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On June 30, 2027, we'll retire Ubuntu 22.04 on Azure Kubernetes Service. To avoid disruptions, transition to Ubuntu 24.04 or later by that date. Newer supported versions include kernel updates and...
For organizations leveraging individual user and group quotas in Azure NetApp Files to manage capacity on NFS, SMB, and dual-protocol volumes, the user and group quota reporting feature offers clear...
Learn how to build a comprehensive cryptographic inventory and strengthen quantum‑safe readiness using Microsoft Security tools, best‑practice lifecycle models, and partner solutions.
The po...
The Microsoft Defender Security Research Team uncovered a sophisticated macOS intrusion campaign attributed to the North Korean threat actor Sapphire Sleet that abuses user driven execution and soc...
Microsoft Azure will retire support for HBv2-series, HC-series, and NP-series VMs in Azure Batch pools on May 31, 2027, including: HBv2-series: 120 AMD EPYC 7V12 vCPUs, 480 GB RAM, 200 Gb...
Cross-tenant customer-managed keys (CMK) for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks are now generally available. This capability allows managed disks to be encrypted using a customer-managed key stored in ...
AI changes how incidents unfold and how we respond. Learn which IR practices still apply and where new telemetry, tools, and skills are needed.
The post Security
Apr 15, 2026
Azure Site Recovery now supports replication and disaster recovery for Windows Azure Virtual Machines running on NVMe-enabled Generation 2 VM families, such as the Da/Ea/Fa v6-series and Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 ...
For storage accounts with Azure Blob or Data Lake Storage (ADLS) we are introducing a minimum billable object size for the cool, cold and archive access tiers of 128KiB. Objects on those tiers that ...
Announcing the GA of smart tier for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage (ADLS). Smart Tier is Generally Available (GA) today in nearly all zonal public cloud regions. (The Azure regions Israel Central, Q...
Azure File Sync enables seamless tiering of data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files for hybrid use cases and simplified migration. It also enables you to leverage the performance, flexibi...
Today, we are announcing Azure Bastion now supports managed identities for graphical session recording. Azure Bastion graphical session recording now supports write access to storage accounts using ...
Azure Storage Mover is now available in Azure Government (US), enabling U.S. government customers and partners to securely migrate large‑scale file data to Azure Government cloud environments using ...
Azure Monitor now supports monitoring applications that run on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by using OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and data collection.Leverage autoinstrumentation to deploy the ...
Azure Files now supports independent configuration of encryption-in-transit settings for SMB and NFS protocols at the storage account level. Customers can now define protocol-specific security policie...
Azure Managed Grafana Essential SKU will be retired on March 30, 2027.Customers using the Essential SKU are encouraged to transition to Azure Managed Grafana Standard SKU or Azure Monitor Dashboards w...
AKS now supports managed and user-assigned StandardV2 NAT Gateway as an outbound type for your AKS managed or BYO VNets. This unlocks zone-redundant outbound connectivity, up to 100 Gbps outbound t...
Developers can now route Stripe events directly into Azure Event Grid and build scalable, event-driven architectures without managing webhook infrastructure or custom brokers.This means that Event Gri...
Learn how to migrate a Software AG Adabas and Natural mainframe system to Azure by using a rehost approach with minimal changes to your existing workload.
Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Sovereign Cloud Platforms, recognizing Microsoft Sovereign Cloud leadership in evolving sovereignty needs.
The post Azure Blog
Apr 09, 2026
In the SOC of the future, autonomous defense moves at machine speed, agents add context and coordination, and humans focus on judgment, risk, and outcomes.
The post Security
Apr 09, 2026
Compare Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure services. Not every Google Cloud service or Azure service is listed, and not every matched service has exact feature parity.
How Microsoft uses AI agents and Drasi to keep open‑source documentation accurate and working.
The post Azure Blog
Apr 09, 2026
Microsoft Incident Response – Detection and Response Team (DART) researchers observed an emerging, financially motivated threat actor, tracked as Storm-2755, compromising Canadian employee accounts...
Learn how mLogica LIBER*IRIS provides a proven solution for bulk data migration from a mainframe to Azure for enterprise workloads.
Learn how to build network-secured, highly available, and zone-redundant enterprise chat applications by using Microsoft Foundry tools and Azure App Service.
Establish foundational knowledge for how to build and deploy enterprise chat applications by using Microsoft Foundry and Azure App Service.
A severe Android intent‑redirection vulnerability in a widely deployed SDK exposed sensitive user data across millions of apps. Microsoft researchers detail how the flaw works, why it matters, and ...
We’re introducing regional level consolidated maintenance notifications for Azure Database for PostgreSQL to simplify how you stay informed about upcoming maintenance. Instead of one notification per ...
PgBouncer 1.25.1 is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. As a built-in connection pooling feature, PgBouncer helps you scale to thousands of connections with low overhead by effic...
AKS now surfaces observability data powered by Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus directly within Namespace and Workload views, making it easier to:Monitor cluster and workload healthTrouble...
Azure Migrate now supports assessments for Azure Files, allowing customers and partners to efficiently plan migrations of on-premises SMB and NFS file shares (Windows and Linux) to Azure Files. Thi...
Get practical strategies and best practices to help you plan, design, and manage AI investments for sustainable value and efficiency.
The post Azure Blog
Apr 08, 2026
Learn about the AKS managed solution, configurations, best practices, and similarities and differences compared to Amazon EKS.
Learn how to migrate stateless and stateful workloads from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) now supports NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU-based Azure Virtual Machine SKUs, enabling customers to run large-scale AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC)...
Organizations that use HTTP proxies to control outbound traffic often need to change or remove those settings as network requirements evolve, which can be disruptive in running clusters. Azure Kube...
Developers building MCP servers on Azure Functions can expose tools but not resources. Now, Azure Functions supports MCP resource triggers, enabling developers to expose resources directly from an ...
When clusters exhaust available pod IP addresses, teams have historically been forced to rebuild environments to restore capacity, creating operational disruption. Pod CIDR expansion allows overlay...
Executive summary Forest Blizzard, a threat actor linked to the Russian military, has been compromising insecure home and small-office internet equipment like routers, then modifying their settings...
Restrict inbound traffic to a web app or function app. Use private endpoints in Azure to give consumer tenants secure access to provider tenant apps.
Learn how to deploy network virtual appliances in high availability architectures for ingress and egress traffic in Azure.
Network Security Perimeter (NSP) support for Azure Service Bus is now generally available. Network Security Perimeter creates a logical network boundary around your Service Bus namespaces and other Az...
A new wave of device code phishing shows how threat actors are scaling account compromise using AI and end‑to‑end automation. This campaign goes beyond traditional phishing by generating live authe...
Rule impact analysis on Azure Network Watcher enables you to preview the impact of security admin rules and network security group (NSG) rules before applying them to your environment. This feature he...
The financially motivated cybercriminal threat actor Storm-1175 operates high-velocity ransomware campaigns that weaponize recently disclosed vulnerabilities to obtain initial access, exfiltrate da...
Understand storage options for a Kubernetes cluster, and compare Amazon EKS and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) storage options.
Learn how the Competing Consumers pattern supports multiple concurrent consumers processing messages received on the same messaging channel.
Learn how to create a modern analytics architecture by using Azure Databricks and Data Lake Storage. Unify data, analytics, and AI workloads at any scale.
Learn how to create a resilient multitier web application built for high availability and disaster recovery on Azure by using VMs.
Use the Sharding design pattern to divide a data store into horizontal partitions or shards to improve scalability and performance in distributed systems.
Starting March 31, 2027, Python applications hosted on Azure App Service on Windows and Azure Functions on Windows will no longer run. After this date: Your application configuration and conten...
Use the Compute Resource Consolidation design pattern to consolidate multiple tasks or operations into one computational unit.
AzureDnsZone endpoints (preview) for Azure Blob storage accounts will enter retirement in March 2027. Customers leveraging AzureDnsZone endpoints (preview) should transition to Standard endpoints f...
Learn how to set up services to decide when and how to process a business operation, instead of depending on a central orchestrator.
Learn how to use Microsoft Fabric with Azure Service Bus for near real-time solutions at enterprise scale in production environments.
Generative AI is upgrading cyberattacks, from 450% higher phishing click‑through rates to industrialized MFA bypass.
The post Security
Apr 02, 2026
Learn what’s new in Copilot Studio: Multi-agent systems are now generally available, plus recent updates to the Prompt Editor and governance controls.
The post Microsoft 365
Apr 01, 2026
Service Fabric will end support for all clusters running on Windows Server 2022 on March 31, 2027. Customers must upgrade to Windows Server 2025 by this date to remain in a supported state. This ch...
Service Fabric will end support for all clusters running on Windows Server 2019 on March 31, 2027. Customers must upgrade to Windows Server 2025 by this date to remain in a supported state. This cha...
You can now deliver dynamic configuration directly to client-side applications—securely and at CDN scale—thanks to Azure App Configuration’s integration with Azure Front Door. This delivers new fle...
Azure Data Box now automatically generates a downloadable Secure Erasure Certificate for every completed order, providing verification that all data on the device has been securely erased in accord...
Azure Data Box now supports ingestion of data into Azure Files Provisioned v2 storage accounts. Azure Files Provisioned v2 is a billing model where customers provision and pay for specific capacity...
QoS update with cool access enabled on Premium and Ultra service levels improves how Azure NetApp Files balances performance and cost for mixed hot and cool workloads. Throughput automatically adju...
On March 20, 2029, Microsoft will retire the following eight Azure AI Language features: Key Phrase ExtractionSentiment Analysis and Opinion MiningCustom Text ClassificationConversational Language Und...
Azure IaaS provides foundational capabilities across compute, storage, and networking to help organizations stay resilient.
The post Azure Blog
Apr 01, 2026
Get an overview of Azure virtual desktop technologies and cloud desktop design, including architecture guidance, solution ideas, and reference architectures.
Get started with Azure storage architecture design by comparing storage service types, reviewing reference architectures, and applying readiness guidance.
Import data from external sources (Preview) – S3, Snowflake, Azure SQL Db along with external Data Connections (Preview) in Azure Machine Learning are being deprecated. These features will no longer b...
Review an example scenario in which an e-commerce company in the travel industry uses Azure API Management to migrate a legacy web application.
The following updates were made to Azure DevOps in March 2026. The Remote MCP Server entered public preview, enabling seamless AI-powered integration with Azure DevOps without requir...
Azure Event Grid offers a variety of features in Public Preview – intended to help you better manage large-scale, distributed systems with improved interoperability and control. Public Preview Feat...
User delegation SAS for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues is now generally available. User delegation SAS allows users to create a more secure SAS token than account or service SAS by tyi...
Azure Event Grid now offers a variety of new features intended to help you better manage large-scale, distributed systems with improved interoperability and control. Generally Available features: ...
Microsoft announces the opening of its cloud region in Denmark to accelerate digital transformation and AI innovation. The Denmark East region provides Danish customers with local, secure cloud infr...
On March 31, 2029, we’ll be retiring manually registered Azure VPN clients for point-to-site connections with Microsoft Entra ID authentication for Azure Government and Microsoft Azure operated ...
Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in US Gov Arizona (a region without Availability Zone). Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual mac...
Explore how Microsoft and Armada bring sovereign AI to the edge with Azure Local, enabling secure, resilient workloads in disconnected and regulated environments.
The post Azure Blog
Mar 31, 2026
Learn best practices for designing background jobs on Azure, including hosting options, reliability, and scaling for event-driven and scheduled jobs.
Learn about design patterns that address common microservices challenges like data consistency, cross-service communication, failure isolation, and legacy integration.
Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching is now available in public preview for Azure VM/VMSS, bringing significantly faster and more reliable OS disk performance to your workloads. By caching the entire O...
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in the Indonesia Central Azure region, expanding regional availability for customers running mission‑critical OpenShift workloads on Azure. T...
On March 31, 2027 Azure Monitor will be deprecating the sidecar for remote-write of Prometheus metrics to Azure Monitor Workspace. This is as part of our ongoing efforts to improve reliability and red...
Digital sovereignty has become a practical leadership discipline grounded in risk management, continuity planning, and long-term accountability.
The post Azure Blog
Mar 30, 2026
On March 31, 2029, Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL will be retired, and you'll need to migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster by that date. Azure Database for PostgreSQL Elastic Clus...
Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in South India (a region without Availability Zone).Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines, ...
Read why Microsoft was named a Leader for integration services in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service.
The post Azure Blog
Mar 30, 2026
Today, Copilot Cowork—designed for long-running, multi-step work in Microsoft 365—is available via the Frontier program.
The post Microsoft 365
Mar 30, 2026
Learn how to track how users use your distributed applications and services, trace resource utilization, and monitor the health and performance.
Build scalable cloud applications by using performance modeling and other principles and practices of site reliability engineering (SRE).
Use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Service Bus to implement high-volume batch transaction processing.
Learn how to use an append-only store to record the full series of events that describe actions taken on data in a domain.
Learn about database architecture design on Azure, including technology choices, solution ideas, and reference architectures for your workloads.
In late-March 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Configure built-in SQL code analysis rules and severity settings without editing project XML. Use Fabr...
Learn how caching can improve the performance and scalability of a system by copying frequently accessed data to fast storage close to the application.
We're excited to announce that private endpoint support for Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric is now generally available. You can now unlock powerful analytics on your operational data whi...
In‑place node pool upgrades can introduce risk by applying changes directly to running environments. Blue‑green agent pool upgrades create a parallel node pool with the new configuration, allowing v...
We are excited to announce the public preview of Fabric Mirroring integration for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. You can now replicate MySQL operational data into Microsoft Fabric in near...
You can now stream row‑level data changes—inserts, updates, and deletes—from Azure SQL Managed Instance to Azure Event Hubs in near real time with change event streaming (CES). SQL publishes changes a...
You can now modify the cron.timezone server parameter in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This parameter controls the time zone used by pg_cron when evaluating scheduled jobs. By configuring cron.timezo...