Azure Service Updates

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

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

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

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

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

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

Azure File Sync enables seamless tiering of data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files for hybrid use cases and simplified migration. It also enables you to leverage the performance, flexibility and compatibility of your on-premises File Server More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:45:04 Z

Azure HBv5-series VM are now available in Preview in the Azure South Central US region. HBv5 VMs are optimized for memory bandwidth-intensive HPC applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, automotive and aerospace simulations, weather modeling, e More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:45:04 Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Azure NetApp Files short-term clones enable space-efficient, instant read/write access to data by creating temporary thin clones from existing volume snapshots, eliminating the need for full data copies and enabling capacity savings. Ideal for software de More Information
Published: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:00:15 Z

Durable Functions running in the .NET isolated model now has support for the Roslyn Analyzer, a real-time code analyzer that helps developers adhere to durable orchestrations’ coding constraints. This analyzer is enabled by default to analyze Durable Func More Information
Published: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:00:39 Z

Microsoft announces the opening of its cloud region in Austria to accelerate digital transformation and AI innovation. The cloud region will enable companies and public administration in Austria to store and process their data securely, in compliance with More Information
Published: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:00:07 Z

Azure Functions support for Node.js 22 is now Generally Available. You can now develop functions using Node.js 22 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.Learn more. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:45:29 Z

Azure Migrate now supports migration to Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) disks. With the introduction of this new feature in Azure Migrate, you can now select ZRS as the redundancy option during server migration. This automatically provisions a disk with ZRS More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:00:33 Z

Azure Application Gateway now supports MaxSurge, enabling new instances to be provisioned during rolling upgrades without taking existing ones offline. This allows customers to transition to newer gateway versions without any capacity degradation, ensurin More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:00:04 Z

Search Job lets you run asynchronous queries across all your workspace data, including long-term retention, and delivers results in new Analytics tables for further exploration.We’re excited to announce that the maximum number of records returned by a Sea More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:45:10 Z

Azure NetApp Files file access logs feature is now generally available, delivering enterprise-grade visibility into file-level operations across SMB, NFSv4.1, and dual-protocol volumes. This feature empowers organizations to enhance their security posture More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:30:27 Z

Azure Functions now allows you to choose 512 MB in addition to 2048 MB and 4096 MB as the memory instance size for your Flex Consumption apps. This enables you to further cost optimize your apps that require less resources, and allows your apps to scale o More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:30:02 Z

With this release, you can now establish a secure tunnel from your local machine—via Azure Bastion—directly to your AKS API server using your standard Kubernetes tooling. This enables seamless access to both private clusters and public clusters with API s More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:45:19 Z

Flexible service level in Azure NetApp Files allows customers to independently configure storage capacity and throughput, making it ideal for workloads with unique performance and sizing requirements—such as high-capacity volumes with low throughput or lo More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:30:35 Z

The DCesv6 and ECesv6 series are Azure’s next generation of Confidential Virtual Machines powered by the 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors (code-named Emerald Rapids) with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX). This will help to enable organizations t More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:45:09 Z

We continuously assess our services to uphold the high standards of protection and reliability for our customers. After a thorough evaluation, we have determined that due to increasing infrastructure and operational complexity, it is no longer feasible to More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:30:32 Z

We continuously assess our services to uphold the high standards of protection and reliability for our customers. After a thorough evaluation, we have determined that due to increasing infrastructure and operational complexity, it is no longer feasible to More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:30:32 Z

The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Malaysia West region.With this regional expansion, customers in Malaysia can now store infrequently accessed data in the cost-effective Archive tier, while meeting data resid More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:00:19 Z

Azure Files now supports the provisioned v2 billing model on the SSD (premium) media tier. Provisioned v2 enables independent provisioning of storage, IOPS, and throughput, allowing you to create a file share that meets your exact storage and performance More Information
Published: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:30:50 Z

Azure Databricks connector for Power Platform is now generally available. You can easily connect Azure Databricks with Microsoft Power Apps in several new ways. The new connector enables you to: Support real-time data access without the need for data cop More Information
Published: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:00:43 Z

You can now use Cassandra 5.0 in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, available in public preview. This release gives you access to the latest Cassandra features—like better performance and new indexing—without the hassle of managing infrastructur More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:00:27 Z

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the Malaysia West Azure region. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:00:27 Z

Data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) cluster is automatically and seamlessly encrypted with keys managed by Microsoft. Now, in addition to this service-managed key encryption (SMK), you have the option to add another layer of security b More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:00:27 Z

After a brief hiatus, Azure Automation is resuming deployments of the revised Service and Subscription limits from August 11, 2025. This update will ensure fair distribution of cloud resources across all customers and further improve reliability and perfo More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:15:34 Z

Introducing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts - a new preview capability in Azure Monitor that enables customers to receive proactive notifications about service health issues impacting their entire tenant, not just individual subscriptions. With this fe More Information
Published: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:00:08 Z

Azure App Testing now enables developers and QA teams to run large-scale functional and performance tests to pinpoint issues in their applications, across frameworks like Playwright, JMeter, or Locust. It brings together two powerful testing capabilities— More Information
Published: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:00:31 Z

Inbound IPv6 support on public multi-tenant App Service is now generally available across all public Azure regions for multi-tenant apps on all Basic, Standard, and Premium SKUs, Functions Consumption, Functions Elastic Premium, and Logic Apps Standard. L More Information
Published: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:00:31 Z

Announcing the general availability of the Upsert method and Script activity support in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This enhancement enables you to perform efficient, scalable, and declarative d More Information
Published: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:15:03 Z

Application Gateway v2 is announcing general availability of Private Application Gateway, which is a collection of new capabilities to the Application Gateway v2 SKU to further enhance control over network exposure.The following capabilities are now gener More Information
Published: Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:00:36 Z

These new VM sizes offer up to 192 vCPUs and 1832 GiB of RAM, making them ideal for enterprise-scale applications such as in-memory analytics, large relational databases, and in-memory cache workloads. With Intel® Total Memory Encryption (Intel TME) and N More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:00:43 Z

Azure Data Box Next Gen is now Generally Available in NEW regions including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong, UAE, Switzerland and Norway.With these new additions, we now have Both - Azure Data box 120TB and 525 TB generally available (GA) i More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:00:45 Z

Azure Storage Discovery provides enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Storage data estate. Insights that weren’t available before are now at your fingertips. Deeply analyze used capacity and activity, optimize costs, enhance security, and drive oper More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:00:18 Z

The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team is introducing a new agentic AI-powered CLI experience through the “az aks agent” command. This feature brings the intelligence of agentic reasoning directly into the Azure CLI, enabling developers and operators to More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Managed namespaces for AKS allows users to get a list of namespaces they have access to across a subscription, resource group, and cluster, and then retrieve credentials that will give them the ability to deploy to those namespaces. Users can configure ma More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

The AKS Security Dashboard provides a centralized view of security posture and runtime threat protection for your AKS cluster within the Azure Portal. It highlights software vulnerabilities, critical security issues, compliance gaps, and active threats, h More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Azure Virtual Network Verifier for AKS, now in public preview and available through the Azure Portal, is a tool which allows you to detect and troubleshoot outbound connectivity issues in your AKS cluster. You can use the Virtual Network Verifier featur More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

AKS now supports multiple Standard Load Balancers (SLBs) per cluster in public preview. This feature allows customers to scale beyond the 300 inbound rule limit per node NIC and isolate traffic by assigning different SLBs to different agent pools and work More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Static egress gateway public prefix support in AKS is now generally available. This feature allows AKS customers to create a dedicated gateway node pool that routes outbound traffic from annotated pods through a static public IP prefix (/28 to /31). It en More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Azure Monitor workspaces have default limits and quotas for ingestion. Customers can now request for an increase in quota for ingestion of Managed Prometheus metrics into Azure Monitor Workspace using an Azure Resource Manager API. The API supports reques More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

LocalDNS for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in public preview.With LocalDNS, a DNS proxy is deployed on each node, which enables faster, more reliable DNS resolution. It removes DNS bottlenecks in large clusters, lowers query latency via More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Azure Bastion integration for AKS is now available in public preview. This integration enables continuous secure access to private AKS clusters and also applies to AKS public clusters with API server authorized IP ranges. This integration introduces a sea More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AKS is now available as an open source release. This foundational component enables AI agents to interact with AKS clusters and simplifies cluster management. AKS MCP server offers a standardized interface to orche More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

We are making improvements to API server resiliency per Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) 5116 – Streaming Encoding for LIST Responses. This enhancement significantly reduces API server memory usage by approximately 10x during large LIST calls to the More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Application Gateway for Containers now supports Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy in public preview. Using WAF’s Default Ruleset, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) administrators and developers can protect their workloads against malicious attacks and ex More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Misconfigurations during Kubernetes development can lead to bugs and deployment issues. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now offers generally available deployment safeguards to help prevent these problems by enforcing Kubernetes best practices. These safe More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Encryption in Transit (EiT) for Azure Files NFS v4.1 volumes via the Azure File CSI driver. This builds on the recent General Availability (GA) of EiT for Azure Files NFS shares in June, which introduced TLS 1. More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. Now generally available, CVM for Ubuntu 24.04 in AKS enables node pools with CVM to target the migration of highly sensitive container workloads to AKS without any More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. CVM for Azure Linux in AKS is now in public preview and enables node pools with CVM to target the migration of highly sensitive container workloads to AKS without a More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

The HTTP proxy feature adds HTTP proxy support to AKS clusters, exposing a straightforward interface that you can use to secure AKS-required network traffic in proxy-dependent environments. With this feature, both AKS nodes and pods are configured to use More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Network security perimeter allows organizations to define a logical network isolation boundary for PaaS resources (for example, Azure Storage account and SQL Database server) that are deployed outside your organization’s virtual networks. It restricts pub More Information
Published: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:00:21 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh connectivity is now in public preview, enabling you to group up to 5,000 virtual networks in supported regions. A mesh topology creates bi‑directional connectivity between every virtual network in a mesh connectivity con More Information
Published: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:00:50 Z

Announcing the general availability of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for Azure DNS Public Zones in US Gov and China regions. With this release you can now enable DNSSEC on all existing and new public DNS Zones hosted on Azure DNS. This s More Information
Published: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:00:01 Z

Azure Storage Actions is now available in several more Azure regions, enabling expanded global access and greater data residency options. This includes regions where the service was previously in preview. Additional regions where the service is now genera More Information
Published: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:00:40 Z

Azure File Sync Arc Extension is now generally available, enabling seamless deployment and management of Azure File Sync on Arc-enabled Windows Servers. This extension brings hybrid file sync capabilities to a broader range of on-premises and multi-cloud More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:45:04 Z

Azure Backup support for agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure Virtual Machines is now Generally Available.Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure VM allows you to take VM backups without installing additional software li More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:00:17 Z

Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of Azure Dedicated HSM, which will be succeeded by the Azure Cloud HSM service. Microsoft will provide full support for all existing Azure Dedicated HSM customers until July 31, 2028. During this support wind More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:15:51 Z

Announcing the General Availability of Live Resize for Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra NVMe Disks. This feature allows you to dynamically expand the storage capacity of your disks without any disruption to your applications. To optimize costs, you can star More Information
Published: Thu, 29 May 2025 17:00:19 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager is now generally available in Azure US Government Cloud, providing unified control for connectivity, security, and routing across subscriptions, regions, and tenants. By automating configurations, it guarantees consistent pol More Information
Published: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:00:19 Z

Tags in Azure confidential ledger serve as secondary keys that enhance data organization and retrieval within collections. By allowing users to assign up to five tags per transaction, these tags provide an additional layer of categorization, making it eas More Information
Published: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:00:19 Z

Azure Storage’s SAS expiration policy (validity interval) allows you to set an upper limit for the period for validity of SAS tokens. Up until now, administrators could set how long a SAS should be valid through the SAS expiration policy, however, it was More Information
Published: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:00:19 Z

You can now streamline the entire SQL Server migration journey—from assessment to provisioning to cutover—within a single Azure portal experience. The new Azure Arc migration experience powered by Azure Database Migration service gives you a centralized, More Information
Published: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:00:36 Z

In late-July, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Use the UNISTR intrinsic function to define Unicode string literals using Unicode encoding values in a string. Use the ANSI SQL concatenation operator (||) to concatenate charac More Information
Published: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:00:36 Z

You can now use cascading read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, available in Public Preview. With this new capability, you can create additional read replicas from an existing one. A read replica can act as the source for new rep More Information
Published: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:00:36 Z

Now available for the General Purpose tier, accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server give you the performance benefits previously available only in the Business Critical tier. Accelerated logs boost performance for a broader range More Information
Published: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:00:36 Z

Azure Database for MySQL now enables you to configure the backup interval for the automatic backups taken by the system to improve restore speed. This new feature optimizes the process by introducing more frequent snapshots, thereby reducing the number of More Information
Published: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:00:36 Z

You can now use Microsoft Entra ID authentication to connect to Azure Database for PostgreSQL from Power BI Desktop. This update simplifies access management, enhances security, and helps you support your organization’s broader Entra-based authentication More Information
Published: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:00:44 Z

Customers can use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance for Point-to-Site VPN Gateway (P2S VPN) in Virtual WAN Service. With P2S VPN in Virtual WAN service now being generally available, customers can now configure maintenance w More Information
Published: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:00:48 Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Premium SSD v2 delivers high-performance block storage with sub-millisecond latency, high IOPS, and throughput—at a low cost. With Geo Redundant Storage (GRS) and Cross-Region Restore (CRR) support, you can safeguard VMs against data loss and perform on-d More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:15:19 Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Azure Virtual Network Manager high-scale private endpoints in connected groups is now in public preview, delivering enhanced scalability for complex Azure network environments. As organizations grow, the need to support large numbers of private endpoints More Information
Published: Tue, 13 May 2025 21:15:04 Z

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

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

PostgreSQL minor versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21 are now supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. These minor version upgrades are automatically performed as part of the monthly planned maintenance in Azure Database for More Information
Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:30:06 Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk are now available in Malaysia West region. Azure Ultra Disks are the highest-performing storage option for Azure virtual machines (VMs), offering high throughput, high IOPS, and consistent low sub-millisecond latency. U More Information
Published: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:30:35 Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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