Eligible SaaS products on Microsoft Marketplace now support a simplified purchase experience in Azure portal. Customers can review plan, billing, resource group, contact details, and terms information on a single page for completing the purchase. This exp
Route maps for Azure Route Server are now available in public preview, providing fine-grained control over inbound and outbound routing across hybrid connections. Customers can manage routes advertised to and from Azure Route Server BGP peerings with Netw
In late-July 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Regex-based dynamic data masking (DDM) extends the built-in DDM feature with pattern‑based masking to hide sensitive data like emails, phone numbers, and identifiers—centrally
Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the India South Central Azure region. Learn more.
Azure Automation is pleased to announce: General Availability of in-support PowerShell 7.6 runbooksRuntime Environment GA, enabling customers to seamlessly upgrade their outdated scripts to supported runtime versions. Support for Azure CLI commands in P
Starting February 1, 2027, Azure reservations exchanges will no longer be available for services covered by savings plans. At the time of this announcement, this includes reservations for the following services: Compute services: Azure Virtual Machine
We’re announcing symmetric keys on Azure Key Vault Premium are now available in public preview. This preview enables customers and partners to evaluate symmetric encryption capabilities using the oct-HSM key type and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Azure NetApp Files now supports configuration of SMB opportunistic locking (oplocks) for SMB and dual-protocol volumes. Opportunistic locks (Oplocks) improve SMB client caching and are enabled by default. You can configure oplocks on new volumes or update
This capability shares telemetry from Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspaces into Microsoft Fabric, making observability data available in OneLake as Delta Parquet, the open format, without duplication and with near real-time availability. All Azure Monit
Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 RC1 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. Whilst this release encompasses no customer-facing changes, it represents a major bump in Azure Sphere's underlying Linux kernel version as part of our long-term su
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 management of isolated cloud environments for sensitive workl
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 on a DNS64-capable resolver to synthesize IPv6 addresse
Managing ingress routing while adopting newer Kubernetes standards can require balancing modernization efforts with existing deployments. Application Routing with Gateway API is now generally available on AKS, bringing the Kubernetes Gateway API to ingres
Managing Kubernetes resources across multiple clusters can require significant manual effort to apply updates and maintain consistency. Resource placement in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is now generally available and enables platform and application te
In fail-fast update rollouts, a small number of member cluster update failures can halt progress across a broader update deployment. Maximum Allowed Failures for update runs in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, now available in preview, introduces an option
Organizations running large-scale, AI, GPU, Windows, and other performance-sensitive workloads on AKS often experience longer node startup times because new nodes must repeatedly download container images and perform initialization tasks before workloads
Microsoft announces the opening of its fourth datacenter region in India, India South Central, with campuses in Hyderabad, Telangana. The region will provide customers with local, secure, state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure designed with AI readiness as
Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 5 through AI Model Serving. Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's latest model for advanced reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and professional knowledge work. Claude Opus 5 is designed for complex tasks requi
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 customers enforce security controls, support tenant restriction
The AI Gateway tier for Azure API Management is now available in public preview. Building on the AI gateway capabilities already available across API Management tiers, the new AI Gateway tier provides a dedicated experience optimized for AI workloads.As o
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 configurations. Customers can configure fixed inbound detection th
Standard service endpoint is now available in public preview, introducing a scalable and secure way to connect IaaS workloads to Azure PaaS services under the Private Link family. This enhanced capability overcomes the scale and management limitations of
Azure Monitor Application Insights now stores generative AI content in a dedicated GenAIContent table (AppGenAIContent in Log Analytics), making it possible to apply newly available access controls to sensitive AI telemetry. Because Application Insights p
IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway enables customers to run IPv6 inner traffic through VPN tunnels in a dual‑stack configuration. IPv6 is supported on all production SKU gateways that use standard public IPs.IPv6 inner traffic can be configured for both n
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 window, and continued compatibility with the Azure Functio
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 PowerShell 7.6 Azure Functions PowerShell versions and their
Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are now generally available. You can use assessments to continuously evaluate the security posture of your Azure PostgreSQL flexible
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now generally supports Encryption in Transit (EiT) for Azure Files NFS v4.1 volumes through the Azure File CSI driver. With EiT enabled, data transferred between AKS workloads and Azure Files NFS shares is encrypted using TL
Microsoft Agent Framework now ships generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, so developers can build .NET and Python agents that delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The connectors plug into
Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for multi-agent orchestration patterns, including the dynamic Magentic pattern that delivered 38 percent on GAIA and competitive results on AssistantBench and WebArena in published benchmarks. The GA