Microsoft announced public preview support for the ISO-aligned Graph Query Language (GQL) within KQL graph semantics, enabling GQL queries to run on Fabric Eventhouse and Azure Data Explorer to simplify working with graph data using an industry standard.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure Red Hat OpenShift, general availability, UAE Central, US Gov Texas, cloud regions
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in UAE Central and US Gov Texas regions, expanding managed OpenShift services to the Middle East and southwestern US.
Azure NetApp Files migration assistant (with SnapMirror) is now generally available, enabling efficient, cost-effective migrations to Azure NetApp Files using ONTAP’s replication engine.
Azure CDN will be retired in China on December 1, 2025. Customers should migrate to Azure Front to avoid service disruption; Microsoft will provide support during the transition.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure Functions, Python 3.13, Public Preview, Runtime Version Control, Azure
Azure Functions now supports Python 3.13 in public preview, and introduces an opt-in runtime version control feature that lets you target specific Functions Python runtime versions when developing locally and deploying to Azure.
Microsoft announced the Public Preview of .NET 10 on Azure App Service for both Windows and Linux, enabling developers to run modern web workloads such as ASP.NET apps, Blazor, and Minimal APIs on the platform.
Azure announced general availability of multiple address prefixes for subnets in Azure Virtual Networks. Subnets previously allowed only a single address prefix, which constrained scale for some applications when address space was exhausted. The GA feature lets subnets hold more than one prefix, enabling larger address ranges and greater flexibility for scaling and IP management.
Azure announced general availability of the ability to upgrade existing Gen1 virtual machines to Gen2-Trusted Launch. The capability enables Trusted Launch on previously deployed Gen1 VMs to improve foundational VM security.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure, Azure Database for MySQL, Flexible Server, High Availability, Maintenance, General Availability, HA, Uptime
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with High Availability (HA) now offers near-zero-downtime maintenance and this capability is generally available. The feature is supported by a new HA architecture and applies to Flexible Server deployments with HA enabled.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure API Management, Workspaces, Workspace Gateways, Premium v2, General Availability, Preview
Azure announced general availability of workspaces and workspace gateways for the Premium v2 tier of Azure API Management, while the Premium v2 tier itself remains in preview. Workspaces enable organizations to manage and govern APIs.
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model, which lets customers run Logic Apps on customer-managed infrastructure to give more flexibility and control over where integration workloads execute.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure, API Management, API Management v2, gateway metrics, autoscaling, Basic v2, Standard v2, Premium v2, GA, monitoring
Azure API Management v2 tiers (Basic v2, Standard v2, Premium v2) are now generally available with gateway-level metrics and native autoscaling, providing deeper gateway performance visibility and automatic scaling based on real-time usage.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure, Logic Apps, Visual Studio Code, Data Mapper, GA, Extension, Update
The redesigned Data Mapper user experience in the Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available and becomes the default for creating and editing maps after its public preview.
Azure Logic Apps Standard now generally available: Custom Code support with .NET 8 lets developers embed and run .NET 8 code directly in workflows to enable advanced logic, code reuse, and tighter integration.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure, Logic Apps, Business Process Tracking, General Availability, Workflow monitoring
Azure announced general availability of Business Process Tracking for Logic Apps (Standard), enabling stakeholders to track key data properties across production workflows to gain timely business insights.
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure Logic Apps Standard Automated Test Framework, which enables developers and teams to build, test, and maintain enterprise-grade workflows by creating unit tests for workflow definitions.
Azure Logic Apps now has a public preview of Organizational Templates, enabling teams to create, share, and reuse automation patterns inside their organization to standardize integrations at scale.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure, Azure API Management, Model Context Protocol, MCP, Public Preview, v2 SKUs, AI agents, API integration
Azure API Management is in public preview with expanded support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), adding MCP support in v2 SKUs and the ability to expose existing MCP-compliant servers to simplify connecting APIs and AI agents.
Microsoft announced the public preview of the Confluent Kafka Connector for Azure Logic Apps (Standard), enabling Logic Apps to both send and receive messages with Confluent Kafka, a distributed streaming platform.
Microsoft is retiring the Confidential VM SKUs DCesv5, DCedsv5, ECesv5, and ECedsv5. These SKUs will be succeeded by the next-generation DCesv6 and ECesv6 sizes, which were recently announced in public preview.
Azure CDN in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Azure China) will be retired on December 1, 2025. Customers using Azure CDN in China must migrate to alternative services such as Azure Front Door before that date. The service is built on local CDN providers’ POPs.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure App Testing, Playwright, General Availability, End-to-end testing, Parallelization, Browsers, Devices, Test automation
Azure App Testing’s Playwright Workspaces is now generally available, enabling highly parallel end-to-end testing across multiple browsers and devices to validate application functionality.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-09
· tags: Azure, Ultra Disk, price reduction, West US 2, storage, general availability, cloud costs
Azure has launched a generally available price reduction for Ultra Disks in the West US 2 region. Ultra Disks are Azure’s highest-performance block storage offering, providing consistent sub-millisecond latency and very high throughput/IOPS, and the price cut lowers storage costs for demanding enterprise workloads in that region.
Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available with a price reduction in the UK South region. Ultra Disk is Azure’s highest-performance block storage for virtual machines, offering consistent sub-millisecond latency and very high throughput and IOPS, making it suitable for demanding enterprise production workloads.
Azure has made a price reduction for Ultra Disks in the Central US region generally available. Ultra Disks provide extremely high performance and sub-millisecond latency for demanding VM workloads, and the price cut reduces costs for those workloads in that region.
Azure App Service has launched the Premium v4 tier, featuring faster processors, NVMe local storage, and memory-optimized options on the latest Azure hardware. This tier supports both Windows and Linux with sizes starting at 1 vCPU and 4GB RAM.
Azure SQL and SQL Server received updates in late August 2025, including the general availability of local SQL Server containers via the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Entra ID, group login, public preview, user credentials
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports Entra ID group login using user credentials in public preview on new servers. This feature aims to simplify user management and enhance security.
Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports schema migration for Azure SQL Database, allowing users to migrate missing schema objects along with data using a simple checkbox option.
Azure SQL Database introduced a replication lag metric in late August 2025, enabling real-time monitoring of the recovery point objective (RPO) for Geo-DR configurations.
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) now supports adding physical shards and rebalancing data as clusters scale, leveraging its elastic compute and storage capabilities.
Entra ID and RBAC support for several Azure Storage supplemental APIs, including GetAccountInfo and ACL management for containers, queues, and tables, is now generally available.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Azure, CNI Overlay, Application Gateway for Containers, AGIC, AKS, Networking, General Availability
Azure CNI Overlay for Application Gateway for Containers (AGIC) is now generally available. It allows AKS clusters to assign pod IPs from a separate CIDR, conserving VNet IP space and simplifying multi-cluster deployments.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Azure NetApp Files, short-term clones, public preview, data snapshots, storage optimization
Azure NetApp Files introduces short-term clones in public preview, allowing instant, space-efficient read/write access by creating temporary thin clones from volume snapshots without full data copies.
The Roslyn Analyzer for Durable Functions in the .NET isolated model is now available in public preview, providing real-time code analysis to enforce durable orchestration coding constraints.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Microsoft Azure, cloud region, Austria, digital transformation, AI, data security
Microsoft Azure is now generally available in a new cloud region in Austria, supporting secure data storage and processing for local companies and public administration.
Azure Migrate now supports migrating servers to disks with Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) redundancy. Users can select ZRS as the redundancy option during migration, enabling automatic provisioning of ZRS disks.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Azure, Application Gateway, MaxSurge, Rolling Upgrade, Zero Downtime
Azure Application Gateway now supports MaxSurge, allowing new instances to be provisioned during rolling upgrades without taking existing instances offline. This feature enables zero-capacity-impact upgrades to newer gateway versions.
Azure Log Analytics’ Search Job feature is now generally available and supports returning up to 100 million results. It enables asynchronous queries across all workspace data, including long-term retention, with results delivered in Analytics tables for further analysis.
Azure NetApp Files file access logs are now generally available, providing detailed visibility into file-level operations for SMB, NFSv4.1, and dual-protocol volumes. This feature helps organizations improve their security monitoring.
Azure Functions Flex Consumption plan now supports a 512 MB memory instance size option, in addition to 2048 MB and 4096 MB. This update helps optimize costs for apps with lower resource needs and supports scaling.
Azure Bastion now supports secure tunneling to private Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, allowing direct access to the AKS API server from local machines using standard Kubernetes tools.
Azure NetApp Files’ Flexible service level now supports cool access, enabling customers to configure storage capacity and throughput independently for workloads with specific performance and sizing needs.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure, 21Vianet, deprecation, retirement
Microsoft is retiring Microsoft Defender for Cloud in the Azure operated by 21Vianet environment due to increasing infrastructure and operational complexity.
The Azure Blob Storage Archive access tier is now generally available in the Malaysia West region, enabling cost-effective storage of infrequently accessed data locally.
Azure Files has introduced the provisioned v2 billing model for its SSD (premium) tier, allowing separate provisioning of storage, IOPS, and throughput.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Azure Databricks, Power Platform, Power Apps, Connector, General Availability
The Azure Databricks connector for Microsoft Power Platform is now generally available, enabling seamless integration between Azure Databricks and Power Apps.
Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra now supports Cassandra 5.0 in public preview, enabling access to the latest features such as improved performance and new indexing capabilities without infrastructure management.
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) now supports encryption with customer-managed keys in public preview, adding to the existing service-managed key encryption.
Azure Automation will resume deploying revised Service and Subscription limits starting August 11, 2025, to ensure fair resource distribution and improve reliability and performance.
Azure Monitor now offers Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts in preview, allowing notifications for service health issues affecting the entire tenant rather than single subscriptions.
Azure App Service now generally supports inbound IPv6 for multi-tenant apps across all public regions on Basic, Standard, Premium SKUs, Functions Consumption, Functions Elastic Premium, and Logic Apps Standard.
Azure App Testing is now in public preview, allowing developers and QA teams to perform large-scale functional and performance tests across frameworks such as Playwright, JMeter, and Locust.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Upsert, Script activity, General Availability
Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics now generally support the Upsert method and Script activity for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, enabling efficient and scalable data operations.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Azure Data Box, General Availability, Cloud Storage, Data Transfer, Regional Expansion
Azure Data Box Next Gen is now generally available in additional regions including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong, UAE, Switzerland, and Norway. Both the 120TB and 525TB Azure Data Box models are generally available in these regions.
· azure
· timeframe: 2025-08
· tags: Azure, Storage, Public Preview, Data Management, Cost Optimization, Security
Azure Storage Discovery is now in public preview, offering enterprise-wide visibility into Azure Storage data. It enables deep analysis of capacity and activity to optimize costs, enhance security, and improve operations.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is introducing an AI-powered CLI feature called “az aks agent” that integrates agentic reasoning into the Azure CLI for developers and operators.