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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Multitenant Managed Logging in Container Insights

Azure Updates

2025-09-09

Azure announced general availability of Multitenant Managed Logging in Container Insights, letting customers with shared AKS clusters segregate container logs by team so teams can independently manage and access their logs.

azure: Retirement: Microsoft Playwright Testing (Preview) will be retired on March 8, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-09-09

Microsoft Playwright Testing (Preview) will be retired on March 8, 2026. Azure App Testing — introduced last August to unify Azure Load Testing and Microsoft Playwright Testing — is the consolidated testing service for running large-scale functional and performance tests.

azure: Retirement: Operating System (OS) Disks on Standard HDD will be retired on 08 September 2028

Azure Updates

2025-09-08

Microsoft Azure will retire OS disks on Standard HDD on 08 September 2028. The change is part of an effort to align disk offerings with current usage patterns and future investments in disk performance.

aks: Release 2025-08-29

Release notes from AKS

2025-09-05

AKS v20250829 announces AKS Automatic general availability and multiple platform, networking, security, and component updates including new AKS patch versions, region expansions for API Server VNet Integration, Kubernetes 1.30 EOL, and several behavioral/observability changes.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.13

Azure Updates

2025-09-05

Azure Functions now supports Python 3.13 in public preview, and introduces an opt-in runtime version control feature that lets you target specific Functions Python runtime versions when developing locally and deploying to Azure.

security: Azure mandatory multifactor authentication: Phase 2 starting in October 2025

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-09-05

Microsoft Azure will begin Phase 2 mandatory multi-factor authentication enforcement at the Azure Resource Manager layer starting October 1, 2025, as announced on the Microsoft Security Blog.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Multiple address prefixes for subnets in Azure Virtual Networks

Azure Updates

2025-09-04

Azure announced general availability of multiple address prefixes for subnets in Azure Virtual Networks. Subnets previously allowed only a single address prefix, which constrained scale for some applications when address space was exhausted. The GA feature lets subnets hold more than one prefix, enabling larger address ranges and greater flexibility for scaling and IP management.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch

Azure Updates

2025-09-04

Azure announced general availability of the ability to upgrade existing Gen1 virtual machines to Gen2-Trusted Launch. The capability enables Trusted Launch on previously deployed Gen1 VMs to improve foundational VM security.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Near-zero-downtime maintenance in Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Updates

2025-09-04

Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with High Availability (HA) now offers near-zero-downtime maintenance and this capability is generally available. The feature is supported by a new HA architecture and applies to Flexible Server deployments with HA enabled.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model

Azure Updates

2025-09-03

Microsoft announced the general availability of the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model, which lets customers run Logic Apps on customer-managed infrastructure to give more flexibility and control over where integration workloads execute.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Gateway level metrics and native autoscaling for Azure API Management v2 tiers

Azure Updates

2025-09-03

Azure API Management v2 tiers (Basic v2, Standard v2, Premium v2) are now generally available with gateway-level metrics and native autoscaling, providing deeper gateway performance visibility and automatic scaling based on real-time usage.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Enhanced Data Mapper Experience in Logic Apps (Standard)

Azure Updates

2025-09-03

The redesigned Data Mapper user experience in the Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available and becomes the default for creating and editing maps after its public preview.