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The DCesv6 and ECesv6 series are Azure’s next generation of Confidential Virtual Machines powered by the 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors (code-named Emerald Rapids) with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel®…
We continuously assess our services to uphold the high standards of protection and reliability for our customers. After a thorough evaluation, we have determined that due to increasing infrastructure and…
We continuously assess our services to uphold the high standards of protection and reliability for our customers. After a thorough evaluation, we have determined that due to increasing infrastructure and…
The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Malaysia West region.With this regional expansion, customers in Malaysia can now store infrequently accessed data in…
Azure Files now supports the provisioned v2 billing model on the SSD (premium) media tier. Provisioned v2 enables independent provisioning of storage, IOPS, and throughput, allowing you to create a…
Azure Databricks connector for Power Platform is now generally available. You can easily connect Azure Databricks with Microsoft Power Apps in several new ways. The new connector enables you to:…
You can now use Cassandra 5.0 in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, available in public preview. This release gives you access to the latest Cassandra features—like better performance and…
Data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) cluster is automatically and seamlessly encrypted with keys managed by Microsoft. Now, in addition to this service-managed key encryption (SMK),…
After a brief hiatus, Azure Automation is resuming deployments of the revised Service and Subscription limits from August 11, 2025. This update will ensure fair distribution of cloud resources across…
Introducing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts - a new preview capability in Azure Monitor that enables customers to receive proactive notifications about service health issues impacting their entire tenant, not just…
Azure App Testing now enables developers and QA teams to run large-scale functional and performance tests to pinpoint issues in their applications, across frameworks like Playwright, JMeter, or Locust. It…
Inbound IPv6 support on public multi-tenant App Service is now generally available across all public Azure regions for multi-tenant apps on all Basic, Standard, and Premium SKUs, Functions Consumption, Functions…
Announcing the general availability of the Upsert method and Script activity support in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This enhancement enables you…
Application Gateway v2 is announcing general availability of Private Application Gateway, which is a collection of new capabilities to the Application Gateway v2 SKU to further enhance control over network…
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…
Azure Data Box Next Gen is now Generally Available in NEW regions including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong, UAE, Switzerland and Norway.With these new additions, we now have Both…
Azure Storage Discovery provides enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Storage data estate. Insights that weren’t available before are now at your fingertips. Deeply analyze used capacity and activity, optimize costs,…
AKS now supports Layer 7 (L7) network policies in Advanced Container Networking Services + Cilium clusters, enabling fine-grained control over application traffic. With L7 policies, customers can define security rules…
The AKS Security Dashboard provides a centralized view of security posture and runtime threat protection for your AKS cluster within the Azure Portal. It highlights software vulnerabilities, critical security issues,…
Azure Virtual Network Verifier for AKS, now in public preview and available through the Azure Portal, is a tool which allows you to detect and troubleshoot outbound connectivity issues in…
AKS now supports multiple Standard Load Balancers (SLBs) per cluster in public preview. This feature allows customers to scale beyond the 300 inbound rule limit per node NIC and isolate…
Static egress gateway public prefix support in AKS is now generally available. This feature allows AKS customers to create a dedicated gateway node pool that routes outbound traffic from annotated…
Azure Monitor workspaces have default limits and quotas for ingestion. Customers can now request for an increase in quota for ingestion of Managed Prometheus metrics into Azure Monitor Workspace using…
LocalDNS for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in public preview.With LocalDNS, a DNS proxy is deployed on each node, which enables faster, more reliable DNS resolution. It removes…
Azure Bastion integration for AKS is now available in public preview. This integration enables continuous secure access to private AKS clusters and also applies to AKS public clusters with API…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AKS is now available as an open source release. This foundational component enables AI agents to interact with AKS clusters and simplifies cluster management.…
We are making improvements to API server resiliency per Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) 5116 – Streaming Encoding for LIST Responses. This enhancement significantly reduces API server memory usage by approximately…
Application Gateway for Containers now supports Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy in public preview. Using WAF’s Default Ruleset, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) administrators and developers can protect their workloads against…
Misconfigurations during Kubernetes development can lead to bugs and deployment issues. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now offers generally available deployment safeguards to help prevent these problems by enforcing Kubernetes best…
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Encryption in Transit (EiT) for Azure Files NFS v4.1 volumes via the Azure File CSI driver. This builds on the recent General Availability (GA)…
Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. Now generally available, CVM for Ubuntu 24.04 in AKS enables node pools with CVM to target the migration of…
Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. CVM for Azure Linux in AKS is now in public preview and enables node pools with CVM to target…
The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team is introducing a new agentic AI-powered CLI experience through the “az aks agent” command. This feature brings the intelligence of agentic reasoning directly into…
The HTTP proxy feature adds HTTP proxy support to AKS clusters, exposing a straightforward interface that you can use to secure AKS-required network traffic in proxy-dependent environments. With this feature,…
Managed namespaces for AKS allows users to get a list of namespaces they have access to across a subscription, resource group, and cluster, and then retrieve credentials that will give…
Network security perimeter allows organizations to define a logical network isolation boundary for PaaS resources (for example, Azure Storage account and SQL Database server) that are deployed outside your organization’s…
Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh connectivity is now in public preview, enabling you to group up to 5,000 virtual networks in supported regions. A mesh topology creates bi‑directional connectivity between…
Announcing the general availability of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for Azure DNS Public Zones in US Gov and China regions. With this release you can now enable DNSSEC…
Azure Storage Actions is now available in several more Azure regions, enabling expanded global access and greater data residency options. This includes regions where the service was previously in preview.…
Azure File Sync Arc Extension is now generally available, enabling seamless deployment and management of Azure File Sync on Arc-enabled Windows Servers. This extension brings hybrid file sync capabilities to…
Azure Backup support for agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure Virtual Machines is now Generally Available.Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure VM allows you to take VM backups…
Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of Azure Dedicated HSM, which will be succeeded by the Azure Cloud HSM service. Microsoft will provide full support for all existing Azure Dedicated…
Azure Virtual Network Manager is now generally available in Azure US Government Cloud, providing unified control for connectivity, security, and routing across subscriptions, regions, and tenants. By automating configurations, it…
Tags in Azure confidential ledger serve as secondary keys that enhance data organization and retrieval within collections. By allowing users to assign up to five tags per transaction, these tags…
Azure Storage’s SAS expiration policy (validity interval) allows you to set an upper limit for the period for validity of SAS tokens. Up until now, administrators could set how long…
You can now streamline the entire SQL Server migration journey—from assessment to provisioning to cutover—within a single Azure portal experience. The new Azure Arc migration experience powered by Azure Database…
In late-July, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Use the UNISTR intrinsic function to define Unicode string literals using Unicode encoding values in a string. Use…
You can now use cascading read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, available in Public Preview. With this new capability, you can create additional read replicas from an…
Now available for the General Purpose tier, accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server give you the performance benefits previously available only in the Business Critical tier.…
