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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.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Blob-to-Blob migration made simple with Azure Storage Mover

Azure Updates

2025-12-18

Azure Storage Mover introduces a container-to-container Azure Blob migration feature in Public Preview that lets organizations securely move data between two Blob containers across the same or different storage accounts, subscriptions, or Azure regions.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Service Bus SDK type bindings in Azure Functions for Node.js

Azure Updates

2025-12-17

Azure Functions for Node.js now offers Service Bus SDK type bindings in public preview. This extends the SDK type bindings capability (previously available for Azure Blob Storage) to Service Bus, simplifying integration between Functions and Service Bus using native SDK types.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Use Azure SRE Agent with Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Updates

2025-12-17

Microsoft has announced a public preview of the Azure Cosmos DB Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent. Built on the Azure SRE Agent platform, the agent is intended to simplify diagnosing and resolving issues for applications that use Azure Cosmos DB by streamlining telemetry and troubleshooting workflows.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files advanced ransomware protection

Azure Updates

2025-12-16

Azure NetApp Files advanced ransomware protection (ANF ARP) is now in Public Preview. ANF ARP is designed to help organizations proactively detect, respond to, and recover from ransomware threats on Azure NetApp Files cloud volumes by monitoring volumes.

azure: [In preview] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files cross-zone-region replication (CZRR)

Azure Updates

2025-12-16

Azure NetApp Files cross-zone-region replication (CZRR) is now generally available. CZRR builds on existing cross-region and cross-zone replication capabilities to let you replicate volumes both across Azure regions and across availability zones within a region, providing a combined solution for improved disaster recovery and resiliency.

github: Better diagnostics for VNET injected runners and required self-hosted runner upgrades

GitHub

2025-12-12

GitHub announced that GitHub-hosted larger runners using Azure VNET-injection now provide detailed network diagnostics when connectivity problems occur, replacing generic pool errors with per-endpoint visibility and drill-down information. The changelog also calls attention to required upgrades for self-hosted runners.

azure: Update: The retirement date for default outbound access has been extended to March 31, 2026.

Azure Updates

2025-12-12

The retirement date for default outbound access has been extended to March 31, 2026. This change aligns with the broader Azure Virtual Network (VNet) update and replaces the previously communicated September 30, 2025 date. The provided excerpt is truncated before describing what starts on March 31, 2026.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Databricks Dashboard subscriptions now support Microsoft Teams

Azure Updates

2025-12-11

Azure Databricks dashboard subscriptions can now deliver insights directly into Microsoft Teams (Public Preview), bringing timely, actionable data into team workflows and reducing the need to separately check dashboards.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: FIPS compliant mode for Application Gateway V2 SKUs

Azure Updates

2025-12-09

Azure Application Gateway V2 SKUs are now generally available with a FIPS 140-2 compliant mode, allowing customers to use FIPS-validated cryptographic modules to help meet US government and regulatory cryptography requirements.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Zonal placement for Azure file shares Azure Files Premium LRS in select regions.

Azure Updates

2025-12-05

Zonal Placement for Azure Files Premium LRS is now generally available in select regions, allowing you to pin storage accounts to a specific availability zone for explicit control over zone locality, improved high availability, fault isolation, and more predictable behavior.