Azure Service Updates

Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on November 15, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely on them:Av2-seriesF-series, Fs-series, Fsv2-seriesG-series, Gs-seriesLsv2-seriesAfter this date:New Batch pools using these VM serie More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:00:41 Z

Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on May 1, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely on them:D-series, Ds-seriesDv2-series, Dsv2-seriesLs-seriesAfter this date:New Batch pools using these VM series cannot be createdExisting More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:00:41 Z

As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, we are announcing the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts. This includes legacy blob stor More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:00:41 Z

SQL MCP Server is now generally available, giving customers a secure, high-performance way to build agentic solutions with controlled access to production data. Built for SQL and compatible with PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos DB, SQL MCP Server is a dynamic, More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:45:02 Z

Update to our previous communication: We previously announced the retirement of all Inbound NAT rules version 1 resources, which included both single-VM NAT rules and NAT pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets. We have narrowed the scope of this retirement More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:15:07 Z

Microsoft Entra server principals (logins) for Azure SQL Database is now generally available. You can now use CREATE LOGIN ... FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER in the virtual master database, bringing parity with SQL logins for your Microsoft Entra identities.With More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:45:26 Z

As of March 31, 2026, new Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL accounts can no longer enable Azure Synapse Link. Existing customers will remain fully supported until March 31, 2029, when Azure Synapse Link will reach end of life.We encourage all customers to begin migra More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:06 Z

The Azure VPN Client for Linux (Preview) has remained in public preview and does not have a path to general availability (GA). As part of our ongoing efforts to align Azure networking services with current security and reliability standards, this preview More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:15:16 Z

You can now use Agent mode for GitHub Copilot in SSMS to work with your database: investigating performance problems, tuning queries, reviewing maintenance and configuration, identifying security concerns, troubleshooting errors, and assisting with operat More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:45:10 Z

PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers brings together key AI and application development resources for PostgreSQL on Azure. It includes curated sample apps and solution accelerators, tutorials, and structured learning pathways to help you build everything f More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:45:07 Z

We are pausing the introduction of a minimum billable object size for the cool, cold, and archive access tiers. As a result, billing behavior will not change on July 1, 2026, for either new or existing storage accounts. We will provide an update on our r More Information
Published: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:15:15 Z

Azure NCv6-series virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available in the Azure Southeast Asia and West US 2 regions. NCv6 VMs are powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition graphics processing units (GPUs) with each GPU featuring 96 GB of More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:15:14 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 disks now support non-zonal, single-instance Azure virtual machines in select Azure regions with Availability Zones (AZs). Customers can now deploy Premium SSD v2 with non-zonal virtual machines without selecting an Availability Zone. More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:00:23 Z

Starting July 1, 2026, Microsoft Foundry agent security capabilities previously available through Microsoft Defender for Cloud will transition to a Microsoft Agent 365 license. Agent protection in Defender will be powered by Agent 365 observability logs a More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:43 Z

Azure Site Recovery now supports replication and disaster recovery for Linux Azure Virtual Machines running on NVMe-enabled Generation 2 VM families, such as the Da/Ea/Fa v6-series and Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 in the Azure-to-Azure scenario. This support is limited t More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:43 Z

Enhanced maintenance control capabilities are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. These new capabilities give you greater visibility and flexibility in managing platform maintenance events, helping reduce disruption More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:43 Z

With role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Managed Redis data access, you can precisely control who can read, write, or administer your Redis data using Microsoft Entra ID—without relying on shared keys. Built on top of Redis Access Control Lists (AC More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:15:40 Z

Metrics Usage Insights now includes an Ingestion Volume Change dashboard to help you compare ingestion volume over time. Quickly detect spikes or drops in time series counts and event ingestion rates, enabling faster investigation of cost changes and more More Information
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:45:48 Z

Guest RDMA is now in preview on Azure, starting in the UK South region, bringing high-throughput, ultra-low latency networking directly into guest VMs within the same region. By using Azure Boost to enable RDMA in the guest OS, applications can bypass the More Information
Published: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:30:12 Z

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now supports avatar voice sync with custom voices in the Voice Live API, allowing developers to pair branded or persona-specific text-to-speech voices with real-time avatar experiences. This update helps teams building More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:15:50 Z

We’re pleased to announce that Azure Migrate now generally supports discovery and assessment of SMB and NFS file shares hosted on Windows and Linux servers. This gives customers a complete, data-driven view of their file share environment and a clear path More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:45:11 Z

AI pipelines for Azure HorizonDB is now available in public preview. AI pipelines let you describe an AI data ingestion workflow, chunking, embedding, extraction, generation, and ranking, declaratively in SQL, and run it as a fault-tolerant pipeline insid More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:45:40 Z

Azure Monitor's support for native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals is now generally available. This enables you to send telemetry data directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications and platforms to Azure Monitor. You can configu More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:45:40 Z

Microsoft Foundry adds tool search to Foundry toolboxes in public preview, giving developers and admins a fast way to find the right tool inside large, multi-team catalogs. As your toolbox grows, sending every tool definition on every turn gets expensive. More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Microsoft Foundry brings Azure API Management support to all Foundry model integrations in Azure AI Search, now in public preview. Enterprise platform engineers and AI solution teams running large-scale RAG pipelines can place Foundry and Azure OpenAI mod More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Microsoft Foundry adds Azure SQL Database as a first-class Knowledge Source in Azure AI Search, available in public preview. Enterprise developers and solution architects building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can now expose authoritative tables a More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Microsoft Discovery is now generally available, providing research and development organizations an enterprise platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines. Also available in preview is the Microso More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Azure AI Search and Foundry Knowledge Bases now support private, end-to-end network connectivity between search resources and Foundry services. Customers can route ingestion, enrichment, retrieval, and agent traffic over Shared Private Link or Network Sec More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z

Microsoft Foundry IQ now treats a Microsoft Fabric Ontology as a federated knowledge source in public preview, giving agents a way to query the semantic layer customers already curate in Fabric. Foundry IQ translates natural language questions into ontolo More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z

Microsoft Foundry IQ reaches general availability, giving developers a managed knowledge layer that grounds agents in enterprise data without rebuilding retrieval pipelines for each project. Teams connect SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Blob, and other sources More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z

Azure AI Search now supports Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization in public preview, expanding the built-in skill that parses rich documents during indexing. Indexers can split documents into semantically meaningful chunks and generate t More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:00:34 Z

Azure Monitor now includes Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), giving teams a clearer way to measure how customers actually experience their applications. Instead of relying only on infrastructure signals like CPU or isola More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:30:52 Z

Microsoft Foundry now offers MAI-Voice-2 in public preview, a first-party voice model from the Microsoft AI team. MAI-Voice-2 generates natural speech across more than 10 languages and supports voice cloning from a short reference sample, plus voice promp More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:00:57 Z

Ever wondered how to allow auditing personas (i.e. security analyst in your organization or security assessment contractor) the ability to view your ledger files and establish trust in the cryptographic proofs themselves? With the new localized, web ledg More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:15:24 Z

Azure AI Language brings the next-generation Text Analytics for Health (TA4H) playground to general availability in the Microsoft Foundry portal. Clinical informatics teams and ISVs can paste discharge summaries, doctor's notes, or research abstracts and More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:15:57 Z

This feature introduces end user feedback logging semantics that enables developers to capture structured feedback signals from real users interacting with AI agents—such as thumbs up/down, ratings, or custom annotations—and automatically associates that More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:15:57 Z

Microsoft Foundry brings self-serve custom photo avatar creation to GA in the Foundry NextGen fine-tuning portal. Enterprise customers building voice agents with avatars or producing content with avatar and speech often need a branded avatar instead of a More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:45:02 Z

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in Azure Belgium Central, expanding regional availability for OpenShift deployments across Europe. With the launch of Microsoft’s first Azure region in Belgium, customers can now run fully managed O More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:15:46 Z

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service adds agent-to-agent (A2A) communication in public preview for Prompt agents and Hosted agents that use the responses protocol. Agents can call other agents by name through a managed endpoint, with identity, content safety, More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:15:46 Z

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers a Conversational PII (ConvPII) NextGen Playground with transcript input and an API Configuration Panel, enabling developers to validate PII detection across multi-speaker dialogue before integrating the API. More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers an updated TextPII NextGen Playground with a refreshed API Configuration Panel, including preview features introduced at Ignite 2025. This update lets developers test predefined PII categories, redaction mod More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z

Use the Azure Developer CLI (azd) CLI evaluation experience to add a measured quality loop to an agent created with Microsoft Foundry. It empowers users on the hosted-agent lifecycle in azd, where you create, provision, deploy, initialize evaluation asset More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z

Microsoft Foundry model catalog adds a domain filter in public preview, helping developers narrow the catalog of over 1,900 models to the ones trained for a specific industry or use case. Filters cover domains such as robotics, biomedical sciences, materi More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z

The Microsoft Foundry extension for Visual Studio Code reaches general availability with a Build 2026 refresh that brings the full model catalog, model playground, and Hosted agent deployment into the editor. Developers can sign in with their Azure accoun More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z

Microsoft Foundry observability introduces intelligent trace filtering and sampling for evaluations in public preview. Instead of running evaluations against all production traces, Foundry now select a representative subset of traces using a multi-stage M More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z

Azure AI Speech moves the Custom Voice authoring experience into the Microsoft Foundry portal in general availability. Approved Custom Voice customers can now upload voice talent recordings and consent statements, run data quality checks, train neural voi More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z

Microsoft Foundry introduces rubric evaluators for measuring agent quality, now in public preview for single-turn and multi-turn agent flows. Rubric evaluators enable developers to define context-specific evaluation criteria using agent prompts, productio More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z

Microsoft is announcing Confidential Live Migration in Azure, a new capability designed to improve operational flexibility and availability for Intel® TDX Confidential VMs during platform servicing. Confidential Live Migration helps move a Confidential VM More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:15:04 Z

Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager is now in public preview, offering a unified, goal-driven experience to design, assess, and improve application resiliency across Azure. It brings together capabilities across Availability Zones, Azure Advisor, Chao More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:15:25 Z

You can now install the DuckDB extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:00:49 Z

Now you can unify your search operations in a single database. Azure DocumentDB has added fuzzy search, proximity search, more language support, and BM25 ranking to its full-text capabilities, bringing vector and advanced text search operations together. More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:00:49 Z

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor, available starting today. This feature is designed to provide a simplified and more intuitive experience for monitoring and alerting, enhancing your ability to dete More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:00:57 Z

Microsoft Foundry brings code-first observability to agent developers in public preview, delivered as an observe skill inside the Foundry Plugin for VS Code Copilot Chat. Developers run the full evaluation-driven optimization loop from the editor through More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:15:29 Z

Your AI coding agents just got smarter about building high-performance database applications. The Azure Cosmos DB Agent Kit is now generally available, bringing proven best practices directly into your development workflow. Whether you're designing data m More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:30:49 Z

In early June 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Now you can use AES 256 symmetric keys to configure transparent data encryption (TDE) with customer-managed keys in Azure SQL Database. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:15:55 Z

Azure Files now supports access from macOS using Entra ID authentication (Public Preview), enabling secure, identity-based access to file shares for cross-platform teams. This expands support for modern workflows, allowing users on macOS to seamlessly acc More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:00:05 Z

The new file share service management experience for Azure Files is now generally available for NFS 4.1 shares on SSD storage. Powered by the Microsoft.FileShares resource provider, file shares are now top-level Azure resources that you can create, secure More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:30:23 Z

The general purpose Dpsv7 and Dplsv7, memory-optimized Epsv7, high-memory Mpsv4, and dense storage Lpsv5 VMs are now available in preview. These virtual machines deliver significant enhancements over the previous generation Cobalt 100 VMs, offering improv More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:30 Z

Azure AI Translator's unified Text Translation API reaches general availability, giving developers a single endpoint that fronts neural machine translation, large language model translation, small language model translation, Adaptive custom translation, a More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:30 Z

As organizations adopt multiple LLM providers, developers often need to handle different API formats, SDKs, and integration patterns for each model vendor. This increases application complexity and makes provider switching, failover, and governance more d More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:30 Z

As API estates grow, managing individual custom domains and certificates for every subdomain can quickly become operationally complex and difficult to scale. Without wildcard support, every new subdomain — whether payments.api.contoso.com, inventory.api.c More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:45:52 Z

Global Provisioned Throughput (PTU) reservations are now region-agnostic, enabling a single reservation to cover Global PTU deployments across multiple regions. Why it matters:Optimize savings: One reservation can apply across regions, improving utilizati More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:45:52 Z

You can now enable vaulted backups for Azure Cosmos DB accounts, protecting mission-critical data with secure, isolated, and resilient backups. Azure Backup for Cosmos DB, now in preview, supports cyber-resiliency and compliance needs, even in scenarios i More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:15:03 Z

Azure Policy now provides centralized governance for deployments using the model router. Organizations can define and enforce routing standards across their environment, helping ensure that model selection aligns with security, compliance, and operational More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:00:59 Z

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is now generally available for Voice Live integration, allowing developers to connect real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech to a Foundry Agent without writing their own audio pipeline. Existing agent capabilities — in More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:00:59 Z

Azure Sphere OS version 26.06 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to Azure Sphere OS only; it does not include an updated SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud.Th More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

Automatic OS Image Upgrades for Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) using Flexible Orchestration are now in public preview, enabling consistent, fleet-wide OS updates with reduced manual effort. This capability extends automated image upgrades to VMSS Flex, More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

OpenTelemetry metrics and visualizations in Azure Monitor are generally available, delivering an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc Servers. This release consolidates key monitoring capabilities into a single experi More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

Azure Linux 4.0, Microsoft's first-party Linux distribution purpose-built for Azure, is now available in public preview for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets. It brings a modernized stack — including Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, dnf5 package manager, gli More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

Azure Container Linux is a container-optimized, immutable operating system for AKS node pools — derived from Flatcar Container Linux and built on Azure Linux RPM packages. It delivers a locked-down, minimal host purpose-built for running containerized wor More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

Azure Event Grid Standard Namespace now supports MQTT v5 subscription identifier capabilities in GA. Now each MQTT subscription can include an identifier that is delivered with incoming messages, enabling applications to route events immediately based on More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

Microsoft is announcing the preview of multiparty analytics with Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, resulting in fully managed service that allows customers and their partners to securely analyze privacy sensitive datasets with Apache Spark based big-data an More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

The Lasv5 and Laosv5 storage optimized VMs, based on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor (Turin), are in preview. Lasv5-series is designed for storage-intensive workloads requiring high disk capacity, throughput, and I/O, while Laosv5-series is well-suited fo More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

GitHub Copilot modernization agent is now generally available Coordinated orchestration from estate to code. Scale application assessments and upgrades across your entire app portfolio with GitHub Copilot modernization agent (GA), connecti More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

Rolling updates are now generally available in the Flex Consumption plan, delivering zero-downtime deployments with a simple configuration change.Instead of forcefully restarting all instances during code or configuration updates, the platform gracefully More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts! Using dynamic thresholds means you don't have to know the right threshold for each Log alert rule - Dynamic thresholds calculate the most appropriate thresholds More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:20 Z

A new workspace-wide Genie MCP endpoint enables any Microsoft Copilot Studio agent to query natural-language questions across an entire Azure Databricks workspace through a single endpoint. The endpoint auto-routes across all connected Genie spaces and Un More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Developers in Azure Databricks can now create a copy-on-write branch of their Lakebase production database with a single command, connect GitHub Copilot agent mode to the branch endpoint, and debug AI apps and agents against real production data without e More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Translator batch document translation ships generally available improvements for PDF translation. The service uses Azure AI Document Intelligence to recover structure from both digital-native and scanned PDFs, then translates the recognized text More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Translator batch document translation accepts image files as a generally available input type. Supported formats include `.jpeg`, `.png`, `.bmp`, and `.webp`. The service runs OCR on each image, translates the recognized text into the target lang More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Translator batch document translation now translates text inside images embedded in Word `.docx` files as a generally available capability. The service detects image regions, runs OCR, translates the recognized text, and re-renders it back into t More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search makes OneLake catalog integration generally available for knowledge sources, so customers can register a OneLake item once and reuse it across multiple knowledge sources and agents. The integration honors existing OneLake item-level permis More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry makes managed virtual network support generally available for evaluations, so customers can run cloud evaluation jobs against models and agents that sit behind private endpoints. The Foundry-managed VNET handles outbound connectivity to More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Speech makes the LLM Speech API generally available, delivering state-of-the-art LLM-powered transcription and translation for audio files, with multi-lingual support across 25 languages (90+ locales), improved accuracy, expanded regions, and enh More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now convert Oracle database schema objects to Azure Database for PostgreSQL-compatible schema directly in the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. The experience provides a project-based workflow for Oracle to Microsoft for PostgreSQL offe More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now proactively validate Major Version Upgrade (MVU) readiness for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server before initiating the actual upgrade process. New pre-upgrade validation checks allow you to independently run upgrade compatibility v More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now use Microsoft Defender security assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL to continuously evaluate your database security posture and identify potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This feature helps you strengthen your security More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now supports cross-tenant customer-managed keys (CMK), in public preview, allowing you to encrypt your data at rest using an Azure Key Vault key that resides in a separate Microsoft Entra tenant from the dat More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Now customers can install the pg_ivm extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry refreshes the Foundry Memory public preview with a redesigned storage model, new retrieval controls, and tighter integration with the Foundry Agent Service tool surface. Agents using Memory can now write, search, and update user-scoped a More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search adds Microsoft Purview admin access auditing for sensitivity-labeled content in public preview. Admin operations that touch Purview-labeled documents inside Azure AI Search, knowledge retrieval, and Foundry IQ knowledge bases now flow into More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service reaches preview for Hosted Agents, the container-based runtime that lets developers bring their own agent code in any framework and deploy it to Microsoft-managed infrastructure. Each Hosted Agent runs in a per-session VM-i More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search adds Microsoft Purview sensitivity label support to knowledge sources in public preview. Labels applied at the source system flow through ingestion into Azure AI Search and into the knowledge bases that ground Foundry agents and copilots, More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry adds MAI-Transcribe-1.5 to the model catalog in public preview, Microsoft's next-generation speech-to-text model. The release adds improved accuracy with noticeably lower word error rate on long-tail locales than the previous generation, More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry adds MAI-Image-2.5 to the model catalog in public preview, the next generation of Microsoft's in-house image generation model. The release improves photorealism, prompt fidelity, and generation speed compared with MAI-Image-2, and is tun More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search now offers a serverless option for native indexers in public preview, removing the requirement to provision and manage indexer compute for ingestion workflows. Indexer execution scales with workload demand, so customers stop paying for idl More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Speech is rolling out an updated Neural HD text-to-speech model, moving customers from DragonHDLatest to HDv2.5. The update raises audio quality scores, adds style and paralinguistic tag support for English voices, and reduces word error rate in More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry adds connectors and time-based triggers to the Foundry Tools toolbox in public preview, giving enterprise developers and automation engineers a native way to build event-driven AI agents. Foundry agents today are invoked only through dir More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Speech brings the Custom Avatar and Custom Video authoring experiences into the Microsoft Foundry portal in general availability. Approved customers can upload an actor's video recording, fine-tune a custom video avatar, and generate synthetic ta More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry observability adds Trace Replay and new trace visualizations in public preview, giving agent developers a faster way to debug multi-step runs. The replay view rewinds a captured trace step by step, showing the model, tool, and inter-agen More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry IQ now supports external MCP servers as federated knowledge sources in public preview, expanding retrieval beyond data customers index themselves. Teams can register MCP servers from systems like Salesforce, Atlassian, Confluence, and Se More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ Knowledge Sources add incremental SharePoint permissions sync in public preview, keeping document-level, site, and library access control lists current as SharePoint permissions change. Enterprises store business-critical co More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry brings Content Understanding into the portal in public preview, ending the context switch to the standalone Content Understanding Studio for everyday work. Developers get Read and Layout playgrounds inside Foundry for OCR text extraction More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Translator now supports synchronous single-document image translation at general availability. Customers can submit a standalone image file (JPEG, PNG, and similar formats) through one synchronous API call and receive the translated result immedi More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Translator publishes generally available SDKs that target the latest text translation REST API across four languages: C#/.NET, Java, JavaScript, and Python. The SDKs expose Translator API v4 SDK to GA across all four supported programming languag More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Adaptive Custom Translation (AdaptCT) is generally available in the Azure AI Foundry NextGen playground for Azure Translator. AdaptCT enables enterprises to adapt translations to domain‑specific terminology using small datasets—eliminating the need for tr More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Photo Avatar in Azure AI Speech is now generally available in standard and custom flavors. Standard Photo Avatar produces a talking head video from a single photo at 512x512 resolution, and custom Photo Avatar lets you fine-tune the look from your own ima More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search now emits audit events for Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels carried alongside indexed documents. When the SharePoint in Microsoft 365 indexer is configured to preserve and honor sensitivity labels, query-time filtering decisions and la More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

The Azure AI Search SharePoint in Microsoft 365 indexer now indexes ASPX site content and SharePoint Lists in addition to document libraries. The indexer connects through a Microsoft Entra application registration with application or delegated permissions More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Content Understanding in Microsoft Foundry now supports an extractionMode setting that lets you choose how documents are analyzed. Pick a layout-aware mode for structured documents where tables, sections, and reading order matter, or a faster text-only mo More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search makes the GenAI prompt skill generally available, letting indexers call chat completion models during enrichment without custom code. Authors point the skill at a Foundry-hosted model, write a prompt template that references field values, More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure AI Search now supports managed identity authentication for the billing operations it issues against Microsoft Foundry resources, replacing the prior key-based flow. Customers assign a system-assigned or user-assigned identity to the search service, More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Foundry IQ knowledge bases now surface document-extracted images at query time in public preview. When ingestion pulls figures, screenshots, and diagrams out of PDFs, slides, and Office files, Foundry IQ retains each image alongside the text it appeared w More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry IQ adds public preview support for OneLake Catalog as a knowledge source, so agents can ground responses on lakehouse tables, files, and shortcuts already governed in Microsoft Fabric. Data engineers register the OneLake catalog once and More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Microsoft Foundry adds region-agnostic reservations for Global Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) at general availability, letting customers commit to PTU capacity once and consume it from any supported region. Previously, a reserved PTU commitment was t More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Speech SDK 1.50 ships as a generally available release across all supported languages: C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Objective-C, Swift, and Go. The release rolls up the latest speech-to-text and text-to-speech features behind a stable API surface an More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Deployment templates in Azure Machine Learning add CLI and SDK support in public preview, so platform teams can create, update, delete, and manage templates from infrastructure-as-code pipelines instead of only the portal. The new commands work with az ml More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Deployment templates in Azure Machine Learning add public preview support for deploying from registries, expanding the set of model registries that customers can use as the source for a templated deployment. Deployment templates package a model, deploymen More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Choosing the right AI system is rarely as simple as picking the newest or largest model — and agents add their own layer of variability on top. A model that wins on a public leaderboard can still underperform on the reasoning, math, or domain-knowledge qu More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server continues to expand its global footprint with new regional availability and enhanced availability zone support. You can now deploy Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server in the Denmark East, Austria East, and Bel More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Managing your quota is now faster, simpler, and more transparent. Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server supports self-service quota management through the Azure Quotas blade in the Azure portal. You can view your current quota usage and limits, request More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

In June 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Execute SQL queries, document with Markdown, and mix kernels like Python using SQL Notebooks in the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

The GitHub Copilot integration with Schema Designer is now generally available in the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, expanding the visual schema design experience with AI-assisted capabilities. Based on developer feedback and evolving workflows, More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now offers data API builder with built-in GitHub Copilot integration as generally available, bringing guided back-end generation into your development workflow. You can generate REST, GraphQL, and Model Context P More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now introduces Azure SQL Database provisioning in public preview, starting with the free tier so you can create and connect to a fully managed cloud database directly from your editor at no cost. With a guided wi More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure DocumentDB now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), available in public preview. With the MCP toolkit, you can connect AI agents and LLM-powered applications directly to your DocumentDB database, enabling natural language queries, document ret More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

BM25 full-text search is now available in public preview for Azure HorizonDB. Now you can get production-quality keyword search powered by BM25, the same relevance ranking algorithm used by Elasticsearch, Solr, and Azure AI Search, running entirely inside More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Advanced filtering for DiskANN vector search in Azure HorizonDB is now available in public preview. With this release, you can combine vector similarity search with metadata filters such as category, date range, price, or tenant ID without the performance More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Agentic Advisor Solution Accelerator for Azure HorizonDB is now generally available. You can use this financial services-focused reference solution to build multi-agent applications in Python using LangGraph and Mem0, with Azure HorizonDB as the data and More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure HorizonDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible database service engineered for performance and built for what's next. It delivers future-proof autoscaling storage up to 128 TB, up to three times faster performance than self-managed PostgreSQL, and rapid compu More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

With near-instant provisioning of free tier clusters, you can get started immediately on Azure DocumentDB. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Announcing the general availability of the Azure DocumentDB Migration Extension for Visual Studio Code. With this release, you can create, run, and manage migration jobs directly from Visual Studio Code to move data from your on-premises or cloud-based Mo More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can build real-time, event-driven applications with change streams in Azure DocumentDB, now in public preview and featuring multi-node support. You can capture live data changes with controlled polling, helping you power instant analytics, automation, More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure DocumentDB is excited to announce the general availability of graceful failovers that promote replica clusters while guaranteeing zero data loss. This feature is an addition to the already existing force promote feature, which immediately promote More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure DocumentDB is excited to announce the general availability of service-managed failover for multi-region clusters. In the event of a regional outage, Azure DocumentDB will automatically fail over the globally distributed cluster from the primary regi More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now more easily migrate from relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. The Migration Assistant in the Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code guides you through a structured workf More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Announcing the public preview of distributed transactions in Azure Cosmos DB. You can now perform atomic operations across items and partitions, with changes committing together or rolling back automatically on failure. Distributed transactions eliminate More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Per-partition automatic failover (PPAF) is now generally available in Azure Cosmos DB, bringing faster recovery and higher availability to your mission-critical applications. With PPAF, you no longer need to fail over an entire account during a regional d More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can use the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB, now in general availability, to connect your AI agents and copilots to operational data with enterprise-ready reliability. This release gives you a standardized way to expose Cosmos DB capabilities through More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now use AI assistance in the Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code to work with your data faster and with less manual effort. You can ask questions in plain English and get optimized Azure Cosmos DB queries, use chat participant command More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now change the partition key of an Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL container directly from the Azure portal with just a few clicks. The process supports both online and offline modes by copying data from the source container to a new container through the C More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Plan your Azure Cosmos DB deployment with confidence. The Azure Cosmos DB cost estimator is now in public preview, giving you a fast, accurate way to model throughput, storage, regions, and capacity mode before you provision a single account. Whether you More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

The Azure Cosmos DB all versions and deletes change feed mode is now generally available, giving you complete visibility into every change that happens in your containers. Unlike the default latest version mode, which surfaces only the most recent state o More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Organizations building AI agents often face a disconnect between where agents are built and where business processes are automated. Now, with improved integration between Azure AI Foundry and Azure Logic Apps, developers can now more easily operationalize More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Now in Public Preview, Anyscale on Azure is a cloud-native managed Ray platform for machine learning engineers and AI developers who need to run Python workloads at massive scale without compromising speed or control. It brings the power of Ray’s distribu More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Most RAG implementations today are complex. Teams must build ingestion pipelines, manage chunking and embeddings, configure vector stores, wire up retrieval layers, and then operate the entire system in production. With Azure Logic Apps, RAG becomes a na More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations move toward agentic automation, developers increasingly need a simpler way to combine workflows, APIs, and AI agents into production-ready business processes. Today, building these systems often requires stitching together multiple Azure More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Provisioning and maintaining system node pools in AKS requires ongoing work to handle scaling, patching, and availability. Managed system node pools in AKS Automatic remove that responsibility. The platform provisions and operates the infrastructure for c More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations adopt MCP-based tooling and AI agents at scale, developers need a simpler way to discover and connect to the growing ecosystem of enterprise MCP servers, tools, APIs, and AI assets. With this update, Azure API Center introduces a data pl More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations increasingly build autonomous AI agents to automate workflows and orchestrate enterprise tasks, developers need a centralized way to discover, govern, and reuse these capabilities across teams. With this update, Azure API Center enables More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Managing Kubernetes clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments is fragmented by default: different consoles, different tools, different operational models. Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes in GA, so any CNC More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Organizations often need to expose APIs, developer portals, and management endpoints under different branded or organizational domain names- — for example, api.contoso.com for external partners, apis.hrportal.contoso.com for an internal HR platform, and d More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations adopt advanced AI models, understanding token consumption is becoming more complex. Traditional metrics focused primarily on prompt and completion tokens often fail to capture newer token categories such as cached, reasoning, or thinking More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations deploy more agentic applications and MCP-based tools, enforcing consistent safety and compliance policies across agent interactions becomes increasingly important. Many teams today rely on fragmented or custom implementations for content More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Integrating apps with SaaS and line-of-business systems today means writing custom API client code, managing credentials, and handling retries, pagination, and webhooks for every service. Connector Namespace is a fully managed service providing pre-built More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations adopt AI agents and MCP-based tooling, integration teams often need to build and maintain custom API layers just to make existing workflows callable by agents. This additional plumbing increases development effort, operational complexity, More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Modern integration and automation teams increasingly want the flexibility of writing workflows directly in code while still benefiting from managed orchestration, enterprise connectors, and cloud-scale operational capabilities. Traditional workflow models More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations integrate external AI providers into production applications, platform teams need consistent ways to secure, govern, and observe model interactions across providers. Without centralized controls and telemetry, managing compliance, trouble More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Organizations using workspace-based API management models previously needed a dedicated workspace gateway and Premium tier deployment to take advantage of API Management workspaces increasing both cost and operational complexity. With this update, Azure More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations build more agentic applications, agent-to-agent communication is becoming a critical part of enterprise AI systems. But in many environments, agent traffic operates outside existing API governance layers — making it difficult to apply con More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Global secondary indexes (GSIs) for Azure Cosmos DB are now generally available, giving you a powerful way to accelerate query performance without adding complexity to your application code. GSIs are read-only containers that automatically stay in sync wi More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

We are announcing the public preview of the Agentic Retrieval Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB. Motivated by GraphRAG and multiple-hop reasoning problems, this new capability helps you build advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications that go be More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now improve the relevance of any Cosmos DB query or search with the public preview of semantic reranker in Azure Cosmos DB. Semantic reranker analyzes the meaning of your queries and your data to reorder results based on contextual relevance rathe More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now accelerate the development of agentic applications with the new Agent Memory Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB. This toolkit provides a customizable, code-first solution to help you build scalable, durable, and cost-efficient memory systems for your More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

The safe key rotation feature helps you confidently rotate your Azure Cosmos DB account keys by providing visibility into when each key was last used. Without this insight, you risk rotating a key that may still be actively used by your applications, whic More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Building AI applications on Azure Cosmos DB just got simpler. With integrated embeddings, now in public preview, Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL can automatically generate and maintain embeddings for your data, without the need to build a separate pipeline. Now More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

You can now automate embedding generation from multiple data sources into Azure Cosmos DB and other Azure destinations. Building AI applications often requires stitching together data extraction, embedding generation, and writing to vector databases into More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

We are announcing the general availability of the Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator (vNext), a cross-platform, Docker-based emulator for local development and testing against Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. The vNext emulator runs as a lightweight Docker containe More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Customers can now bring Azure Container Apps environments into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, helping security teams extend posture management across more of their container estate from a single workflow. This mak More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Customers running regulated or sensitive containerized workloads often need stronger protection for data while it is actively being processed, especially in scenarios that require higher isolation and stricter compliance controls. Confidential Compute in More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

In addition to platform-level logs, Azure Container Apps now adds a dedicated Azure Monitor diagnostic setting category, ContainerAppHTTPLogs, that exposes detailed HTTP access logs for incoming traffic and is designed for high-volume request data. With t More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Container Apps enhances its OpenTelemetry (OTel) capabilities by expanding support for third-party observability platforms. This update introduces additional endpoint options for commonly used monitoring tools such as New Relic, Dynatrace, and Elast More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Functions on Container Apps has traditionally used platform-managed scaling, where triggers are automatically translated into KEDA scale rules. With the new allowScalingRuleOverride property, customers can now choose to override platform-managed sca More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Functions now supports Go as a first-class language option in public preview. With this release, developers can author event-driven serverless apps in Go using the Azure Functions Go programming model and SDK, while still benefiting from Azure Funct More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Functions now provides built-in Grafana dashboards. Customers now get a zero-setup, single pane of glass for the health, performance, and scale of their function apps directly in the Azure portal: no Grafana instance to provision, no data sources to More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Developers are already using AI coding assistants to build Azure Functions apps today, but the quality of the help varies widely. It depends on which underlying model the assistant is using and how recent its training data is, which means developers often More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Functions now supports building AI agents as a first-class workload using a markdown-first programming model in public preview. With this release, developers can author event-driven serverless agents in natural language. The serverless agents runtim More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Functions now includes managed connectors - the same 1,400+ connector ecosystem behind Logic Apps and Power Platform - as first-class triggers and operations. This enables customers to build integrated systems across the broader ecosystem such as Of More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Developers building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers often rely on plain text responses even when user interactions required richer experiences, such as visual data exploration, complex configuration, real-time status monitoring, or multi-step workflo More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Teams building agentic applications, multi-tenant platforms, development environments, and CI/CD systems have often had to stitch together custom infrastructure to run untrusted code safely, preserve state across sessions, and handle bursty demand without More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

Azure Backup now supports snapshot-based backup for SQL Server running on Azure Virtual Machines. This new capability uses Azure disk snapshots combined with native SQL transaction log backups to deliver near-instant, low-impact full backups for large SQL More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:15:36 Z

Reminder: Microsoft’s support lifecycle is evolving in alignment with VMware’s roadmap. Broadcom will end support for the current AV36 VCF version on September 30, 2027, and the AV36 SKU is not compatible with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, the next-gen More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:06 Z

Azure Functions support for Node.js 24 is now generally available. You can now develop apps using Node.js 24 locally and deploy them to supported Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows, including the Flex Consumption plan. Please note that Remot More Information
Published: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:45:09 Z

Azure AI Metrics Advisor has been retired as of May 18, 2026.We recommend the following alternatives:Azure Monitor, as an official Azure 3P product, anomaly detection and analysis capabilities are provided through multiple interfaces, e.g., Detect and ana More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:10:12 Z

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports replication of virtual machines using Performance Plus enabled managed disks. With this update, virtual machines using Premium SSD, Standard SSD or Standard HDD managed disks with Performance Plus capability for high More Information
Published: Fri, 29 May 2026 15:15:43 Z

Application Gateway for Containers service mesh integration with Istio is now generally available. This capability simplifies secure north-south traffic into workloads running in an Istio service mesh by automating mutual TLS (mTLS) connectivity between A More Information
Published: Thu, 28 May 2026 05:30:31 Z

Multiparty private offers give Microsoft partners a way to procure third-party cloud and AI solutions for customers through Marketplace. Software companies can expand into new markets by working with partners that bring established customer relationships, More Information
Published: Wed, 27 May 2026 17:45:45 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager integration with Virtual WAN is now in public preview, enabling you to use an Azure Virtual WAN hub as the hub in Azure Virtual Network Manager hub-and-spoke connectivity configurations, bringing together Azure Virtual Networ More Information
Published: Tue, 26 May 2026 18:00:01 Z

Azure virtual network flow logs connector with Microsoft Sentinel is now generally available, enabling you to seamlessly export and analyze network traffic data within your security operations workflows. With this integration, you can bring rich, network- More Information
Published: Tue, 26 May 2026 16:45:10 Z

Azure Files announces general availability of Entra-only identities for SMB access, enabling organizations to securely access file shares using cloud-native identities without requiring Active Directory or hybrid identity infrastructure. With Microsoft En More Information
Published: Thu, 21 May 2026 22:00:20 Z

The Object REST API (an S3-compatible REST API) on Azure NetApp Files bridges the gap between traditional file-based storage and modern cloud services, enabling you to use your existing data in new ways. With the Object REST API, you can seamlessly integr More Information
Published: Thu, 21 May 2026 21:45:32 Z

As part of Azure’s ongoing security improvements, App Service, Functions, and Logic Apps will no longer accept connections using TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 after May 31, 2027. Any client, application, or service that continues to use these legacy TLS versions wil More Information
Published: Thu, 21 May 2026 21:45:32 Z

User Groups and IP Address Pools for Point-to-Site connections in VPN Gateway enable customers to assign distinct IP address pools to remote users based on their credentials. With this capability, customers can organize remote users into separate groups a More Information
Published: Thu, 21 May 2026 18:45:42 Z

Flex Consumption introduces a site-scoped certificate model in public preview in all the regions where Flex Consumption is available. Unlike webspace-scoped certificates on other hosting plans which are shared across apps in the same region + resource gro More Information
Published: Thu, 21 May 2026 18:45:42 Z

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available in the Malaysia West and Indonesia Central Azure regions. With this regional expansion, you can deploy and manage SQL Server workloads closer to your users while helping meet data residency r More Information
Published: Wed, 20 May 2026 23:15:14 Z

You can now take advantage of Microsoft Entra ID token refresh support in Python, .NET, and JavaScript client libraries to simplify authentication in your applications backed by Azure Database for PostgreSQL. With this release, your applications can autom More Information
Published: Wed, 20 May 2026 23:15:14 Z

You can now build production-ready AI and agent applications faster using the new LangChain and LangGraph integration for Azure Cosmos DB. This Python package enables you to directly use Cosmos DB for vector and hybrid search, semantic caching, chat histo More Information
Published: Wed, 20 May 2026 17:15:19 Z

Azure Storage Mover now supports Blob container-to-Blob container data transfers, enabling customers to move data seamlessly across regions, subscriptions, and accounts with a fully managed experience. Customers can now use Azure Storage Mover to migrate More Information
Published: Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:39 Z

Azure Storage Mover now supports built-in job scheduling, giving customers more control over when migrations run and making it easier to automate repeatable data transfers into Azure. Customers can configure jobs to start automatically at a specific date More Information
Published: Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:39 Z

Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement is now in public preview, enabling you to define summarized prefixes that Azure gateways, including ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway, advertise to on-premises networks, instead of advertising all More Information
Published: Wed, 20 May 2026 16:45:53 Z