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azure: Announcing: Reservation exchanges for Azure services supported by savings plans will no longer be available starting February 1, 2027

Azure Updates

2026-07-30

Azure will stop allowing reservation exchanges for services covered by savings plans starting February 1, 2027. At announcement time, this applies to Azure Virtual Machine compute reservations.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Symmetric keys on Azure Key Vault Premium

Azure Updates

2026-07-30

Azure Key Vault Premium now supports symmetric keys in public preview. The preview lets customers and partners evaluate symmetric encryption using oct-HSM keys and AES.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Support for SMB Opportunistic Locking (Oplocks) configuration

Azure Updates

2026-07-30

Azure NetApp Files public preview adds configurable SMB opportunistic locking (oplocks) for SMB and dual-protocol volumes. Oplocks remain enabled by default and can be set on new volumes or updated on existing ones.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs mirroring into Microsoft Fabric

Azure Updates

2026-07-29

Azure Monitor Logs can now be mirrored from Log Analytics workspaces into Microsoft Fabric in public preview. The telemetry is available in OneLake as Delta Parquet with near real-time availability and no data duplication.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 is now available for evaluation

Azure Updates

2026-07-29

Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 RC1 is available in the Retail Eval feed for evaluation. This release has no customer-facing changes, but it includes a major upgrade to the underlying Linux kernel version as part of long-term support work.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Enclave

Azure Updates

2026-07-28

Azure Enclave is now in public preview for Microsoft Azure, Azure Government, Azure Government Secret, and Azure Government Top Secret. It is intended to simplify deployment and management of isolated cloud environments for sensitive workloads.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: NAT64 on StandardV2 NAT Gateway

Azure Updates

2026-07-28

StandardV2 NAT Gateway now supports NAT64. This lets IPv6 workloads reach IPv4-only internet destinations by translating synthesized outbound IPv6 traffic to IPv4, using a DNS64-capable resolver.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Application Routing with Gateway API

Azure Updates

2026-07-28

Application Routing with Gateway API is now generally available on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It lets teams use the Kubernetes Gateway API for ingress routing while supporting existing deployments.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Resource placement in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Azure Updates

2026-07-28

Resource placement in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is now generally available. It lets users define where Kubernetes resources should be scheduled across multiple clusters to reduce manual work and improve consistency.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Maximum allowed failures for update runs in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Azure Updates

2026-07-28

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now has a preview option to set a maximum number of allowed failures for update runs. In fail-fast rollouts, this lets some member cluster update failures occur without stopping the broader deployment immediately.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Prepared Image Specification

Azure Updates

2026-07-28

Azure announces a public preview of Prepared Image Specification for AKS workloads that need faster node startup. The feature is aimed at reducing delays caused by repeated container image downloads and initialization on new nodes.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in India (India South Central)

Azure Updates

2026-07-28

Microsoft has launched a new Azure datacenter region in India, India South Central, with campuses in Hyderabad, Telangana. The region is intended to provide local cloud infrastructure for customers in India.