Azure release radar

Azure Databricks now supports native read access to data stored in Microsoft OneLake through Unity Catalog. This capability is generally available. Customers can query and analyze data directly in OneLake without moving or copying data,...

Azure StandardV2 NAT Gateway now supports outbound ICMP Echo Request and Echo Reply traffic, enabling customers to use tools such as ping to quickly validate outbound connectivity and troubleshoot network issues from workloads behind Sta...

A new Azure portal experience for Summary Rules in Log Analytics is now available. Summary Rules enable aggregation of high-volume log data at a defined cadence and store it in summarized tables for improved query performance, reporting,...

SQL MCP Server is now generally available, giving customers a secure, high-performance way to build agentic solutions with controlled access to production data. Built for SQL and compatible with PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos DB, SQL MCP Se...

Microsoft Entra server principals (logins) for Azure SQL Database is now generally available. You can now use CREATE LOGIN ... FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER in the virtual master database, bringing parity with SQL logins for your Microsoft Entr...

PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers brings together key AI and application development resources for PostgreSQL on Azure. It includes curated sample apps and solution accelerators, tutorials, and structured learning pathways to help you...

Azure NCv6-series virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available in the Azure Southeast Asia and West US 2 regions. NCv6 VMs are powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition graphics processing units (GPUs) with each GPU f...

Azure Premium SSD v2 disks now support non-zonal, single-instance Azure virtual machines in select Azure regions with Availability Zones (AZs). Customers can now deploy Premium SSD v2 with non-zonal virtual machines without selecting an...

Enhanced maintenance control capabilities are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. These new capabilities give you greater visibility and flexibility in managing platform maintenance events, helping...

We’re pleased to announce that Azure Migrate now generally supports discovery and assessment of SMB and NFS file shares hosted on Windows and Linux servers. This gives customers a complete, data-driven view of their file share environmen...

Azure Monitor's support for native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals is now generally available. This enables you to send telemetry data directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications and platforms to Azure Monito...

Microsoft Discovery is now generally available, providing research and development organizations an enterprise platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines. Also available in prev...

Azure Migrate now integrates with GitHub Copilot Modernization (public preview) to deliver at scale code insights. This capability brings together Azure Migrate’s portfolio-level discovery and assessment with GitHub Copilot’s context-awa...

Azure Databricks can now natively write managed Delta tables to Microsoft OneLake. This capability enables customers to use OneLake as a unified storage layer for Azure Databricks workloads without managing separate storage accounts. By...

The Azure Functions extension for VS Code now provides a redesigned Create New Project experience in public preview, featuring a rich, visual template gallery that replaces the multi-step Quick Pick wizard with a searchable, filterable v...

You can now use Agent mode for GitHub Copilot in SSMS to work with your database: investigating performance problems, tuning queries, reviewing maintenance and configuration, identifying security concerns, troubleshooting errors, and ass...

Starting July 1, 2026, Microsoft Foundry agent security capabilities previously available through Microsoft Defender for Cloud will transition to a Microsoft Agent 365 license. Agent protection in Defender will be powered by Agent 365 ob...

Azure Site Recovery now supports replication and disaster recovery for Linux Azure Virtual Machines running on NVMe-enabled Generation 2 VM families, such as the Da/Ea/Fa v6-series and Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 in the Azure-to-Azure scenario. This su...

With role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Managed Redis data access, you can precisely control who can read, write, or administer your Redis data using Microsoft Entra ID—without relying on shared keys. Built on top of Redis Access...

Metrics Usage Insights now includes an Ingestion Volume Change dashboard to help you compare ingestion volume over time. Quickly detect spikes or drops in time series counts and event ingestion rates, enabling faster investigation of cos...

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now supports avatar voice sync with custom voices in the Voice Live API, allowing developers to pair branded or persona-specific text-to-speech voices with real-time avatar experiences. This update he...

AI pipelines for Azure HorizonDB is now available in public preview. AI pipelines let you describe an AI data ingestion workflow, chunking, embedding, extraction, generation, and ranking, declaratively in SQL, and run it as a fault-toler...

Microsoft Foundry adds tool search to Foundry toolboxes in public preview, giving developers and admins a fast way to find the right tool inside large, multi-team catalogs. As your toolbox grows, sending every tool definition on every tu...

Microsoft Foundry brings Azure API Management support to all Foundry model integrations in Azure AI Search, now in public preview. Enterprise platform engineers and AI solution teams running large-scale RAG pipelines can place Foundry an...

Guest RDMA is now in preview on Azure, starting in the UK South region, bringing high-throughput, ultra-low latency networking directly into guest VMs within the same region. By using Azure Boost to enable RDMA in the guest OS, applicati...

Microsoft is announcing Confidential Live Migration in Azure, a new capability designed to improve operational flexibility and availability for Intel® TDX Confidential VMs during platform servicing. Confidential Live Migration helps move...

The general purpose Dpsv7 and Dplsv7, memory-optimized Epsv7, high-memory Mpsv4, and dense storage Lpsv5 VMs are now available in preview. These virtual machines deliver significant enhancements over the previous generation Cobalt 100 VM...

Microsoft is announcing the preview of multiparty analytics with Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, resulting in fully managed service that allows customers and their partners to securely analyze privacy sensitive datasets with Apache Spark...

The Lasv5 and Laosv5 storage optimized VMs, based on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor (Turin), are in preview. Lasv5-series is designed for storage-intensive workloads requiring high disk capacity, throughput, and I/O, while Laosv5-series...

Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on November 15, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely on them:Av2-seriesF-series, Fs-series, Fsv2-seriesG-series, Gs-seriesLsv2-seriesAfter this date:New Batch pools us...

Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on May 1, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely on them:D-series, Ds-seriesDv2-series, Dsv2-seriesLs-seriesAfter this date:New Batch pools using these VM series cannot...

As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, we are announcing the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts. This include...

Update to our previous communication: We previously announced the retirement of all Inbound NAT rules version 1 resources, which included both single-VM NAT rules and NAT pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets. We have narrowed the scope o...

As of March 31, 2026, new Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL accounts can no longer enable Azure Synapse Link. Existing customers will remain fully supported until March 31, 2029, when Azure Synapse Link will reach end of life.We encourage all custom...

The Azure VPN Client for Linux (Preview) has remained in public preview and does not have a path to general availability (GA). As part of our ongoing efforts to align Azure networking services with current security and reliability standa...

Reminder: Microsoft’s support lifecycle is evolving in alignment with VMware’s roadmap. Broadcom will end support for the current AV36 VCF version on September 30, 2027, and the AV36 SKU is not compatible with VMware Cloud Foundation (VC...

As part of Azure’s ongoing security improvements, App Service, Functions, and Logic Apps will no longer accept connections using TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 after May 31, 2027. Any client, application, or service that continues to use these legac...

Azure AI Metrics Advisor has been retired as of May 18, 2026.We recommend the following alternatives:Azure Monitor, as an official Azure 3P product, anomaly detection and analysis capabilities are provided through multiple interfaces, e....