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Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in a third Availability Zone in New Zealand North. Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines,...
The DCesv6, DCedsv6, ECesv6, and ECedsv6 series are Azure’s next generation of confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) based on 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Inte...
The upstream Ingress-NGINX project is being deprecated and will stop receiving updates after March 2026. Microsoft will continue providing critical security patches through 30 November 2026, after whi...
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in three additional Azure regions: Malaysia West, New Zealand North, and Mexico Central. This expansion strengthens Azure Red Hat OpenShift’s presenc...
We’re excited to announce the addition of enhanced secure authentication in Azure Storage that combines the flexibility of user-delegation shared access signature (SAS) with the user-bound access of...
AI threat modeling helps teams identify misuse, emergent risk, and failure modes in probabilistic and agentic AI systems.
The post Security
Feb 26, 2026
We are announcing several capabilities in public preview with Azure Monitor pipeline. Secure Ingress to Azure Monitor pipeline from external endpoints (TLS/mTLS) with Bring Your Own Certi...
In late-February 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Introducing Search Database Objects in the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Instantly find table...
In late-February 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Manage your databases directly from the dialog using actions such as Name, Rename, and Drop. Import ...
You can now configure geo‑redundant backups with Premium SSD v2 disks for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, giving you an additional layer of disaster recovery for mission‑critical workloads. With this r...
A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard build workflows. The activity demonstrates how staged command-and-contro...
AI-powered cyberattacks outpace aging SOC tools, and this new guide explains why manual defense fails and how autonomous, expert-led security transforms modern protection.
The post Security
Feb 24, 2026
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud's expansion of capabilities includes Azure Local disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local disconnected, and Microsoft Foundry addition of large model and modern infras...
Windows Server Annual Channel (Preview) on AKS will be retired on May 15, 2026, please transition to Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) by that date. We encourage you to transition to Long Term Servi...
Announcing the public preview of Application Gateway WAF Insights. Azure Application Gateway WAF now offers WAF Insights, providing an interactive view of logs and metrics. WAF Insights enables quick ...
Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in Brazil Southeast (a region without Availability Zone), and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central.Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a nex...
Learn about a greenfield solution for creating a robust, scalable data platform by using the lakehouse design paradigm on Microsoft Fabric.
Learn more about Azure options for orchestrating, storing, building, deploying, and using custom document processing models.
Compare options for building, deploying, and managing your machine learning models. Decide which Microsoft products to choose for your solution.
Learn how to extract insights from customer conversations at a call center by using Foundry Tools and Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models.
Budget Bytes is a new series is designed to inspire developers to build affordable, production-quality AI applications on Azure with a budget of $25 or less.
The post Azure Blog
Feb 19, 2026
Read the new maturity-based guide that helps organizations move from fragmented, reactive security practices to a unified exposure management approach that enables proactive defense.
The pos...
Self-hosted agents execute code with durable credentials and process untrusted input. This creates dual supply chain risk, where skills and external instructions converge in the same runtime. As Op...
In this scenario, an e-commerce company in the travel industry uses Azure API Management to migrate a legacy web application.
Protect web apps by implementing Zero Trust security in virtual networks. Use Azure Firewall and Azure Application Gateway in networks to maximize protection.
Learn how to integrate enterprise back-end systems by using a message broker and events to decouple services for greater scalability and reliability.
Learn how to deploy network virtual appliances in high availability architectures for ingress and egress traffic in Azure.
Use Azure Private Link to access PaaS services from a hub-and-spoke network. Connect to these services by using a private IP address from your virtual network.
Compare virtual network peering and VPN gateways for Azure connectivity. Learn spoke-to-spoke communication patterns in hub-and-spoke architectures.
Implement a secure hybrid network architecture with Active Directory Federation Services authorization and identity federation in Azure.
Learn how to implement a secure hybrid network architecture that integrates on-premises Active Directory domains with Microsoft Entra ID.
Learn the best practices for running a Linux virtual machine on Azure, which requires some additional components, including networking and storage resources.
Learn the best practices for running a Windows virtual machine on Azure, which requires some additional components, including networking and storage resources.
Learn how to implement an architecture that automates video analysis by using Azure Machine Learning and Azure Vision in Foundry Tools.
Use this chart and other information to decide which compute service, or hosting model for computing resources, best suits your application.
Compare Azure data and AI services to corresponding AWS services. Understand key differences in data integration, analytics, machine learning, and AI capabilities.
Learn about Foundry Tools for video processing and video generation. Understand and compare each service's capabilities and use cases.
Learn about Azure's AI speech recognition and generation capabilities, such as speech-to-text, speech translation, and text-to-speech.
Learn about Foundry Tools targeted language processing capabilities, including NLP, text analytics, translation, and document data extraction.
Choose a natural language processing service for sentiment analysis, topic and language detection, key phrase extraction, and document categorization.
Learn how to modernize IBM mainframe and midrange data. Use a data-first approach to migrate the data to scalable and more secure cloud storage on Azure.
Learn about a data analytics solution that can democratize data access and provide R&D engineers with near real-time insights into test drive diagnostic data.
Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving. Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers frontier-level performance on complex coding, agentic workflows, and...
Managing AKS MCP servers can be affected by the number of tools and the amount of context required, which can increase latency and cost. The unified tooling for the AKS MCP Server introduces two new...
Users often face security and manageability challenges when diagnostic agents inherit broad user permissions, such as cluster-admin rights, and when each user must deploy their own instance. Cluste...
Azure Functions Flex Consumption introduces new platform‑integrated tools that provide clearer insight into quota availability and deployment behavior. The quota troubleshooting experience surfa...
Azure Functions support for .NET 10 is generally available, enabling production use of the latest .NET runtime for serverless applications. This support was introduced as part of the Azure Functions...
Node auto‑provisioning removes the need for teams to manually size and manage compute resources for Kubernetes workloads. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides general availability support fo...
Customers previously could not enable LocalDNS on clusters that used Node auto‑provisioning in AKS, limiting their ability to use this feature in those environments. LocalDNS is now generally avail...
Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters previously did not have support for Encryption at Host and disk encryption sets. This limited users with certain security requirements for their cluster to n...
Learn how to use this information to decide which Azure service for vector search best suits your application.
Learn how to deploy features of an application into a separate process or container to provide modular abstraction and isolation of cross-cutting concerns.
Learn where to find Azure technology guidance across compute, data, analytics, networking, and AI by using curated comparison and choice resources.
Learn strategies to help you select the best model for your AI workload, including key criteria and practical considerations for decision-making.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available today in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for teams who want frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale.
Learn about asynchronous messaging options in Azure, including the different types of messages and the entities that participate in a messaging infrastructure.
Implement the Modern Web App pattern for Java. Get prescriptive architecture, code, and deployment guidance for scalable, decoupled cloud applications.
Implement the Reliable Web App pattern for .NET. Migrate (replatform) web apps to the cloud with prescriptive architecture, code, and configuration guidance.
Implement the Reliable Web App pattern for Java. Get essential guidance for migrating web apps to the cloud. Learn how to replatform web apps.
Announcing the General Availability of instant access support for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk. This new capability enables you to restore new disks immediately after...
New research from Microsoft and Omdia reveals how fragmented tools, manual workflows, and alert overload are pushing SOCs to a breaking point.
The post Security
Feb 17, 2026
Modern cloud systems are expected to deliver more than uptime. Customers expect consistent performance, the ability to withstand disruption, and confidence that recovery is predictable and intentio...
Kubernetes version 1.34 is now generally available for AKS. This release introduces 58 upstream enhancements, including 23 Stable features, 22 Beta features, and 13 Alpha features.These enhancements...
Agents are increasingly powerful. With that power comes risk: small misconfigurations, over‑broad sharing, unauthenticated access, and weak orchestration controls can create real exposure. This art...
Learn about fundamental orchestration patterns for AI agent architectures, including sequential, concurrent, group chat, handoff, and magentic patterns.
Microsoft Security returns to RSAC Conference to show how Frontier Firms—organizations that are human-led and agent-operated—can stay ahead.
The post Security
Feb 12, 2026
Learn about an AI-powered experience launched as a minimum viable product to gather real user feedback and iterate rapidly.
The post Azure Blog
Feb 12, 2026
This example architecture shows how to use the native IBM i backup and recovery services with Microsoft Azure components.
In mid-February 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Simplify SQL deployments from Visual Studio Code using the new SQL Projects Publish dialog.Connections Migration dia...
While today’s cloud delivers extraordinary flexibility, the rapid growth of modern applications and AI workloads has introduced levels of scale and complexity that traditional operations were not d...
New guide details how a unified, AI ready SIEM platform empowers security leaders to operate at the speed of AI, strengthen resilience, accelerate detection and response, and more.
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You can now set UAE North as a region for Azure Private Link-enabled origins in your Azure Front Door Premium profile. Azure Private Link-enabled origins in Azure Front Door allow you to deliver conte...
Introducing Supervisor Agent, now Generally Available in Azure Databricks. Supervisor Agent is part of the Azure Databricks Agent Bricks Platform. Supervisor Agent brings a breakthrough in agentic int...
As the demand for AI and data-intensive computing is on the rise, the need for efficient and reliable power delivery is critical.
The post Azure Blog
Feb 10, 2026
Read Microsoft's new Cyber Pulse report for straightforward, practical insights and guidance on new cybersecurity risks.
The post Security
Feb 10, 2026
We're announcing public preview of an AKS managed add-on that simplifies the deployment and lifecycle management of Application Gateway for Containers and its ALB Controller. With the managed AKS add-...
Learn about the considerations and recommendations for improved security that you should consider when you design a multitenant RAG inferencing solution.
The SQL community is gathering in Atlanta this March for the first‑ever SQLCon, co‑located with FabCon, the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, March 16-20.
The post Azure Blog
Feb 09, 2026
Learn how to use AI and machine learning to forecast a customer's future order quantity for a specific SKU. See the Azure services that you can use in this solution.
Today, Azure Disk Backup protects data by taking regular, crash-consistent snapshots of Azure Disks. These snapshots are stored within your subscription and tenant in a resource group, referred to as ...
Azure Monitor pipeline transformations feature is now Public Preview! This feature enables users to shape telemetry before it’s ingested into Azure Monitor, helping them control ingestion costs, imp...
Learn about atomicity, consistency, and other features of online transaction processing (OLTP), which manages transactional data while supporting querying.
Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 through Mosaic AI Model serving. Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most advanced model, delivering state-of-the-art performance on agentic coding, ...
Microsoft is announcing our intent to establish a new datacenter region in Thailand. The datacenter region will expand the availability of Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud services in the region, facil...
DCa/ECa v6 series AMD based confidential virtual machines are now generally available in 11 new regions: Canada Central, Canada East, Norway East, Norway West, Italy North, Germany North, France South...
Azure Virtual Network routing appliance offers private connectivity for workloads across virtual networks. Using specialized hardware, it delivers low latency and high throughput, and optimal perf...
Claude Opus 4.6 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic’s most advanced reasoning model to a secure, enterprise-ready platform built on Azure. With support for complex coding, knowle...
This event is your front-row seat to everything new and next across Microsoft 365—with hundreds of opportunities to learn directly from product makers and connect with the best community in tech.
With Claude Opus 4.6 now available in Microsoft Foundry, developers can delegate complex tasks end‑to‑end and trust the AI to execute independently in production.
The post Azure Blog
Feb 05, 2026
Learn how caching can improve the performance and scalability of a system by copying frequently accessed data to fast storage close to the application.
Learn how to deploy Azure OpenAI models and work with the features associated with each model when you have a multitenant system.
Get an overview of Azure container technologies, guidance offerings, solution ideas, and reference architectures.
Get an overview of Azure analytics technologies, guidance offerings, solution ideas, and reference architectures.
Azure NetApp Files Elastic zone-redundant storage (ANF Elastic ZRS) is an advanced high-availability service level for Azure NetApp Files that provides continuous data access with zero data loss, ev...
Data resiliency is no longer optional—it is the foundation that keeps mission‑critical applications running, teams productive, and compliance intact. Organizations must ensure continuous data avail...
Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) v2 now supports additional rate‑limiting GroupBy options based on the X‑Forwarded‑For (XFF) HTTP header. This enables customers running Application G...
Azure Container Storage v2.1.0 is now generally available. This release adds native Elastic SAN support and introduces a lightweight, on-demand installation model to simplify deployment and operations...
Namespace-scoped resource placement, now in preview for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, delivers fine‑grained control over selection and propagation of individual namespace‑scoped resources across ...
Learn about the reference architecture for the recommended baseline infrastructure that deploys an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster.
Learn how to add a gateway in front of multiple Azure OpenAI model deployments or instances.