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azure: [In preview] Public Preview: VM vCore customization features disabling simultaneous multi-threading (SMT/HT) and constrained cores

Azure Updates

2025-10-22

Azure announced a public preview of VM vCore customization that gives customers greater control over virtual CPU configuration. The preview introduces two capabilities: disabling simultaneous multithreading (SMT/Hyper‑Threading) on vCPUs, and constraining the number of cores exposed to the guest. These options help optimize single‑threaded workload performance, reduce license costs by limiting visible cores, and improve CPU isolation and predictable performance. The features are available in public preview and can be configured through Azure management interfaces.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-October 2025

Azure Updates

2025-10-22

In mid-October 2025 Azure SQL announced Generally Available updates: the redirect connection type was improved to require only port 1433 and promoted to the default, and you can convert an Azure SQL Database to Hyperscale while preserving existing geo configurations.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Near-zero downtime scaling for HA-enabled Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers

Azure Updates

2025-10-22

Azure Database for PostgreSQL now generally supports near-zero downtime scaling for servers with high availability (HA) enabled, reducing scaling interruptions to typically under 30 seconds instead of the previous 2–10 minutes.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Cloud-to-Cloud migration made simple with Azure Storage Mover

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure Storage Mover's AWS S3 to Azure Blob migration capability is now generally available, enabling organizations to move data directly from AWS to Azure securely, reliably, and at scale while removing the need for manual pipelines.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure announced Public Preview support for sharing Capacity Reservation Groups (CRGs) with subscriptions, allowing CRGs to be used beyond the subscription where they were created. Previously, VMs could only be deployed into a CRG within the same subscription.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Enhanced cloning and Public IP retention scripts for Azure Application Gateway migration

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure released two PowerShell scripts to simplify migrating Application Gateway from V1 (Standard or WAF) to V2 (Standard_V2 or WAF_V2): an enhanced cloning script and a public IP retention script. V1 SKUs are scheduled for retirement in April 2026, so customers are advised to migrate early to V2 and take advantage of its features.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: New OS SKU enum to migrate to Azure Linux 3.0

Azure Updates

2025-10-17

Azure now provides a new OS SKU enum, 'AzureLinux3', that lets you migrate to Azure Linux 3.0 for clusters running Kubernetes versions 1.28–1.36. The option gives increased control over OS upgrades by decoupling them from Kubernetes upgrades.

azure: [In development] Private Preview: New planned datacenter region in Malaysia (Southeast Asia 3)

Azure Updates

2025-10-17

Microsoft is planning a new Azure datacenter region in Malaysia called Southeast Asia 3, currently in private preview. The region will host Microsoft's most comprehensive and strategic cloud services and represents an expansion of Azure's digital infrastructure footprint in Southeast Asia. The announcement did not include detailed timelines or exact service availability.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Python 3.13

Azure Updates

2025-10-17

Azure Functions now generally supports Python 3.13: you can develop functions locally with Python 3.13 and deploy them to Azure. Alongside this release, Functions introduces an opt-in runtime version control feature that lets you target specific versions of the Functions Python runtime.

azure: Retirement: Confidential Containers preview on AKS is Closing Down

Azure Updates

2025-10-16

The public preview of Confidential Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), available since 2023, is being retired as Microsoft streamlines its confidential computing offerings.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Prescaling in Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-10-16

Azure Firewall now offers prescaling (general availability), letting administrators provision and reserve capacity units in advance to handle expected traffic loads—such as seasonal peaks or planned business events—helping ensure consistent throughput and faster handling of traffic spikes.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Observed capacity metric in Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-10-16

Azure Firewall now includes the observed capacity metric (Generally Available). The metric reports the number of capacity units actively utilized over time to help administrators understand how their firewalls are scaling in practice.