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Here's the summary of available information: [In Preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL Updates (Late-April 2025) MSSQL Extension for VS Code : Added Schema Compare functionality to analyze and synchronize database schemas directly within the editor[4]. Target Platform Support : Microsoft.Build.Sql 2.0.0 Preview now includes support for SQL Server 2025 in database projects[4]. Earlier versions (1.0.0) already supported SQL database in Fabric [4]. Tooling Updates : The 170.0 release of SqlPackage/DacFx (mid-April 2025) provides compatibility with SQL Server 2025 and Fabric integration[3][5]. Additional Context The query references https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=489702 , but no specific details about this update are available in the provided search results. For accuracy, always verify the URL directly for unreferenced updates. Key Sources : [4] for VS Code Schema Compare, [3][5] for tooling releases. Background : SQL Server 2025 offers AI/analytics enhancemen...

Summary of Azure Firewall Integration in Security Copilot Overview The integration of Azure Firewall with Microsoft Security Copilot enhances the security capabilities by leveraging AI to investigate malicious traffic intercepted by Azure Firewall's intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS). This integration simplifies complex tasks for security analysts, allowing them to query data using natural language instead of writing complex queries[1][2][5]. Key Features and Benefits Automated Investigation : The Azure Firewall integration in Security Copilot enables detailed investigations of malicious traffic using AI, reducing manual effort and time spent on threat analysis[2][5]. Natural Language Queries : Analysts can ask questions in natural language, making it easier to investigate threats without needing to write complex KQL queries[2][5]. Integration and Accessibility : The integration is available both through the Security Copilot portal and the Copilot in Azure exp...

Introduction to Azure Compute Fleet Azure Compute Fleet is a feature designed to simplify and optimize large-scale virtual machine (VM) deployments. It provides accelerated access to Azure's capacity in a given region, allowing users to deploy and manage thousands of VMs efficiently[1][2]. Key Features and Capabilities Scalability and Deployment : Azure Compute Fleet can deploy up to 10,000 VMs in a single API call, combining Spot and Standard VMs. This scalability is beneficial for dynamic applications or large-scale workloads[3][5]. Cost Optimization : Compute Fleet offers superior price-performance ratios by utilizing a mix of pricing models, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and pay-as-you-go options[1][5]. Flexibility in VM Sizes : Users can mix up to 15 different VM sizes and families within a single fleet, tailoring deployments to specific workload needs[3]. Simplified Management : The "Fire & Forget-it" model automates the de...

Overview of Next Generation Azure Data Box Devices Microsoft has announced the general availability of the next generation Azure Data Box devices, specifically the Azure Data Box 120 and Azure Data Box 525 . These devices are designed to enhance the process of transferring large amounts of data into Azure Storage by offering faster, more reliable, and secure offline data ingestion solutions[2][3][4]. Key Features and Improvements The new Azure Data Box devices incorporate several key features and improvements: Fast Data Transfer : They utilize NVMe devices to achieve faster data transfer rates, with speeds reaching up to 7 GBps for medium to large files, offering a significant improvement over previous models[1][3]. Resilience and Security : The devices are ruggedized to withstand rough transportation conditions and offer secure data transfer protocols to ensure data integrity and confidentiality[2][3]. Ease of Use : The devices are designed for ease of handling, with larger c...

Enhanced Support for Generation 2 VMs in Azure DevTest Labs Azure DevTest Labs has introduced enhanced support for Generation 2 Virtual Machines (VMs) in public preview, offering key advantages over Generation 1 VMs. This development aligns with Microsoft's commitment to providing users with more advanced and secure virtualization options. Key Features of Generation 2 VMs Increased Memory : Generation 2 VMs support greater memory compared to their Generation 1 counterparts[1][2]. Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) : Provides additional security features by enabling secure enclaves[1][2]. Virtualized Persistent Memory (vPMEM) : Enhances performance and capacity with persistent memory support[1][2]. Improved Boot and Installation Times : Offers faster boot and installation experiences, enhancing overall productivity[1][2]. Enhanced Support in Azure DevTest Labs Image Choice : Users can now easily choose between Generation 1 and Generation 2 versions of the same ...

Azure Application Gateway V2 now supports enabling dedicated connections from Application Gateway to backend server. By default, Application Gateway reuses the idle backend connections to optimize the resource usage of TCP connections helping both the gat

Choosing the right Azure SQL service can be challenging. To make this easier, you can now visit the Azure SQL hub, a new home for everything related to Azure SQL in the Azure portal. Whether you’re new to Azure SQL or an experienced user, the hub helps yo

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving security and performance, we will be retiring support for hsmPlatform 1 keys, effective September 15, 2028. To ensure the continued security and functionality of your operations, we recommend transitioning to

Azure Linux 2.0 on AKS will be retired on November 30, 2025, please transition to Azure Linux 3.0 by that date. Azure Linux 2.0 has been replaced by the newer supported version Azure Linux 3.0. We encourage you to transition to Azure Linux 3.0 prior to

You can now create a replica cluster of your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) in the same region where the primary cluster is hosted. This replica is continuously synchronized with the primary (read-write) cluster, ensuring data consistency. Same-regio

Announcong that Azure App Service now supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), enabling enterprise customers to deploy Java workloads with greater flexibility and cost efficiency.If you’ve evaluated Azure App

Announcing the addition of the D192 size to the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series Virtual Machines families, powered by the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor. Dsv6-series virtual machines use Azure managed disks only, while D

Announcing the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server version 8.4. With this release, you can now create new MySQL 8.4 servers for your production workloads and benefit from the latest features, performance enhancements, and se

To help you manage your MySQL upgrade timelines with greater flexibility, we’re introducing Extended Support for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server, starting in spring 2026. If your server is running on a MySQL version that has reached the end of

Data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) cluster is automatically and seamlessly encrypted with keys managed by Microsoft. Now, in addition to this service-managed key encryption (SMK), you have the option to add another layer of security b

To simplify the experience of creating and managing file shares in Azure, Azure Files now supports a file share-centric management model offered by the Microsoft.FileShares resource provider. With this update, file shares become top-level resources in Azu

Last August, we introduced Azure App Testing, a unified testing service that brings together two powerful testing capabilities—Azure Load Testing and Microsoft Playwright Testing—to help developers and QA teams run large-scale functional and performance t

The general purpose Dasv7 and Dalsv7, memory-optimized Easv7, and compute-optimized Fasv7, Falsv7, Famsv7 VMs, are now available in preview with and without local disk support. These VMs are now available in the East US 2, North Europe, and West US 3 regi

The Multitenant Managed Logging feature in Container Insights is now generally available, offering customers who operate shared AKS clusters the ability to segregate container logs by team. This functionality enables teams to independently manage and acce

As part of our ongoing commitment to improve customer experience, we continuously evaluate our product portfolio to ensure it meets the evolving needs of our customers. To better align with current usage patterns and future investments in disk performance

We’re adding Graph Query Language (GQL) support to KQL graph semantics, aligned with the ISO standard. This update allows you to run GQL queries on any Fabric Eventhouse or Azure Data Explorer, making it easier to work with graph data using an industry-st

You can now develop functions using Python 3.13 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions. Starting with Python 3.13, Functions introduces runtime version control, a new opt-in feature that lets you target specific versions of the Functions Python runti

Azure NetApp Files migration assistant (with SnapMirror) provides efficient and cost-effective data migration leveraging ONTAP's built-in replication engine for seamless transition from on-premises or CVO/other cloud providers to Azure NetApp Files (ANF).

Azure CDN will be retired on December 1, 2025 in China. We recognize that this change may affect your operations, and we are committed to supporting you throughout the transition. Required action: To avoid service disruption: Please migrate to Azure Front

You can now take advantage of near-zero-downtime maintenance for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with high availability (HA) enabled. This capability is now generally available and is supported by our new HA architecture based on a dedicated Az

Support for multiple address prefixes in a subnet is now generally available in Azure Virtual Networks. Azure Virtual Network subnets supported only a single address prefix, which limited the scale out for certain applications when the address space was e

Announcing general availability support to enable Trusted launch on existing Azure Gen1 VMs by upgrading the Gen1 VM to Gen2-Trusted launch. This will help improve the foundational security of existing Azure VMs. Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational co

Announcing the public preview of the Confluent Kafka Connector in Azure Logic Apps (Standard). This new connector allows you to both send and receive messages between Logic Apps and Confluent Kafka. Confluent Kafka is a distributed streaming platform wide

Announcing the public preview of Organizational Templates in Azure Logic Apps. This feature empowers teams to author, share, and reuse automation patterns within their own organization, helping standardize integration practices at scale. Organizational Te

Ultra Disks are the most performant block storage option for Azure virtual machines offering consistent low sub-millisecond latency, extremely high performance. This makes Ultra disk ideal for a broad spectrum of the most demanding enterprise production w

Azure CDN which is currently provided in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (“Azure China”) will be retired on December 1, 2025. This change affects all customers currently using Azure CDN in China. Azure CDN is built on top of local CDN providers’ POPs

The new Premium v4 offering provides faster processors, NVMe local storage, and memory-optimized options, running on the latest Azure hardware. Premium v4 is available for both Windows and Linux customers, and includes sizes starting from 1 vCPU and 4GB o

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium are now generally available in the Azure China regions (China North 3 and China East 3), operated by 21Vianet. With this release, customers in China can deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance applications usin

In late August 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL and SQL Server: Easily spin up local SQL Server containers. Now generally available, the local SQL Server container enables container creation in the MSSQL extension for V

The public preview of Entra ID group login using user credentials, now available on newly provisioned servers. This anticipated feature simplifies user management and improves security within the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server environments.

Announcing that Azure DMS now supports schema migration for Azure SQL Database—making your cloud migration journey smoother and more efficient than ever. With just a single checkbox, you can now migrate missing schema objects along with your data. This i

Now you can add physical shards as your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) clusters grow. Thanks to the elasticity of compute and storage configurations in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore), a single physical shard (node) typically delivers the desired

In late August 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Azure SQL Database now offers a replication lag metric, providing real-time visibility into the recovery point objective (RPO) when Geo-DR is enabled. Learn more.

Azure NetApp Files short-term clones enable space-efficient, instant read/write access to data by creating temporary thin clones from existing volume snapshots, eliminating the need for full data copies and enabling capacity savings. Ideal for software de

Announcing the public preview of custom block response code and body for WAF integrated with Application Gateway.Azure WAF integrated with Application Gateway now supports customizable response status codes and bodies for blocked requests, enabling greate

To align with security best practices, Entra ID and RBAC support is now generally available for the following APIs for Azure Storage: Get Account InformationGet Container ACLSet Container ACLGet Queue ACLSet Queue ACLGet Table ACLSet Table ACL To learn mo

Azure CNI Overlay with Application Gateway for Containers and AGIC is now generally available.Azure CNI Overlay enables AKS clusters to use pod IPs from a separate CIDR, conserving VNet IP space and simplifying multi-cluster deployments. Paired with Appli

Microsoft announces the opening of its cloud region in Austria to accelerate digital transformation and AI innovation. The cloud region will enable companies and public administration in Austria to store and process their data securely, in compliance with

Durable Functions running in the .NET isolated model now has support for the Roslyn Analyzer, a real-time code analyzer that helps developers adhere to durable orchestrations’ coding constraints. This analyzer is enabled by default to analyze Durable Func

Azure Functions support for Node.js 22 is now Generally Available. You can now develop functions using Node.js 22 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.Learn more.

Azure Migrate now supports migration to Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) disks. With the introduction of this new feature in Azure Migrate, you can now select ZRS as the redundancy option during server migration. This automatically provisions a disk with ZRS

Search Job lets you run asynchronous queries across all your workspace data, including long-term retention, and delivers results in new Analytics tables for further exploration.We’re excited to announce that the maximum number of records returned by a Sea

Azure Application Gateway now supports MaxSurge, enabling new instances to be provisioned during rolling upgrades without taking existing ones offline. This allows customers to transition to newer gateway versions without any capacity degradation, ensurin

Azure Functions now allows you to choose 512 MB in addition to 2048 MB and 4096 MB as the memory instance size for your Flex Consumption apps. This enables you to further cost optimize your apps that require less resources, and allows your apps to scale o

Azure NetApp Files file access logs feature is now generally available, delivering enterprise-grade visibility into file-level operations across SMB, NFSv4.1, and dual-protocol volumes. This feature empowers organizations to enhance their security posture

We continuously assess our services to uphold the high standards of protection and reliability for our customers. After a thorough evaluation, we have determined that due to increasing infrastructure and operational complexity, it is no longer feasible to

With this release, you can now establish a secure tunnel from your local machine—via Azure Bastion—directly to your AKS API server using your standard Kubernetes tooling. This enables seamless access to both private clusters and public clusters with API s

Flexible service level in Azure NetApp Files allows customers to independently configure storage capacity and throughput, making it ideal for workloads with unique performance and sizing requirements—such as high-capacity volumes with low throughput or lo

We continuously assess our services to uphold the high standards of protection and reliability for our customers. After a thorough evaluation, we have determined that due to increasing infrastructure and operational complexity, it is no longer feasible to

The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Malaysia West region.With this regional expansion, customers in Malaysia can now store infrequently accessed data in the cost-effective Archive tier, while meeting data resid

Azure Files now supports the provisioned v2 billing model on the SSD (premium) media tier. Provisioned v2 enables independent provisioning of storage, IOPS, and throughput, allowing you to create a file share that meets your exact storage and performance

Azure Databricks connector for Power Platform is now generally available. You can easily connect Azure Databricks with Microsoft Power Apps in several new ways. The new connector enables you to: Support real-time data access without the need for data cop

Data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) cluster is automatically and seamlessly encrypted with keys managed by Microsoft. Now, in addition to this service-managed key encryption (SMK), you have the option to add another layer of security b

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the Malaysia West Azure region. Learn more.

You can now use Cassandra 5.0 in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, available in public preview. This release gives you access to the latest Cassandra features—like better performance and new indexing—without the hassle of managing infrastructur

Introducing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts - a new preview capability in Azure Monitor that enables customers to receive proactive notifications about service health issues impacting their entire tenant, not just individual subscriptions. With this fe

Announcing the general availability of the Upsert method and Script activity support in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This enhancement enables you to perform efficient, scalable, and declarative d

Inbound IPv6 support on public multi-tenant App Service is now generally available across all public Azure regions for multi-tenant apps on all Basic, Standard, and Premium SKUs, Functions Consumption, Functions Elastic Premium, and Logic Apps Standard.

Application Gateway v2 is announcing general availability of Private Application Gateway, which is a collection of new capabilities to the Application Gateway v2 SKU to further enhance control over network exposure.The following capabilities are now gener

These new VM sizes offer up to 192 vCPUs and 1832 GiB of RAM, making them ideal for enterprise-scale applications such as in-memory analytics, large relational databases, and in-memory cache workloads. With Intel® Total Memory Encryption (Intel TME) and N

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. CVM for Azure Linux in AKS is now in public preview and enables node pools with CVM to target the migration of highly sensitive container workloads to AKS without a

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. Now generally available, CVM for Ubuntu 24.04 in AKS enables node pools with CVM to target the migration of highly sensitive container workloads to AKS without any

Misconfigurations during Kubernetes development can lead to bugs and deployment issues. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now offers generally available deployment safeguards to help prevent these problems by enforcing Kubernetes best practices. These safe

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Encryption in Transit (EiT) for Azure Files NFS v4.1 volumes via the Azure File CSI driver. This builds on the recent General Availability (GA) of EiT for Azure Files NFS shares in June, which introduced TLS 1.

Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh connectivity is now in public preview, enabling you to group up to 5,000 virtual networks in supported regions. A mesh topology creates bi‑directional connectivity between every virtual network in a mesh connectivity con

Network security perimeter allows organizations to define a logical network isolation boundary for PaaS resources (for example, Azure Storage account and SQL Database server) that are deployed outside your organization’s virtual networks. It restricts pub

Announcing the general availability of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for Azure DNS Public Zones in US Gov and China regions. With this release you can now enable DNSSEC on all existing and new public DNS Zones hosted on Azure DNS. This s

Azure Storage Actions is now available in several more Azure regions, enabling expanded global access and greater data residency options. This includes regions where the service was previously in preview. Additional regions where the service is now genera

Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of Azure Dedicated HSM, which will be succeeded by the Azure Cloud HSM service. Microsoft will provide full support for all existing Azure Dedicated HSM customers until July 31, 2028. During this support wind

Azure Backup support for agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure Virtual Machines is now Generally Available.Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure VM allows you to take VM backups without installing additional software li

Azure File Sync Arc Extension is now generally available, enabling seamless deployment and management of Azure File Sync on Arc-enabled Windows Servers. This extension brings hybrid file sync capabilities to a broader range of on-premises and multi-cloud

Tags in Azure confidential ledger serve as secondary keys that enhance data organization and retrieval within collections. By allowing users to assign up to five tags per transaction, these tags provide an additional layer of categorization, making it eas

Azure Virtual Network Manager is now generally available in Azure US Government Cloud, providing unified control for connectivity, security, and routing across subscriptions, regions, and tenants. By automating configurations, it guarantees consistent pol

Azure Storage’s SAS expiration policy (validity interval) allows you to set an upper limit for the period for validity of SAS tokens. Up until now, administrators could set how long a SAS should be valid through the SAS expiration policy, however, it was

Azure Database for MySQL now enables you to configure the backup interval for the automatic backups taken by the system to improve restore speed. This new feature optimizes the process by introducing more frequent snapshots, thereby reducing the number of

You can now use cascading read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, available in Public Preview. With this new capability, you can create additional read replicas from an existing one. A read replica can act as the source for new rep

Customers can use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance for Point-to-Site VPN Gateway (P2S VPN) in Virtual WAN Service. With P2S VPN in Virtual WAN service now being generally available, customers can now configure maintenance w

Following our 2024 announcement to modernize Azure Resource Manager throttling, we are announcing that Azure Resource Manager will be bringing parity between public and sovereign clouds by the end of 2026. This update will ensure that the same throttling

Announcing the general availability of Summary rules in Log Analytics. Summary rules let you summarize high-ingestion-rate streams across Analytics, Basic, or Auxiliary plans, providing robust analysis, dashboarding, and long-term reporting experiences on

Kubernetes network solutions are challenging to plan due to rapidly evolving business needs. AKS users often face difficulties balancing simplicity, security, and scalability, while environmental changes further increase management costs. Many AKS users n

A Search Job is an asynchronous query that runs on any data in your Log Analytics workspace, including data from the long-term retention period, making the results available for further queries in a new Analytics table within your workspace. We’ve recent

Azure Managed Lustre now supports Virtual Network (VNet) Encryption, enabling encryption of data in transit between Azure Managed Lustre and client virtual machines. This feature helps customers meet compliance requirements for data confidentiality in reg

Application Gateway for Containers, Azure’s application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management solution for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster, now supports Web Application Firewall (WAF) in public preview. Application Gateway for

Azure Firewall now supports ingestion-time transformation of logs in Log Analytics, enabling selective logging and advanced filtering. Why it matters: For customers using Log Analytics to analyse firewall logs, the cost of log ingestion and storage itself

When building Durable Functions apps, it’s inevitable that orchestrations need to be changed. You might need to modify or remove activity functions, or maybe even completely rewrite the orchestration logic. Without any functionality built around versionin

Kafka Extension for Azure Functions in Consumption plan is now in public preview. This extension enables you to detect and respond to real time messages streaming into Kafka Topics, or write to a Kafka Topic through the output binding. You can now focus

Managing dynamic workloads in Kubernetes can often lead to overprovisioning, idle resources, and additional operational overhead from maintaining pre-configured node pools. To address this, Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP) support in AKS is now generally avai

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the Indonesia Central region. Learn more.

Trusted Launch support with standard backup policies enables seamless backup configuration for secure VMs, aligning with Trusted Launch becoming the default across VM creation interfaces. This enhancement ensures continuity for automation workflows using

Azure Cloud HSM is a FIPS 140-3 Level 3, highly available, single-tenant Hardware Security Module (HSM) service built to meet the most stringent security and compliance requirements. It provides customers with full administrative control over their HSMs,

Starting August 15, 2025, Azure Front Door (classic) and Azure CDN from Microsoft Classic SKUs will no longer support new domain onboarding or profile creation. Additionally, DigiCert is deprecating CNAME-based Domain Control Validation (DCV) on the same

On July 31, 2026, Support for Enterprise Security Package on Azure HDInsight will end, clusters running ESP on HDInsight will start facing service disruptions, as they would be deleted and associated data will be lost. Required Action To avoid potent

Announcing the general availability of Mirroring for Azure Databricks Unity Catalog in Microsoft Fabric—a secure, high-performance integration that provides seamless access to Azure Databricks tables from Fabric. With Fabric and Azure Databricks, we are

All newly deployed ExpressRoute Virtual Network Gateways will use the Hosted-On-Behalf-Of (HOBO) Public IP model. This change simplifies gateway configuration by removing the requirement to explicitly assign a Public IP address. The HOBO model streamlines

Take advantage of the innovations in Fabric to unify your operational data and analytics in OneLake using real-time intelligence, Copilot-powered Microsoft Power BI, and SQL queries—without having to stitch together separate services. At Microsoft Build 2

Beginning on September 30, 2025, Azure AI Speaker Recognition will be retired, and your applications will no longer be able to access its APIs.To continue providing speaker verification and/or speaker identification capabilities in your applications, we r

Azure Backup now supports migration to the enhanced policy for Azure VM backups using standard policy. The migration of VM backups to enhanced policy enables you to schedule multiple backups per day (up to every 4 hours), retain snapshots for longer durat

Announcing preview support to enable Trusted launch on existing Virtual machine Flex scale set by upgrading the scale set resource to Gen2-Trusted launch. This will help improve the foundational security of existing Azure Virtual machine Flex scale set re

Announcing general availability of support to enable Trusted launch on existing Virtual machine Uniform scale sets by upgrading the scale set resource to Gen2-Trusted launch. This will help improve the foundational security of existing Azure Virtual machi

Azure Firewall enables users to set a maintenance window with a minimum duration of 5 hours, recurring daily, to best accommodate their requirements and minimize unexpected downtime. Firewalls with an associated maintenance configuration will not undergo

Azure Storage Mover—a free, fully managed service— now supports data transfers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 to Azure Blob Storage, ideal for multi-cloud architectures or full migrations to Azure. The new Cloud-to-Cloud migration capability enables si

We are excited to announce that Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) clusters now support secondary users, enabling more flexible and granular access control for your database. Previously, each cluster could have only one user with full privileges, limitin

In early-July 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Enhanced server audit for Azure SQL Database boosts performance, availability, and reliability. Learn more. Server audit action groups are now available to achieve compli

DNS security policy is now generally available. This release brings visibility of DNS traffic at the VNET level with the flexibility to send logs to storage account, log analytics workspace, or event hubs. It also includes DNS filtering based on lists of

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub 25R1 is now available for customers to download and update their Azure Stack Hub deployments. What's New? This release contains a number of new capabilities, updates to application stacks and improvements to Azure App

Two-Way Forest Trusts for Microsoft Entra Domain Services are now Generally Available. This capability allows organizations to create forest trusts between Microsoft Entra Domain Services and on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environmen

Azure Firewall supports the use of Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) in DNAT (Destination Network Address Translation) rules, allowing inbound traffic to be routed to backend resources using domain names instead of static IP addresses. This feature i

We're announcing the General Availability of Query Editor in Azure Metric Explorer through Azure Monitor Workspace (AMW). With this update, customers can directly query Prometheus metrics using PromQL within their Azure Monitor workspace. This empowers us

Azure Files NFS shares now support Encryption in Transit (EiT) using TLS 1.3 to secure all NFS traffic, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authentication. This layer of added security helps enterprises meet end-to-end compliance needs while maintain

Azure Managed Prometheus sends metrics into Azure Monitor Workspace. Customers can now view and monitor issues with ingestion of Prometheus metrics as part of the platform metrics for the Azure Monitor Workspace. Ingestion errors are issues that occurred

Customers can now transition existing volumes from platform-managed keys (PMK) to customer-managed keys (CMK) seamlessly. This provides customers flexibility of encryption key lifecycle (renewals, rotations) and additional security for regulated industry

Azure Virtual Network Manager IP address management feature, a feature designed to enhance your network management, is generally available. In complex network environments, managing IP addresses effectively is essential. This feature centralizes IP planni

The new Draft & Deploy feature for Azure Firewall Policy introduces a streamlined, two-phase approach to managing firewall policies, significantly reducing deployment time and disruption. Traditionally, any policy update would trigger a full deployment of

Microsoft Cost Management now supports exporting cost and usage data in the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.2 schema. This update introduces key enhancements that help FinOps teams streamline reporting, unify billing data across clouds,