:30:54 Z

Exciting news! Our IBM Mainframe and Midrange connectors, including IBM 3270, IBM CICS, IBM DB2, IBM i, IBM MQ, and IBM IMS, are now generally available. These connectors address highly sought-after customer requests, bring capabilities to extend Azure Logic Apps cloud native workloads with some of the oldest systems ever built for Mainframes and Midranges. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:00:38 Z

We're thrilled to announce two new built-in connectors for Azure Logic Apps: Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. With the increasing adoption of AI technologies, there's a growing demand to integrate these capabilities seamlessly into Logic Apps workflows. To address this need, we're launching the Public Preview of these connectors, bridging the gap between Logic Apps and AI. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:00:31 Z

Improve your workload’s resiliency and optimize your cloud deployments by reviewing recommendations on Advisor More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:00:21 Z