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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Vaulted backup for Azure Files (Premium)

Azure Updates

2025-09-22

Azure Backup now offers generally available vaulted backups for Azure Files premium shares, providing vault-based protection to help ensure business continuity and compliance.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager – auto-upgrade target Kubernetes version channel

Azure Updates

2025-09-19

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager (Public Preview) adds a new auto-upgrade channel that lets you set a target Kubernetes minor version. Clusters on that target minor will receive only patch updates (no minor upgrades) until the minor reaches end-of-life.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: High Scale mode for Azure Monitor – Container Insights

Azure Updates

2025-09-19

Azure announced general availability of High scale mode for Container Insights, Azure Monitor’s log-collection solution for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The new mode is designed to provide higher log collection throughput for customers with large or high-throughput clusters.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Managed Service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal

Azure Updates

2025-09-19

Azure announces a public preview where Azure Managed Service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards accessible within the Azure portal at no additional cost, aiming to simplify observability and reduce administrative overhead.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Data Box Next Gen is now generally available in additional regions

Azure Updates

2025-09-19

Azure Data Box Next Gen is now generally available in India, Qatar, South Africa, and Korea; the 120 TB and 525 TB Data Box SKUs are GA in the US, UK, Europe, and US Gov.

azure: Retirement: Licensing changes for future Azure VMware Solution subscriptions starting October 16, 2025.

Azure Updates

2025-09-18

Broadcom changed VMware licensing: beginning October 16, 2025, new Azure VMware Solution (AVS) subscriptions will require customers to bring their own portable VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) subscriptions. Existing AVS customers can continue operating under current arrangements.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: DCa/ECa v6 series AMD based confidential virtual machines (VMs)

Azure Updates

2025-09-18

Microsoft announced general availability of DCa/ECa v6 AMD-based confidential virtual machines in several regions, built on 4th generation AMD hardware.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager – update run approval gates

Azure Updates

2025-09-18

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager (public preview) now lets you add approval gates to update runs. Gates can be placed before and after update groups and stages to give operators manual control over the progression of an update run.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Distributed tracing for Durable Functions

Azure Updates

2025-09-18

Azure announced General Availability of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions, a robust tracing model that lets developers correlate operations across orchestrations, activities, and durable entities to improve debugging and observability.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions .NET 10 support

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Azure Functions now supports .NET 10 in Public Preview. To use it, change the Functions project's target framework and update Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Sdk to version 2.0.5 or later. The announcement also indicates .NET 10 projects can be deployed to app (source content truncated).

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Introducing the new Network Security Hub experience

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Azure has made the expanded and rebranded Azure Firewall Manager generally available as the Network Security Hub — a centralized management experience that consolidates Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and DDoS Protection to simplify policy, visibility, and protection across deployments.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Databricks One in Azure Databricks

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Databricks One is available in Azure Databricks as a public preview offering a unified, simplified platform that combines data engineering, analytics, and AI development into a single, governed environment with integrated collaboration and enterprise governance.