Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

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, Container Registry

You can now synchronize container images from your cloud registry and serve them on-premises for use by IoT devices and use the connected registry in an disconnected setting up to…

02/11/2021

Compute, Virtual Machines

We’re announcing expanded support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Azure API Management with two new capabilities: MCP in v2 SKUs and the ability to expose existing MCP-compliant servers.…

04/09/2025

Compute, Service Fabric

Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available. The Azure Files volume plugin is a Docker volume plugin that provides Azure Files based volumes for Docker containers.

26/08/2019

Compute, Virtual Machines

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…

07/08/2025

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, Container Registry

Effective April 1, 2019, the names for Container Registry will change.

12/02/2019

Compute, Virtual Desktop

New Azure Virtual Desktop feature for creating custom VM images now in public preview!

13/06/2023

Compute, Azure VMware Solution

VMware HCX is the primary migration solution for organizations moving VMware workloads natively to a cloud service like Azure VMware Solution. The HCX Enterprise Edition, now generally available with Azure…

04/10/2021

Compute, Azure VMware Solution

Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to Brazil South and East US 2, this update is in addition to the existing availability across multiple Azure regions in US, Europe,…

04/10/2021

Compute, Azure Batch

Migrate your Batch workloads before 31 March 2026 to other regions where Azure Batch will continue to be available.

24/03/2023

Compute, App Service

We'll no longer place apps in disaster recovery mode in the event of a regional disaster.

31/03/2023