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March (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks Lakebase

Azure Updates

2026-03-02

Azure Databricks Lakebase is now generally available as a managed PostgreSQL service designed for OLTP with separated storage and compute.

February (11)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: DCesv6, DCedsv6, ECesv6, and ECedsv6 confidential VMs

Azure Updates

2026-02-27

Azure announced general availability of the DCesv6, DCedsv6, ECesv6, and ECedsv6 confidential VM series based on 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors with Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX).

azure: [Launched] Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in a third Availability Zone in New Zealan North

Azure Updates

2026-02-27

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in a third Availability Zone in the New Zealand North region.

azure: Retirement: Managed NGINX Ingress with Application Routing Add-on Retiring November 2026

Azure Updates

2026-02-27

Microsoft will retire the Managed NGINX Ingress used by the AKS Application Routing add-on in November 2026 due to the upstream Ingress-NGINX project deprecating and ending updates after March 2026. Microsoft will provide only critical security patches until 30 Nov 2026, after which the controller is unsupported.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Geo‑redundant backups for Premium SSD v2 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Updates

2026-02-25

Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports configuring geo-redundant automated backups when using Premium SSD v2 disks (public preview). This adds a disaster-recovery option by storing backups in a geo-redundant manner.

azure: Retirement: Windows Server Annual Channel (preview)

Azure Updates

2026-02-23

Windows Server Annual Channel (Preview) on AKS will retire on May 15, 2026. Users should migrate to Windows Server Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) before that date.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: WAF Insights for Application Gateway

Azure Updates

2026-02-23

Azure Application Gateway WAF Insights is now in public preview, adding an interactive view of WAF logs and metrics. It is intended to help investigate blocked requests and analyze attack patterns.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Brazil Southeast, and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central

Azure Updates

2026-02-20

Azure Premium SSD v2 disks are now generally available in Brazil Southeast and expanded to a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Unified tooling in the AKS MCP server

Azure Updates

2026-02-18

AKS MCP Server adds unified tooling in public preview to reduce tool/context overhead when managing AKS MCP servers. Two new tools are introduced: call_az and call_kubectl.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Cluster mode for the agentic CLI for AKS

Azure Updates

2026-02-18

AKS agentic CLI adds a public preview “cluster mode” to run diagnostic agents with reduced inherited user permissions and avoid per-user deployments.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning support in Azure government and private cloud

Azure Updates

2026-02-18

AKS node auto-provisioning is now generally available in Azure Government and Azure private cloud environments.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters in AKS now support LocalDNS

Azure Updates

2026-02-18

AKS clusters using node auto-provisioning can now enable LocalDNS, removing a previous limitation where LocalDNS couldn’t be used with that cluster type.