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 (cross-tenant custome
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 from Azure Route Se
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 maintain consistent
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 consistent restore point
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 from a trusted HT
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 Firew
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 traffic on privat
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 distribution, retentio
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 typically have 35 days of
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 failover, reprote
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 directly to your NAS cl
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.This change applie
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 configuration, enabling secu
On February 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 an open-sourc
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 you update a storag
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 region. Par
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 machines by repli
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 can authenticate t
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 being held back b
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 filters and fixed rat
Azure MCP Server 3.0 is now generally available, expanding how AI agents and developer tools interact with Azure through the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).This release introduces new and expanded capabilities:Infrastructure as code: Azure Terraform to
The Log Analytics logging destination for Azure Container Apps is now a legacy logging option. Existing environments configured with the Log Analytics logging destination will continue to function normally. However, we recommend planning a migration to th
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 requiring custome
Private offers through Microsoft Marketplace help you optimize your spending power with pricing and terms aligned to your organization’s needs, including flexible billing, custom contract lengths, and more. For eligible private offers, we are simplifying
Higher Azure Storage account resource quotas are now generally available, supporting up to 1,000 storage accounts with standard endpoints per region, per subscription, up from the default of 250. Manage more accounts in a single subscription, reducing the
Microsoft Foundry now brings Claude models into Azure Cost Management alongside the rest of your Foundry spend, generally available. Until now, Claude charges appeared under SaaS rather than under the Foundry resource used to deploy them, and Claude deplo
Announcing the general availability of profile and route level policies for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door Premium. WAF policies are no longer limited to individual domains: you can now apply broad baseline protection across an e
Azure Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering is now generally available, enabling you to control which network traffic flows are logged based on specific criteria such as IP addresses, ports, protocols, encryption state, flow state, and traffic directio
Azure Backup now supports Item-Level Recovery (ILR) for Azure virtual machines using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks with both 512 byte and 4KB logical sector sizes. You can now recover individual files and folders from your Azure VMs with Premium SSDv2 an