Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

Announcing: Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will reach end of life on November 1, 2026

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:43:51 Z

Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS, a Databricks-managed runtime available on Azure Databricks, reached end of support on March 18, 2025 and will reach end of life on November 1, 2026. After this date, Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will no longer be availabl
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Categories:

From Features to Flow: How Real-World Adoption Reshaped the Azure Architecture Diagram Builder

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:10:00 Z

In May, I introduced the open-source Azure Architecture Diagram Builder as a way to move from a natural-language prompt to an Azure architecture diagram, cost estimate, Well-Architected assessment, a...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Arc, Categories: Features

Updates to GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:14:00 Z

GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry is built on GPT-5.6 Sol, bringing focused responses, improved factual reliability, and consistent behavior to conversational applications without requiring develo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Direct IoT Hub-to-Fabric message routing, with context preserved via CloudEvents, in Public Preview

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:51:00 Z

Announcing Public Preview of Microsoft Fabric Eventstreams as a native Azure IoT Hub routing endpoint. Customers can now send device telemetry directly into Fabric without building custom integration...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, IoT Hub, Categories:

Control plane metrics collection for AKS with Managed Prometheus

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:19:56 Z

Control plane metrics collection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), powered by Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus, is now generally available.This capability gives AKS customers native observability into key managed control plane components, in
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services, Management

Live Resize for Shared Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Data Disks

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:17:41 Z

We’re excited to announce the GA of Live Resize for shared Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra data disks. This feature allows you to dynamically expand the storage capacity of your disks without any disruption to your applications. To optimize costs, you can
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Storage, Managed Disks, Categories:

Pre-upgrade validation checks for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:13:22 Z

Pre-upgrade validation checks are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, helping you proactively validate major version upgrade (MVU) readiness before initiating the actual upgrade process. With the general availability
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Introducing dependency telemetry in Application Insights for Azure API Management policies

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:00:00 Z

Running A(P)I platforms at-scale is not a walk in the park – As traffic flows through the system, it needs handle the load and provide insights on where the inefficiencies are. Finding the needle i...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

When AI Agents Fail: Engineering Reliable Recovery with Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:00:00 Z

Introduction: The Failure That Demos Do Not Show A user asks an AI agent a simple question: "Create a procurement request for 10 laptops for the new project team." The agent does what it wa...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

From Silicon to Systems: Bending the Cost and Complexity Curves of AI

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:02:00 Z

The next era of AI infrastructure will be defined not by a single breakthrough, but by how well we co-design every layer—from models and software to silicon, servers, racks and datacenters. At the Op...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Add AI to the workflows you already have using Serverless Agents in Azure Functions

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:47:00 Z

There are a lot of ways to build with AI right now: chat frontends, copilots, greenfield agent apps, orchestration frameworks. All of them have their place, and some customers are building entirely n...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Categories:

Governing a File-Access Agent with the Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and AGT

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:24:00 Z

This post walks through combining the Microsoft Agent Framework Harness with the Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) to build a governed file-access agent. Harness supplies the file_access_* tools (list, ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Governing a Risk Operations Agent with the Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and AGT

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:24:00 Z

Containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:41:20 Z

On September 14, 2026 we will retire the containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications. After this date the agent will be permanently disabled and will stop sending SAP logs to Microsoft Sentinel.The SAP agent
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories: Security, Retirements

From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding – August 2026

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:43:01 Z

Enterprise content is no longer just something people read. AI apps and agents are only as useful as the information they can understand, yet much of the world’s enterprise knowledge is locked in documents, forms, tables, images, audio, and video. The latest Azure Content Understanding updates help developers turn that content into structured, grounded data […] The post From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding – August 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure Content Understanding GPT-5 Series Guide: Model Selection, Grounding Improvements, and Confidence Enhancements

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:42:25 Z

Enterprise content is no longer just something people consume. As organizations increasingly rely on AI to extract and act on information from documents, images, audio, and video, Azure Content Understanding is expanding support for the GPT-5 series and improving grounding and confidence to deliver greater flexibility, efficiency, and quality. This expanded model catalog enables organizations […] The post Azure Content Understanding GPT-5 Series Guide: Model Selection, Grounding Improvements, and Confidence Enhancements appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Batch rule updates for Azure Front Door

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:03:08 Z

Batch rule updates are now generally available for Azure Front Door Standard and Premium. This capability enables customers to add, update, delete, or reorder multiple rules in a rule set as a coordinated operation, ensuring that all changes are applied t
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Front Door, Categories: Features, Security

Azure Front Door mutual TLS

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:01:19 Z

Mutual TLS, also known as client certificate authentication, enables Azure Front Door to authenticate clients using X.509 certificates before requests reach an application. It helps protect sensitive applications and APIs across business-to-business, Inte
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Key Vault, Azure Front Door, Categories: Security

Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:38:31 Z

Today, we are announcing the public preview of Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service. This feature gives AI agents and other tools a cleaner way to consume content from an App Service app. When a client requests Markdown, App Service can automatically
Update Type: Preview, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

Azure Content Understanding announces Synchronous Operations

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:00:00 Z

Workflow automation scenarios—including grounding AI agents, verifying identities, assisting customers with documents in call centers, and triggering document-based workflows—depend on immediate cont...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure Developer CLI extension framework is GA: build dev workflows for apps using Azure

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:57:59 Z

What parts of building and shipping on Azure still take too many steps? Maybe you want a command that starts a project with your organization’s approved architecture and infrastructure. Maybe you need to connect deployments to an internal service catalog, run security checks before provisioning, or guide developers through a process that currently lives across […] The post Azure Developer CLI extension framework is GA: build dev workflows for apps using Azure appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: GA, Services: , Categories: Security, Services

August Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:44:54 Z

We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The most recent release, Azure DevOps Server, is available on the download page. The following versions have been patched. For more details on […] The post August Patches for Azure DevOps Server appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

2.2X IDPS performance optimization in Azure Firewall

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:26:51 Z

Azure Firewall Premium now delivers up to 22 Gbps throughput with TLS inspection and IDPS in Deny mode, a 120% increase from 10 Gbps, and up to 600 Mbps per TCP connection with IDPS enabled in either Alert or Deny mode (doubled from 300 Mbps). Learn more.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Firewall, Categories: Features, Security

What the New API Management AI Gateway Tier Changes for App Service-Hosted Agents

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:39:00 Z

A runnable App Service agent sample that uses the dedicated API Management AI Gateway tier for governed model and MCP tool access, streaming, policy enforcement, identity separation, and telemetry.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, App Service, Categories: Management

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes (Preview): Giving AI Agents a Safe Place to Work

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:01:00 Z

Co-written by Nikoloz Buligini, Front End Developer at Templafy, and Jan Kalis, Azure Container Apps Sandboxes, Core AI, Microsoft Every team building with multi-tenant AI agent platforms hits the ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Building Microsoft Sentinel Connectors in Minutes with the Sentinel Connector Builder Agent

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:00:00 Z

Overview We previously announced the public preview of the Microsoft Sentinel connector builder agent via VS code extension, that helps developers build Microsoft Sentinel codeless connectors faste...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Accelerate Inference on AKS with Azure Blob Storage and NVIDIA Dynamo

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:00:00 Z

As agents generate more tokens and use longer context windows, AI platforms must reduce cost per token and optimize inference performance across every layer of the stack. With new native integrations...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage, Categories:

From Azure Container Apps to Microsoft Foundry: building and evaluating a Patch Tuesday MCP server

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:00:00 Z

**Disclaimer:** This is an independent, self-built project and is not an official Microsoft tool or service. It reads public security-update data and is intended as an educational example of buildi...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Container Apps, Categories:

Announcing new security enhancements across Azure IoT services

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:54:00 Z

Security is foundational to the connected products and solutions our customers build. It shapes every decision, from how devices are provisioned to how they connect and receive updates. As device fle...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories: Security

Announcing: Microsoft Fabric Item Recovery will be enabled by default for tenants without an explicit setting

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:50:54 Z

Starting August 23, 2026, Microsoft Fabric will enable Item Recovery by default for tenants that have not explicitly configured the setting. Supported item types will have a 3-day recovery window by default. Admins can review or change this setting in the
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

I Enabled RBAC and Everything Broke. What Did I Do Wrong?

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:01:03 Z

We covered the roles your Azure Cosmos DB app needs in our previous post. Now let’s look at what happens after you’ve assigned those roles, switched identities, disabled keys and suddenly staring at a 403. As we continue this security series, we’ll walk through the most common causes, how to diagnose them, and how to […] The post I Enabled RBAC and Everything Broke. What Did I Do Wrong? appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories: Security

A simpler way to deploy ZIP packages to Azure App Service from the Azure portal

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:42:00 Z

We recently introduced a simpler way to deploy applications to Azure App Service for Linux by uploading a ZIP package through Kudu. The experience lets you review the package contents, choose whether...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

Announcing Grafana 13 Support in Azure Managed Grafana

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:24:00 Z

Enhanced Dashboarding and Visualization Experience Grafana 13 introduces a number of improvements that make dashboards easier to build, reuse, and manage at scale. Teams can create richer observabi...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Managed Grafana, Categories:

Build Durable, Long-Running MCP Tasks on Azure App Service

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:40:00 Z

Build durable MCP Tasks on Azure App Service with .NET, Azure Table Storage, and Service Bus, including reconnects, approvals, cancellation, retries, and hosting tradeoffs.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Service Bus, App Service, Categories:

Expanding the Azure Local Security Ecosystem with IBM QRadar and Splunk

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:00:00 Z

As regulatory obligations, resilience requirements, and the need for greater control over data and infrastructure continue to grow, we are seeing increasing interest in Azure Local from governments, ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Arc, Categories: Security

Zero Ops: Agents Operate, Humans Govern

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:48:00 Z

A note on scope: the patterns in this guide apply to any agentic operations platform. The specifics — the pricing model, the built-in capabilities, the primitives named throughout — are Azure SRE A...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Azure ExpressRoute resiliency guard

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:52:31 Z

Azure ExpressRoute resiliency guard is now available in public preview for ExpressRoute virtual network gateways. The new resiliency model property lets you specify whether a gateway is intended for a single-homed or multi-homed configuration, helping ali
Update Type: Preview, Services: ExpressRoute, Categories:

From Good to Great: We Put Agent Optimizer to the Test in Microsoft Foundry

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:00:00 Z

Authors: Abi Komma, Charles Kim, Luffy Chen, Morteza Ziyadi Why hand-tuning agents does not scale An agent’s behavior comes mostly from its natural-language configuration: its instructions, skil...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

The Hidden Reason Your Foundry Agent Can't Reach Any of Your Private (Bring-Your-Own) Resources

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:00:00 Z

The setup You've built the deployment the enterprise architecture review asked for. Nothing touches the public internet. Your Microsoft Foundry resource is private — public network access disable...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing: Azure Databricks Genie One and Genie Agents Free Usage Extended Through January 31, 2027

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:41:52 Z

Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents in Azure Databricks is now extended through January 31, 2027, from the previous end date of July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply to these products during the promotional period. The promotion covers usage by
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Categories:

AI-powered playbook generator, now available to more customers

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:41:00 Z

We’re excited to announce we’re making it easier than ever to go from intent to action with the AI-powered playbook generator now available to more customers. What’s new All Microsoft Sentinel ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Smarter signals, broader coverage: UEBA anomalies on top of Behaviors layer and new data sources

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:47:00 Z

Security teams don't struggle with a lack of security signals. The real challenge is understanding which activity matters, why it stands out, and where to focus first. Microsoft Sentinel's Behavio...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories: Security

Migrate from AWS FSx for Windows File Server to Azure Files with Azure Storage Mover

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:40:19 Z

Azure Storage Mover now supports agentless, cloud-to-cloud migration from AWS FSx for Windows File Server (SMB) to Azure Files (SMB), in preview. You can move your Windows file shares off FSx and into Azure Files without deploying or managing a migration
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Storage, Categories:

Generally Available: Windows Server 2016 Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:03:00 Z

Today, the Azure Arc team is pleased to announce that Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc is now generally available for Windows Server 2016. By connecting your Windows Server 2016 ...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Arc, Categories: Security

Microsoft Foundry's New Model Wave

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:00:00 Z

The era of the single best model is over Microsoft Foundry is no longer just a shelf of foundation models. It is becoming an enterprise model portfolio: frontier models for complex reasoning, cost-...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Pull request annotations on work item cards

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:21 Z

It’s now easier to track development progress without leaving your Kanban board. Azure Boards now displays pull request annotations directly on work item cards, making it easy to see at a glance when work is actively moving through code review. With pull request status visible directly on the board, your team can quickly understand the […] The post Pull request annotations on work item cards appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

From Distillation to Reinforcement Fine-Tuning: Hill-Climbing in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:00 Z

TL; DR: Hill climbing means improving the deployable model package one measured step at a time across quality, latency, and cost. SFT made this workload cheaper, but did not transfer the teacher's pl...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

You can now use the Azure DevOps Service Connection instead of a PAT or Build Session token

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:57:40 Z

We’re excited to announce the Azure DevOps service connection, a new way to access Azure DevOps from your pipelines using a Microsoft Entra workload identity (a service principal or managed identity) instead of a Personal Access Token (PAT) or session token. This post walks through what it is, how to set it up, and the […] The post You can now use the Azure DevOps Service Connection instead of a PAT or Build Session token appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories: Services

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:00 Z

GitHub Copilot and Azure are helping organizations modernize legacy applications, reduce technical debt, and prepare for AI innovation.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Storage, Container Apps, Categories:

Build and Deploy Confidential Virtual Machines on Azure Local (Public Preview)

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:35:00 Z

Estimated read: ~4 minutes Confidential computing has become foundational to how regulated and sovereign organizations run their most sensitive workloads. Today, we're excited to announce that Conf...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Arc, Categories:

SharePoint Connector for Azure Databricks

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:34:02 Z

The SharePoint connector for Azure Databricks is now generally available. Organizations can use Lakeflow Connect to ingest files from SharePoint into Azure Databricks, helping unify enterprise content with data and AI workflows on Azure. The connector sup
Update Type: GA, Services: Databricks, Categories:

Unity AI Gateway on Azure Databricks

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:32:45 Z

Unity AI Gateway is now generally available on Azure Databricks. Unity AI Gateway provides centralized governance for AI models, agents, tools, and MCP services, helping organizations monitor usage, manage costs, apply guardrails, and enforce access contr
Update Type: GA, Services: Databricks, Categories:

Exploring Multi-Agent Workflows with Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:00:00 Z

As organizations race to automate decision-making, content generation, analysis, and execution at scale, the future is shifting from isolated AI agents to multi-agent workflows where specialized agen...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Introducing Real-Time Multichannel Speech-to-Text

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:00:00 Z

Organizations working with stereo audio often face a difficult choice. In many contact center, conversational AI, and communication scenarios, participants are already recorded on separate channels...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

When Does RL Actually Help Fine-Tuning? A Difficulty-Controlled Study on Structured Generation

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:11:00 Z

When does RL actually pay off after SFT? A controlled comparison on public ABO data shows that headroom alone is not enough: the largest GRPO gains occur where SFT leaves recoverable, inference-orien...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing Public Preview - Azure Private Link over IPv6

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:06:00 Z

1. Overview Private Link over IPv6 (PL IPv6) enables customers to securely access Azure PaaS services over IPv6-based connectivity. This capability is critical for: IPv6 based PE connectivity...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Private Link, Categories:

Public Preview: Nested API Support Comes to Microsoft Sentinel CCF

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:00:00 Z

Microsoft Sentinel continues to evolve its capabilities to support an expanding ecosystem of partners and data integrations. Recent innovations include the Codeless Connector Framework (CCF) Push fea...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Building a CCF Nested API Pull Connector: A Technical Lab Walkthrough

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:00:00 Z

This post walks through building a Microsoft Sentinel Codeless Connector Framework (CCF) RestApiPoller connector that uses the nested API polling pattern. The nested pattern exists for a specific rea...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Explicit proxy in Azure Firewall

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:54:08 Z

Azure Firewall explicit proxy is now generally available. Explicit proxy enables customers to configure applications and browsers to send HTTP and HTTPS traffic directly to Azure Firewall using proxy settings, providing an alternative to route-based traff
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Firewall, Azure Arc, Categories: Security

Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server is generally available

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:58:52 Z

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the Azure DevOps MCP Server The Azure DevOps MCP Server gives AI assistants secure, contextual access to your Azure DevOps projects so they can help you plan, build, and ship software more effectively. With the Azure DevOps remote MCP Server, you can get started without […] The post Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server is generally available appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

Nested confidential (cc_v5) VMs will be retired on September 1, 2026

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:22:49 Z

On September 1, 2026, the cc_v5 confidential VM series will be retired and will no longer be available for use or purchase. Any affected VM that has not been resized before that date will deallocated. The impacted VM sizes that will be retired are: DCas_c
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories: Retirements

Build connectors with Managed Identity in the Logic Apps Standard extension

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:46:00 Z

Managed Identity is Azure’s built-in way to authenticate to Microsoft Entra-protected resources without storing credentials, secrets, or connection strings. Deployed Logic Apps have supported it for ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Use connectors with Managed Identity in the Logic Apps Standard extension

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:46:00 Z

Azure Virtual Network routing appliance is now generally available

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:42:00 Z

Modern cloud networks are evolving faster than ever. Organizations are building larger AI platforms, connecting more services through private connectivity, adopting IPv6, and expanding applications...
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Network, Categories:

Perimeter link feature in network security perimeter

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:30:09 Z

Perimeter link (cross-perimeter connectivity) is a network security perimeter capability that allows trusted resources in two different network security perimeters to securely communicate with each other using Managed Identity (MSI), without requiring add
Update Type: Preview, Services: Private Link, Categories: Security

Azure Private Link support over IPv6

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:29:36 Z

Azure Private Link over IPv6 enables you to privately access Azure PaaS services, such as Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database, over IPv6-based connectivity. You can now use IPv6 private endpoints to connect from IPv6 clients in an Azure virtual network o
Update Type: Preview, Services: SQL Database, ExpressRoute, Azure Storage, Private Link, Categories: Features

Announcing Automatic Backup Immutability for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:54:00 Z

Built-in protection for your most recent backups - enabled automatically Today, we're excited to announce General Availability of automatic backup immutability up to the most recent 7 days of poin...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: SQL Database, Categories:

Azure DNS enables DNS-based load balancing through Traffic Manager integration

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:04:55 Z

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 without creating CNAME record for trafficmanager.net domain.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure DNS, Traffic Manager, Categories: Services, Management

Azure Virtual Network routing appliance

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:03:38 Z

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 performance than virtual machines. Key benefits and funct
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Virtual Network, Categories: Services, Management

Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - August 2026

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:21:00 Z

In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month August 2026's Ace Aviator: Sonny Gillissen LinkedIn: https...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Built-In Observability for Serverless AI Agents on Azure Functions

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:29:00 Z

Azure Functions Agents - the markdown-first runtime that turns a folder of *.agent.md files into a serverless Azure Functions app - now ships with OpenTelemetry tracing built into the runtime itself....
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Categories:

Trusted Launch as Default

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:56:26 Z

Trusted Launch as Default (TLaD) is now generally available for new Azure Gen2 virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets. TLaD automatically enables Secure Boot and vTPM for supported deployments, helping customers establish a stronger security base
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, Categories: Features, Security, Pricing & Offerings

Announcing public preview: Markdown for Agents in Azure App Service

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:46:00 Z

Why Markdown for Agents? Web pages often contain scripts, styles, and HTML markup that are useful to browsers but add noise when the content is sent to an AI model. Markdown for Agents removes that...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

Immutability to the most recent seven days of backups on Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:00:56 Z

To enhance backup protection, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance now automatically apply immutability to the most recent seven days of backups. This capability is enabled by default for all databases, regardless of the configured point-in-t
Update Type: GA, Services: SQL Database, Categories:

Single-click purchase for public SaaS offers

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:32:52 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: , Categories:

Route-Maps for Azure Route Server

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:48:35 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: Route Server, ExpressRoute, Categories:

Azure SQL updates for late-July

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:16:23 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: SQL Database, Categories:

Scale limits in network security perimeter

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:24:00 Z

Presently, network security perimeter functionality can be used to support deployments of PaaS resources with common public network controls with following scale limitations: Limitation Descri...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Whats new in Microsoft Sentinel: July 2026

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Welcome back to What's new in Microsoft Sentinel. In July, Sentinel adds custom detections support in Sentinel repositories, so you can manage detections as code alongside your analytics rules, playb...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Move a live GitLab project between groups without breaking Terraform state or CI/CD

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:00:00 Z

Why this is trickier than it looks A group transfer in GitLab isn't just a rename. It re-parents the project under a new namespace, which changes every path-based assumption downstream: inherited ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Simplify secure, zone-resilient outbound connectivity with Azure Firewall and StandardV2 NAT Gateway

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:38:00 Z

As organizations modernize their applications in Azure, secure and resilient outbound connectivity has become just as critical as inbound security. Workloads need reliable access to external APIs, Sa...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Firewall, NAT Gateway, Categories:

Skill or Sub-Agent. Choosing AI Capabilities You Will Actually Reuse

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:50:00 Z

Audience: Cloud architects, platform engineers, engineering leaders The wrong first question Most teams building AI capabilities start with the wrong question. They ask which model to use. T...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Azure Developer CLI (azd) July 2026

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:20:10 Z

This is the July round-up for the Azure Developer CLI (azd). Five releases shipped since the last post: 1.27.0, 1.27.1, 1.28.0, 1.28.1, and 1.29.0. Below is what’s new, what changed, and what we fixed, with links to the pull requests if you want to dig in. Have feedback or questions? Join the release discussion on […] The post Azure Developer CLI (azd) July 2026 appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in India South Central

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:14:44 Z

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the India South Central Azure region. Learn more.
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.6 runbooks and Runtime environment

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:10:35 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Automation, Categories: Management

Announcing: Reservation exchanges for Azure services supported by savings plans will no longer be available starting February 1, 2027

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:03:21 Z

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
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL Database, Database for MySQL, Database for PostgreSQL, Dedicated Host, DocumentDB, Categories: Services

Symmetric keys on Azure Key Vault Premium

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:57:18 Z

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)
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Key Vault, Categories: Features, Security

Azure Front Door edge actions: programmable compute for a secure, resilient, AI-ready edge

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:49:00 Z

The need for secure edge programmability As modern web applications increasingly move decision-making closer to users, programmable compute at the edge is becoming a foundational capability for del...
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Support for SMB Opportunistic Locking (Oplocks) configuration

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:38:15 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure NetApp Files, Categories:

Securing On-Device AI: Evaluating Foundry Local Models with AI Red Teaming Agent

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:00:00 Z

On-Device AI Inference Changes the Architecture, Not the Risk As organizations transform into Frontier Firms and integrate AI into more applications, cloud-hosted inference is not always the optima...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Reservation exchanges for Azure services covered by savings plans end starting Feb. 1, 2027

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:39:00 Z

Starting February 1, 2027, Azure reservation exchanges will no longer be available for services covered by savings plans. This change aligns reservation exchange policy with the flexibility already o...
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Introducing Cost Management and Pricing Toolsets in Azure Resource Manager MCP Server

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:41:00 Z

The Azure Resource Manager MCP server was recently launched to give AI agents first-class access to Azure infrastructure operations through the Azure control plane. Today, Microsoft Cost Management i...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Categories: Management

A simpler way to deploy ZIP packages to Azure App Service from the Azure portal

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 Z

We recently introduced a simpler way to deploy applications to Azure App Service for Linux by uploading a ZIP package through Kudu. The experience lets you review the package contents, choose whether to run a server-side build, and follow the deployment through its different stages.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

Introducing GPT-transcribe and GPT-live-transcribe in Microsoft Foundry

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:05:00 Z

A transcription model hears “account number 8-4-7-2” but returns “account number eighty-four seventy-two.” A single error can break a downstream automation workflow. Developers building voice applica...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure Monitor Logs mirroring into Microsoft Fabric

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:52:32 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: Machine Learning, Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 is now available for evaluation

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:50:00 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Sphere, Categories:

Bring Your Own Orchestrator to Azure Container Apps Jobs

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:49:00 Z

Azure Container Apps Jobs are a good fit for batch processing, ETL, machine learning, reports, and other tasks that run to completion. But when those tasks have dependencies, retries, or fan-out, you...
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Mastering GitHub Copilot Budgets: How to Prevent Surprise Overages Without Blocking Devs

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:33:00 Z

1. The Core Mental Model: The Water Park Analogy To understand Copilot billing, think of your enterprise as a water park: The Shared Pool (Included Usage): Every Copilot Business ($19/mo) and E...
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Azure SDK Release (July 2026)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:18:25 Z

Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes. The post Azure SDK Release (July 2026) appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
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Azure Arc Server June Forum

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:52:00 Z

Please find the recording for the monthly Azure Arc Server Forum on YouTube! During the June 2026 Azure Arc Server Forum, we discussed: Arc Server AI Agent assists with onboarding and troublesh...
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Executive AI Avatar Platform on Azure: Frontier Intelligence Meets Fireworks AI Open-Source

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:00:00 Z

The 2 a.m. Question Nobody Wants to Answer Twice It is the night before open enrollment closes. An employee in another time zone has a question about HSA eligibility. No HR representative is availa...
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Introducing Compliance Substate for Azure Policy Exemptions!

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:26:00 Z

When a policy is applied, some resources in scope may need to be temporarily exempted from enforcement, whether it be during a migration, an incident, or while an app team works through its complianc...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Policy, Categories: Compliance

Azure Enclave

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:51:02 Z

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
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NAT64 on StandardV2 NAT Gateway

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:50:11 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: NAT Gateway, Categories: Services

Token Economics in Practice

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:57:00 Z

Introduction: The cheap-token trap Token prices alone are a poor economic model for agents. The price of reaching a fixed capability has fallen sharply — In a 2025 Report Stanford's AI Index report...
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Introducing Kimi K3 through Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:34:00 Z

Need to process entire codebases, lengthy legal documents, or hours of meeting transcripts in a single prompt? Kimi K3's 1 million-token context window—one of the largest available—is now deployable ...
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How Mesh Systems Builds on Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Operations to Accelerate Industrial AI

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:01:00 Z

Manufacturers generate vast amounts of operational data, yet its complexity and fragmentation across historians, Operational Technology (OT) systems, and cloud platforms can slow AI adoption at scale...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: IoT Hub, IoT Operations, Categories:

Application Routing with Gateway API

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:54:22 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Categories: Services

Resource placement in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:52:51 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc, Kubernetes Fleet Manager, Categories:

Maximum allowed failures for update runs in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:51:04 Z

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
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Prepared Image Specification

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:45:37 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Categories: Services

Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in India (India South Central)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:40:55 Z

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
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Find any commit in seconds: Commit Search comes to Azure DevOps

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:24:55 Z

Great code has a long memory. The fix you shipped last quarter, the refactor that touched a dozen files, the one-line change that explained why something works the way it does — it’s all there in your commit history. The hard part has always been finding it. Today, we’re excited to announce that Commit Search […] The post Find any commit in seconds: Commit Search comes to Azure DevOps appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
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Enabling the Compliance Security Profile (CSP) for HIPAA on Azure Databricks

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:08:00 Z

Microsoft Architect's: Aladdin Alchalabi, Kiran Raja, Anishek Kamal and Rafia Aqil Purpose and WHY Azure Databricks has put in place controls to meet the unique compliance needs of highly re...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Categories: Compliance, Security

Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 RC1 is now available for evaluation

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:06:00 Z

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 und...
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Cap it with GitHub, make it count with Azure: governing GitHub Copilot spend

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:37:00 Z

GitHub Copilot is now usage-based. Here is a working, one-command pattern to govern the spend: route Copilot BYOK through an Azure API Management gateway in front of Azure AI Foundry for real-time pe...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Management

Managing disruption with AKS Node Auto-Provisioning

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 Z

Learn AKS best practices for managing node disruption when using node auto provisioning (NAP) with pod disruption budgets, node disruption budgets, consolidation policies, and maintenance windows in production.
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Query Performance Tuning in Azure DocumentDB: A Practical Guide

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:12:56 Z

Writing a query that works is easy. Writing a query that scales is a different story. As collections grow to millions of documents, queries that returned results in milliseconds during development start taking seconds or timing out entirely. The root cause is almost always the same: the database is doing far more work than it needs to. In this […] The post Query Performance Tuning in Azure DocumentDB: A Practical Guide appeared first on Azure DocumentDB Blog.
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Claude Opus 5 on Azure Databricks

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:41:46 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Databricks, Categories:

HTTP header insertion in Azure Firewall

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:54:36 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Firewall, Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features, Security, Services

AI Gateway in Azure API Management

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:44:29 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Management

AI Gateway tier of API Management now in public preview

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:37:00 Z

Today, we are introducing the AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management, now in public preview. It gives platform teams a purpose-built experience built specifically for AI workloads - publishing and g...
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, Categories: Management

Preserve a Legacy IP During Azure Migration with Private Link Service Direct Connect

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:31:00 Z

Why this matters Phased migrations to Azure frequently stall on a single, unglamorous constraint: an application with a hard-coded dependency address. The usual options are to re-address the applic...
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Claude Opus 5 is available today in Microsoft Foundry

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:21:00 Z

Most AI handles one task well. The harder problem is the complex workflow that spans hours. Effective enterprise AI must be capable of managing complex workflows that require planning, adaptation, an...
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Native Agent Memory for Microsoft Agent Framework, Powered by Azure Cosmos DB

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:00:40 Z

Recently we introduced the Agent Memory Toolkit and the Agentic Retrieval Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB. The Agent Memory Toolkit gives your agents durable, Cosmos-backed memory: it stores raw conversation turns and then distills them into higher-value derived memories (thread summaries, extracted facts, and cross-thread user profiles), all searchable with vector, full-text, and hybrid search in […] The post Native Agent Memory for Microsoft Agent Framework, Powered by Azure Cosmos DB appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
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Post-Stream Refinement is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:29:00 Z

When we introduced Post-Stream Refinement in public preview earlier this year, it closed the oldest trade-off in real-time speech: you could finally keep instant streaming results and get a highly ac...
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

For the first time, real-time transcription goes multilingual

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:29:00 Z

When we introduced Post-Stream Refinement earlier this year, it closed the oldest gap in real-time speech: you could finally get instant streaming results and a highly accurate final transcript, with...
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Changing the engine while the plane is flying: migrating 60,000 apps under live load

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:05:00 Z

Summary Azure Logic Apps Consumption Integration Accounts were served by roughly 60,000 per-customer Azure Functions apps on the end-of-life v1/v2 runtime. Over about two years we migrated the enti...
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Introducing Kubernetes-Native Policy Validation with CEL and VAP in Azure Policy

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:27:00 Z

Azure Policy for Kubernetes now supports Gatekeeper’s integration with native Kubernetes Validating Admission Policy (VAP) using Common Expression Language (CEL)! This integration leverages the new V...
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Announcing public preview of Azure DDoS Protection custom policy

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:16:00 Z

We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure DDoS Protection custom policy, a new capability that gives customers more granular control over how Azure DDoS Protection detects and mitigates ...
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Azure DDoS Protection custom policy

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:47:24 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: Load Balancer, DDoS Protection, Categories: Security, Services

Introducing MAI-Image-2.5 Pro and MAI-Voice-2 Flash in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:32:00 Z

One of the core principles in Microsoft Foundry is giving customers flexibility to choose the right model for the right job. As we've continued to expand the Microsoft AI (MAI) model family, we've he...
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Hybrid Logic Apps on RKE2: a self-managed cluster with MetalLB

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:50:00 Z

Azure Logic Apps Hybrid lets you run the Logic Apps runtime on your own Kubernetes cluster and still author, deploy, and monitor from Azure. The previous post walked through Red Hat OpenShift. This o...
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Reminder: Path to Production for Agents Webinar Series Starts Next Week

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:15:00 Z

Next week, join Microsoft for the Path to Production for Agents webinar series—a free, six-session technical training designed to help organizations move from AI experimentation to secure, scalable, ...
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Azure Local expands SAN capabilities with iSCSI support

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:15:00 Z

As organizations modernize datacenters and accelerate migration from legacy virtualization platforms, flexibility in storage architecture has become a key requirement. Customers increasingly want to ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Arc, Categories:

Grounding Copilot Studio Agents with Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:00:00 Z

An employee opens the HR agent and asks, "How much PTO do I accrue each month?" A few minutes later, someone else asks, "Where is the official code of ethics policy?" Those sound like the same proble...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Standard service endpoint

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:57:10 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: Cosmos DB, SQL Database, Azure Key Vault, Virtual Network, Azure Storage, Private Link, Categories: Features, Services, Pricing & Offerings, SDK and Tools

MCP in Azure: Using API Management for Authentication, Access, Logging & Governance

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:51:00 Z

If MCP is becoming the “USB-C for AI,” enterprises need something equally familiar on the other side of that port: a control plane. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives AI applications a standard w...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Categories: Management

Design the Network Before You Deploy: Best Practices for Microsoft Foundry Standard Agents BYOVNet

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Ask any enterprise team standing up Microsoft Foundry in production and you'll hear the same non-negotiable: the agent can't run on the open internet. The moment it touches proprietary data, internal...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Virtual Network, Categories:

Building Agents that Act on Your Behalf with Toolboxes in Foundry

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:00:29 Z

How Toolboxes in Foundry simplify user delegation At some point, many agents move from answering questions to taking action. And when it does, the question becomes: whose identity is it acting with? Imagine you are building an internal employee agent. It needs to call a private, Entra-protected MCP server for orders, and it also needs to use Microsoft’s managed Work IQ MCP server to reason over the employee’s Microsoft 365 […] The post Building Agents that Act on Your Behalf with Toolboxes in Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.
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July Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:23:57 Z

We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The most recent release, Azure DevOps Server, is available on the download page. The following versions have been patched. For more details on […] The post July Patches for Azure DevOps Server appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
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Choosing the Right Starting Point for Enterprise AI Agents with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:00:00 Z

Choosing the Right Starting Point for Enterprise AI Agents with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry Enterprise AI conversations often begin with a familiar question: Should this agent be built wit...
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Protect sensitive generative AI telemetry in Application Insights and Microsoft Foundry

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:09:43 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Security, Management

IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:59:26 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: VPN Gateway, Categories: Security

AI agents, meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:05:15 Z

If you use the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator, you probably know the local development loop: start the emulator, connect to it, create some resources, load test data, run queries, and inspect the results. Each step is straightforward, but together they add setup work before you can test the application you are actually building. How […] The post AI agents, meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
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Recently released: Updates to SQL projects in SSMS, VS Code, and SqlPackage

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:45:00 Z

Your database should be part of the same development process as the rest of your application, with source control and automation for validation and deployment. Recent releases of SQL Server Managemen...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: SQL Database, Categories:

Microsoft Defender CSPM Assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server - GA

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:18:00 Z

As security and regulatory requirements evolve, proactively monitoring and assessing database security posture becomes just as important as detecting active threats. Maintaining a secure and complian...
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Azure Functions support for Python 3.14

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:47:00 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Functions, Categories: Services, Open Source

Azure Functions Support for PowerShell 7.6

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:44:00 Z

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
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Functions, Categories: Security, Services

Microsoft Foundry Now Has an AI Gateway Control Plane - What Changes for App Service

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:04:00 Z

Microsoft Foundry can now create or associate an APIM-based AI Gateway. Here is what changes for App Service agents, what remains in APIM, and the v2-tier requirement that affects existing gateways.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Microsoft Foundry, App Service, Categories:

Hypervelocity Engineering: Accelerating Enterprise AI with Azure AI Landing Zones

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:57:00 Z

Artificial Intelligence is evolving at unprecedented speed. The challenge for enterprises is no longer building AI solutions—it is engineering AI platforms that can adapt, scale, and govern innovatio...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Microsoft Defender security assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:55:28 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Defender for Cloud, Categories: Security

Encryption in Transit for Azure Files NFS Shares in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:54:09 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage, Categories: Security, Services

Azure Cobalt: Workload-Aware Power Management for More Efficient Datacenters

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:16:00 Z

As cloud services and AI workloads continue to grow, power has become a key constraint in expanding compute capacity. Using available power more efficiently enables Azure to deploy more servers in ea...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories: Management

Azure IoT Edge 1.6 LTS is now available

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:04:00 Z

IoT Edge 1.6 is built on .NET 10, which is an LTS release supported through November 14, 2028. IoT Edge 1.6 is supported for that same window. So if you're planning for the long term, 1.6 is the vers...
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Agents can learn with Memory in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Recurring Failure We are entrusting AI agents with an increasing range of tasks, from preparing briefs to scheduling meetings, and from filing tax returns to building and debugging production syste...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:00:10 Z

Learn how to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions using Durable Functions. This post explains why synchronous tool calls break down for long-running work, introduces the MCP Tasks extension, and walks through a sample pattern that works with existing request/response clients today. The post How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
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MCP Enterprise Authorization Is Here - What Entra and App Service Can Do Today

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:31:00 Z

Learn what MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization changes, how Entra ID and App Service map to the model today, and explore a working Python reference with a local ID-JAG lab.
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Choose the right speech and voice model

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:00:00 Z

Choose the right speech and voice model in Microsoft Foundry The practical approach to selecting the right model is simple: do not ask which speech model is best. Ask what the speech system must gu...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

How Microsoft 365 built a platform engineering layer on AKS to ship faster at global scale

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:00:00 Z

This Customer Zero story explains how Microsoft 365 built COSMIC, a platform engineering layer on top of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), to standardize how cloud services are deployed and operated at...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Categories:

Meet the IQ's: How Microsoft is Creating Context-Aware AI

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:04:00 Z

Authors: Lavanya Sreedhar LavanyaSreedhar, Tom Dinh TomDinh, Oviya Soundararajan oviyasound, and Rafia Aqil Rafia_Aqil The AI era demands more than powerful language models. It demands...
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Answers You Can Trust: Grounding Enterprise Agents with Foundry IQ

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:00:00 Z

Enterprise AI has a trust problem, and it is not about fluency. A model will answer almost any question with confidence, whether or not it actually knows. The moment a legal or support team catches i...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

From Policy to Proof: Governing AI to Scale Human Ambition and Machine Intelligence

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:51:00 Z

Enterprises are moving from AI experiments to AI in production. Copilots are in the flow of daily work, custom applications are built on foundation models, and autonomous agents are beginning to take...
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Announcing: GitHub Copilot and Claude Code connectors in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:58:30 Z

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
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration patterns including Magentic in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:57:24 Z

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
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Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:55:40 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi
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Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration SDK with the Microsoft Foundry Agent Framework in C# and Python

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:53:28 Z

Microsoft Foundry is now introducing Agent Framework, a unified multi-agent orchestration SDK for C# and Python. This release consolidates patterns previously spread across AutoGen and Semantic Kernel, giving developers a consistent set of abstractions fo
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: SDK and Tools

Announcing: Tracing for Microsoft Agent Framework (Python and .NET)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:51:45 Z

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers tracing for the Microsoft Agent Framework in both Python and .NET, helping developers observe how agents reason, call tools, and interact with models during execution. This release is part of the broader hos
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Announcing: CodeAct pattern and Hyperlight containers in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:50:14 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework adds the CodeAct pattern in public preview, which lets agents collapse a multi-step plan into a single executable code block rather than chaining one tool call at a time. In representative workloads, CodeAct cut end-to-end latenc
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Announcing: Episodic procedural memory in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:48:54 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework adds episodic procedural memory in public preview, a built-in store that lets agents remember successful task patterns and replay them on similar future requests. The framework records action sequences, tool selections, and inter
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Announcing: Agent Channel for Microsoft Agent Framework multi-agent communication

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:47:41 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework introduces Agent Channel in public preview, a built-in primitive that lets agents send structured messages to each other without bespoke routing code. Channels carry typed messages, support request and response or fire-and-forget
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Implementing Multi-Agent Orchestration in Microsoft Copilot Studio

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:35:00 Z

As organizations move beyond simple Q&A copilots, a common challenge quickly emerges: single agents struggle to handle multi-step, cross-domain scenarios. In our work with customers using Microsoft C...
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Azure SQL updates for mid-July 2026

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:50:44 Z

In mid-July 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Shortcut Configuration lets you customize keyboard shortcuts for Quick Queries, the Results Grid, and the Query Editor directly within Visual Studio Code—wit
Update Type: Preview, Services: SQL Database, Categories: Features

Expanding Azure Arc SQL Migration with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:35:31 Z

The Azure Arc migration solution now supports SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines as a migration target. Arc-enabled SQL Server instances can now be migrated to both Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on Azure infrastructure using the same unified
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, SQL Database, Azure Arc, Categories: Features

Give your AI agent two memories with Azure App Service

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:23:00 Z

A complete App Service sample that combines Redis conversation history with Cosmos DB vector memory through Microsoft Agent Framework providers and passwordless Azure access.
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Announcing the ASIM Parser Creation Agentic Experience

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Creating high-quality ASIM parsers has always required deep knowledge about source data and ASIM schemas, careful KQL design, and repeated validation cycles. That process is meaningful to understand ...
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Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:30:11 Z

Starting July 15, 2026, advanced platform metrics are available in Public Preview. This update provides enhanced visibility into platform performance, resource health, and operational trends across supported Azure services. With advanced platform metrics,
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Categories: Management

Announcing: DevUI Agent Inspector for Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:15:25 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework adds DevUI Agent Inspector in public preview, a local debugging surface that shows agent runs as a navigable tree of model calls, tool invocations, and intermediate state. Developers can pause, replay, and edit prompts mid-run, s
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Public Preview: Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:09:00 Z

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of advanced platform metrics for Azure Monitor, delivering more granular telemetry to help customers monitor and optimize their workloads more effectivel...
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Load testing Copilot Studio agents with Locust and Azure Load Testing

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:47:00 Z

A conversational agent doesn't answer like an API. You send one message. The server returns 200 OK. And then nothing happens. The real answer is still coming, streaming back over a WebSocket as one r...
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Give your AI agent two memories with Azure App Service

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 Z

Agents feel continuous only when they can operate across two very different time horizons. They need the recent turns that make the current conversation coherent, and they need a smaller set of durable facts that can follow an authenticated user into a new conversation.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

Orchestrate Azure Container Apps Jobs with Apache Airflow

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:41:00 Z

Azure Container Apps (ACA) Jobs are a great way to run work that starts, does something, and finishes: nightly batch, data processing, ETL, ML scoring, report generation. They scale to zero, bill per...
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Azure Front Door edge actions

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:03:32 Z

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 request processing to make real-time decisions closer to user
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, App Service, Azure Front Door, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Introducing Azure Front Door edge actions - Bringing secure, programmable logic to the edge

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:55:00 Z

Modern web applications are expected to feel instant, secure, and personalized, no matter where users connect from or what device they use. Delivering that experience requires more than moving static...
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Generally Available: SQL Migration to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines in Azure Architecture

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:01:00 Z

One Migration Experience, More Flexibility Modernizing SQL Server estates is rarely a single-step journey. Organizations often operate across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments while balan...
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, SQL Database, Azure Arc, Categories:

How a Large Enterprise Migrated 47 TB and 7,000+ Collections to Azure DocumentDB in Under 48 Hours

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:06:50 Z

Large database migrations are where good planning either pays off or falls apart. In a MongoDB-compatible estate with thousands of collections, the hard part is not only moving data. It is deciding what to move, what to defer, how to sequence the work, and how to keep the system stable while ingestion is running at […] The post How a Large Enterprise Migrated 47 TB and 7,000+ Collections to Azure DocumentDB in Under 48 Hours appeared first on Azure DocumentDB Blog.
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From AI Adoption to AI Governance - Using APIM as the Gateway for Azure AI Foundry

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:45:00 Z

Enterprises move through three phases of AI adoption: evaluating models, building apps and agents, and operationalizing them in production. The first two are easier to accelerate. The third is where ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure Databricks SQL Serverless in UK West

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:04:04 Z

Starting July 13th, 2026, customers can use Azure Databricks SQL Serverless in the UK West region to simplify analytics workloads while benefiting from instant compute, automated scaling, and reduced infrastructure management. Eligible UK West workspaces
Update Type: GA, Services: Databricks, Categories: Features

Building toward an Agentic SOC: A Portable, Autonomous Malware Investigation Agent

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Modern Security Operations Centers are not short on tools. They are short on continuity. Analysts jump from alert consoles to data exploration, from enrichment to investigation, and from evidence gat...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories: Security

The AI Agent Lifecycle: A Simple Guide

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:52:00 Z

The Bigger Picture Building an AI agent is fundamentally different from building traditional software. With a website or application, teams typically design, develop, test, and release. Once depl...
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Stream Model Weights to NVIDIA GPU (vLLM) from Azure Blob Storage using the RunAI Model Streamer

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 Z

Stream LLM Model Weights to NVIDIA GPU running vLLM directly from Azure Blob Storage on AKS using the RunAI Model Streamer to cut cold starts and speed up autoscaling.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage, Categories:

Beyond the Canvas: The Azure Architecture Diagram Builder Becomes Agent-Ready

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:40:00 Z

AZURE ARCHITECTURE BLOG · 8 MIN READ Author: Arturo Quiroga, Senior Partner Solutions Architect — Microsoft Two months ago I published From Prompt to Production: Building Azure Architecture Di...
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Support for Python-2.7; 3.8 and PowerShell- 7.1; 7.2 will be retired on September 30, 2026

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:33:34 Z

Starting October 1, 2026, the specified runtime versions Python 2.7, Python 3.8, and PowerShell 7.1 & 7.2. will no longer be supported by Automation. Runbooks using these versions may continue to run but will not receive security updates, bug fixes, or o
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Azure Front Door: Resiliency Series - Part 3: Tenant isolation

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:08:00 Z

Abhishek Tiwari, Vice President of Engineering, Azure Networking Amit Srivastava, Partner Director of PM, Azure Networking Varun Chawla, Partner Director of Engineering, Azure Networking Azur...
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Shrinking Azure Pipeline task extensions using esbuild

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:45:56 Z

TL;DR We bundled an internal Azure Pipelines task extension into a single bundled JavaScript file using esbuild. The task package dropped from tens of megabytes and thousands of files to three files per task ( script.js , task.json , and icon.png ). The change took about 20 lines of build tooling. We measured the payoff across our production pipelines: […] The post Shrinking Azure Pipeline task extensions using esbuild appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
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Manage Azure Chaos Studio from the Azure CLI

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:57:33 Z

You can now create and run Azure Chaos Studio resilience Scenarios directly from the Azure CLI with the new az chaos extension — no more hand-assembling REST calls and JSON files. Get started in one step: az chaos setup stands up a workspace, wires up per
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Chaos Studio, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Open AI GPT-5.6 on Azure Databricks

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:21:12 Z

Open AI GPT-5.6 is now available on Azure Databricks. You can use GPT 5.6 (purchased on Microsoft Foundry) via Model Serving Endpoint in Azure Databricks. Through integrations across Foundry and Azure Databricks, you can securely build, deploy, and manage
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features

Microsoft Foundry Model Deployment Pricing Update

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:22:00 Z

Today, Microsoft Foundry is announcing updated pricing for model deployments in the EU Data Zone and in Regional deployments outside the US, effective September 1, 2026, alongside a new APAC Data Zon...
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Optimize Oracle workloads on Azure with Azure NetApp Files

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:22:00 Z

This article shows how Azure NetApp Files optimizes Oracle on Azure with high-performance storage, simplified deployment, and integrated data protection. Key capabilities – including application volu...
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Plan for Upcoming Changes to Extended Security Updates on Azure Local

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:08:00 Z

Beginning April 1 2026, Microsoft introduced a consistent pricing model for Extended Security Updates (ESU) for SQL Server and Windows products, including SQL Server 2016, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Arc, Categories: Security