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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: OpenShift Virtualization now available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now generally available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), enabling customers to run and manage virtual machines and containers from a single cloud-native platform. The GA release builds on feedback from the preview announced at Red Hat Summit.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Observability in Foundry Control Plane

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced Observability in Foundry Control Plane with public preview for agents and a GA pre-announcement for model evaluations. The capability is a suite of tools to evaluate, monitor, and optimize model quality, performance, and safety within the Foundry Control Plane.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: New Hybrid Integration Connectors for Azure Logic Apps

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced that Azure Logic Apps has expanded hybrid integration with a new set of connectors now generally available. The announcement highlights the Confluent Kafka connector, which enables Logic Apps to connect to Confluent Cloud for event streaming.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Model Router in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft Foundry's Model Router is now generally available. The Model Router is an AI orchestration layer that dynamically selects the optimal model for each prompt and now supports a broader range of models including the GPT-4 family, GPT-5 family, GPT-oss, and Deepse.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Marketplace

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft Marketplace, a consolidated storefront for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents, is now generally available worldwide after its initial U.S. launch in September; traffic from legacy storefronts (Azure Marketplace and AppSource) is being redirected to the new Marketplace.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Govern Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints using Azure API Management

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure API Management (APIM) now generally supports governance for Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints. The GA release brings APIM's governance, security, and observability capabilities to AI-driven workloads, enabling enterprises to manage and monitor MCP endpoints through existing APIM controls.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: GitHub Copilot app modernization expanded capabilities

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced Generally Available enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization, expanding capabilities to simplify modernization of applications, databases and containers and to accelerate migrations to Azure.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Foundry Tools (rebrand from Azure AI Services)

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced Foundry Tools (rebranded from Azure AI Services) as generally available — a unified suite of prebuilt, production-ready AI capabilities for audio, video, images, documents, and text, seamlessly integrated into the Microsoft Foundry platform to empower developers.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Custom error pages on Azure App Service

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure App Service now generally supports custom error pages, allowing apps to show user-defined error pages instead of the default ones.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Content Understanding in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced general availability of Content Understanding, which now connects to Microsoft Foundry model deployments and adds enterprise features including VNet, Managed Identity, and Customer Managed Key support.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor unified onboarding experience for AKS and VMs

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Monitor now provides a unified, single-click onboarding experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and virtual machines (VMs), now generally available. The new experience simplifies setup by automatically deploying the latest Azure Monitor capabilities.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Automated Testing Framework for Logic Apps [Standard]

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced general availability of an automated testing framework for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) in the Visual Studio Code extension, enabling developers and integration specialists to create automated tests to improve workflow reliability.