Azure release radar

Azure Front Door now supports configurable TLS key exchange policies, including hybrid post-quantum key exchange, to help you prepare for evolving cryptographic threats while meeting your security and client compatibility requirements. C...

WAF Insights for Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) is now generally available. WAF Insights is a built-in experience in the WAF policy that brings WAF logs and metrics together in interactive dashboards, so you can...

The Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server REST API version 2026-10-01 is now generally available. This stable API release introduces expanded capabilities for maintenance management, immutable backups, multi-tenant encryption (cr...

Route maps for Azure Route Server are now generally available in the Azure public cloud. Route maps provide fine-grained control over inbound and outbound routing across hybrid connections. Customers can manage routes advertised to and f...

Azure Site Recovery now offers an enhanced disaster recovery experience for virtual machines in Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration. The update improves target configuration and end-to-end recovery workflows, including...

You now have greater flexibility in network design for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server workloads. Now you can change existing VNet-integrated servers from delegated-subnet networking to a private endpoint-capable configurat...

Azure Storage Actions is introducing three enhancements to simplify task management and give you more control over automated data operations across Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage:Automatic propagation of task definition updates: When y...

You can now restart or fail over databases directly from the Azure portal, including single databases, Hyperscale databases, and databases in elastic pools, without writing scripts against the Rest API or contacting support. Learn more.

Geo-Replication on partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium is now generally available. You can now combine the throughput benefits of partitioning with the reliability of replicating your messages and metadata to a secondary...

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Local is now generally available, making enterprise-grade disaster recovery simpler, accessible, easier to setup and secure than ever before. Customers can protect supported Windows and Linux virtual...

Large OS Disk Encryption (LOSDE) is now generally available for Azure Confidential VM migration scenarios. Organizations can move larger, production-scale workloads into confidential computing with the OS disk fully protected, instead of...

Announcing the general availability of the HTTP DDoS ruleset for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door Premium. HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, and static controls such as IP fil...

Azure Firewall now supports application rules in IPv6 Public Preview, enabling layer 7 filtering for IPv6 HTTP and HTTPS traffic. The enhancement extends application-level controls to IPv6 and dual-stack deployments, helping customers ma...

Multi-disk crash-consistent restore points for Azure virtual machines with Premium SSD v2 and Ultra data disks are now available in public preview on VMs with SCSI disk controllers. You can use this to capture the agent-less crash consis...

Application Gateway for Containers now supports centralized JSON Web Token validation through the AuthPolicy custom resource. Teams can validate a token signature, issuer, lifetime, and configured audience by using signing keys retrieved...

Application Gateway for Containers now supports Model Context Protocol routing through the new MCPRoute custom resource. Platform teams can publish MCP servers behind a stable hostname and path while centralizing TLS, JWT validation, Web...

Application Gateway for Containers now supports private frontends that are reachable only through approved Azure Private Link private endpoints. This enables organizations to keep internal applications, shared services, and cross-cluster...

Advanced capacity insights are now available for preview in Azure Storage Discovery. Storage Discovery now provides greater visibility into storage usage through insights such as access patterns, data age, storage tiers, object size dist...

With this enhancement, you have the ability to lock your retention to the configured PITR retention, beyond the default 7 days of immutable backups that are already available. This is especially useful for financial customers who typical...

Azure Migrate now supports discovery and assessment for network-attached storage, allowing customers and partners to plan migrations of Dell PowerScale (OneFS) and NetApp ONTAP storage to Azure. The Azure Migrate appliance connects direc...

With database-level managed identity in Azure SQL Database, you can use a user-assigned managed identity for each database to query files in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 through external tables and OPENROWSET. You...

Cross-Tenant Restore (CTR) helps organizations establish an independent recovery path by enabling Azure VM backups to be restored into a separate Azure tenant. It strengthens cyber resilience while using the existing backup copy, without...

Announcing the public preview of disable VNet peering route, a route-table capability that gives you more control over traffic between peered virtual networks. DPR suppresses system-generated peering routes on subnets associated with the...

Private network gateway for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview, enabling serverless compute to connect to resources in your virtual network (VNet) and transitively connected networks through a single managed gateway. Customers can...

This is the formal notice that Microsoft plans to deprecate the operational technology (OT) security component of Microsoft Defender for IoT. The service will be fully deprecated in October 2029, following a three-year transition period....

On June 2, 2027, we will retire Azure Fluid Relay. After this date, Azure Fluid Relay will reach end of availability, and workloads that continue to depend on the service may experience disruption.The Fluid Framework remains available as...

The Azure Key Vault Secrets Provider Extension for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes will be retired on October 9, 2027.Customers currently using the extension should plan to migrate to the Azure Key Vault Secret Store Extension before the re...

Microsoft Dev Box will retire on September 18, 2028. Beginning on September 14, 2026, Microsoft Dev Box will begin the closing-down process. After retirement, Microsoft Dev Box will no longer be available. Microsoft Dev Box is currently...

Azure Deployment Environments will retire on February 22, 2027. Beginning on September 14, 2026, Azure Deployment Environments will begin the closing-down process. After retirement, the service will no longer be available. To help avoid...

Beginning September 30, 2027, support for the pod name dimension on the following Azure Monitor platform metrics is retiring, and these metrics are transitioning to aggregate pod counters:Number of pods by phase (kube_pod_status_phase)Nu...

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub will be retired on September 30, 2029. Starting September 30, 2026, new installations will no longer be supported, and no new product releases, features, or enhancements will be made available. Existi...

On September 1, 2027 support for Java 8, 11 and 17 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 Java 8, 11 and...

Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves in Azure SQL Database will retire on October 31, 2027 as support for SGX-enabled DC-series hardware is phased out. Customers should transition to Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) enclaves, a ha...

On October 31, 2029, DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series Azure Linux, Windows and Dedicated Host virtual machines will be retired. After that date, they will no longer be available for use or purchase. Before October 31, 2029, migrate your workloads...

On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure retired the Standard_NV12s_v3, Standard_NV12hs_v3, Standard_NV24s_v3, Standard_NV24ms_v3, Standard_NV32ms_v3, and Standard_NV48s_v3 virtual machines (VMs) in the NVv3-series VMs.Any remaining NVv3-s...

On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure retired the Standard_NV4as_v4, Standard_NV4ahs_v4, Standard_NV8as_v4, Standard_NV8ahs_v4, Standard_NV16as_v4, Standard_NV16ahs_v4, Standard_NV32as_v4, and Standard_NV32ahs_v4 virtual machines (VMs)...