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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB for Visual Studio Code

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced the general availability of the Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code, a production-ready VS Code extension that lets developers manage Cosmos DB resources and develop against Cosmos DB directly inside the editor.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB fleet pools

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Cosmos DB fleet pools are now generally available. They enable easier operation of Cosmos DB accounts at scale and provide new capabilities for building multitenant SaaS applications, simplifying capacity management by allowing pooled capacity.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Container Registry Repository Permissions with Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Registry (ACR) repository permissions with attribute-based access control (ABAC) is now generally available, enabling fine-grained, least-privilege control over which Microsoft Entra identities can publish (push) or consume (pull) container images at the repository level.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs in additional regions

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs are now generally available in additional regions, enabling developers to run AI inference, model training, and other GPU-accelerated workloads using the simplicity of a serverless platform.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Application Gateway mTLS passthrough support

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Application Gateway now generally supports mTLS passthrough, enabling backend applications to receive client certificates and authorization headers for their own validation while still using the Web Application Firewall for traffic inspection.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Application Gateway for Containers – Slow start

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Slow start is now generally available for Application Gateway for Containers. The load balancing algorithm gradually increases traffic to newly created pods over a configurable window to improve stability and performance during backend scale‑up.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: AKS Automatic pod readiness SLA

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) announced General Availability of an Automatic pod readiness SLA: eligible pods will meet readiness criteria within five minutes at the 99.9th percentile, enabling customers to deploy mission-critical workloads with greater confidence.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Advanced sampling and richer data collection in Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure has made generally available enhanced sampling and richer data collection capabilities in the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro (which powers Azure Monitor Application Insights). The release introduces new sampling options including rate-limited sampling and trace-based log sampling to give teams finer control over telemetry volume and correlation.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: 2025 REST API for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced the general availability of the 2025 REST API for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, adding support for PostgreSQL 17 and 18 so you can adopt those versions without changing automation patterns; the release also includes the ability to set a default database.

azure: [Launched] Generally Availabe: SQL Server 2025

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

SQL Server 2025 is now generally available. Positioned as an AI-ready enterprise database, the release brings built-in AI capabilities and closer integration with Microsoft’s data platform as part of Microsoft’s effort to modernize enterprise data platforms.

azure: [Launched] Announcing: Resources for migrating to Azure Functions Flex Consumption

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now the recommended hosting plan for serverless workloads that need advanced scaling, improved networking, and better cost optimization. Microsoft has published resources to help customers migrate from the Azure Functions Consumption plan and from AWS Lambda to Flex Consumption.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Windows Server 2025 on AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has announced a public preview for Windows Server 2025 on AKS to help customers modernize Windows-based workloads as older Windows Server versions near end-of-support.