Azure Service Updates

Today, Azure Disk Backup protects data by taking regular, crash-consistent snapshots of Azure Disks. These snapshots are stored within your subscription and tenant in a resource group, referred to as the Operational Tier in Azure Backup. This enables fast More Information
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:00:02 Z

Azure Monitor pipeline data transformations feature is now Public Preview! This feature enables users to shape telemetry before it’s ingested into Azure Monitor, helping them control ingestion costs, improve data quality, and simplify analytics at scale.B More Information
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:45:47 Z

Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 through Mosaic AI Model serving. Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most advanced model, delivering state-of-the-art performance on agentic coding, complex reasoning, and knowledge work tasks. The model More Information
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:00:01 Z

Microsoft is announcing our intent to establish a new datacenter region in Thailand. The datacenter region will expand the availability of Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud services in the region, facilitating enterprise-grade reliability, performance, and com More Information
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:00:01 Z

DCa/ECa v6 series AMD based confidential virtual machines are now generally available in 11 new regions: Canada Central, Canada East, Norway East, Norway West, Italy North, Germany North, France South, Australia East, West US, West US 3, Germany West Cent More Information
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:00:02 Z

Azure Virtual Network routing appliance offers private connectivity for workloads across virtual networks. Using specialized hardware, it delivers low latency and high throughput, and optimal performance compared to virtual machines. Deployed into priva More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:45:03 Z

Claude Opus 4.6 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic’s most advanced reasoning model to a secure, enterprise-ready platform built on Azure. With support for complex coding, knowledge work, and agent-driven workflows, including long-co More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:30:32 Z

Azure NetApp Files Elastic zone-redundant storage (ANF Elastic ZRS) is an advanced high-availability service level for Azure NetApp Files that provides continuous data access with zero data loss, even if an entire Azure Availability Zone goes offline. Bui More Information
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:00:42 Z

Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) v2 now supports additional rate‑limiting GroupBy options based on the X‑Forwarded‑For (XFF) HTTP header. This enables customers running Application Gateway behind proxies or CDNs to apply rate limits usin More Information
Published: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:30:31 Z

Azure Container Storage v2.1.0 is now generally available. This release adds native Elastic SAN support and introduces a lightweight, on-demand installation model to simplify deployment and operations for Kubernetes workloads on Azure. Elastic SAN Storage More Information
Published: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:30:31 Z

Namespace-scoped resource placement, now in preview for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, delivers fine‑grained control over selection and propagation of individual namespace‑scoped resources across multiple clusters. This new capability means it is now p More Information
Published: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:30:31 Z

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, Azure Front Door (Standard, Premium, Classic) and Azure CDN from Microsoft (Classic) services will no longer support weak cipher suites TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SH More Information
Published: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:15:39 Z

Serverless workspaces in Azure Databricks are now generally available, offering a fully managed workspace type that comes preconfigured with serverless compute and default storage. They deliver an enterprise-ready SaaS experience with zero infrastructure More Information
Published: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:15:39 Z

Announcing the general availability of Default Rule Set (DRS) 2.2 for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway.The Azure-managed DRS provides active protection against common web vulnerabilities and exploits. It also includes Microsoft Threat More Information
Published: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:45:01 Z

On July 31, 2026, we'll retire preview feature “Send virtual machine client data to Event Hubs and Storage (Preview)” and it'll no longer be supported by Microsoft. You will not be able to create any new data collection rules using this feature, and any e More Information
Published: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:30:02 Z

In alignment with the end of community support, on October 1, 2026, support for Python 3.10 in Azure Functions will end. Your apps that are hosted on Functions will continue to run, but security updates and performance optimizations will no longer be avai More Information
Published: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:15:47 Z

The general purpose Dasv7 and Dalsv7, memory-optimized Easv7, and compute-optimized Fasv7, Falsv7, Famsv7 VMs, are now generally available with and without local disk support. These VMs are available in the following Azure regions: Australia East, Central More Information
Published: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:15:24 Z

Azure Databricks Agent Bricks knowledge assistant empowers you to create, deploy, and manage AI agents directly within the Azure Databricks platform, using unified data and AI capabilities. This feature simplifies agent development by providing prebuilt c More Information
Published: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:45:08 Z

PostgreSQL minor versions 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23 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 Data More Information
Published: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:00:53 Z

Azure NetApp Files now enables fast virtual machine (VM) provisioning, instant cloning, and live migration in OpenShift Virtualization. It offers seamlessly scalable storage with predictable performance and enterprise data management for VM workloads from More Information
Published: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:00:06 Z

Announcing the preview of new Azure Dlsv7/Dsv7 General Purpose and Esv7 Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 processors (Granite Rapids). The latest Azure Intel-based v7 VMs are designed to power ever increasing com More Information
Published: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:00:06 Z

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we announced the Public Preview of the Azure Command Launcher for Java, a new JVM launcher optimized specifically for Azure. This tool provides better default ergonomics for Java applications running in containers and virtual mac More Information
Published: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:00:07 Z

Organizations deploying workloads on Kubernetes often need a consistent way to enforce pod security configurations across clusters. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Pod Security Standards within Deployment Safeguards, enabling centralized manag More Information
Published: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:30:50 Z

StandardV2 SKU NAT Gateway is now generally available, delivering enhanced resiliency, greater performance, and dual-stack connectivity, all at the same price as the Standard SKU.  StandardV2 Public IP addresses and prefixes are also generally available. More Information
Published: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:30:31 Z

Reporting capabilities are now live in Playwright Workspaces. The latest update brings you an integrated, flexible and collaborative reporting experience designed to make debugging tests in Playwright Workspaces easier, faster and more efficient. Customer More Information
Published: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:00:03 Z

Azure Load Testing capability in Azure App Testing is now generally available in Switzerland North. Customers can now use Azure Load Testing, a fully managed load-testing service to generate high scale load and run simulations, easily identify performance More Information
Published: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:08 Z

The functionality of application volume group for Oracle has been expanded with the ability to create data protection volumes in a volume group with the same anti-affinity layout as production volume groups. Customers benefit from this ability for creatin More Information
Published: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:08 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: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:15:11 Z

Customers upgrading AKS clusters often need a clear and flexible path to adopt new OS versions without disrupting workloads. Ubuntu 24.04 is now generally available on AKS starting with Kubernetes version 1.32, with containerd 2.0 enabled by default. It More Information
Published: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:00:07 Z

User delegation SAS for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues is now available in public preview. User delegation (UDK) SAS is already generally available for blobs, and this release extends that support to tables, files, and queues.User delegation More Information
Published: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:00:49 Z

Ubuntu 24.04 is now generally available on AKS in Kubernetes version 1.32 and above. Containerd 2.0 is enabled by default. Ubuntu 24.04 is default with `Ubuntu` OS Sku in kubernetes version 1.35 and above. There are two ways that Ubuntu 24.04 can be enabl More Information
Published: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:45:12 Z

Available now in Public Preview, you can configure Azure Cosmos DB accounts with virtual networks or private endpoints to work with Microsoft Fabric mirroring. This feature allows you to preserve your enhanced network security and seamlessly replicate you More Information
Published: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:30:36 Z

The new cloud-native apps on Kubernetes pricing calculator scenario allows teams to estimate the total cost of ownership for a production-ready AKS cluster with other key Azure services, including Azure Container Registry, Azure Monitoring, Microsoft Defe More Information
Published: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:00:35 Z

The Geo-Replication feature for Azure Service Bus in the premium tier is now generally available. The Service Bus Geo-Replication feature is one of the options to insulate Azure Service Bus applications against outages and disasters, providing replication More Information
Published: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:00:35 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in Austria East and in a second Availability Zone in Japan West.  Azure Premium SSD v2, a next-generation general-purpose block storage solution, offers sub-millisecond latencies and exceptional price performance for More Information
Published: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:45:49 Z

In 2026, Azure Resource Manager will be deprecating the Custom Resource Provider (CuRP) service.We will retire the feature by October 31, 2026. We will be performing a scream test on October 27, 2025, as part of this deprecation. On July 31, 2026, creates More Information
Published: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:30:40 Z

Azure Storage Mover’s new Azure Blob container-to-container migration feature is now in Public Preview, empowering organizations to move data between two Blob containers within the same or different storage accounts, subscriptions or Azure regions securel More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:45:03 Z

Azure Functions triggers and bindings enable you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications. Now that SDK type bindings support for Azure Blob Storage is available, we’re also introducing support for Service Bus SDK type bindi More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:45:01 Z

In mid-December 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Identify causes that auto-resume serverless workloads using Activity Log in Azure SQL Database to troubleshoot and optimize access patterns. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:30:05 Z

You can now simplify how you diagnose and resolve issues in your applications running on Azure Cosmos DB with the introduction of the Azure Cosmos DB Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent, built on the Azure SRE Agent platform. This new capability give More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:30:05 Z

Cross-zone-region replication builds on the existing capabilities of cross-region replication and cross-zone replication. It enables you to replicate volumes across regions and across availability zones within the same region, combining disaster recovery More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:45:45 Z

Azure NetApp Files advanced ransomware protection (ANF ARP) is now in Public Preview. ANF ARP is designed to help organizations proactively detect, respond to, and recover from ransomware threats on cloud volumes. ANF ARP monitors Azure NetApp Files volu More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:45:45 Z

The retirement date for default outbound access has been extended to March 31, 2026. This change aligns with the broader Azure Virtual Network (VNet) update and replaces the previously communicated September 30, 2025 date. Starting March 31, 2026, newly c More Information
Published: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:30:27 Z

You can now receive insights where collaboration happens—in Microsoft Teams—with expanded dashboard subscription capabilities in Azure Databricks. This enhancement delivers timely, actionable data directly into team workflows, reducing the need to check e More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:30:24 Z

Azure Sphere OS version 25.12 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. Whilst this release encompasses no customer-facing changes, it represents significant under-the-hood build system changes, as such, this release will operate for an ext More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:00:36 Z

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 is a US government standard that defines minimum security requirements for cryptographic modules in information technology products and systems. Azure Application Gateway V2 now supports FIPS mode, More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:15:11 Z

Zonal Placement for Azure Files Premium LRS is now GA in select regions! This capability gives you explicit control over zone locality by pinning storage accounts to a specific availability zone, enabling high availability, fault isolation, and predictabl More Information
Published: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:45:02 Z

Mistral Large 3, a frontier-class open-weight model with Apache 2.0 licensing, is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure. This model delivers enterprise-grade reliability, long-context comprehension, and multimodal reasoning—making it ideal for produ More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:30:44 Z

The Azure MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server provides a streamlined approach for managing Azure resources—including Azure confidential ledger—through natural language prompts. This feature allows users to interact with confidential ledger without the nee More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:00:18 Z

Serverless workspaces in Azure Databricks are now available in Public Preview, offering a fully managed workspace type that comes preconfigured with serverless compute and default storage to deliver an enterprise-ready SaaS experience with minimal infrast More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:15:01 Z

Announcing the general availability of resumable uploads for Azure Storage Blob SFTP. In the event of a failed partial transfer, this new feature enables users to open the partial file and continue writing the remaining content. This capability optimizes More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:00:46 Z

On June 30, 2026, AzureML SDK V1 will reach end of life. The following SDKs which work in tandem with the AzureML SDK V1 will also be retired.  azureml-train-core  azureml-pipeline  azureml-pipeline-core  azureml-pipeline-internal  azureml-pipeline-steps More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:00:12 Z

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server in the Belgium Central Azure region. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:30:15 Z

Now you can upgrade the pg_squeeze extension to version 1.9.1 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:30:15 Z

Now you can install the ip4r extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Ip4r provides efficient storage and indexing functionality for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and ranges. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:30:15 Z

Now you can install the credcheck extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. The credcheck extension helps you to enforce password and credential validation policies directly within PostgreSQL. Learn more. More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:30:15 Z

Bandwidth metrics for Azure Load Balancer are now published with metric dimension Protocol. When retrieving or viewing Byte, Packet, and SYN Count metrics in the Azure portal, you will now see the dimension Protocol. TCP traffic is denoted by Protocol=6, More Information
Published: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:00:27 Z

We are announcing the general availability of the Perth Azure Extended Zone. Azure Extended Zones are small-footprint extensions of Azure placed in metro areas, industry centers, or specific jurisdictions, to serve low latency and data residency workloa More Information
Published: Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:30:38 Z

Announcing the public preview of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Azure API Management and Azure API Center. With this new capability, enterprises can transform their existing APIs into dynamic, agent-ready tools, while improving security and simpl More Information
Published: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

VNET flow log captures IP traffic flowing through VNETs, subnets, and NICs for monitoring, troubleshooting, network optimization, security, and compliance needs and stores the logs in Azure Storage Traffic Analytics leverages VNET flow logs and aggregates More Information
Published: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:45:50 Z

Claude Opus 4.5 is now available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry, bringing advanced coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise productivity to Azure customers. Claude Opus 4.5 sets a new benchmark for performance and versatility, outperforming previ More Information
Published: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:30:10 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: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:00:42 Z

Announcing Azure Bastion now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication for RDP connections to Windows VMs directly in the portal. This update brings two key benefits for RDP users connecting to their virtual machines: Enhanced Security: By eliminating lo More Information
Published: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:15:03 Z

Azure Load Testing capability in Azure App Testing is now generally available in Italy North. Customers can now use Azure Load Testing, a fully managed load-testing service to generate high scale load and run simulations, easily identify performance bottl More Information
Published: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:00:10 Z

Boost your SQL queries with powerful regular expressions (regex) support for advanced pattern matching. Now you can use native regex in T-SQL directly in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2025 queries—simplifying code, improving maintainability, and reducing depen More Information
Published: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:00:10 Z

Announcing that Azure MCP Server now supports Azure Database for MySQL. With this update, you can empower AI agents and applications to interact with your MySQL data using natural language through the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). Instead of writing More Information
Published: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:00:10 Z

Azure Functions now supports custom handlers in Flex consumption. Custom handlers are lightweight web servers that receive events from the Functions host. Any language that supports HTTP primitives can implement a custom handler. Custom handlers are best More Information
Published: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:15:38 Z

On September 30, 2025, Low-Priority VM will reach end of life. However, you will continue to be supported on Azure Machine Learning until March 31, 2026.  To ensure that your clusters are not automatically scaled down it is recommended to migrate to dedic More Information
Published: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:45:18 Z

Container network metrics filtering in Azure Container Networking Services (ACNS) is now available in public preview. In containerized environments, the ingestion of excessive network metrics can lead to inflated storage costs and cluttered dashboards, ma More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:00:10 Z

MCP support for AI toolchain operator add-on is now Generally Available. The AI Toolchain Operator add-on now supports KAITO inference workspaces with integrated tool calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP), addressing key challenges around dynamic mo More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:45:04 Z

Cluster-wide Cilium network policy for AKS clusters using Azure CNI powered by Cilium is now Generally Available. Managing consistent network policies across Kubernetes namespaces has long been a challenge for platform teams, especially in multi-tenant More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:30:02 Z

Local redirect policy with Azure CNI powered by Cilium for AKS is now generally available. Customers running high-scale AKS workloads often experience latency and performance bottlenecks due to cross-node traffic routing. The new local redirect policy add More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:30:02 Z

To address the growing need for granular traffic control in microservices architectures, Azure Container Networking Services now offers Layer 7 Policy as a generally available feature. This capability empowers customers to enforce fine-grained traffic con More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:15:25 Z

With Azure NetApp Files single file restore from backup, you can restore individual files from Azure NetApp Files backup vault without needing to restore an entire volume. By restoring only the necessary files, you can save time and cost needed for restor More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:15:25 Z

Azure DNS security policy Threat Intelligence feed is now generally available. Protect against known malicious domains with Microsoft’s managed Threat Intelligent feed. Smart Protection Almost all attacks begin with a DNS query. Threat Intelligen More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:00:13 Z

Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 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: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:00:12 Z

Announcing that Trusted Launch supported Arm64 Images are now available in the Azure Marketplace. You can now get the dual benefit of cost and performance efficiencies of Arm64 in addition to the security benefits of Trusted Launch. Arm64 VMs bring cost More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:00:59 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: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:45:47 Z

Azure NetApp Files cache volumes are now available in public preview. The cache volumes feature is a new capability built on NetApp’s ONTAP FlexCache technology that provides a persistent, high-performance cache in Azure for data stored on ONTAP-based sto More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:45:47 Z

Azure Monitor provides a complete set of services for monitoring the health and performance of different layers of your Kubernetes infrastructure and the applications that depend on it.Azure Monitor now supports Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift More Information
Published: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:00:32 Z

Azure Managed Lustre now offers full integration with Azure MCP Server, and this capability is generally available. Azure MCP Server enables developers and infrastructure teams to manage Azure resources—including Azure Managed Lustre file systems—using na More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:00:38 Z

CSI Dynamic Provisioning for Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) is now generally available. With dynamic provisioning, Kubernetes applications can request AMLFS-backed persistent volumes on demand using standard StorageClass and PersistentVolumeClaim objects—no More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:00:38 Z

Azure Managed Lustre now offers a new 20 MB/s/TiB performance tier in public preview, designed to meet the demands of large-scale AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. This tier enables customers to provision file systems up to 25 PiB in a si More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:00:38 Z

The Auto-import feature for Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) is now available in public preview. Auto-import enables seamless, policy-driven synchronization of data from Azure Blob Storage containers into AMLFS clusters, automatically reflecting new, changed, More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:00:49 Z

Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for Azure Monitor Managed service for Prometheus customers. These alerts enable you to monitor the ingestion limits for Azure Monitor Workspace and avoid metr More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:45:05 Z

Azure Managed Redis is now available as part of the Microsoft Foundry MCP tools catalog, allowing customers to use Redis as a knowledge store or memory store for AI agents. This integration makes it simple to connect Redis to Foundry-based agents, enablin More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:30:18 Z

Azure Application Gateway has introduced general availability support for TLS and TCP protocol termination. This enhancement enables you to load balance and securely process non-HTTP(S) traffic for applications that rely on TCP or TLS protocols. The gatew More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:00:30 Z

Azure Databricks Genie is now integrated with Microsoft Foundry and in public preview. You can now connect Genie spaces directly to Microsoft Foundry agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP), giving you seamless access to trusted data for building intell More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:00:30 Z

Azure Databricks Genie is now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio, giving you direct access to intelligent, enterprise-grade AI answers across your full Azure Databricks data estate. This integration unlocks enterprise-grade, conversational analytics ac More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:00:30 Z

Announcing the public preview of A2A API support in Azure API Management. With this new capability, organizations can manage and govern agent APIs alongside other API types — AI model APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, and traditional APIs such as More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:00:30 Z

Claude models by Anthropic are now available for Public Preview in Microsoft Foundry, expanding the platform’s unified ecosystem of frontier AI. Enterprises can access Claude Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5 for advanced long-context reasoning, coding, More Information
Published: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:31 Z

Following our Azure Copilot announcement introducing agentic capabilities, this update focuses on one of the six new agents: the deployment agent. The deployment agent helps you discover, plan, and deploy cloud workloads faster and with confidence using n More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:15:19 Z

Engineered for performance, Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL delivers future-proof, autoscaling storage up to 128 TB, up to 3 times faster performance than open-source PostgreSQL, and rapid compute scalability to 3,072 vCores. Now in private preview, Azure More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:00:28 Z

The VS Code Private Marketplace is a secure, enterprise-ready way to host and manage extensions internally—fully integrated with VS Code. Teams can self-host, deploy easily, and manage updates with flexibility and control.Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:00:28 Z

With Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security, protect cloud-native applications across the full app lifecycle from code to cloud. This natively integrated solution helps unify developers and security teams in one workflow while staying i More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:00:28 Z

Introducing smart tier Public Preview for account level tiering Announcing the public preview of smart tier for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). Smart tier is a fully managed and automated data tiering solution, avoiding manual tier More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:00:28 Z

Announcing Managed Instance on Azure App Service, now in Public Preview! This new capability makes it easy to move web apps to the cloud with minimal configuration—no code rewrites required. Whether your .NET apps run on-premises or in VMs, you can move t More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:00:28 Z

The Azure Boost confidential device feature is now in preview. Azure Boost is a Microsoft Azure system that offloads virtualization tasks—such as networking, storage, and host management—from the hypervisor and host OS to purpose-built hardware and softwa More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Application Gateway WAF v2. HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, and traditional static controls often fall short against evolving botnets. The new HTTP DDoS Rul More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Remote storage throughput and network bandwidth performance enhancements for the latest Azure Boost architecture are now in preview. Azure Boost is a Microsoft Azure system that offloads virtualization tasks—such as networking, storage, and host managemen More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

We are announcing the public preview of NCv6 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition Virtual Machines, as the next enhancement of NC Series VMs available on Azure. Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 BSE GPUs are designed to accelerate a wide array of workloads including v More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure SRE Agent is an AI-driven solution that unifies operational workflows into a single, prompt-based automation layer—eliminating complexity and reducing overhead for modern cloud operations. Unlike traditional, static automation solutions, SRE Agent l More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure continues to embrace open standards by adding new capabilities to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro that powers Azure Monitor Application Insights. New Capabilities:Rate-limited sampling and trace-based log sampling: New sampling options in th More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Agentless Connection Troubleshoot (public preview) introduces a faster, simpler, and fully agentless way to diagnose network connectivity issues across Azure resources. Previously, running connectivity checks required installing the Network Watcher Extens More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) visualization in Network Watcher Topology (Public Preview) delivers end-to-end visibility of AKS clusters directly within the Azure networking experience. Customers can now explore their Kubernetes environments, including th More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

VNet Flow Log captures IP traffic flowing through VNets, Subnets, & NICs for monitoring, troubleshooting, network optimization, security, and compliance needs. This release introduces advanced filtering capabilities in VNet Flow Logs, empowering users wit More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway (ErGwScale) is our next-generation offering that brings flexibility, performance, and operational simplicity to Virtual Network Gateway deployments. With this release, you can dynamically scale gateway infrastructure to meet More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Organizations operating Azure Container Registries (ACR) require least-privilege permissions over which Microsoft Entra identities can publish or consume container images. With ACR repository permissions using attribute-based access control (ABAC), admini More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

AKS desktop delivers a modern, application-centric experience for deploying and managing workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service. Built on supported AKS features, best practices, and the open-source Headlamp project, it offers a guided, self-service interfa More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Running containerized workloads in shared environments can raise concerns around security and workload isolation. To address this, AKS now supports pod sandboxing, enabling customers to run containers in per-workload pod VMs. Each pod VM is isolated from More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Managing namespace configurations across AKS clusters has traditionally required manual setup and ongoing maintenance, creating complexity and potential for misconfiguration. With the general availability of Managed Namespaces, AKS now enables users to ea More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Managing Kubernetes clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be complex and fragmented. To simplify this, Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, enabling organizations to seamlessly manage any CNCF-complia More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Organizations running Windows-based workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) face increasing pressure to modernize as support timelines for older Windows Server versions approach retirement. To help customers prepare, AKS now offers preview support for More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic clusters now come with a pod readiness SLA, guaranteeing that eligible pods meet readiness criteria within five minutes at the 99.9th percentile. This empowers customers to confidently deploy mission critical workl More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Provisioning and maintaining system node pools in AKS requires ongoing effort to ensure proper scaling, patching, and availability, tasks that can divert resources from application development and delivery. Managed system node pools in AKS Automatic remov More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now build and host reliable production-grade AI agents using the durable extension for Microsoft Agent Framework. This integration combines the Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Functions’ durable capabilities, delivering proven orchestration a More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Managing IP address spaces across multiple regions can be complex and error-prone. With this new capability, you can now associate a single IPAM pool with virtual networks in multiple regions, simplifying governance and ensuring consistent CIDR allocatio More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager address space overlap prevention in mesh is now generally available, bringing enhanced reliability and governance to multi-virtual network environments. Unintended address overlap within mesh can lead to dropped traffic. This More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now develop functions using Node.js 24 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions on Windows and Linux. Note: Node.js 24 does not support 32-bit systems on Windows. To ensure compatibility, new Windows Function Apps for Node.js 24 now default to More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now develop functions using Java 25 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions on Windows and Linux. Upgrade your apps to Java 25 to take advantage of enhanced security, a longer support window, and continued compatibility with the Azure Function More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Slow start is now generally available as a load balancing algorithm in Application Gateway for Containers. This feature improves stability and performance during backend scale-up by gradually increasing traffic to new pods over a configurable time window. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Application Gateway for Containers now supports integration with Istio service mesh through an optional service mesh extension. This feature simplifies secure north-south communication between external clients and services within the service mesh. Single More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can run bigger, faster workloads on fewer nodes using high-performance storage for Azure DocumentDB. This update delivers up to 64 TiB capacity, 80,000 IOPS, and 1,200 MB/s throughput per physical shard (node). Storage IOPS and throughput on Azure More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a way for apps to provide capabilities and context to a large language model. A key feature of MCP is the ability to define tools that AI agents can leverage to accomplish whatever tasks they’ve been given. MCP servers can More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Earlier this year, we introduced Azure Functions durable task scheduler, an orchestration engine designed for complex workflows and intelligent agents. It automatically checkpoints progress and protects your orchestration state, enabling resilient and rel More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

We are introducing a new capability that allows you to host remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers built with the MCP SDKs on Functions. Some key benefits of hosting on the Functions platform include: Built-in server authentication Automatic and bur More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now the recommended hosting plan for serverless workloads requiring advanced scaling, networking, and cost optimization. To support customers migrating from the Azure Functions Consumption plan or from AWS Lambda, Micro More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Functions now supports OpenTelemetry in general availability (GA), enabling developers to export logs, traces, and metrics using open standards. This release builds on the public preview and delivers a production-ready observability experience for s More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps is bringing the familiar developer workflow of Docker Compose directly to Azure Container Apps. As one of the most widely adopted tools among developers, Docker Compose simplifies defining and running multi-container applications, and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Flexible workload profile represents a new option that blends the simplicity of consumption with many of the performance and control characteristics of dedicated workload profiles. This offers the same easy-to-understand, pay-per-use serverless model as C More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

To meet growing demand for GPU-powered workloads, Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs are now generally available in additional regions. This expansion enables developers to run AI inference, model training, and GPU-accelerated workloads with the simplic More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Confidential computing support in Azure Container Apps is now in public preview. This release brings hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to your containerized workloads. Azure already provides encryption of data at rest and in transit, an More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

StandardV2 SKU NAT Gateway is now in public preview, delivering next-generation capabilities for scalable and resilient outbound connectivity. New offerings: Zone-Redundancy: Built for high availability in availability zone supported regions. Traffic surv More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

SQL database in Fabric is now generally available. Built on the trusted SQL Server and Azure SQL Database engine, this fully SaaS-native solution empowers developers and data professionals to unify operational and analytical workloads with speed, security More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports Italian and Portuguese languages in full-text search, available today in public preview. This update adds to the list of supported languages, enabling you to build rich, language-aware search experiences that underst More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now offers an MCP Toolkit that can be used with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, available today in public preview. This new integration allows you to connect Microsoft Foundry Agents directly to data in Azure Cosmos DB. By dep More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports fuzzy search in full-text search. With fuzzy search, you can deliver typo-tolerant, error-resilient search experiences directly within Azure Cosmos DB, helping your users find the right results even when queries or t More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

This release gives you faster vector inserts and index builds in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, helping you reduce end-to-end ingestion and indexing times for large AI workloads. This improvement is powered by algorithmic enhancements to our vector indexing e More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Cosmos DB now supports float 16 data types for vector indexes. With this update, you can store and query vectors using half-precision floating-point numbers. Using float16 cuts storage usage in half compared to float32, while maintaining high retrie More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Developers today are building more intelligent, connected, and autonomous applications than ever before. From personalized chatbots and copilots to dynamic content engines and decision systems, data is the foundation of these agentic experiences. Azure C More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now generally available, Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring in Fabric enables you to seamlessly integrate your existing operational workloads with the analytical capabilities of Microsoft Fabric. You can take advantage of the innovations in Fabric, running SQL que More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now generally available, Cosmos DB in Fabric enables you to build operational and analytical workloads in Microsoft Fabric. You can use the AI-features in Azure Cosmos DB plus the innovations in Fabric to run SQL queries over JSON data and build real-time More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Integrated into the DocumentDB for VS Code extension, the Index Advisor enables you to view and debug database performance. It uses natural language to recommend optimal indexing and best practices for your MongoDB workloads. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now enable priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB to ensure that high-priority requests are favored during periods of contention. The system will throttle low-priority requests first, allowing high-priority operations to proceed on a best-eff More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now unify insights across your entire Azure Cosmos DB footprint using Azure Cosmos DB Fleet Analytics, available in public preview. Fleet Analytics helps you manage data across multiple accounts, subscriptions, and workloads, providing large-scale More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can more easily operate your Azure Cosmos DB accounts at scale. Azure Cosmos DB fleet pools give you new capabilities when building multitenant software as a service (SaaS) applications. You can simplify capacity management by creating a pool of More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Microsoft is announcing the general availability of Azure DocumentDB, a fully managed document database service built on the open-source, MongoDB-compatible DocumentDB, now governed by the Linux Foundation. Formerly known as Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (v More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now help protect sensitive data from unauthorized access using dynamic data masking (DDM), a server-side, policy-based security feature in Azure Cosmos DB. DDM dynamically masks data for non-privileged users, ensuring that sensitive information is More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure DocumentDB using the new Azure DocumentDB Migration extension for Visual Studio Code—now available in public preview. This seamless, zero-cost migration supports both online and offline modes, simplifying and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the general availability of seamless, self-serve online migrations from Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB RU to Azure DocumentDB—directly from the Azure portal. With this release, your organization can modernize its MongoDB workloads with zero downti More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL is now simpler and faster with the new Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tooling, available directly in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. This new tool helps you seamlessly convert your O More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the general availability of the 2025 REST API for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This release adds support for PostgreSQL 17 and 18, so you can adopt new versions without changing your automation patterns. You can also now set the default datab More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can use elastic clusters to horizontally scale Azure Database for PostgreSQL through row-based and schema-based sharding. Elastic clusters make it easy to build multitenant apps by offloading shard management and operations—such as tenant isolatio More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Foundry support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The Azure PostgreSQL MCP Server is now natively integrated with Microsoft Foundry. This integration enables you to build AI agents to securely query and analyze More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

The anon extension is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. This extension provides data anonymization tools. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can deploy general purpose and memory-optimized v6-series Azure Virtual Machines with local NVMe storage in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. The v6 series is available with either Intel or AMD processor options. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Now you can create pg_duckdb extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, so you can accelerate analytics using DuckDB’s vectorized, columnar execution. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now stream data changes in near real time from Azure SQL Database directly into Azure Event Hubs. With the public preview of change event streaming (CES), you can streamline data integration and support enhanced analytics, event-driven architectur More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now use PostgreSQL 18 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This release introduces the latest PostgreSQL innovations along with seamless in-place upgrade support, allowing you to move from earlier versions without changing your server endpoint, recon More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing that the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available. With this powerful tool, you can connect to PostgreSQL database instances, run queries, create and manage connection profiles, and take advantage of Microsoft Entra ID More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now bring data together and simplify analytics using Microsoft Fabric mirroring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, now generally available. Mirroring in Fabric unifies your organizational data in OneLake and supports network-isolat More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing that Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server now supports the Azure Storage extension with Parquet format and multiple compression options. You can seamlessly read and write Parquet files directly from your database, enabling faster data More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

The Next‑gen General Purpose tier delivers a major performance boost while preserving the cost advantages you expect. You get more power and compute flexibility without sacrificing the simplicity of a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) experience. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the public preview of vector indexing using DiskANN in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. DiskANN is an algorithm for efficient vector similarity search, making it ideal for product recommendati More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now integrates GitHub Copilot, bringing AI-powered SQL assistance directly into your development workflow. Together, they help you reduce repetitive tasks, accelerate development, and design database schemas and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

You can now configure immutability for Azure SQL Database LTR backups to meet compliance and regulatory needs. Once immutability is configured, the backups can’t be edited or deleted until the specified retention expires, mitigating any potential ransomwa More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has long been the trusted tool for managing SQL databases, writing T-SQL, and troubleshooting issues. With SSMS 22, built on Visual Studio 2026, you get support for SQL Server 2025, improved integration with SQL databas More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing that the mssql-python driver is now generally available. This milestone marks a major step forward in delivering a modern, high-performance, and developer-friendly experience for Python developers working with SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, an More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

A new SQL Server migration in Azure Arc solution streamlines and accelerates your journey to Azure SQL Managed Instance. Powered by Azure Database Migration Service and assisted by Copilot, it delivers an automated, end-to-end migration process that inclu More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

SQL Server 2025, the AI-ready enterprise database, is now generally available, marking a major milestone in Microsoft’s mission to modernize enterprise data platforms. This release introduces built-in AI capabilities, seamless integration with Microsoft F More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

In November 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Apply the reservation discount for a 1-year or 3-year reservation of a zone-redundant Azure SQL Managed Instance in the General Purpose tier to both the standard compute and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

In November 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: View, modify, insert rows in a table without manually writing T-SQL code using the interactive Edit Data interface in the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports dynamic shell sessions in public preview. A shell session is a platform-managed built-in container used to run and execute common shell commands in an isolated sandboxed environment. With Azure Container Apps dynamic ses More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps now supports deployment labels in public preview as a new deployment mode. This feature simplifies environment management and enables advanced deployment strategies for your applications by allowing you to assign meaningful names—such More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps support for rule-based routing is now generally available. This feature provides greater flexibility and composability to your Azure Container Apps by simplifying your architecture for microservice applications, A/B testing, blue-gree More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure Container Apps support for premium ingress is now generally available. This feature introduces environment-level ingress configuration options, with the primary highlight being customizable ingress scaling. This capability supports the scaling of th More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing the preview of JSON Web Token (JWT) validation in Azure Application Gateway — enabling authentication and token validation right at the Application gateway before traffic reaches your backend applications or APIs.Why It mattersProtect at the pe More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Announcing a new mTLS enhancement in Azure Application Gateway for backend applications that perform client certificate and authorization header validation at the backend while still requiring web traffic inspection through the Web Application Firewall (W More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Cloud operations need more than reactive troubleshooting, they demand intelligent observability that scales across resources and delivers actionable insights when services aren’t performing as expected.Introducing the Azure Copilot observability agent tha More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:30:36 Z

Announcing private preview of Active MQ/JMS connector in Azure Logic Apps. With this capability, you can now connect to enterprise messaging systems built on ActiveMQ and JMS for advanced hybrid integration scenarios. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing new capabilities in Azure Logic Apps that expand healthcare interoperability support through a rich set of connectors. The following connectors are now in public preview: HL7 connector: Enable seamless healthcare data exchange using HL7 messagi More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Schedule Actions gives the ability to manage the lifecycle of VMs at high scale on a periodic basis. Subscription throttling and retries due to transient errors are handled automatically to ensure that your operations succeed without additional overhead.W More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Marketplace — your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents — is now globally available following its launch in the United States in September. All traffic from legacy storefronts (Azure Marketplace and AppSource) is now redirecte More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

To help commercial customers maximize their technology innovation with Azure, Microsoft Marketplace is fully embracing the channel-led Marketplace opportunity with the general availability of resale enabled offers. Resale enabled offers enable software c More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing new enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization that are in Public Preview, making it easier than ever to modernize applications, databases, containers, and accelerate migration to Azure. Below are the new capabilities in public preview. More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the public preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 VM series, powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® processors. The Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 VMs deliver up to and industry leading 800,000 IOPS and 14 GBps of remote disk storage throughput, providing high-perfo More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

For organizations leveraging individual user and group quotas in Azure NetApp Files to manage capacity on NFS, SMB, and dual-protocol volumes, the user and group quota reporting feature offers clear visibility into key metrics such as quota limits, used c More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing new capabilities in Azure Logic Apps that expand hybrid integration through a rich set of connectors. The following connectors are now generally available: Confluent Kafka connector: Connect Logic Apps to Confluent Cloud for event streaming and More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the public preview of the redesigned designer experience for Azure Logic Apps (Standard), a major update that makes building, editing, and managing workflows faster and more intuitive. The new designer brings run history and workflow editing cl More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing a new set of capabilities for Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps, now in public preview. These updates expand how organizations can build, secure, and deploy agentic workflows across their enterprise environments enabling more flexible AI orchestra More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the public preview of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps (Consumption) — bringing agentic intelligence and adaptive workflows to the serverless Logic Apps runtime. Agent Loop enables you to move beyond traditional, static automation by creating goa More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the general availability of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps (Standard), a breakthrough capability that redefines how organizations design and automate business processes. Agent Loop enables you to move beyond traditional workflow automation by b More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of automated testing for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) in the Visual Studio Code extension. This new capability empowers developers and integration specialists to build more reliable workflows by simplifyin More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Model Context Protocol (MCP) governance in Azure API Management (APIM) is now generally available.This release extends Azure API Management’s proven governance, security, and observability model to a new generation of AI-driven workloads. Enterprises can More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

API Center Standard, previously a separate paid offering, is now included at no additional cost for all Azure API Management Standard and Premium customers, when an API Center instance is linked with a corresponding Azure API Management service (for both More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing the general availability of the Azure API Management Premium v2 tier, our most powerful and scalable option for managing APIs at enterprise scale. Premium v2 delivers superior performance, the highest entity limits, unlimited included API calls More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now generally available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), enabling customers to manage virtual machines and containers from one cloud-native platform. This GA builds on feedback from the preview announced at Red Hat Sum More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning is updated to reflect a complete redesign of Foundry’s UI, delivering an agent-first experience for developers and data scientists. The new interface streamlines model creation, evaluation, and deployment, integrates with VS More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Microsoft Foundry introduces a unified platform for enterprise AI agent observability, security, and governance. The Control Plane integrates identity, monitoring, and compliance, providing centralized control, deep observability, and compliance for agent More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Announcing new enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization that are Generally Available, making it easier than ever to modernize applications, databases, containers, and accelerate migration to Azure. Below capabilities are now Generally Available: F More Information
Published: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z