Vector search and vector indexes are now generally available in Azure SQL Database. Using the CREATE VECTOR INDEX and VECTOR_SEARCH T-SQL capabilities, you can perform efficient approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) searches for AI scenarios …
Azure SQL Dev Hub gives you a central starting point for building applications with Azure SQL, whether you’re developing directly or using AI agents. You can find guidance for connecting to Azure SQL from .NET, Python, Node.js, and Java, a…
In late September 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL Managed Instance: Use the flexible memory feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance to change the amount of memory allocated to your SQL managed…
We are announcing the general availability of the Luxembourg Azure Extended Zone. Azure Extended Zones are small-footprint extensions of Azure placed in metro areas, industry centers, or specific jurisdictions, to serve low latency and dat…
Azure HorizonDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, cloud-native database service designed for scalable, high-performance workloads.Azure HorizonDB, now in public preview, includes PostgreSQL 18 support.Learn more.
Microsoft will retire several standalone Azure Communication Services (ACS) offerings on September 30, 2028. After this date, the affected services will no longer be available. Details Beginning September 30, 2028, the following ACS servi…
Instant Access for application-consistent restore points on virtual machines (that have Premium v2 or Ultra disks as data disks) is now generally available. With Instant Access, you can begin restoring a disk from a restore point as soon a…
Support for PowerShell 7.4 will end on November 10, 2026, please transition to PowerShell 7.6. Your Azure Function apps will continue to run, but security patches and updates will no longer be provided and customer support for PowerShell 7…
Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 will end on November 10, 2026. Please transition to .NET 10 by that date. Your Azure Function Apps will continue to operate, but security updates will no longer be provided, and support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 o…
Support for Node.js 22 will end on April 30, 2027, please transition to Node.js 24 by that date. Your Azure Function apps will continue to run, but security patches and updates will no longer be provided and customer support for Node.js 22…
Flex Nodes for AKS is a deployment option for application and platform teams to use hybrid and edge infrastructure as connected worker nodes to an AKS control plane in Azure. Flex Nodes provide a consistent Kubernetes control plane while e…
Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to the Azure Sphere OS only, with no update to the SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from t…
Today we're previewing a new way to build cloud apps with GitHub Copilot in VS Code: a guided Copilot experience that takes you from idea to a deployed Azure app through a structured, predictable workflow instead of a free-form chat sessio…
Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.6 is now generally available. You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.6 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions plans. Learn more: Updating your app to PowerShell 7.6 What's new in PowerS…
In public preview, Foundry Agent Service adds Foundry Routines, a native trigger primitive for running published agents automatically. Production agents often need to run on a schedule or when a business event occurs, and today that means …
The Mdsv4 and Msv4 Series are memory-optimized virtual machine series built on 6th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and enhanced with advanced security capabilities and the latest Azure Boost technologies. Designed for demanding…
Microsoft Foundry now exposes enable and disable actions for Foundry agent objects within the Agent 365 governance surface in Microsoft Admin Center, generally available. Administrators can control whether a Foundry agent is available for …
In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now lets customers govern the outbound connections a hosted agent can make. Customers author ordered rules matched on destination host, including FQDN with wildcards such as *.contoso.com, with actions …
Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams is now generally available. An agent only delivers value once it reaches the people who need it, and Foundry developers previously had no native path to make their agen…
You can now monitor the synchronization status of your logical replication slots in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server using the new logical_replication_slot_sync_status metric. This Azure Monitor metric shows whether each log…
Updated troubleshooting guidance is now available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. You can use the expanded documentation to diagnose high CPU, memory, IOPS, temporary file usage, and autovacuum issues, helping you identi…
Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters now support PostgreSQL 18, bringing the latest PostgreSQL capabilities to distributed, cloud-scale workloads. You can build new applications or modernize existing ones with the performance, re…
Azure Payments HSM v2 is a highly available, single-tenant Payment HSM service for payment processing, credential issuance, PIN processing, key management, and authentication data protection. Customers retain exclusive administrative contr…
High-scale mesh using connected group in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in general availability. In available regions, customers may connect up to 3,000 virtual networks in a single mesh connectivity configuration by default and high…
The containerized SAP data connector retired on September 14, 2026 and is unsupported and unmaintained. Existing TLS-compliant agents may continue sending logs through the retired HTTP Data Collector API. Container images will be removed o…
In mid-September 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Configure soft delete for the Azure SQL logical server. When the logical server is deleted, it goes into a soft deleted state and is self-restorable durin…
Azure Red Hat OpenShift with hosted control planes is now in public preview. It is a new deployment option for Azure Red Hat OpenShift that runs the OpenShift control plane as a fully managed service, separate from the worker nodes that ru…
The PostgreSQL skills and MCP plugin turns supported AI coding assistants into context-aware PostgreSQL experts that can both provide guidance and act on a connected database. The bundled plugin combines expert-curated skills for PostgreSQ…
Beginning in early October 2026, Windows App will begin using three new wildcard fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) for client-side service traffic to Azure Virtual Desktop. These domains are already included in the cloud-side connectivi…
Announcing public preview support for HTTP/3 over QUIC on Azure Application Gateway. HTTP/3 is the next evolution of HTTP and uses QUIC to improve connection setup time, reduce latency, and provide better resiliency for modern web applicat…
Support for Azure Linux with OS Guard in Azure Kubernetes Service will end on December 10, 2026. Azure Container Linux is the replacement for Azure Linux with OS Guard (preview). Starting on December 10, 2026:Users won’t be able to create …
Azure Storage Mover now supports agentless migration of on-premises SMB file shares to Azure Files (SMB), in public preview. You can move file data from Windows Server or NAS shares into Azure without deploying, registering, or maintaining…
Azure Functions Flex Consumption support for TLS/SSL certificates is now generally available through a new site-scoped certificate model. Each function app can hold up to 3 private (.pfx) and 3 public (.cer) certificates uploaded directly,…
Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent is now generally available. Troubleshooting Agent is a unified, built-in Azure Copilot capability that helps customers investigate and resolve operational issues faster. Available through both Azure Copi…
Announcing the addition of enhanced secure authentication in Azure Storage that combines the flexibility of user-delegation shared access signature (SAS) with the user-bound access of Entra ID. User-bound user delegation SAS is now general…
Azure Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching is now generally available for new virtual machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets. The capability caches the complete OS image on a VM’s local storage, eliminating remote-storage reads after cachi…
Playwright Workspaces in Azure App Testing is now generally available in Switzerland North, Japan East, and Australia East.Playwright Workspaces provides fully managed cloud-hosted browsers for running end-to-end Playwright tests at scale,…
The Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework is now generally available. The framework enables developers, teams, and partners to extend Azure Developer CLI with custom capabilities that support their preferred application development…
Azure Virtual Network Manager IP address management is now generally available in additional regions: US Gov Virginia, US Gov Texas and US Gov Arizona, and China North 3 and China East 3. In complex network environments, managing IP addres…
Azure Front Door’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) now supports profile and route level WAF policy associations in public preview. This gives you more flexibility to apply broad baseline protection across an Azure Front Door profile while u…
We’re happy to announce the public preview of reader endpoint support to simplify connection management when using multiple replicas in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. A reader endpoint enables automatic load balancing of read-…
Customers can now bring Azure Container Apps environments into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, helping security teams extend posture management across more of their container estate from a single wo…
Organizations running Windows-based workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) face increasing pressure to modernize as support timelines for older Windows Server versions approach retirement. To help customers prepare, AKS now offers GA …
You can now accelerate your containerized workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Azure Container Registry (ACR) with Artifact streaming. Artifact streaming will allow you to scale your workloads without having to fully wait for …
Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. CVM for Azure Linux in AKS is now generally available and enables node pools with CVM to target the migration of highly sensitive container workload…
Align Microsoft Marketplace purchases to your business's accounting needs. Purchase order mapping helps allocate your Microsoft invoice, including Marketplace purchases, making it easier to reconcile your organization's cloud and AI spend.…
Azure Firewall’s auto-learn SNAT routes is now generally available, automatically learning registered and private destination prefixes periodically and applying them as No-SNAT ranges to preserve original source IPs and simplify SNAT manag…
Azure Copilot Observability Agent, an AI-powered operational companion in Azure Monitor, is now covering Log Analytics data in Basic and Auxiliary table plans during interactive analysis and deep investigations. Teams can move high-volume …
The Auxiliary table plan in Azure Monitor Logs is a cost-effective option for ingesting and retaining high-volume, verbose logs used for compliance and auditing. Auxiliary Logs is now generally available in the sovereign clouds: Azure Gove…
The Auxiliary table plan in Azure Monitor Logs gives you a cost-effective way to ingest and retain high-volume, verbose logs that you keep for compliance and auditing but rarely query. Two highly requested capabilities are now generally av…
Azure automatically recovers a VM when it loses access to an attached managed disk for an extended period. The VM is shut down and powered back on after disk connectivity is restored, with no customer action required. This remains the defa…
Announcing the public preview of Azure Multicloud Interconnect, a managed service that provides private connectivity between Azure and supported cloud providers, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) available as the first supported provider in p…
The Azure Files Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports workload identity for pod-level authentication to SMB file shares. Previously, managed identity support in AKS enabled workloads to mou…
Overview:Azure VM Image Builder is now generally available in Azure Government, China North 3, Azure Government Secret, and Azure Government Top Secret.You can now use the same managed image-building service across your sovereign and air-g…
Azure Bastion shareable link expiration is now generally available. When creating a shareable link, administrators can specify the date and time when the link should expire. After the configured expiration time, the link can no longer be u…
Azure Bastion support for IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack configurations is now available in public preview. Customers can configure a newly created Bastion deployment with both IPv4 and IPv6 public IP addresses. IPv6 is supported for connections…
Azure Bastion integration with Azure Kubernetes Service is now generally available. Customers can establish a secure tunnel from their local machine through Azure Bastion to an AKS cluster API server. The integration enables customers to u…
We're excited to announce Live Reports, now in Public Preview for Azure SRE Agent. Live Reports help operations teams create dynamic operational views directly from SRE Agent conversations and keep them continuously up to date with the lat…
Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration is now generally available. VNet integration enables Azure SRE Agent to operate within your existing network controls, including Network Security Groups (NSGs), private DNS, and firewall policies, etc. With…
New customers can now get started with Azure SRE Agent through a 30-day trial experience. During the trial, customers can create SRE Agents and connect them to your operational tools and data sources, and explore capabilities at their own …
Aspire 13.5 refreshes the dashboard and aspire.dev, expands the Interaction Service, adds cross-scope Azure references and persistent Kubernetes volumes, and brings live terminals into the apphost.Learn more.
Azure announces the general availability of 248 and 372 vCPU Dl/D/E v7 VM sizes, powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors. These general-purpose and memory-optimized VMs deliver up to 20% better compute performance than prior-generation Intel-…
Extended Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server helps you maintain secure, supported workloads while transitioning to newer PostgreSQL versions. With access to critical security updates, critical bug fixes, and technical…
eBPF Host Routing in Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available. eBPF Host Routing improves Kubernetes networking performance by moving packet forwarding and routing decisions direc…
On April 30 2027, support for Node 22 LTS will end. Your apps that are hosted on App Service will continue to run, but security updates will no longer be available, and we’ll no longer provide customer service for Node 22 LTS. Required act…
Announcing the General Availability of custom block response code and body for WAF integrated with Application Gateway Azure WAF integrated with Application Gateway now supports customizable response status codes and bodies for blocked req…
Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement is now generally available. You can specify aggregated (summarized) prefixes for an Azure gateway to advertise to your on-premises networks, rather than having every individual…
Starting in August 2026, customers can engage directly with Azure Copilot agents to move more quickly from questions to action.With this update:Choose the right agent for your goal. Customers can select the specific agent best suited to th…
Lakebase is now generally available in four additional Azure regions: North Central US, France Central, Germany West Central, and East Asia. This expansion provides customers with additional deployment options and broader regional availabi…
In mid-August 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: You can customize keyboard shortcuts for Quick Queries, the Results Grid, and the Query Editor directly within Visual Studio Code—without leaving your edito…
With SQL Formatter, you can format SQL scripts directly in your editor for cleaner, more consistent, and readable code. Now in public preview, it includes more customizable formatting options to match your preferred coding style and stream…
With Azure SQL Database provisioning, you can create and connect to a fully managed cloud database directly from your editor—at no cost. Now generally available, the feature also includes ready-to-use Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Bicep, a…
Today, we are announcing the General Availability of VM vCore Customization for Azure Virtual Machines, introducing two new capabilities: Disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading/Hyper-Threading (SMT/HT) and Configurable Constrained Cores. The…
Azure Site Recovery now lets you use and attach an existing, pre-provisioned Network Interface Card (NIC) in the target region for test-failover and failover in the Azure-to-Azure scenario. This helps preserve prepared networking configura…
In November last year, Broadcom changed its VMware licensing policies across all hyperscaler platforms to require customers to “bring your own” portable license for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).What’s changing?On August 30, 2027, as a res…
Managed Instance on Azure App Service is now generally available. Managed Instance helps organizations migrate web applications to Azure App Service with minimal configuration and no code changes. Applications running on-premises or in vir…
Azure Firewall now supports IPv6 in public preview, enabling customers to configure Azure Firewall and Firewall Policy in dual-stack mode for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. This preview allows native IPv6 network-rule filtering and DNS Proxy …
You can now benefit from enhanced resilience with the public preview of zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose. This update helps you improve business continuity by automatically distributing your compute a…
This release adds Microsoft Marketplace as a new discovery and procurement channel for Dragon Copilot AI apps and agents. Dragon Copilot customers in the United States can now discover, evaluate and purchase Dragon Copilot Physician Apps a…
Azure Linux on WSL is now available in Public Preview (Beta). Extending Azure Linux to the developer workstation means that teams can now:Validate behavior using production-aligned configurationsReproduce issues more reliablyReduce time s…
Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS, a Databricks-managed runtime available on Azure Databricks, reached end of support on March 18, 2025 and will reach end of life on November 1, 2026. After this date, Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will no lo…
Control plane metrics collection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), powered by Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus, is now generally available.This capability gives AKS customers native observability into key managed control plan…
We’re excited to announce the GA of Live Resize for shared Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra data disks. This feature allows you to dynamically expand the storage capacity of your disks without any disruption to your applications. To optimize…
Pre-upgrade validation checks are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, helping you proactively validate major version upgrade (MVU) readiness before initiating the actual upgrade process. With the gene…
On September 14, 2026 we will retire the containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications. After this date the agent will be permanently disabled and will stop sending SAP logs to Microsoft Sentin…
Batch rule updates are now generally available for Azure Front Door Standard and Premium. This capability enables customers to add, update, delete, or reorder multiple rules in a rule set as a coordinated operation, ensuring that all chang…
Mutual TLS, also known as client certificate authentication, enables Azure Front Door to authenticate clients using X.509 certificates before requests reach an application. It helps protect sensitive applications and APIs across business-t…
Today, we are announcing the public preview of Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service. This feature gives AI agents and other tools a cleaner way to consume content from an App Service app. When a client requests Markdown, App Service ca…
Azure Firewall Premium now delivers up to 22 Gbps throughput with TLS inspection and IDPS in Deny mode, a 120% increase from 10 Gbps, and up to 600 Mbps per TCP connection with IDPS enabled in either Alert or Deny mode (doubled from 300 Mb…
Starting August 23, 2026, Microsoft Fabric will enable Item Recovery by default for tenants that have not explicitly configured the setting. Supported item types will have a 3-day recovery window by default. Admins can review or change thi…
Azure ExpressRoute resiliency guard is now available in public preview for ExpressRoute virtual network gateways. The new resiliency model property lets you specify whether a gateway is intended for a single-homed or multi-homed configurat…
Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents in Azure Databricks is now extended through January 31, 2027, from the previous end date of July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply to these products during the promotional period. The promotion…
Azure Storage Mover now supports agentless, cloud-to-cloud migration from AWS FSx for Windows File Server (SMB) to Azure Files (SMB), in preview. You can move your Windows file shares off FSx and into Azure Files without deploying or manag…
The SharePoint connector for Azure Databricks is now generally available. Organizations can use Lakeflow Connect to ingest files from SharePoint into Azure Databricks, helping unify enterprise content with data and AI workflows on Azure. T…
Unity AI Gateway is now generally available on Azure Databricks. Unity AI Gateway provides centralized governance for AI models, agents, tools, and MCP services, helping organizations monitor usage, manage costs, apply guardrails, and enfo…
Azure Firewall explicit proxy is now generally available. Explicit proxy enables customers to configure applications and browsers to send HTTP and HTTPS traffic directly to Azure Firewall using proxy settings, providing an alternative to r…
On September 1, 2026, the cc_v5 confidential VM series will be retired and will no longer be available for use or purchase. Any affected VM that has not been resized before that date will deallocated. The impacted VM sizes that will be ret…
Perimeter link (cross-perimeter connectivity) is a network security perimeter capability that allows trusted resources in two different network security perimeters to securely communicate with each other using Managed Identity (MSI), witho…
Azure Private Link over IPv6 enables you to privately access Azure PaaS services, such as Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database, over IPv6-based connectivity. You can now use IPv6 private endpoints to connect from IPv6 clients in an Azure v…
Azure DNS now offers a seamless way to integrate with Azure Traffic Manager for DNS-based traffic routing. Customers can now directly associate Azure DNS record set with Traffic Manager profiles without creating CNAME record for trafficman…