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Azure Functions now supports custom handlers in Flex consumption. Custom handlers are lightweight web servers that receive events from the Functions host. Any language that supports HTTP primitives...
On September 30, 2025, Low-Priority VM will reach end of life. However, you will continue to be supported on Azure Machine Learning until March 31, 2026. To ensure that your clusters are not automati...
We’re happy to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year.
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Container network metrics filtering in Azure Container Networking Services (ACNS) is now available in public preview. In containerized environments, the ingestion of excessive network metrics can l...
MCP support for AI toolchain operator add-on is now Generally Available. The AI Toolchain Operator add-on now supports KAITO inference workspaces with integrated tool calling and Model Context P...
Cluster-wide Cilium network policy for AKS clusters using Azure CNI powered by Cilium is now Generally Available. Managing consistent network policies across Kubernetes namespaces has long been a...
Local redirect policy with Azure CNI powered by Cilium for AKS is now generally available. Customers running high-scale AKS workloads often experience latency and performance bottlenecks due to cros...
To address the growing need for granular traffic control in microservices architectures, Azure Container Networking Services now offers Layer 7 Policy as a generally available feature. This capabili...
With Azure NetApp Files single file restore from backup, you can restore individual files from Azure NetApp Files backup vault without needing to restore an entire volume. By restoring only the necess...
Azure DNS security policy Threat Intelligence feed is now generally available. Protect against known malicious domains with Microsoft’s managed Threat Intelligent feed. Smart Protection Almost...
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to Azure Sphere OS only; it does not include an updated SDK. If your devices are connected to the inter...
Announcing that Trusted Launch supported Arm64 Images are now available in the Azure Marketplace. You can now get the dual benefit of cost and performance efficiencies of Arm64 in addition to the s...
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...
Azure NetApp Files cache volumes are now available in public preview. The cache volumes feature is a new capability built on NetApp’s ONTAP FlexCache technology that provides a persistent, high-perfor...
Azure Monitor provides a complete set of services for monitoring the health and performance of different layers of your Kubernetes infrastructure and the applications that depend on it.Azure Monitor n...
Azure Managed Lustre now offers full integration with Azure MCP Server, and this capability is generally available. Azure MCP Server enables developers and infrastructure teams to manage Azure resourc...
CSI Dynamic Provisioning for Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) is now generally available. With dynamic provisioning, Kubernetes applications can request AMLFS-backed persistent volumes on demand using sta...
Azure Managed Lustre now offers a new 20 MB/s/TiB performance tier in public preview, designed to meet the demands of large-scale AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. This tier enables c...
The Auto-import feature for Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) is now available in public preview. Auto-import enables seamless, policy-driven synchronization of data from Azure Blob Storage containers into...
Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for Azure Monitor Managed service for Prometheus customers. These alerts enable you to monitor the inge...
Azure Managed Redis is now available as part of the Microsoft Foundry MCP tools catalog, allowing customers to use Redis as a knowledge store or memory store for AI agents. This integration makes it s...
Azure Application Gateway has introduced general availability support for TLS and TCP protocol termination. This enhancement enables you to load balance and securely process non-HTTP(S) traffic for ...
Azure Databricks Genie is now integrated with Microsoft Foundry and in public preview. You can now connect Genie spaces directly to Microsoft Foundry agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP), giving ...
Azure Databricks Genie is now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio, giving you direct access to intelligent, enterprise-grade AI answers across your full Azure Databricks data estate. This integratio...
Announcing the public preview of A2A API support in Azure API Management. With this new capability, organizations can manage and govern agent APIs alongside other API types — AI model APIs, Model Co...
Claude models by Anthropic are now available for Public Preview in Microsoft Foundry, expanding the platform’s unified ecosystem of frontier AI. Enterprises can access Claude Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1, a...
Following our Azure Copilot announcement introducing agentic capabilities, this update focuses on one of the six new agents: the deployment agent. The deployment agent helps you discover, plan, and ...
Engineered for performance, Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL delivers future-proof, autoscaling storage up to 128 TB, up to 3 times faster performance than open-source PostgreSQL, and rapid compute scal...
The VS Code Private Marketplace is a secure, enterprise-ready way to host and manage extensions internally—fully integrated with VS Code. Teams can self-host, deploy easily, and manage updates with fl...
With Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security, protect cloud-native applications across the full app lifecycle from code to cloud. This natively integrated solution helps unify deve...
Introducing smart tier Public Preview for account level tiering Announcing the public preview of smart tier for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). Smart tier is a fully managed ...
Announcing Managed Instance on Azure App Service, now in Public Preview! This new capability makes it easy to move web apps to the cloud with minimal configuration—no code rewrites required. Whether y...
Azure Files now supports Entra-only identities, enabling customers to retire on-premises domain controllers while maintaining secure SMB access to file shares. This feature delivers a fully cloud-nati...
The Azure Boost confidential device feature is now in preview. Azure Boost is a Microsoft Azure system that offloads virtualization tasks—such as networking, storage, and host management—from the h...
Announcing the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Application Gateway WAF v2. HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, and traditional static controls often f...
Remote storage throughput and network bandwidth performance enhancements for the latest Azure Boost architecture are now in preview. Azure Boost is a Microsoft Azure system that offloads virtualizat...
We are announcing the public preview of NCv6 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition Virtual Machines, as the next enhancement of NC Series VMs available on Azure. Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 BSE GPUs are de...
Azure SRE Agent is an AI-driven solution that unifies operational workflows into a single, prompt-based automation layer—eliminating complexity and reducing overhead for modern cloud operations. Unlik...
Azure continues to embrace open standards by adding new capabilities to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro that powers Azure Monitor Application Insights. New Capabilities:Rate-limited sampling an...
Agentless Connection Troubleshoot (public preview) introduces a faster, simpler, and fully agentless way to diagnose network connectivity issues across Azure resources. Previously, running connectiv...
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) visualization in Network Watcher Topology (Public Preview) delivers end-to-end visibility of AKS clusters directly within the Azure networking experience. Customers ca...
VNet Flow Log captures IP traffic flowing through VNets, Subnets, & NICs for monitoring, troubleshooting, network optimization, security, and compliance needs. This release introduces advanced filte...
ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway (ErGwScale) is our next-generation offering that brings flexibility, performance, and operational simplicity to Virtual Network Gateway deployments. With this release, ...
Organizations operating Azure Container Registries (ACR) require least-privilege permissions over which Microsoft Entra identities can publish or consume container images. With ACR repository permi...
AKS desktop delivers a modern, application-centric experience for deploying and managing workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service. Built on supported AKS features, best practices, and the open-source H...
Running containerized workloads in shared environments can raise concerns around security and workload isolation. To address this, AKS now supports pod sandboxing, enabling customers to run contain...
Managing namespace configurations across AKS clusters has traditionally required manual setup and ongoing maintenance, creating complexity and potential for misconfiguration. With the general avail...
Managing Kubernetes clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be complex and fragmented. To simplify this, Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, en...
Organizations running Windows-based workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) face increasing pressure to modernize as support timelines for older Windows Server versions approach retirement. To ...
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic clusters now come with a pod readiness SLA, guaranteeing that eligible pods meet readiness criteria within five minutes at the 99.9th percentile. This empow...
Provisioning and maintaining system node pools in AKS requires ongoing effort to ensure proper scaling, patching, and availability, tasks that can divert resources from application development and d...
You can now build and host reliable production-grade AI agents using the durable extension for Microsoft Agent Framework. This integration combines the Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Function...
Managing IP address spaces across multiple regions can be complex and error-prone. With this new capability, you can now associate a single IPAM pool with virtual networks in multiple regions, sim...
Azure Virtual Network Manager address space overlap prevention in mesh is now generally available, bringing enhanced reliability and governance to multi-virtual network environments. Unintended add...
You can now develop functions using Node.js 24 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions on Windows and Linux. Note: Node.js 24 does not support 32-bit systems on Windows. To ensure compatibility...
You can now develop functions using Java 25 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions on Windows and Linux. Upgrade your apps to Java 25 to take advantage of enhanced security, a longer support wi...
Slow start is now generally available as a load balancing algorithm in Application Gateway for Containers. This feature improves stability and performance during backend scale-up by gradually incre...
Application Gateway for Containers now supports integration with Istio service mesh through an optional service mesh extension. This feature simplifies secure north-south communication between exte...
Now you can run bigger, faster workloads on fewer nodes using high-performance storage for Azure DocumentDB. This update delivers up to 64 TiB capacity, 80,000 IOPS, and 1,200 MB/s throughput per phys...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a way for apps to provide capabilities and context to a large language model. A key feature of MCP is the ability to define tools that AI agents can leverage to acco...
Earlier this year, we introduced Azure Functions durable task scheduler, an orchestration engine designed for complex workflows and intelligent agents. It automatically checkpoints progress and pro...
We are introducing a new capability that allows you to host remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers built with the MCP SDKs on Functions. Some key benefits of hosting on the Functions platform in...
Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now the recommended hosting plan for serverless workloads requiring advanced scaling, networking, and cost optimization. To support customers migrating from the ...
Azure Functions now supports OpenTelemetry in general availability (GA), enabling developers to export logs, traces, and metrics using open standards. This release builds on the public preview and ...
Azure Container Apps is bringing the familiar developer workflow of Docker Compose directly to Azure Container Apps. As one of the most widely adopted tools among developers, Docker Compose simplifi...
Flexible workload profile represents a new option that blends the simplicity of consumption with many of the performance and control characteristics of dedicated workload profiles. This offers the s...
To meet growing demand for GPU-powered workloads, Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs are now generally available in additional regions. This expansion enables developers to run AI inference, mode...
Confidential computing support in Azure Container Apps is now in public preview. This release brings hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to your containerized workloads. Azure alre...
StandardV2 SKU NAT Gateway is now in public preview, delivering next-generation capabilities for scalable and resilient outbound connectivity. New offerings: Zone-Redundancy: Built for high availabili...
SQL database in Fabric is now generally available. Built on the trusted SQL Server and Azure SQL Database engine, this fully SaaS-native solution empowers developers and data professionals to unify op...
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports Italian and Portuguese languages in full-text search, available today in public preview. This update adds to the list of supported languages, enabling you to bui...
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now offers an MCP Toolkit that can be used with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, available today in public preview. This new integration allows you to connect Microsoft Fou...
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports fuzzy search in full-text search. With fuzzy search, you can deliver typo-tolerant, error-resilient search experiences directly within Azure Cosmos DB, helping y...
This release gives you faster vector inserts and index builds in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, helping you reduce end-to-end ingestion and indexing times for large AI workloads. This improvement is power...
Azure Cosmos DB now supports float 16 data types for vector indexes. With this update, you can store and query vectors using half-precision floating-point numbers. Using float16 cuts storage usage in ...
Developers today are building more intelligent, connected, and autonomous applications than ever before. From personalized chatbots and copilots to dynamic content engines and decision systems, data i...
Now generally available, Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring in Fabric enables you to seamlessly integrate your existing operational workloads with the analytical capabilities of Microsoft Fabric. You can take ...
Now generally available, Cosmos DB in Fabric enables you to build operational and analytical workloads in Microsoft Fabric. You can use the AI-features in Azure Cosmos DB plus the innovations in Fabri...
Integrated into the DocumentDB for VS Code extension, the Index Advisor enables you to view and debug database performance. It uses natural language to recommend optimal indexing and best practices fo...
You can now enable priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB to ensure that high-priority requests are favored during periods of contention. The system will throttle low-priority requests first, all...
You can now unify insights across your entire Azure Cosmos DB footprint using Azure Cosmos DB Fleet Analytics, available in public preview. Fleet Analytics helps you manage data across multiple accoun...
Now you can more easily operate your Azure Cosmos DB accounts at scale. Azure Cosmos DB fleet pools give you new capabilities when building multitenant software as a service (SaaS) applications. You ...
Microsoft is announcing the general availability of Azure DocumentDB, a fully managed document database service built on the open-source, MongoDB-compatible DocumentDB, now governed by the Linux Found...
You can now help protect sensitive data from unauthorized access using dynamic data masking (DDM), a server-side, policy-based security feature in Azure Cosmos DB. DDM dynamically masks data for non-p...
You can now migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure DocumentDB using the new Azure DocumentDB Migration extension for Visual Studio Code—now available in public preview. This seamless, zero-cost migration ...
Announcing the general availability of seamless, self-serve online migrations from Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB RU to Azure DocumentDB—directly from the Azure portal. With this release, your organizati...
Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL is now simpler and faster with the new Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tooling, available directly in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio C...
Announcing the general availability of the 2025 REST API for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This release adds support for PostgreSQL 17 and 18, so you can adopt new versions without changing your auto...
Now you can use elastic clusters to horizontally scale Azure Database for PostgreSQL through row-based and schema-based sharding. Elastic clusters make it easy to build multitenant apps by offloading ...
Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Foundry support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The Azure PostgreSQL MCP Server is now natively integrated with Microsoft Foundry. This integration enabl...
The anon extension is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. This extension provides data anonymization tools. Learn more.
Now you can deploy general purpose and memory-optimized v6-series Azure Virtual Machines with local NVMe storage in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. The v6 series is available with eithe...
Now you can create pg_duckdb extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, so you can accelerate analytics using DuckDB’s vectorized, columnar execution. Learn more.
You can now stream data changes in near real time from Azure SQL Database directly into Azure Event Hubs. With the public preview of change event streaming (CES), you can streamline data integration a...
You can now use PostgreSQL 18 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This release introduces the latest PostgreSQL innovations along with seamless in-place upgrade support, allowing you to move from earlie...
Announcing that the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available. With this powerful tool, you can connect to PostgreSQL database instances, run queries, create and manage connec...
You can now bring data together and simplify analytics using Microsoft Fabric mirroring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, now generally available. Mirroring in Fabric unifies your org...
Announcing that Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server now supports the Azure Storage extension with Parquet format and multiple compression options. You can seamlessly read and write Parquet f...
The Next‑gen General Purpose tier delivers a major performance boost while preserving the cost advantages you expect. You get more power and compute flexibility without sacrificing the simplicity of a...
Announcing the public preview of vector indexing using DiskANN in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. DiskANN is an algorithm for efficient vector simi...