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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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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 Sphere OS version 25.12 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. The release contains no customer-facing changes but includes significant under-the-hood build system modifications and is provided for evaluation and testing.
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.
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.
Mistral Large 3, a frontier-class open-weight model licensed under Apache 2.0, is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure in Public Preview, offering enterprise-grade reliability, long-context comprehension, and multimodal reasoning suitable for production use.
Azure has announced general availability of MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server support for Azure Confidential Ledger. The MCP Server enables streamlined management of Azure resources, including Confidential Ledger, via natural-language prompts, simplifying interactions and operational workflows.
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.
Azure Storage Blob SFTP now generally available with resumable uploads, allowing interrupted or partially transferred files to be reopened and the remaining content appended so transfers can continue without restarting from zero.
AzureML SDK V1 will reach end of life on June 30, 2026. The SDKs that operate with V1 — azureml-train-core, azureml-pipeline, azureml-pipeline-core, azureml-pipeline-internal, and azureml-pipeline-steps — will also be retired and should be removed as dependencies before that date.
The pg_squeeze extension is now generally available at version 1.9.1 for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, and you can upgrade your instance to this version.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports the ip4r extension (Generally Available). ip4r provides efficient storage and indexing for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and ranges and can be installed on Flexible Server instances.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports the credcheck extension (general availability), which enforces password and credential validation policies directly within PostgreSQL.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is now generally available in the Belgium Central region, enabling customers to deploy managed PostgreSQL Flexible Server instances in that Azure region.
Azure Load Balancer bandwidth metrics are now generally available with a new metric dimension named Protocol. Byte, Packet, and SYN Count metrics in the Azure portal include the Protocol dimension (TCP traffic shown as Protocol=6), enabling protocol-level metric views.
Microsoft announced general availability of the Perth Azure Extended Zone — a small-footprint Azure extension in the Perth metro area designed to support low-latency and data residency workloads.