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The Laosv5 series and Lasv5 storage optimized VMs, based on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor (Turin), are now generally available.Lasv5 and Laosv5 VMs have sizes ranging from 2-160 vCPUs, with 8GiB of…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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),…

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…

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.…

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…

Azure Virtual Network routing appliance is now generally available. It delivers private connectivity across virtual networks, using specialized hardware for low latency, high throughput, and better…

Announcing the public preview of Azure Enclave for Microsoft Azure, Azure Government, Azure Government Secret, and Azure Government Top Secret. Azure Enclave helps streamline the deployment and…

StandardV2 NAT Gateway now supports NAT64, enabling IPv6 workloads to communicate with IPv4-only internet destinations by translating synthesized outbound IPv6 traffic into IPv4 traffic. NAT64 relies…

Azure Firewall now supports HTTP header insertion, enabling organizations to add or overwrite HTTP/HTTPS request headers directly from Azure Firewall application rules. This capability helps…

Azure DDoS Protection custom policy is now in public preview. This capability provides per-resource control over DDoS mitigation thresholds for protected Standard Load Balancer frontend IP…

Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.6 is now available in preview. You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.6 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions plans. Learn more: What's new in…

You can now develop functions using Python 3.14 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions plans on Linux. Upgrade your apps to Python 3.14 to take advantage of enhanced security, a longer support…

Announcing the public preview of Azure Front Door edge actions (serverless compute at the edge).With edge actions, customers can execute lightweight JavaScript functions during Azure Front Door…

The Log Analytics Export job enables you to export historical data from a Log Analytics workspace to an Azure Storage account based on a specified query and time range. This allows you to extract…

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect your web applications from common threats and attacks. In some cases, WAF may block requests that are safe and expected for your application.…

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…

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…

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,…

Azure Monitor now includes Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), giving teams a clearer way to measure how customers actually experience their applications. Instead of…

Ever wondered how to allow auditing personas (i.e. security analyst in your organization or security assessment contractor) the ability to view your ledger files and establish trust in the…

Azure Container Linux is a container-optimized, immutable operating system for AKS node pools — derived from Flatcar Container Linux and built on Azure Linux RPM packages. It delivers a locked-down,…

Azure Linux 4.0, Microsoft's first-party Linux distribution purpose-built for Azure, is now available in public preview for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets. It brings a modernized stack —…

Azure Virtual Network Manager integration with Virtual WAN is now in public preview, enabling you to use an Azure Virtual WAN hub as the hub in Azure Virtual Network Manager hub-and-spoke…

Azure Storage Mover now supports Blob container-to-Blob container data transfers, enabling customers to move data seamlessly across regions, subscriptions, and accounts with a fully managed…

Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement is now in public preview, enabling you to define summarized prefixes that Azure gateways, including ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway,…

Azure Storage Mover now supports built-in job scheduling, giving customers more control over when migrations run and making it easier to automate repeatable data transfers into Azure. Customers can…

Azure Virtual Network has increased the default platform limits for network security groups (NSGs) and route tables. The new defaults are now 2,000 security rules per NSG, 6,000 addresses or ports…

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium now support WebSocket in general availability. WebSocket is enabled by default and requires no additional configuration. WebSocket provides full-duplex…

Azure Files now supports Managed Identities for SMB access, enabling applications and services to authenticate without storing static credentials or account keys. This feature aligns with Zero Trust…

Azure Virtual Network Manager rule impact analyzer is now generally available, empowering you to simulate the impact of your security admin rules on your virtual networks before deploying your rules.…

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in all three Availability Zones in Japan West. Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines,…

On March 30, 2029, Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will be retired. Please migrate to latest generally available Azure Document Intelligence API version, v4.0, by that date. After March 30,…

Managing IP address space across multiple regions can be difficult to scale and prone to configuration mistakes.With cross-region IPAM pool association, you can associate a single IPAM pool with…

Announcing the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset on Azure Front Door Premium.HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, and traditional static controls often fall…

Today, we are announcing Azure Bastion now supports managed identities for graphical session recording. Azure Bastion graphical session recording now supports write access to storage accounts using…

Azure Storage Mover is now available in Azure Government (US), enabling U.S. government customers and partners to securely migrate large‑scale file data to Azure Government cloud environments using a…

Developers building MCP servers on Azure Functions can expose tools but not resources. Now, Azure Functions supports MCP resource triggers, enabling developers to expose resources directly from an…

Rule impact analysis on Azure Network Watcher enables you to preview the impact of security admin rules and network security group (NSG) rules before applying them to your environment. This feature…

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in US Gov Arizona (a region without Availability Zone). Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual…

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in South India (a region without Availability Zone).Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines,…

Azure SRE Agent is now generally available. This AI-powered operations agent helps teams improve uptime, reduce incident impact, and cut operational toil by accelerating diagnosis and automating…

The new Draft & Deploy feature for Azure Firewall Policy introduces a streamlined, two-phase approach to managing firewall policies, significantly reducing deployment time and disruption.…

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in a third Availability Zone in New Zealand North. Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines,…

The DCesv6, DCedsv6, ECesv6, and ECedsv6 series are Azure’s next generation of confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) based on 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel®…

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in Brazil Southeast (a region without Availability Zone), and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central.Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a…

Azure Virtual Network routing appliance offers private connectivity for workloads across virtual networks. Using specialized hardware, it delivers low latency and high throughput, and optimal…

Azure NetApp Files Elastic zone-redundant storage (ANF Elastic ZRS) is an advanced high-availability service level for Azure NetApp Files that provides continuous data access with zero data loss,…

The general purpose Dasv7 and Dalsv7, memory-optimized Easv7, and compute-optimized Fasv7, Falsv7, Famsv7 VMs, are now generally available with and without local disk support. These VMs are available…

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…

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…

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…