GA: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.5

Compute, Virtual Machines

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…

15/07/2025

Compute, Azure Functions

With input and output bindings for SQL, you can now can quickly write Azure Functions that read and write from your databases.

23/05/2023

Compute, VM Scale Sets

Generation 2 VMs are now generally available in Azure. New available features include Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), support for large VMs (up to 12 TBs), and the ability…

04/11/2019

Compute, Virtual Machines

You can now manually trigger on-demand backups in Azure DB for MySQL - Flexible Server instead of solely relying on the system-initiated automated backups and schedule. As part of August…

24/09/2025

Compute, Kubernetes Service

You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks.

19/07/2023

Compute, Container Registry

As customers deploy multi-container applications, Helm has evolved as the defacto standard to describe Kubernetes-based applications. With Helm repositories, customers can push their Helm Charts to Azure Container Registry, providing…

24/09/2018

Compute, Virtual Desktop

You can now keep your VMs deallocated to save cost and have it automatically start up when a user connects.

07/04/2021

Compute, Container Apps

You can now use Dapr secrets APIs from your Azure Container Apps and leverage Dapr secret store component references when creating other components in the environment.

12/10/2022

Compute, Service Fabric

REST based Client library and PowerShell module for Service Fabric is currently in preview. This HTTP REST based client enables running PowerShell and Azure CLI to manage your cluster(s) without…

29/03/2019

Compute, Azure Red Hat OpenShift

You now have more virtual machine sizes to choose from in Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

13/06/2023

Compute, Virtual Machines

Azure Container Apps now supports mounting Network File System (NFS) Azure Files volumes to your containerized applications. NFS Azure Files volumes provide a scalable and high-performance file system for your…

04/06/2025

Compute, App Service

Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024.

28/03/2022