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azure: Retirement: Remove dependency on these preview features before March 31, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-10-29

Microsoft will retire several preview features on March 31, 2026. Affected features include grouping multiple pipeline steps, pipeline job comparison for debugging, importing data into a data labeling project, and using v2 data. Customers should remove dependencies on these preview features before the retirement date.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure WAF CAPTCHA Challenge for Azure Front Door

Azure Updates

2025-10-28

Microsoft announced general availability of CAPTCHA protection for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) when used with Azure Front Door to help defend modern web applications from automated threats.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Storage Mover support for NFS source to Azure File Share (NFS 4.1) target

Azure Updates

2025-10-27

Azure Storage Mover is now generally available for migrating NFS file shares to Azure File Shares using the NFS 4.1 protocol. The fully managed service helps move on-premises files and folders to Azure Storage while minimizing downtime.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: PgBouncer 1.23.1 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Azure Updates

2025-10-27

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now generally supports PgBouncer 1.23.1 as a built-in connection pooling feature to efficiently manage many client connections with low overhead.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: RHEL Software Reservations Now Available on Azure with Updated Pricing

Azure Updates

2025-10-27

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) software reservations are Generally Available on Azure again after updates to billing meters and pricing that resolve prior billing issues and align charges with Red Hat's new pricing.

azure: Retirement: Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis will be retired on September 25, 2028

Azure Updates

2025-10-23

Microsoft announced the planned retirement of the Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis service, with full support provided through September 25, 2028.

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: 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.

ai: A Developer’s Guide to Fine-Tuning GPT-4o for Image Classification on Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-10-20

This guide demonstrates how to quickly improve image classification accuracy by fine-tuning GPT-4o (a vision-language model) on Azure OpenAI via Azure AI Foundry. It targets ML practitioners, app developers, and curious users, and emphasizes that boosting performance can be done without deep learning expertise through a step-by-step walkthrough.