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2025 (12)

December (2)

azure: [Launched] Generally Avaailable: Azure SQL updates for early December 2025

Azure Updates

2025-12-17

In mid-December 2025 Azure SQL introduced an Activity Log capability for Azure SQL Database serverless that identifies causes that auto-resume serverless workloads, helping customers troubleshoot and optimize access patterns.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Serverless workspaces in Azure Databricks

Azure Updates

2025-12-04

Azure Databricks now offers Serverless workspaces in Public Preview — a fully managed workspace option that includes preconfigured serverless compute and default storage to provide an enterprise-ready SaaS experience with minimal infrastructure management.

November (8)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Custom handler support in Azure Functions Flex consumption

Azure Updates

2025-11-21

Azure Functions now has generally available support for custom handlers on the Flex consumption plan, enabling lightweight HTTP-based handlers written in any language to receive events from the Functions host.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool trigger for Azure Functions

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced the general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool trigger for Azure Functions. MCP is a protocol that lets applications provide capabilities and context to large language models, including defining tools that AI agents can call. The new trigger makes it easier to expose Azure Functions as MCP tools so LLM-based agents can invoke serverless operations directly.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions durable task scheduler Dedicated SKU (GA) & Consumption SKU (Public Preview)

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced that the Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler is generally available on the Dedicated SKU and available in public preview on the Consumption SKU. The scheduler is an orchestration engine for complex workflows and intelligent agents that automatically checkpoints progress and protects orchestration state to enable resilient workflows.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs in additional regions

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs are now generally available in additional regions, enabling developers to run AI inference, model training, and other GPU-accelerated workloads using the simplicity of a serverless platform.

azure: [Launched] Announcing: Resources for migrating to Azure Functions Flex Consumption

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now the recommended hosting plan for serverless workloads that need advanced scaling, improved networking, and better cost optimization. Microsoft has published resources to help customers migrate from the Azure Functions Consumption plan and from AWS Lambda to Flex Consumption.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Self-hosted remote MCP servers on Azure Functions

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced a public preview that lets you host remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers built with MCP SDKs on Azure Functions, enabling easier self-hosting and integration with the Functions platform.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Container Apps introduces flexible workload profile

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Apps launched a Public Preview of a flexible workload profile that combines the simplicity and pay-per-use serverless model of consumption plans with many performance and control characteristics typically found in dedicated workload profiles.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps [Consumption]

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced the public preview of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps (Consumption), bringing agentic intelligence and adaptive workflows to the serverless Logic Apps runtime and enabling movement beyond traditional static automation toward goal-driven, adaptive automations.

October (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Python 3.13

Azure Updates

2025-10-17

Azure Functions now generally supports Python 3.13: you can develop functions locally with Python 3.13 and deploy them to Azure. Alongside this release, Functions introduces an opt-in runtime version control feature that lets you target specific versions of the Functions Python runtime.

September (1)

azure: Retirement: The Linux Consumption hosting plan of Azure Functions will be retired on September 30, 2028. Migrate to Flex Consumption.

Azure Updates

2025-09-26

Microsoft is retiring the Azure Functions Linux Consumption hosting plan on September 30, 2028 and recommends migrating affected functions to the Flex Consumption plan, which provides faster scaling, advanced networking, cold start mitigation, and concurrency control.