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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: StandardV2 NAT Gateway with zone-redundancy and StandardV2 public IPs

Azure Updates

2026-01-22

Azure announces general availability of StandardV2 NAT Gateway with zone-redundancy, improved performance and dual‑stack support, plus GA for StandardV2 Public IP addresses and prefixes — all at the same price as the previous Standard SKU.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Load Testing in Switzerland North

Azure Updates

2026-01-22

Azure Load Testing (part of Azure App Testing) is now generally available in the Switzerland North region. The fully managed service lets customers generate high-scale load, run simulations, and more easily identify application performance issues without managing test infrastructure.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Application volume group for Oracle create data protection volume group (API)

Azure Updates

2026-01-22

Azure has made generally available an enhancement to the Application Volume Group for Oracle API that lets you create data protection volumes inside a volume group preserving the same anti-affinity layout as production volume groups, enabling protection copies that mirror production placement and isolation.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 support in AKS

Azure Updates

2026-01-21

Ubuntu 24.04 is now generally available as a node OS on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) beginning with Kubernetes version 1.32. The Ubuntu 24.04 node image on AKS uses containerd 2.0 as the default container runtime. This gives customers a supported, modern OS option when planning OS upgrades for their clusters.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: User delegation SAS for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues

Azure Updates

2026-01-16

Microsoft has announced public preview of User Delegation SAS (user-delegation shared access signatures) for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues, extending support that was previously generally available only for blobs.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 support in AKS

Azure Updates

2026-01-14

Ubuntu 24.04 is now generally available on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for Kubernetes versions 1.32 and above. Containerd 2.0 is enabled by default, and Ubuntu 24.04 is the default when using the 'Ubuntu' OS SKU on Kubernetes 1.35 and later.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring with Private Endpoints

Azure Updates

2026-01-09

Azure now offers Public Preview support for configuring Azure Cosmos DB accounts with virtual networks or private endpoints to work with Microsoft Fabric mirroring, allowing secure, seamless replication while preserving enhanced network security.

dotnet: Generative AI with Large Language Models in C# in 2026

.NET

2026-01-05

Practical introduction for .NET developers to using generative AI and large language models from C# in 2026, covering modern tooling, SDKs, patterns, and best practices to build safe, efficient, and maintainable AI-enabled applications on the .NET platform.

2025 (4)

December (4)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium

Azure Updates

2025-12-31

Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium is now generally available, offering replication as an option to help insulate Service Bus applications against outages and disasters.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Cloud-native apps on Kubernetes pricing calculator scenario

Azure Updates

2025-12-31

Microsoft announced the general availability of a new 'Cloud-native apps on Kubernetes' pricing calculator scenario that helps teams estimate total cost of ownership for a production-ready Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster and associated Azure services.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Austria East and in a second Availability Zone in Japan West

Azure Updates

2025-12-31

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now generally available in Austria East and in a second Availability Zone in Japan West. The next-generation general-purpose block storage offers sub-millisecond latencies and improved price-performance.

azure: Retirement: Deprecation of Custom Resource Providers

Azure Updates

2025-12-29

Azure will deprecate the Custom Resource Provider (CuRP) service in 2026, retiring the feature by October 31, 2026. A scream test will run on October 27, 2025; the announcement also references an action on July 31, 2026 but the provided content is truncated and does not detail that event.