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November (8)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Front Door adds native gRPC support

Azure Updates

2026-11-10

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium now have public preview support for gRPC. The feature lets you route requests to specific services and methods and distribute traffic for gRPC applications through Front Door.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: WAF Insights for Azure Application Gateway

Azure Updates

2026-11-05

WAF Insights for Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall is now generally available. The feature adds built-in dashboards in the WAF policy that combine logs and metrics for investigation.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Multi-disk crash-consistent VM restore points for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks on VMs with SCSI disk controller

Azure Updates

2026-11-04

Azure VM public preview adds multi-disk crash-consistent restore points for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra data disks on VMs using SCSI disk controllers. It supports agent-less capture of crash-consistent restore points.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: JWT validation for Application Gateway for Containers

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Application Gateway for Containers now supports centralized JWT validation in public preview through the AuthPolicy custom resource. It can validate token signature, issuer, lifetime, and configured audience using signing keys from a trusted HTTP source.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MCP gateway for Application Gateway for Containers

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Application Gateway for Containers now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) routing in preview via a new MCPRoute custom resource. This lets platform teams expose MCP servers behind a stable hostname and path while centralizing TLS and JWT validation through Web Application Firewall features.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Private ingress for Application Gateway for Containers

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Application Gateway for Containers now supports private frontends in public preview. These frontends are reachable only through approved Azure Private Link private endpoints, keeping internal, shared, and cross-cluster traffic on private networking.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: On-prem NAS share discovery and assessment are now available using Azure Migrate

Azure Updates

2026-11-02

Azure Migrate added public preview support for discovering and assessing on-premises NAS shares. The feature helps plan migrations of Dell PowerScale (OneFS) and NetApp ONTAP storage to Azure.

azure: Retirement: Azure Fluid Relay

Azure Updates

2026-11-02

Azure Fluid Relay will be retired on February 2, 2027. After that date, the service will be unavailable and workloads depending on it may be disrupted; the Fluid Framework remains available as open source.

October (4)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Large OS Disk Encryption for Azure Confidential VM migrations

Azure Updates

2026-10-29

Large OS Disk Encryption (LOSDE) is now generally available for Azure Confidential VM migration scenarios. It enables migration of larger production workloads with the OS disk fully protected.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure MCP Server 3.0

Azure Updates

2026-10-29

Azure MCP Server 3.0 is now generally available. The release expands Azure integration for AI agents and developer tools via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), including new infrastructure-as-code support through Azure Terraform.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Marketplace private offer enhancements

Azure Updates

2026-10-28

Microsoft Marketplace private offers now include enhancements for eligible offers, with simplified handling of pricing and terms aligned to organizational needs. The note highlights flexible billing and custom contract lengths.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering

Azure Updates

2026-10-26

Azure Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering is now generally available. It lets you limit logged network traffic using criteria such as IP addresses, ports, protocols, encryption state, flow state, and traffic direction.