Azure release radar

Organizations deploying workloads on Kubernetes often need a consistent way to enforce pod security configurations across clusters. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Pod Security Standards within Deployment Safeguards, enabling...

StandardV2 SKU NAT Gateway is now generally available, delivering enhanced resiliency, greater performance, and dual-stack connectivity, all at the same price as the Standard SKU. StandardV2 Public IP addresses and prefixes are also gene...

Reporting capabilities are now live in Playwright Workspaces. The latest update brings you an integrated, flexible and collaborative reporting experience designed to make debugging tests in Playwright Workspaces easier, faster and more e...

Azure Load Testing capability in Azure App Testing is now generally available in Switzerland North. Customers can now use Azure Load Testing, a fully managed load-testing service to generate high scale load and run simulations, easily id...

The functionality of application volume group for Oracle has been expanded with the ability to create data protection volumes in a volume group with the same anti-affinity layout as production volume groups. Customers benefit from this a...

Azure File Sync enables seamless tiering of data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files for hybrid use cases and simplified migration. It also enables you to leverage the performance, flexibility and compatibility of your on-pre...

Customers upgrading AKS clusters often need a clear and flexible path to adopt new OS versions without disrupting workloads. Ubuntu 24.04 is now generally available on AKS starting with Kubernetes version 1.32, with containerd 2.0 enable...

Ubuntu 24.04 is now generally available on AKS in Kubernetes version 1.32 and above. Containerd 2.0 is enabled by default. Ubuntu 24.04 is default with `Ubuntu` OS Sku in kubernetes version 1.35 and above. There are two ways that Ubuntu...

The new cloud-native apps on Kubernetes pricing calculator scenario allows teams to estimate the total cost of ownership for a production-ready AKS cluster with other key Azure services, including Azure Container Registry, Azure Monitori...

The Geo-Replication feature for Azure Service Bus in the premium tier is now generally available. The Service Bus Geo-Replication feature is one of the options to insulate Azure Service Bus applications against outages and disasters, pro...

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in Austria East and in a second Availability Zone in Japan West. Azure Premium SSD v2, a next-generation general-purpose block storage solution, offers sub-millisecond latencies and exceptional price...

In mid-December 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Identify causes that auto-resume serverless workloads using Activity Log in Azure SQL Database to troubleshoot and optimize access patterns. Learn more.

User delegation SAS for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues is now available in public preview. User delegation (UDK) SAS is already generally available for blobs, and this release extends that support to tables, files, and queue...

Available now in Public Preview, you can configure Azure Cosmos DB accounts with virtual networks or private endpoints to work with Microsoft Fabric mirroring. This feature allows you to preserve your enhanced network security and seamle...

Azure Storage Mover’s new Azure Blob container-to-container migration feature is now in Public Preview, empowering organizations to move data between two Blob containers within the same or different storage accounts, subscriptions or Azu...

Azure Functions triggers and bindings enable you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications. Now that SDK type bindings support for Azure Blob Storage is available, we’re also introducing support for Service Bu...

You can now simplify how you diagnose and resolve issues in your applications running on Azure Cosmos DB with the introduction of the Azure Cosmos DB Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent, built on the Azure SRE Agent platform. This n...

Cross-zone-region replication builds on the existing capabilities of cross-region replication and cross-zone replication. It enables you to replicate volumes across regions and across availability zones within the same region, combining...

Azure NetApp Files advanced ransomware protection (ANF ARP) is now in Public Preview. ANF ARP is designed to help organizations proactively detect, respond to, and recover from ransomware threats on cloud volumes. ANF ARP monitors Azure...

You can now receive insights where collaboration happens—in Microsoft Teams—with expanded dashboard subscription capabilities in Azure Databricks. This enhancement delivers timely, actionable data directly into team workflows, reducing t...

Mistral Large 3, a frontier-class open-weight model with Apache 2.0 licensing, is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure. This model delivers enterprise-grade reliability, long-context comprehension, and multimodal reasoning—making...

Serverless workspaces in Azure Databricks are now available in Public Preview, offering a fully managed workspace type that comes preconfigured with serverless compute and default storage to deliver an enterprise-ready SaaS experience wi...

VNET flow log captures IP traffic flowing through VNETs, subnets, and NICs for monitoring, troubleshooting, network optimization, security, and compliance needs and stores the logs in Azure Storage Traffic Analytics leverages VNET flow l...

Claude Opus 4.5 is now available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry, bringing advanced coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise productivity to Azure customers. Claude Opus 4.5 sets a new benchmark for performance and versatility, o...

Engineered for performance, Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL delivers future-proof, autoscaling storage up to 128 TB, up to 3 times faster performance than open-source PostgreSQL, and rapid compute scalability to 3,072 vCores. Now in priva...

The Azure Boost confidential device feature is now in preview. Azure Boost is a Microsoft Azure system that offloads virtualization tasks—such as networking, storage, and host management—from the hypervisor and host OS to purpose-built h...

Remote storage throughput and network bandwidth performance enhancements for the latest Azure Boost architecture are now in preview. Azure Boost is a Microsoft Azure system that offloads virtualization tasks—such as networking, storage,...

Announcing private preview of Active MQ/JMS connector in Azure Logic Apps. With this capability, you can now connect to enterprise messaging systems built on ActiveMQ and JMS for advanced hybrid integration scenarios.

For organizations leveraging individual user and group quotas in Azure NetApp Files to manage capacity on NFS, SMB, and dual-protocol volumes, the user and group quota reporting feature offers clear visibility into key metrics such as qu...

Foundry Local now extends its capabilities to Android, in addition to Windows and Mac supporting advanced on-device AI for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices, while Whisper model integration delivers robust, privacy-preserving speech...

The Large Volumes up to 7.2 PiB with Cool Access feature allows you to create Azure NetApp Files volumes up to 7.2 PiB on dedicated capacity, designed for workloads where most data are rarely accessed. This enhancement extends cool-acces...

In 2026, Azure Resource Manager will be deprecating the Custom Resource Provider (CuRP) service.We will retire the feature by October 31, 2026. We will be performing a scream test on October 27, 2025, as part of this deprecation. On July...

The retirement date for default outbound access has been extended to March 31, 2026. This change aligns with the broader Azure Virtual Network (VNet) update and replaces the previously communicated September 30, 2025 date. Starting March...

On June 30, 2026, AzureML SDK V1 will reach end of life. The following SDKs which work in tandem with the AzureML SDK V1 will also be retired. azureml-train-core azureml-pipeline azureml-pipeline-core azureml-pipeline-internal azureml-pi...

On September 30, 2025, Low-Priority VM will reach end of life. However, you will continue to be supported on Azure Machine Learning until March 31, 2026. To ensure that your clusters are not automatically scaled down it is recommended to...