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azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Threat Detection in Azure Backup powered by MDC

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Backup is in public preview with threat detection for Azure VM backups, powered by Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC). The feature lets customers assess the health of VM backup restore points by identifying malicious indicators within restore points.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Monitor is in public preview for query-based metric alerts that support all metric types — platform, Prometheus, and custom — and add query capabilities using PromQL to provide broader and more powerful monitoring coverage.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Introducing SDK Stats to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure has announced a public preview of "SDK Stats" for the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro to give customers internal visibility into the Application Insights data collection pipeline, helping diagnose telemetry collection and delivery issues.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Visual Studio 2026

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2026 is generally available. The release modernizes the IDE with deep AI integration, including built-in GitHub Copilot and support for agentic workflows, to help professional developers work more productively.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Seamless failback for HyperV-to-Azure: Managed Disk support in Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is now generally available with seamless failback support from Azure VMs that use managed disks back to on-premises Hyper-V, even when the original replication used a storage account.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Capacity guidance for Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is generally available with a new capacity guidance feature that recommends alternative VM sizes during failover when the originally targeted VM size may have limited allocation availability due to capacity constraints, improving disaster recovery options.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Support for Linux major OS upgrades with Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is in public preview for supporting major Linux OS version upgrades without disabling replication or losing recovery points; supported on RHEL and SLES (for example, RHEL 8 → RHEL 9).

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Support 5x churn in Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is available in Public Preview with support for up to 5x churn, enabling up to 500 MB/s per VM. This update improves replication throughput so customers can protect high‑IOPS, high‑throughput workloads with Site Recovery.

azure: Retirement: Support for Python 3.10 ends on October 1st, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Microsoft Azure will end extended support for Python 3.10 on October 1, 2026; apps on App Service will keep running but will no longer receive security updates or customer support.

azure: Retirement: Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Microsoft announces the retirement of Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc in October 2026.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Pod CIDR expansion in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides Pod CIDR expansion in the Azure CNI Overlay as a public preview to help clusters support larger and more dynamic Kubernetes workloads.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Azure has announced public preview of eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS. The feature uses eBPF-based host routing to improve networking performance for containerized applications across distributed environments and integrates with Azure CNI.