Generally available: Azure Monitor integration with Azure Container Apps

Compute, Virtual Machines

Azure HBv5-series VM are now available in Preview in the Azure South Central US region. HBv5 VMs are optimized for memory bandwidth-intensive HPC applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, automotive…

16/09/2025

Compute, Virtual Machines

Azure NetApp Files now supports integration with FreeIPA, OpenLDAP, and Red Hat Directory Server—available in public preview. This LDAP integration enables secure LDAP over TLS connectivity for NFSv3 and NFSv4.1…

03/10/2025

Compute, VM Scale Sets

Azure can now select the dedicated host to which your VM is deployed. Additionally, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets can be deployed in conjunction with Dedicated Hosts.

11/12/2020

Compute, Virtual Machines

Azure Cache for Redis (Basic, Standard and Premium) will be retired on September 30, 2028 and we recommend you migrate your workloads to use Azure Managed Redis before September 30,…

09/10/2025

Compute, Azure Functions

You can now use storage providers other than Azure Storage for Durable Functions.

01/02/2023

Compute, Virtual Machines

On September 30, 2028, we’ll end support for Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) on Linux nodes in AKS. To avoid disruptions, migrate AKS clusters running Linux nodes from NPM to…

01/10/2025

Compute, Virtual Machines

On-demand capacity reservations let you reserve compute capacity for one or more VM size(s) in an Azure region or availability zone for any length of time.

28/03/2022

Compute, Azure Batch

New capabilities added to Azure Batch include support for application packages, Linux compute nodes, and task dependencies; client libraries for Python, Java, and Node.js; and an improved portal experience.

16/06/2016

Compute, Virtual Machines

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…

30/07/2025

Compute, Container Instances

Azure Container Instances announces the public preview of managed identity support in all Container Instances regions.

23/10/2018

Compute, Container Apps

You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault

26/04/2023

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