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Azure Network Watcher now has public preview support for using Managed Identities with VNET flow logs, Traffic Analytics, and packet capture, enabling identity-based authentication to store and analyze network traffic data without relying on storage account keys.
Claude Opus 4.5 is available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers, introducing improvements in coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise productivity with upgraded performance and versatility.
Azure File Sync is now generally available in the New Zealand North region, enabling customers to tier data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files for hybrid scenarios and simplified migration while preserving on-premises file server performance and compatibility.
Azure Bastion now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication for RDP connections to Windows VMs directly in the Azure portal (public preview). This allows users to authenticate with their Entra ID identity instead of using local VM credentials.
Microsoft announced general availability of native regular expression (regex) support in T-SQL. The feature is available in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2025, enabling advanced pattern matching directly in queries to simplify code, improve maintainability, and reduce external dependencies.
Azure MCP Server is now generally available with support for Azure Database for MySQL, allowing AI agents and applications to interact with MySQL data using natural language via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Azure Load Testing (part of Azure App Testing) is now generally available in the Italy North region, allowing customers there to run high-scale load tests and simulations to find performance bottlenecks.
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 is retiring Low-Priority VMs on September 30, 2025. Azure Machine Learning will continue supporting them until March 31, 2026, and customers are advised to migrate their compute clusters to dedicated VMs to prevent automatic scale-down and service disruption.
Azure’s Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS now offers container network metrics filtering in public preview. The feature lets customers reduce ingestion of unnecessary network telemetry from containers to lower storage costs and declutter monitoring dashboards by controlling which network metrics are collected.
Microsoft announced General Availability of MCP support for the AI Toolchain Operator add-on in AKS. The add-on now supports KAITO inference workspaces with integrated tool calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP), helping address challenges related to dynamic model/context handling in inference workflows.
Azure CNI powered by Cilium for AKS now generally available: the local redirect policy reduces cross-node traffic routing to improve latency and performance for high-scale AKS workloads.
Azure announced General Availability of cluster-wide Cilium network policy for AKS clusters using Azure CNI powered by Cilium. The feature enables consistent, cluster-scoped network policy enforcement across Kubernetes namespaces, addressing a common challenge for platform teams and multi-tenant environments.
Azure Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS announces general availability of Layer 7 Policy, enabling customers to enforce fine‑grained application‑layer traffic control in microservices architectures.
Azure NetApp Files now generally available: single file restore from backups lets you recover individual files from an Azure NetApp Files backup vault without restoring the entire volume, reducing time and cost.
Azure DNS security policy Threat Intelligence feed is now generally available. It provides a Microsoft-managed threat intelligence feed to protect DNS queries by identifying and blocking known malicious domains, helping prevent attacks that begin with DNS resolution.
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now generally available in the Retail feed. The release contains OS-only updates (no SDK update), and internet-connected devices will receive the update automatically from the cloud.
Azure Marketplace now offers Arm64 images that support Trusted Launch, enabling customers to run Arm64 virtual machines with Trusted Launch security features. This combines Arm64 cost and performance efficiencies with the integrity and protection benefits of Trusted Launch.
Azure NetApp Files migration assistant is in public preview with Azure portal support. It uses ONTAP SnapMirror replication to provide an efficient, cost‑effective, and seamless way to move data from on‑premises or CVO/other cloud providers into Azure NetApp Files (ANF).
Azure NetApp Files cache volumes are now available in public preview. The feature, built on NetApp’s ONTAP FlexCache technology, provides a persistent, high-performance cache in Azure for data stored on ONTAP-based storage.
Azure Monitor is available in public preview for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters running OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift. It provides a complete set of monitoring services to track the health and performance of Kubernetes infrastructure layers and the applications that depend on them.
Azure announces general availability of CSI Dynamic Provisioning for Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS), allowing Kubernetes workloads to request AMLFS-backed persistent volumes on demand using standard StorageClass and PersistentVolumeClaim objects.
Azure Managed Lustre is now generally available with full integration into Azure MCP Server, allowing developers and infrastructure teams to manage Managed Lustre file systems through Azure MCP Server management workflows.
Azure Managed Lustre is in public preview with a new 20 MB/s/TiB performance tier that targets large-scale AI and HPC workloads and lets customers provision file systems up to 25 PiB in size.
Azure has released Auto-import for Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) in public preview, a policy-driven feature that synchronizes data from Azure Blob Storage containers into AMLFS clusters, automatically reflecting new and changed objects.
Azure Monitor is in public preview with one-click enablement of recommended alerts in the Azure portal for Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus customers. These alerts monitor Azure Monitor Workspace ingestion limits to help prevent metric ingestion issues.
Azure Managed Redis is now available in the Microsoft Foundry MCP tools catalog as a Public Preview, enabling customers to use Redis as a knowledge or memory store for Foundry-based AI agents and simplifying the connection between Redis and those agents.
Azure Application Gateway is generally available with support for TLS and TCP termination, enabling load balancing and secure processing of non-HTTP(S) traffic.
Azure Databricks Genie is now integrated with Microsoft Foundry and available in public preview, enabling Genie spaces to connect directly to Foundry agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to give seamless access to trusted data for building intelligent solutions.
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Databricks Genie in Copilot Studio, providing direct access to intelligent, enterprise-grade AI answers across the full Azure Databricks data estate and enabling conversational analytics.
Azure API Management now publicly previews support for A2A (agent) APIs. This enables organizations to manage and govern agent APIs alongside AI model APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, and traditional APIs.
Microsoft announced that Anthropic’s Claude models are generally available in Microsoft Foundry, giving enterprises access to Claude Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5 for advanced long-context reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities within Foundry’s unified frontier AI ecosystem.
Azure has published a public preview update for Azure Copilot agents that spotlights the deployment agent. The deployment agent — one of six new agent types — is designed to help teams discover, plan, and deploy cloud workloads faster and with greater confidence by providing guided workflows, automation, and integration with Azure deployment patterns.
The VS Code Private Marketplace is now generally available. It provides a secure, enterprise-ready solution to host and manage VS Code extensions internally, fully integrated with VS Code and designed for teams that need control over deployment and updates.
Microsoft announced the public preview of Smart Tier, an account-level, fully managed and automated data tiering solution for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) that removes the need for manual tiering.
Microsoft announced a public preview integration of Microsoft Defender for Cloud with GitHub Advanced Security to protect cloud-native applications across the full application lifecycle — from code to cloud — and to unify developers and security teams in a single workflow.
Azure announces Managed Instance on Azure App Service in Public Preview, a capability that simplifies lift-and-shift migrations of web apps (especially .NET) from on-premises or VMs to the cloud with minimal configuration and no code rewrites.
Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL is a new managed PostgreSQL offering now in private preview that emphasizes high performance, large autoscaling storage (up to 128 TB), and rapid compute scalability (up to 3,072 vCores), claiming up to 3× faster performance than open-source PostgreSQL.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports v6-series VMs (general purpose and memory-optimized) with local NVMe storage in public preview. The v6 family is offered with both Intel and AMD processor options, including AMD v6 Confidential Compute.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now generally available: vector indexing performance improvements deliver faster vector inserts and index builds, reducing end-to-end ingestion and indexing times for large AI workloads through algorithmic enhancements.
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now generally available. Built on Visual Studio 2026, SSMS 22 adds support for SQL Server 2025 and offers improved integration for managing and troubleshooting SQL databases and writing T-SQL.
Microsoft Fabric’s SQL database is now generally available — a fully SaaS-native SQL offering built on the SQL Server and Azure SQL Database engine that enables developers and data professionals to unify operational and analytical workloads with improved speed and security.
Azure Container Apps now generally available rule-based routing: a production-ready feature that simplifies traffic control and routing for microservices, enabling A/B testing and blue‑green deployments.
Azure Cosmos DB now generally available: priority-based execution can be enabled so high-priority requests are favored during contention, with low-priority requests throttled first to allow critical operations to proceed on a best-effort basis.
Azure Container Apps’ Premium Ingress is now generally available, introducing environment-level ingress configuration and customizable ingress scaling to provide more control over how the platform handles incoming traffic.
Microsoft announces the general availability of the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, which enables connecting to PostgreSQL instances, running queries, managing connection profiles, and supports Microsoft Entra ID with integration for GitHub Copilot.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL 18 and this release is generally available. It brings the latest PostgreSQL innovations plus seamless in-place upgrade support so you can move from earlier versions without changing your server endpoint.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now generally available: pod sandboxing. This feature allows containers to run in per-workload pod virtual machines (pod VMs) to improve isolation and security in shared environments.
Azure announced general availability of a portal-based, self-serve online migration that moves workloads from Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB RU to Azure DocumentDB, enabling modernization with zero downtime.
Azure announced general availability of a new SQL Server migration solution in Azure Arc that streamlines migrations to Azure SQL Managed Instance by combining Azure Database Migration Service with Copilot to provide an automated, end-to-end migration experience.
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.
Microsoft Fabric mirroring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is now generally available. The feature lets you mirror PostgreSQL Flexible Server data into Microsoft Fabric (OneLake) to centralize data and simplify analytics, with support for network-isolated environments.
Microsoft announced that the mssql-python driver for SQL Server is now generally available (GA). The release delivers a modern, high-performance, and developer-friendly experience for Python developers working with SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now has Managed Namespaces generally available. The feature centralizes creation and management of Kubernetes namespaces across AKS clusters to reduce manual setup, lower the risk of misconfiguration, and simplify enforcement of tenant- and team-level configuration.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now generally supports fuzzy search in its built-in full-text search, enabling typo-tolerant and error-resilient search experiences so users can find relevant results even when queries contain mistakes.
Azure Cosmos DB now generally supports the float16 (half-precision) data type for vector indexes, letting you store and query vectors with half-precision floats to reduce storage needs compared with float32.
Azure announced General Availability of ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway (ErGwScale), a next-generation Virtual Network Gateway that enables dynamic scaling of gateway infrastructure to improve flexibility, performance, and operational simplicity for ExpressRoute deployments.
Azure announced general availability of Elastic clusters for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, enabling horizontal scaling using row-based and schema-based sharding and simplifying multitenant application development by offloading shard management and operations such as tenant isolation.
Azure announces general availability of Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric. The integration lets teams build combined operational and analytical workloads in Fabric, leveraging Azure Cosmos DB AI features and Fabric innovations to run SQL queries over JSON data and enable real-time scenarios.
Azure Virtual Network Manager’s address space overlap prevention for mesh deployments is now generally available. The feature prevents unintended IP address overlaps across virtual networks in a mesh to avoid dropped traffic, improving reliability and governance in multi-VNet environments.
November 2025 Azure SQL update (Generally Available): reservation discounts for 1-year and 3-year reservations now apply to zone-redundant Azure SQL Managed Instances in the General Purpose tier; the notice indicates the discount covers both standard compute and additional compute option(s) (source content truncated).
Microsoft announced the Generally Available Next‑gen General Purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance, delivering major performance improvements along with increased compute flexibility while preserving cost advantages and the simplicity of a fully managed PaaS.
Azure SQL Database now generally supports immutability for long-term retention (LTR) backups. When immutability is enabled, LTR backups cannot be modified or deleted until their configured retention period expires, helping organizations meet compliance and protect backups from deletion or ransomware.
Azure Functions now supports OpenTelemetry in general availability, allowing developers to export logs, traces, and metrics using open standards. This GA release follows the public preview and provides a production-ready observability experience.
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.
Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure DocumentDB, a fully managed, open-source, MongoDB-compatible document database service—formerly offered as Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB—and now governed by the Linux Foundation for hybrid and multicloud deployments.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server now generally supports the Azure Storage extension for Parquet files with multiple compression options, allowing direct read/write of Parquet from the database to accelerate data access and integration.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now offers the anon extension as generally available, providing built-in data anonymization tools for production use.
Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric is now generally available, enabling customers to mirror operational Cosmos DB data into Fabric to run analytics and SQL queries without impacting production workloads.
Azure announced the general availability of the Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code, a production-ready VS Code extension that lets developers manage Cosmos DB resources and develop against Cosmos DB directly inside the editor.
Azure Cosmos DB fleet pools are now generally available. They enable easier operation of Cosmos DB accounts at scale and provide new capabilities for building multitenant SaaS applications, simplifying capacity management by allowing pooled capacity.
Azure Container Registry (ACR) repository permissions with attribute-based access control (ABAC) is now generally available, enabling fine-grained, least-privilege control over which Microsoft Entra identities can publish (push) or consume (pull) container images at the repository level.
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 Application Gateway now generally supports mTLS passthrough, enabling backend applications to receive client certificates and authorization headers for their own validation while still using the Web Application Firewall for traffic inspection.
Slow start is now generally available for Application Gateway for Containers. The load balancing algorithm gradually increases traffic to newly created pods over a configurable window to improve stability and performance during backend scale‑up.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) announced General Availability of an Automatic pod readiness SLA: eligible pods will meet readiness criteria within five minutes at the 99.9th percentile, enabling customers to deploy mission-critical workloads with greater confidence.
Azure has made generally available enhanced sampling and richer data collection capabilities in the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro (which powers Azure Monitor Application Insights). The release introduces new sampling options including rate-limited sampling and trace-based log sampling to give teams finer control over telemetry volume and correlation.
Azure announced the general availability of the 2025 REST API for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, adding support for PostgreSQL 17 and 18 so you can adopt those versions without changing automation patterns; the release also includes the ability to set a default database.
SQL Server 2025 is now generally available. Positioned as an AI-ready enterprise database, the release brings built-in AI capabilities and closer integration with Microsoft’s data platform as part of Microsoft’s effort to modernize enterprise data platforms.
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 Kubernetes Service (AKS) has announced a public preview for Windows Server 2025 on AKS to help customers modernize Windows-based workloads as older Windows Server versions near end-of-support.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports Italian and Portuguese in its full-text search capability. The feature is available today in public preview and lets you build richer, language-aware search experiences.
Azure announced the public preview of StandardV2 NAT Gateway and StandardV2 Public IPs, providing next-generation, scalable and resilient outbound connectivity with features such as zone-redundancy for high availability in availability-zone supported regions.
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.
Microsoft announced a public preview of Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tooling built into the Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. The tool aims to make migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL simpler and faster by providing conversion support directly inside VS Code.
Microsoft released the Azure DocumentDB Migration extension for Visual Studio Code in public preview, enabling zero-cost migrations of MongoDB workloads to Azure DocumentDB with support for both online and offline migration modes.
Azure announced the public preview of NCv6/NC Series virtual machines featuring Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs to provide hardware acceleration for a wide array of workloads.
Microsoft announced a public preview of new integration and extensibility capabilities for Azure SRE Agent — an AI-driven, prompt-based automation layer that unifies operational workflows and aims to reduce complexity and overhead for cloud operations.
Microsoft announced the public preview of native Microsoft Foundry support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The Azure PostgreSQL MCP Server is now integrated with Microsoft Foundry, enabling the creation of AI agents that can securely query and analyze PostgreSQL data.
Microsoft announced the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset 1.0 for Application Gateway WAF v2. The ruleset is designed to help mitigate evolving HTTP-layer DDoS and botnet-driven attacks that can bypass static controls.
Azure has announced a public preview of JSON Web Token (JWT) validation in Azure Application Gateway, allowing authentication and token validation to occur at the gateway before requests reach backend applications or APIs.
Public preview of Index Advisor integrated into the DocumentDB for VS Code extension. It helps you view and debug database performance and uses natural-language recommendations to suggest optimal indexing and best practices for MongoDB workloads.
Azure Container Apps announced a public preview of dynamic shell sessions — platform-managed, built-in containers that provide isolated, sandboxed environments to run and execute common shell commands. The update also adds MCP support.
Azure Cosmos DB is in Public Preview for Dynamic Data Masking (DDM), a server-side, policy-based feature that dynamically masks sensitive data for non-privileged users to help prevent unauthorized access.
Azure Container Apps now supports deployment labels in public preview as a new deployment mode. This feature simplifies environment management and enables advanced deployment strategies by letting you assign meaningful names to deployments.
Azure Virtual Network Manager (VNet Manager) now offers public preview support to associate a single IP Address Management (IPAM) pool with virtual networks across multiple regions. This cross-region pool association simplifies governance and ensures consistent CIDR allocation for multi-region deployments.
Azure Container Apps now supports confidential computing in public preview, bringing hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to containerized workloads to protect data in use and complement existing encryption of data at rest and in transit.
Azure announced a Public Preview that adds advanced filtering capabilities to VNet Flow Logs, which capture IP traffic through VNets, subnets, and NICs to support monitoring, troubleshooting, network optimization, security, and compliance.
Public preview announced in November 2025: the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code adds an interactive Edit Data interface that lets you view, modify, and insert table rows without manually writing T-SQL, improving data editing workflows for Azure SQL.
Azure announces public preview of DiskANN-based vector indexing in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric, enabling efficient disk-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) vector similarity search inside relational database services.
Azure SQL now supports Change Event Streaming (CES) in public preview, allowing near‑real‑time streaming of data changes from Azure SQL Database directly into Azure Event Hubs. The feature is designed to simplify data integration and enable event‑driven architectures and enhanced analytics by delivering change events with low latency.
Azure Network Watcher Topology now supports AKS visualization in Public Preview, providing end-to-end visibility of Azure Kubernetes Service clusters inside the Azure networking experience so customers can inspect their Kubernetes environments and networking relationships.
Microsoft announced a public preview for Azure Network Watcher Topology that adds AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) visualization and an agentless connection troubleshooting capability, providing end-to-end visibility of Kubernetes clusters within the Azure networking experience.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) desktop is available in public preview. It provides a modern, application‑centric, guided self‑service interface for deploying and managing workloads on AKS, built on supported AKS features, best practices, and the open‑source Headlamp project.
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now has public preview support for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, allowing organizations to manage CNCF-compliant clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments from a single plane.
Azure Functions now has public preview support for Node.js 24, enabling local development and deployment to Azure Functions on both Windows and Linux. Node.js 24 does not support 32-bit Windows, so new Windows Function Apps targeting Node.js 24 default to 64-bit to ensure compatibility.
Azure Functions now offers public preview support for Java 25, allowing local development and deployment to Azure Functions on both Windows and Linux with benefits including enhanced security and extended support.
Azure DocumentDB public preview introduces high-performance storage that enables larger, faster workloads on fewer nodes with much higher capacity, IOPS and throughput per physical shard.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Flexible Server now supports the pg_duckdb extension in public preview, allowing you to use DuckDB’s vectorized, columnar execution inside your PostgreSQL server to accelerate analytics workloads.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now provides an MCP Toolkit for use with the Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, available in public preview; the integration enables Microsoft Foundry Agents to connect directly to data stored in Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure Cosmos DB Fleet Analytics is in public preview and provides centralized, large-scale insights across multiple Cosmos DB accounts, subscriptions, and workloads to help manage and analyze data across an organization’s entire Cosmos DB footprint.
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 Container Apps is announcing a public preview that brings Docker Compose support to the service, enabling developers to use their existing docker-compose workflows to define and run multi-container applications directly on Azure Container Apps. This integration aims to simplify deployment and lower the friction for moving compose-based projects to the cloud.
Application Gateway for Containers is in public preview for integration with the Istio service mesh via an optional service mesh extension, enabling simplified secure north–south communication between external clients and services inside the mesh.
Microsoft announced a public preview for AKS Automatic managed system node pools, a feature that automates provisioning and maintenance (scaling, patching, availability) of AKS system node pools to reduce operational overhead and let teams focus on applications.
Microsoft has released a public preview that integrates the durable extension for Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Functions, enabling durable, hosted orchestration for production-grade AI agents.
Microsoft announced general availability of an integration between the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot, bringing AI-powered SQL assistance into the VS Code workflow to reduce repetitive tasks, accelerate development, and assist with database schema design.
Microsoft has opened a private preview for performance enhancements in the latest Azure Boost architecture that improve remote storage throughput and network bandwidth. Azure Boost offloads virtualization functions (networking, storage, host management) and these updates aim to boost I/O and network performance for VMs and cloud services.
Azure Boost confidential device is entering a private preview. Azure Boost offloads virtualization tasks such as networking, storage, and host management from the hypervisor and host OS to purpose-built hardware and software.
Azure announced the public preview of the Azure Copilot observability agent — a new agent aimed at giving cloud operations intelligent, scalable observability that provides actionable insights when services aren’t performing as expected.
Microsoft Foundry’s enterprise features are now generally available, providing IT administrators tools to streamline AI development and management while enforcing enterprise-grade security, compliance, governance, and cost controls.
Scheduled Actions is now generally available in Azure. It enables periodic, large-scale lifecycle management of virtual machines with built-in handling for subscription throttling and automatic retries to reduce operational overhead.
Microsoft announced general availability of resale enabled offers in the Microsoft Marketplace. The capability formalizes a channel-led commerce path on Azure, letting independent software vendors (ISVs) and commercial customers transact through reseller and partner relationships via the Marketplace.
Azure announced general availability of the API Management Premium v2 tier, a more powerful and scalable option designed for enterprise-scale API management with improved performance and expanded capacity.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now generally available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), enabling customers to run and manage virtual machines and containers from a single cloud-native platform. The GA release builds on feedback from the preview announced at Red Hat Summit.
Azure announced Observability in Foundry Control Plane with public preview for agents and a GA pre-announcement for model evaluations. The capability is a suite of tools to evaluate, monitor, and optimize model quality, performance, and safety within the Foundry Control Plane.
Microsoft announced that Azure Logic Apps has expanded hybrid integration with a new set of connectors now generally available. The announcement highlights the Confluent Kafka connector, which enables Logic Apps to connect to Confluent Cloud for event streaming.
Microsoft Foundry’s Model Router is now generally available. The Model Router is an AI orchestration layer that dynamically selects the optimal model for each prompt and now supports a broader range of models including the GPT-4 family, GPT-5 family, GPT-oss, and Deepse.
Microsoft Marketplace, a consolidated storefront for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents, is now generally available worldwide after its initial U.S. launch in September; traffic from legacy storefronts (Azure Marketplace and AppSource) is being redirected to the new Marketplace.
Azure API Management (APIM) now generally supports governance for Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints. The GA release brings APIM’s governance, security, and observability capabilities to AI-driven workloads, enabling enterprises to manage and monitor MCP endpoints through existing APIM controls.
Azure announced Generally Available enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization, expanding capabilities to simplify modernization of applications, databases and containers and to accelerate migrations to Azure.
Microsoft announced Foundry Tools (rebranded from Azure AI Services) as generally available — a unified suite of prebuilt, production-ready AI capabilities for audio, video, images, documents, and text, seamlessly integrated into the Microsoft Foundry platform to empower developers.
Azure App Service now generally supports custom error pages, allowing apps to show user-defined error pages instead of the default ones.
Microsoft announced general availability of Content Understanding, which now connects to Microsoft Foundry model deployments and adds enterprise features including VNet, Managed Identity, and Customer Managed Key support.
Azure Monitor now provides a unified, single-click onboarding experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and virtual machines (VMs), now generally available. The new experience simplifies setup by automatically deploying the latest Azure Monitor capabilities.
Azure announced general availability of an automated testing framework for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) in the Visual Studio Code extension, enabling developers and integration specialists to create automated tests to improve workflow reliability.
Azure announced the general availability of Agent Loop for Azure Logic Apps (Standard), a new capability intended to reshape how organizations design and automate business processes by enabling approaches that go beyond traditional workflow automation.
Microsoft announced that API Center Standard, previously a separately billed offering, is now included at no additional cost for Azure API Management Standard and Premium customers when an API Center instance is linked to the corresponding API Management service.
Microsoft announced the public preview of a redesigned designer experience for Azure Logic Apps (Standard), offering a faster, more intuitive way to build, edit, and manage workflows with integrated run history and workflow editing capabilities.
Azure Monitor now offers OpenTelemetry-based visualizations in public preview and an enhanced, unified monitoring experience that consolidates key monitoring capabilities into a single view for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers.
Azure Cosmos DB now offers Online Container Copy (Public Preview), which lets you copy data from one container to another in real time to minimize downtime while the source container remains available to your application.
Microsoft announced a public preview of new healthcare-focused connectors for Azure Logic Apps to expand interoperability. The announcement highlights a rich set of connectors now available in public preview, explicitly naming an HL7 connector to enable HL7 messaging and streamlined data exchange between healthcare systems.
Microsoft Foundry is releasing a Public Preview with more granular controls for network and integration security and resource management, enabling IT administrators to deploy enterprise AI solutions while meeting governance and security requirements.
Microsoft Foundry is in Public Preview with new ready-to-use, customizable AI templates for common scenarios—such as live voice agents, release management, data unification, and SharePoint integrations—that eliminate repetitive setup tasks and speed development.
Microsoft announced a public preview of new Agent Loop capabilities for Azure Logic Apps that expand how organizations build, secure, and deploy agentic workflows to enable more flexible AI orchestration across enterprise environments.
Azure’s Foundry Agent Service now offers multi-agent workflows in public preview, letting developers create orchestrated, modular multi-agent processes via a visual designer or a code-first API. The feature supports context sharing, persistent state, and error recovery to handle complex enterprise scenarios.
Microsoft Foundry is in public preview with a one-click, no-code publishing feature that lets organizations deploy custom agents to Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and non-Microsoft channels, removing pro-code deployment complexity and enabling instant reach to large user bases.
Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning enters Public Preview with a complete UI redesign that emphasizes an agent-first experience. The updated interface streamlines model creation, evaluation, and deployment workflows and adds integration with Visual Studio to improve developer and data scientist productivity.
Microsoft has announced a public preview of Microsoft Foundry Control Plane and Entra Agent ID, a unified platform for enterprise AI agent observability, security, and governance. The Control Plane combines identity, monitoring, and compliance capabilities to provide centralized control, deep observability, and regulatory alignment for AI agents.
Microsoft Foundry announces a public preview of LLM Speech, an API that applies large language model capabilities to speech tasks—providing fluent, context-aware transcription and translation with expanded multilingual support and advanced prompt tuning.
Azure announced the public preview of the Ebsv6 VM series (and Ebdsv6) powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® processors, offering up to 800,000 IOPS and 14 GBps of remote disk storage throughput for high-performance storage workloads.
Azure announces a public preview of hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service that let teams move custom-code agents from local experimentation to production more easily. The feature supports agents built with Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, CrewAI, and other open-source frameworks.
Microsoft announced public preview enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization that expand capabilities to help modernize applications, databases, and containers and accelerate migrations to Azure.
Foundry Local is in public preview and now supports the Whisper model and enhanced on-device AI for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices, enabling privacy-preserving speech and audio processing and featuring a redesigned Foundry for improved local deployment.
Foundry IQ, now in public preview and powered by Azure AI Search, is a knowledge system that lets agents access and ground on enterprise data through a single unified knowledge base, eliminating the need to manage multiple source-specific APIs.
Azure Files now offers Entra-only identities in public preview, providing a cloud-native authentication option for SMB file share access using Microsoft Entra Kerberos so customers can retire on-premises domain controllers.
Microsoft Foundry (Foundry Agent Service) now supports enhanced Enterprise MCP integration in public preview, enabling secure, authenticated connections that let credentials be passed to MCP servers securely to improve flexibility, security, and compliance.
Microsoft Foundry (public preview) introduces a unified catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools that let developers enrich agents with real-time business context, multimodal capabilities, and custom business logic.
Azure Monitor now supports dynamic thresholding for Log search alerts in public preview, automatically calculating appropriate alert thresholds so you don’t have to set them manually.
Azure’s Foundry Agent Service introduces built-in long-term memory (Public Preview). Integrated into the Foundry runtime, this persistent memory layer gives developers a scalable, robust foundation so agents can remember, adapt, and act coherently across sessions and workflows.
Azure Machine Configuration now offers built-in CIS benchmarks in public preview for all Azure-endorsed Linux distributions via a new customizable security benchmarks capability powered by azure-osconfig.
Microsoft announced a public preview for a Bring Your Own (BYO) AI Model Gateway feature that lets enterprises connect Foundry-hosted models to the Foundry Agent Service through third-party API gateway solutions. The Agent Service will honor pre- and post-LLM hooks and apply policy-based model controls when routing calls through gateways such as Azure API Management, Mulesoft, and Kong.
Azure Copilot introduces specialized agents (gated preview) to support end-to-end lifecycle management for migrating, operating, and modernizing workloads anywhere. The Copilot experience also evolves from chat into an immersive, full-screen command center (public preview) powered by GPT-5 reasoning and artifact-generation capabilities.
Microsoft is previewing agent-level guardrails in the Foundry Control Plane (formerly content filters) that let you apply and customize safety controls per agent to help mitigate prompt-injection and other risks.
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.
Microsoft Foundry announced a Developer Training tier (preview) that offers ultra-low-cost fine-tuning model training by using spot capacity. The tier aims to provide training affordability comparable to the existing Developer hosting tier, specifically for the training phase of fine-tuning workflows.
Azure NetApp Files is releasing a public preview of user and group quota reports that give visibility into quota limits and usage for NFS, SMB, and dual-protocol volumes to help organizations monitor and manage capacity.
Azure NetApp Files now supports creating large volumes up to 7.2 PiB with the Cool Access feature on dedicated capacity in Public Preview, targeting workloads where most data are rarely accessed and extending cool-access support beyond prior capacity limits.
Foundry Local is entering Private Preview for Android, adding to existing Windows and Mac support to enable advanced on-device AI for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices; the release also integrates Whisper models for privacy-preserving speech and audio processing.
Microsoft announced a private preview of an ActiveMQ and JMS connector for Azure Logic Apps, enabling connections to enterprise messaging systems built on ActiveMQ and JMS to support advanced hybrid integration scenarios.
The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Taiwan North region, enabling customers in Taiwan to store infrequently accessed data in a cost-effective tier while meeting data residency requirements.
Azure NetApp Files now has a public preview for large-volume Breakthrough mode, which delivers extreme performance and scalability for demanding HPC and EDA workloads. It supports volumes up to 2 PiB and can deliver throughput up to 50 GiB/s depending on workload characteristics.
Azure Backup is in public preview with threat detection for Azure VM backups, powered by Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC). The feature lets customers assess the health of VM backup restore points by identifying malicious indicators within restore points.
Azure Monitor is in public preview for query-based metric alerts that support all metric types — platform, Prometheus, and custom — and add query capabilities using PromQL to provide broader and more powerful monitoring coverage.
Azure has announced a public preview of “SDK Stats” for the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro to give customers internal visibility into the Application Insights data collection pipeline, helping diagnose telemetry collection and delivery issues.
Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2026 is generally available. The release modernizes the IDE with deep AI integration, including built-in GitHub Copilot and support for agentic workflows, to help professional developers work more productively.
Azure Site Recovery is now generally available with seamless failback support from Azure VMs that use managed disks back to on-premises Hyper-V, even when the original replication used a storage account.
Azure Site Recovery is generally available with a new capacity guidance feature that recommends alternative VM sizes during failover when the originally targeted VM size may have limited allocation availability due to capacity constraints, improving disaster recovery options.
Azure Site Recovery is in public preview for supporting major Linux OS version upgrades without disabling replication or losing recovery points; supported on RHEL and SLES (for example, RHEL 8 → RHEL 9).
Azure Site Recovery is available in Public Preview with support for up to 5x churn, enabling up to 500 MB/s per VM. This update improves replication throughput so customers can protect high‑IOPS, high‑throughput workloads with Site Recovery.
Microsoft Azure will end extended support for Python 3.10 on October 1, 2026; apps on App Service will keep running but will no longer receive security updates or customer support.
Microsoft announces the retirement of Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc in October 2026.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides Pod CIDR expansion in the Azure CNI Overlay as a public preview to help clusters support larger and more dynamic Kubernetes workloads.
Azure has announced public preview of eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS. The feature uses eBPF-based host routing to improve networking performance for containerized applications across distributed environments and integrates with Azure CNI.
Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) UDR management is generally available with a new UseExisting mode that detects existing user-defined routes (UDRs) and appends required routes rather than replacing customer route entries, giving customers more flexibility and compliance control.
Azure Virtual Network Manager peering compliance is now generally available, delivering a secure, centralized way to enforce and monitor VNet peering rules to protect network connectivity managed by Azure Virtual Network Manager — particularly valuable in large-scale environments to prevent unintended peerings and ensure governance.
Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management (IPAM) – Pool Association Recommendation is now generally available, delivering intelligent, large-scale automation to help organizations manage and associate IPAM pools across their expanding Azure network footprint and reduce manual effort and errors.
Microsoft announced .NET 10 is generally available, delivering a faster, more secure, and more capable platform for modern development. The release improves performance, productivity, and security across the stack, and C# 14 adds language refinements for more natural, expressive coding.
Azure Database for MySQL triggers for Azure Functions is now generally available, enabling change tracking on any MySQL table and letting you build event-driven applications that invoke Azure Functions when rows change.
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now generally available: you can self-serve configure the lower_case_table_names server parameter during server creation for MySQL 8.0+.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is releasing a public preview that adds scheduler profile configuration with an in-tree plugin, enabling organizations running complex Kubernetes workloads to customize pod placement policies.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) announces general availability of LocalDNS, a built-in local DNS caching solution designed to reduce DNS resolution delays and improve reliability for large-scale clusters that experience high query volumes or upstream outages.
Azure Migrate is in public preview with integrated Security insights that let customers assess potential risks in their on-premises environments and receive actionable recommendations to mitigate those risks during migration planning.
Azure Backup’s vaulted protection for ADLS Gen2 is now generally available, providing secure, off‑site, independent backups of Data Lake Storage to help organizations meet resilience and compliance requirements.
Azure Firewall now generally available: DNS flow trace logs provide deep, end-to-end visibility into DNS traffic and name resolution paths, delivering richer telemetry to help troubleshoot, validate, and secure DNS.
Azure announced the general availability of a JavaScript (JS) challenge for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door to strengthen bot mitigation.
Azure announced a public preview of Flatcar Container Linux as a node OS option for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The offering aims to reduce configuration drift and manual changes by providing a lightweight, immutable, container-optimized Linux distribution with automated updates and a smaller attack surface, improving node consistency, security, and operational predictability.
Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Linux with OS Guard for AKS, a new node-level protection designed to strengthen kernel and OS defenses for cloud-native workloads. The feature aims to mitigate sophisticated threats such as rootkits, container escapes, and unauthorized code execution to provide stronger security guarantees for Azure Kubernetes Service clusters.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is launching an agentic, AI-powered command-line experience (in public preview) to simplify diagnosing and resolving cluster issues by automating navigation of logs, telemetry, and diagnostics.
Azure Blob Object Replication Priority Replication is now generally available, letting customers mark replication policy rules for prioritized copying from a source storage account to a destination storage account so selected objects are replicated ahead of others.
Azure announced General Availability of Geo Priority Replication for Azure Blob Storage. The feature accelerates data replication for GRS and GZRS accounts between primary and secondary regions and is backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Azure has announced a Public Preview feature to troubleshoot Azure Firewall using packet capture. The capability captures specific flows with filtering by protocol, flags and other filters, and captures can be started from the Azure portal or via PowerShell.
Azure announces general availability of Web Application Firewall (WAF) support for Application Gateway for Containers, the next evolution of Application Gateway combined with the Application Gateway Ingress Controller.
The labels() function in KQL graph semantics is now generally available. It lets you retrieve, filter, and project label information for nodes and edges in graph queries, simplifying work with categorized graph data.
Microsoft announces public preview of openCypher support for KQL graph semantics, enabling openCypher queries over graph data in Fabric Eventhouse and Azure Data Explorer.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server is now generally available in all three availability zones in Japan West, allowing deployments that improve availability and resiliency.
Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available with a new flexible provisioning model that lets you configure capacity, IOPS and throughput (MBPS) more independently so you can better tailor and optimize disk performance for your workloads.
Azure Blob Storage object replication metrics for pending operations and pending bytes are now generally available in all regions, enabling customers to monitor replication status and act on delays.
Azure MCP Server is now generally available. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it provides a secure, standards-based bridge that lets agent-based applications and developer workflows access and coordinate across Azure services (examples called out include AKS, ACA, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL, and AI Foundry). The GA release is aimed at simplifying integration, improving security and interoperability, and enabling cloud-powered agents.
GitHub Copilot for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is available in public preview. It provides context-aware assistance to help you write Transact-SQL (T-SQL) faster and more accurately and can answer general SQL questions using database and connection context.
In early November 2025 Azure announced a Public Preview update for Azure SQL Hyperscale that adds support for multiple geo‑secondary replicas. This capability simplifies designing and deploying disaster recovery topologies that span multiple regions.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports configuring read replicas (in-region and geo-replicas) with the Premium SSD v2 storage tier in Public Preview, enabling scale-out for read-heavy workloads and improved performance by offloading read operations.
Planned Failover for Azure Storage is now generally available. It lets customers initiate a managed failover for geo-redundant storage accounts, swapping primary and secondary endpoints while preserving geo-redundancy and data durability.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now offers Query Advisor as generally available in the .NET SDK. Query Advisor analyzes your query structure and gives clear, actionable recommendations to help you write faster, more efficient queries.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now generally supports ORDER BY ST_DISTANCE, allowing queries to be sorted by distance from a point or GeoJSON object directly in the database.
Azure has made Connection Monitor integration generally available for ExpressRoute, allowing end-to-end connectivity monitoring to be enabled directly when creating or updating ExpressRoute connections.
Azure has announced general availability of Resiliency Insights for ExpressRoute. This assessment capability measures network reliability for ExpressRoute workloads using a resiliency index — a percentage score calculated from factors such as route resilience (source content truncated).
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now generally availability (GA) supports a dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer for servers configured with high availability, delivering a dedicated load-balancing option for HA-enabled deployments.
Azure has made ExpressRoute Resiliency Validation generally available. The feature lets you perform site failovers for your Virtual Network Gateway to assess and validate network connectivity resiliency for ExpressRoute-enabled workloads.
Microsoft announced the open-source DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator, which lets you run DocumentDB (a MongoDB‑compatible, open-source document database built on PostgreSQL) on Kubernetes by extending the cluster with custom resource definitions (CRDs).
Azure NetApp Files is offering a Public Preview of an Object REST API — an S3-compatible REST API that lets customers bridge traditional file-based storage and modern cloud services, enabling reuse of existing data and integration with Microsoft Fabric.