Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

Update: Microsoft Foundry built-in RBAC role naming and enhancements

Fri, 15 May 2026 22:00:42 Z

Role names in Microsoft Foundry have been updated to align with the product brand. The following built-in roles are now renamed:Azure AI Account Owner → Foundry Account OwnerAzure AI Owner → Foundry OwnerAzure AI User → Foundry UserAzure AI Project Manage
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Container Registry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Azure Blob Storage SDK for Rust

Fri, 15 May 2026 18:15:26 Z

The Azure Blob Storage SDK for Rust is now generally available. The Rust SDK allows you to connect to an Azure Blob Storage account and perform operations on containers and blobs, including uploading, downloading, listing, and managing blobs. This release
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Storage, Categories: SDK and Tools

From Copilots to Coworkers: How AI Agents Are Transforming Azure Networking Operations

Fri, 15 May 2026 17:45:00 Z

Azure Networking uses AI agents as digital coworkers to coordinate repairs, validate fixes, and reduce operational toil across global-scale network operations.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Designing AI-Driven Observability for Trustworthy Agentic AI Systems

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:24:00 Z

1.Why Observability Changes in Agentic AI Systems A developer recently recounted how a single runaway AI agent loop burned through $500 in OpenAI API charges in just 45 minutes with no errors or al...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

New SSH helper aliases for Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux

Fri, 15 May 2026 10:37:00 Z

Troubleshooting a running application often starts with SSH. To make that experience simpler for Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux, we have added new SSH helper aliases for common app, log, ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

Simplifying FastAPI Deployments on Azure App Service for Linux

Fri, 15 May 2026 10:25:00 Z

Deploying FastAPI apps to Azure App Service for Linux is now simpler. Previously, when you deployed a FastAPI application, you needed to configure a custom startup command so the app could run corr...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

Exponential backoff and circuit breaker for Service Bus-triggered Azure Functions

Thu, 14 May 2026 23:04:41 Z

Use exponential backoff and circuit breaker patterns in Azure Functions with Service Bus SDK bindings. Control retry storms, protect dependencies, and degrade gracefully under transient failures. The post Exponential backoff and circuit breaker for Service Bus-triggered Azure Functions appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Service Bus, Azure Functions, Categories: Services

Custom authorization for API for GraphQL in Microsoft Fabric

Thu, 14 May 2026 21:00:00 Z

Author: Sunitha Muthukrishna - Principal Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Building an AI-Powered Contract Price Adjustment Agent with Docusign MCP and Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 14 May 2026 20:29:00 Z

Acknowledgment: Special thanks to the Docusign Partner Solution Architects team for the original source code and examples that informed this implementation; I adapted and extended that foundation to ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Modernizing TCP Applications with Azure Application Gateway Layer 4 TCP/TLS Proxy

Thu, 14 May 2026 18:51:00 Z

The Layer 4 TCP/TLS Proxy capability in Azure Application Gateway expands ingress possibilities for organizations modernizing TCP-based workloads on Azure. By supporting TCP and TLS traffic alongsi...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Application Gateway, Categories:

Support for workloads with large files in Azure NetApp Files

Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:48 Z

To support seamless migration and operation of workloads that use large files including Azure VMware Solution (AVS) virtual machines with large VMDK disks, Azure NetApp Files now supports file sizes of up to 64 TiB for regular volumes. This enhancement en
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure NetApp Files, Azure VMware Solution, Categories: Features

Managed Identity Support for Azure Files SMB Is now GA

Thu, 14 May 2026 17:30:02 Z

Azure Files now supports Managed Identities for SMB access, enabling applications and services to authenticate without storing static credentials or account keys. This feature aligns with Zero Trust principles, allowing workloads to use Entra-issued token
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage, Categories: Features, Compliance, Security, Services

May Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Thu, 14 May 2026 17:18:24 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 May Patches for Azure DevOps Server appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

Open Model Inference at Scale on Foundry: Whats New with Fireworks AI

Thu, 14 May 2026 16:09:00 Z

We launched the public preview of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry two months ago, bringing best-in-class open model inference directly into Azure. The traction has been real and high. Fireworks AI'...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

From beta to stable: Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:46:19 Z

Announcing the stable release of the Azure SDK for Rust. This release includes stable libraries for Core, Identity, Key Vault (Secrets, Keys, Certificates), and Storage (Blobs, Queues). The post From beta to stable: Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Key Vault, Categories:

Platform Improvements for Python AI Apps on Azure App Service

Thu, 14 May 2026 07:44:00 Z

Overview Azure App Service (Linux) is a fully managed PaaS offering that supports a broad range of languages, including Python, Node.js, .NET, PHP, and Java. Developers can push source code or depl...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

Public Preview Update: Azure Copilot Observability Agent

Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:00 Z

Modern cloud applications generate massive amounts of telemetry - metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and platform signals. Yet whether you're asking questions about your observability data or respondin...
Update Type: Preview, Services: , Categories:

Control runtime patch updates with Platform Release Channel on Azure App Service for Linux

Thu, 14 May 2026 05:31:00 Z

Azure App Service for Linux is introducing Platform Release Channel, a new setting that gives you more control over when runtime patch updates are applied to your app. With this feature, you can ch...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

New SSH helper aliases for Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 Z

Troubleshooting a running application often starts with SSH. To make that experience simpler for Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux, we have added new SSH helper aliases for common app, log, networking, and Azure AI Foundry diagnostics.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, App Service, Categories: Services

Simplifying FastAPI Deployments on Azure App Service for Linux

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 Z

Deploying FastAPI apps to Azure App Service for Linux is now simpler.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

What's new in FinOps toolkit 14 - April 2026

Wed, 13 May 2026 23:24:00 Z

FinOps toolkit 14 is here: Copilot Studio agent template for your FinOps hub instance, Azure Advisor and customer cost recommendations, a simpler deployment UI, and a preview of commitment discount e...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Advisor, Categories:

From Pipelines to Agents: Self-Healing CI/CD Workflow

Wed, 13 May 2026 20:21:00 Z

The Brain of the Operation: Azure OpenAI. When building a DevOps agent, following are the points which can be considered to select Azure OpenAI as the ideal choice for logical engine: N...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Data Agent Now Supports Eventhouse Functions, Materialized Views, and Shortcuts

Wed, 13 May 2026 19:07:12 Z

Author: Shreyas Canchi Radhakrishna - Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Functions, Categories:

NVIDIA Dynamo on AKS - Autoscaling LLM Inference

Wed, 13 May 2026 18:09:00 Z

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly moving from experimentation to production. While training often gets the spotlight, inference at scale is where real-world complexity emerges—especially when ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Kubernetes Service, Categories:

Azure Container Apps Express

Wed, 13 May 2026 17:30:20 Z

Azure Container Apps Express is now available in public preview. It is the simplest and fastest way to launch and scale powerful applications on Azure, from zero to hyperscale, without infrastructure decisions. It represents the first Azure compute platfo
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Apps, Categories: Features

Announcing the general availability of Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module

Wed, 13 May 2026 17:14:00 Z

Today we are excited to release general availability for Azure Integrated HSM for AMD v7 Virtual Machines. Azure Integrated HSM is a hardware security module (HSM) cache and crypto offload designed t...
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories: Security

Fabric Eventstream can now publish Business Events

Wed, 13 May 2026 17:00:00 Z

Author: Roberto Cervantes Rivero - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Fabric Eventstream can now publish Business Events

Wed, 13 May 2026 17:00:00 Z

Author: Roberto Cervantes Rivero - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Why your database schema belongs in Git

Wed, 13 May 2026 16:41:11 Z

Author: Iqra Shaikh - Product Manager 2
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Why your database schema belongs in Git

Wed, 13 May 2026 16:41:11 Z

Author: Iqra Shaikh - Product Manager 2
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Introducing Grok 4.3 on Microsoft Foundry: Latest Generation Agentic Capabilities

Wed, 13 May 2026 16:12:00 Z

Customers building advanced AI systems increasingly need models that can reason deeply, act autonomously, and integrate reliably into real‑world workflows—all without compromising on governance or co...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Service Principal Support for Data Agents in Fabric

Wed, 13 May 2026 16:06:48 Z

Amir Jafari - Principal Product ManagerJoanne Wong - Senior Product Marketing Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Services

Service Principal Support for Data Agents in Fabric

Wed, 13 May 2026 16:00:00 Z

Amir Jafari - Principal Product ManagerJoanne Wong - Senior Product Marketing Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Services

Introducing Azure Container Apps Express - From Container Image to Live App in Seconds

Wed, 13 May 2026 10:58:00 Z

Three years ago, a 15-second cold start was industry-leading. Today, developers and AI agents expect sub-second. The speed bar has moved, and the tooling needs to move with it. After running Azure ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Introducing Azure Container Apps Express!

Wed, 13 May 2026 10:58:00 Z

Give Your AI Agent Eyes: Browser-Harness Meets Playwright Workspaces Remote Browsers

Wed, 13 May 2026 06:00:00 Z

What happens when you hand a coding agent a real browser — not a mock, not an API wrapper, but a full Chromium instance running in the cloud? It shops for you. It scrapes for you. It navigates Java...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Announcing the General Availability of the Next Generation of Azure Boost

Wed, 13 May 2026 03:11:00 Z

Starting May 7th, 2026, the new Esv7, Dsv7, and Dlsv7 virtual machines are generally available — and underneath them is a fundamentally new generation of Azure Boost. Not an incremental refresh. A pl...
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories:

From commit to cloud: Powering what’s next for PostgreSQL

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 Z

From commit to cloud: Powering what’s next for PostgreSQL PostgreSQL has become foundational to how modern applications are built. It powers everything from early‑stage startups to some of the most demanding production systems in the world.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: HorizonDB, Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana in Public, Government (Fairfax) and China

Tue, 12 May 2026 23:45:17 Z

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana are generally available, bringing the power of Grafana’s open and composable visualization platform directly into the Azure Portal. This capability enables developers and operators to create, edit, and share Grafana d
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Monitor, Data Explorer, Categories: Management, Open Source

Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary

Tue, 12 May 2026 22:19:20 Z

Author: Katie Murray - Senior Program Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Private Networking and Inference in Microsoft Foundry: Architecture Impact on Enterprise AI

Tue, 12 May 2026 22:11:00 Z

Enterprise adoption of generative AI rarely fails because of model quality alone. More often, it fails at the intersection of network isolation, dependency reachability, and operational reality – esp...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Update: 99.99% uptime for all Azure Service Bus Premium namespaces in Availability Zone regions

Tue, 12 May 2026 18:30:55 Z

Starting May 1, 2026, all Azure Service Bus Premium namespaces deployed in regions with Availability Zone support now qualify for a 99.99% uptime SLA. Premium is the tier customers choose for their most important workloads, and this update brings the SLA
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Service Bus, Categories: Compliance, Services, Regions & Datacenters

Confidential computing for Azure Service Bus Premium

Tue, 12 May 2026 18:30:55 Z

Confidential computing for Azure Service Bus Premium is now generally available in Korea Central and UAE North. This capability enables Service Bus to process messages inside hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs), adding protection for data
Update Type: GA, Services: Service Bus, Azure Key Vault, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Azure Virtual Network Manager rule impact analyzer

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:34 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager rule impact analyzer is now generally available, empowering you to simulate the impact of your security admin rules on your virtual networks before deploying your rules. With this capability, you can simulate the effects of y
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Network, Network Watcher, VNet Manager, Categories: Features, Security, Services, Management

Sentinel TI - improved pattern parsing & revoke reliability

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:34 Z

We’ve rolled out two important improvements to enhance accuracy and control in pattern-based workflows: Revoke fix: Resolved an issue where revoke actions were not consistently applied, ensuring changes now take effect reliably and as intended. Support fo
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories: Features, Security

Optimize your storage costs with OneLake storage tiers and lifecycle management

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:00 Z

Author: Matt Basile - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Management

Optimize your storage costs with OneLake storage tiers and lifecycle management

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:00 Z

Author: Matt Basile - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Management

Configurable Data Retention in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:26:00 Z

Author: Ambika Jagadish, Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Configurable Data Retention in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:26:00 Z

Author: Ambika Jagadish, Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API

Tue, 12 May 2026 16:51:39 Z

Foundry Local 1.1 adds live transcription, embeddings, Responses API, WebGPU plugin, and download cancellation. The post Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Driving Efficiency in Modern System Engineering with AI Agents

Tue, 12 May 2026 15:34:00 Z

Authors: Pushpendra Kumar, Chockalingam A, Smitha Kashyap, Shilpi Gupta Overview As platforms become more complex and release cycles accelerate, traditional engineering workflows are beginning to...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026

Tue, 12 May 2026 07:13:15 Z

April brings Foundry Local GA for local AI development, GPT-5.5 model support with Tier 5 and Tier 6 default quota in Microsoft Foundry, new tracing paths for Microsoft Agent Framework and hosted agents, CodeAct with Hyperlight for sandboxed agent code execution, expanded monitoring and continuous evaluation capabilities for production agents, SDK updates across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET, and Java, and a reminder to register for Microsoft Build. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Running Foundry Agent Service on Azure Container Apps

Tue, 12 May 2026 04:27:00 Z

Microsoft’s Customer Zero blog series gives an insider view of how Microsoft builds and operates Microsoft using our trusted, enterprise-grade agentic platform. Learn best practices from our engineer...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Arc AKS Explained: Run Kubernetes Beyond Azure Cloud

Tue, 12 May 2026 02:57:00 Z

Modern enterprises are no longer running workloads only inside a centralized cloud environment. Applications today operate across: On-premises datacenters Remote branch offices Manufacturing ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc, Categories:

How to Secure Azure Databricks without Public Exposure using WAF + Private Endpoints

Mon, 11 May 2026 23:37:00 Z

This blog outlines a Zero Trust–aligned architecture for securing Azure Databricks using Application Gateway (WAF) and Private Endpoints within a Hub-Spoke network model. Enables a true Zero Trust ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Application Gateway, Categories:

Action required: Kerberos RC4 hardening may affect Azure Files Active Directory Domain Services

Mon, 11 May 2026 20:42:00 Z

A Windows security hardening change beginning in April 2026 updates default Kerberos encryption behavior and may impact customers using Azure Files with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) authe...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Entra DS, Azure Storage, Categories: Services

Data Warehouse Monitor: A Unified Monitoring Experience for Fabric Data Warehouse

Mon, 11 May 2026 16:30:00 Z

Authored by: Mariya Ali - Program Manager II and Twinkle Cyril - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Data Warehouse Monitor: A Unified Monitoring Experience for Fabric Data Warehouse

Mon, 11 May 2026 16:30:00 Z

Authored by: Mariya Ali - Program Manager II and Twinkle Cyril - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Scaling GitHub Advanced Security in Azure DevOps with a single reusable YAML template

Mon, 11 May 2026 10:47:00 Z

Scaling GitHub Advanced Security in Azure DevOps with a single reusable YAML template Managing security scanning across dozens of repositories can quickly become complex—especially when each reposi...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories: Security

Understanding the deployment quota limitation (800) Error in Azure Bicep and ARM Deployments

Mon, 11 May 2026 05:12:00 Z

Understanding deployment quota limitation (800) Error in Azure Deployments (Bicep/ARM) Introduction When working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Azure Bicep or ARM templates, deployment f...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Configure DNS forwarding for Azure NetApp Files

Mon, 11 May 2026 04:20:00 Z

This post has been written with the collaboration of Rizul Khanna Applies to: Azure NetApp Files — SMB, dual-protocol, and NFSv4.1 Kerberos volumes deployed in hub-spoke or Azure Virtual WAN topo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual WAN, Azure NetApp Files, Categories:

Apply Copy Fail and DirtyFrag CVE mitigations at-scale using Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 Z

See how to apply mitigations for CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail) and CVE-2026-43284 / CVE-2026-43500 (DirtyFrag) across AKS clusters using Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager with a DaemonSet and node image upgrades.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes Fleet Manager, Categories:

CHERIoT-Ibex: Closing the door on memory safety vulnerabilities with hardware-enforced protection

Sat, 09 May 2026 05:08:00 Z

Memory safety vulnerabilities—largely arising from widely used programming languages such as C and C++—remain a leading cause of exploitable software defects across systems, from embedded devices to ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Safely Migrating Terraform Managed Disks on Azure Using Stable Keys and Copilot

Fri, 08 May 2026 16:02:00 Z

The Root Cause: Index-Based "for_each" Keys: Many Terraform modules flatten VM and disk definitions into a list and use the list index as the for_each key: for_each = { for index, sp in local.man...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Managed Disks, Categories:

Secure Medallion Architecture Pattern on Azure Databricks (Part II)

Fri, 08 May 2026 15:13:00 Z

Disclaimer: The views in this article are my own and do not represent Microsoft or Databricks. This article is part of a series focused on deploying a secure Medallion Architecture. The series fo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Categories:

Announcing Microsoft Host Integration Server 2028: Modern connectivity for IBM Mainframes Midranges

Fri, 08 May 2026 07:30:00 Z

Many organizations continue to rely on IBM mainframe and midrange platforms for high-value, mission-critical workloads. At the same time, application modernization, security requirements, and hybrid ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Public Preview: Migrate your regional virtual machines to availability zones

Thu, 07 May 2026 21:33:00 Z

This new capability enables you to move your existing regional (nonzonal) VMs and VMSS Flex deployments into specific availability zones while preserving the VM names, data disks, and other stateful ...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, Categories:

Least privilege AI agents: A new azd template from Curity and Microsoft

Thu, 07 May 2026 21:26:27 Z

If you ever built an AI agent demo, you probably had this moment. Everything works: the agent interprets natural language, calls the right tools, and returns the right data. Then you start designing for the real users of the app. You think about data boundaries: what if someone tries to get data they’re not supposed […] The post Least privilege AI agents: A new azd template from Curity and Microsoft appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in all three available zones in Japan West

Thu, 07 May 2026 18:15:17 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in all three Availability Zones in Japan West. Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines, offers sub-millisecond latencies and exceptional price pe
Update Type: GA, Services: Compute Fleet, Virtual Machines, Azure Migrate, Azure Storage, Managed Disks, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Introducing the Azure Resource Manager MCP Server!

Thu, 07 May 2026 18:07:00 Z

We're super excited to announce the public preview of the Azure Resource Manager MCP Server! This is a remote MCP server that provides tools to give AI agents first-class access to Azure infrastructu...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Azure Dl/D/E v7 Virtual Machines

Thu, 07 May 2026 18:00:38 Z

Azure has announced the general availability of the new Dl/D/E v7 Virtual Machines, powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 (Granite Rapids) processors. These general‑purpose and memory‑optimized VMs deliver up to 20% better general compute performance compa
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories: Pricing & Offerings

A New Chapter for Realtime AI: Reasoning, Translation, and Real-Time Transcription

Thu, 07 May 2026 17:59:00 Z

Voice can be one of the most direct and productive interfaces for AI — enabling customer support agents that may resolve issues without a single keystroke, live multilingual communication that can ta...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing General Availability of Azure Dl/D/Esv7-series VMs based on Intel Xeon 6 processors

Thu, 07 May 2026 16:08:00 Z

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the latest Azure Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 General Purpose and Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 processor...
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories:

Building Secure AI Platforms in Banking Using Azure Enterprise Architecture

Thu, 07 May 2026 16:03:00 Z

1. Introduction: AI in Banking Is Not Just a Model Problem Modern banking institutions are no longer asking “Can we use AI?” The real question is: “Can we use AI without violating regulatory, sec...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Bringing Generative AI to Enterprise Scale with Super Insight by AVASOFT

Thu, 07 May 2026 15:14:50 Z

Azure Cosmos DB enables scalable AI-driven document processing, addressing one of the biggest barriers to operational scale in today’s enterprise AI landscape. Organizations continue to manage massive volumes of structured and unstructured content—contracts, regulatory filings, operational records, images, and field documentation—yet many workflows remain fragmented, manual, and slow. Every month, the Scalable AI in Action […] The post Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Bringing Generative AI to Enterprise Scale with Super Insight by AVASOFT appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Cosmos DB, Categories:

Bringing all your Integration workloads to Logic Apps Standard

Thu, 07 May 2026 11:30:00 Z

We recently announced the end of life of BizTalk Server and provided a path forward for our customers. As part of that commitment, we’re investing in tooling and guidance that reduces migration compl...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Governing Agent Sprawl: A Multi-Region AI Agent Landing Zone on Azure (Reference Architecture)

Thu, 07 May 2026 05:19:00 Z

It doesn’t take long for AI agents to get out of hand. In most enterprises, the first few agents are celebrated. A chatbot here. A document summarizer there. Then another team ships an agent that c...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

How Validation-Driven Terraform Made Our Azure Function Deployments Predictable

Thu, 07 May 2026 05:12:00 Z

When Terraform deploys Azure Functions, the most expensive failures are rarely “syntax” problems. They’re environmental mismatches discovered too late—during terraform apply, after approvals, after a...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Categories:

Improving Deployment Resiliency on Azure App Service for Linux with Deferred Kudu Recycle

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 Z

Azure App Service for Linux now includes Deferred Kudu Recycle, a platform improvement designed to make deployments more resilient when app settings or connection strings are updated during an active deployment.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

Azure SQL update for early-May 2026

Wed, 06 May 2026 23:00:22 Z

In early May 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Right‑size memory for Business Critical Azure SQL Managed Instance to improve performance without overprovisioning. Learn more.
Update Type: Preview, Services: SQL Database, Categories: Features

Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will be retired on March 30, 2029

Wed, 06 May 2026 22:15:33 Z

On March 30, 2029, Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will be retired. Please migrate to latest generally available Azure Document Intelligence API version, v4.0, by that date. After March 30, 2029, Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will no longer be
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories: Services, Retirements

OneLake security

Wed, 06 May 2026 21:29:33 Z

Author: Aaron Merrill - Principal Program Manager
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Security

OneLake security

Wed, 06 May 2026 21:29:33 Z

Author: Aaron Merrill - Principal Program Manager
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Security

High Concurrency Support for the Fabric Livy API— Scalable Spark Automation

Wed, 06 May 2026 21:00:00 Z

Author: Avinanda Chattapadday — Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

High Concurrency Support for the Fabric Livy API— Scalable Spark Automation

Wed, 06 May 2026 21:00:00 Z

Author: Avinanda Chattapadday — Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Bulk Restore for Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Backup

Wed, 06 May 2026 19:45:54 Z

Azure Backup now supports ‘Bulk Restore’ for Azure virtual machines (VMs), enabling customers to restore multiple VMs (upto 100) in a single operation. This feature simplifies large-scale recovery scenarios while preserving control and granularity at an i
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Backup, Categories: Features, Management

Manage failure notifications from the monitoring hub in Fabric

Wed, 06 May 2026 19:00:00 Z

Author: Michael BruhjellManage failure notifications for all your scheduled items from a single location. The monitoring hub in Microsoft Fabric now includes a Schedule failures page where you can view, configure, and update notification recipients — no more opening each item individually.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Manage failure notifications from the monitoring hub in Fabric

Wed, 06 May 2026 19:00:00 Z

Azure Cosmos DB Shell—your new command line for data workflows

Wed, 06 May 2026 18:45:15 Z

Azure Cosmos DB Shell is now available in public preview, introducing a modern command-line experience with agentic capabilities powered by Model Context Protocol (MCP). You can now query, explore, and manage your data more efficiently through intelligent
Update Type: Preview, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories: Features

Azure NetApp Files enable backup by default

Wed, 06 May 2026 18:45:15 Z

Azure NetApp Files now enables backup by default when creating new volumes, delivering a more seamless and secure data‑protection experience. Backups are automatically provisioned during volume creation, reducing setup effort while still allowing customer
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure NetApp Files, Categories: Features

OneLake catalog is now natively available in Foundry

Wed, 06 May 2026 18:37:02 Z

Author: Miquella de Boer - Principal Product Manager Lead
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

OneLake catalog is now natively available in Foundry

Wed, 06 May 2026 18:37:02 Z

Author: Miquella de Boer - Principal Product Manager Lead
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Azure Cosmos DB spherical quantization for improved vector search

Wed, 06 May 2026 18:30:28 Z

Azure Cosmos DB now offers spherical quantization in public preview to help you achieve faster vector indexing with higher recall and accuracy at scale. Spherical quantization is an advanced vector compression technique designed to preserve search quality
Update Type: Preview, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories: Features

Now in Foundry: IBM Granite 4.1, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano Omni, and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Wed, 06 May 2026 16:30:00 Z

This week Microsoft Foundry adds two major model families alongside a reasoning powerhouse that spans the full spectrum from specialized speech and vision to general-purpose coding and long-context a...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Resilient by Design: Azure Databricks Disaster Recovery Strategy

Wed, 06 May 2026 16:28:00 Z

Introduction: From Recovery Plans to Resilience Strategy As organizations increasingly rely on Azure Databricks for mission-critical analytics and data engineering workloads, the need for robust d...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Categories:

From Chaos to Clarity: Your Databricks Workspace on a Single Pane of Glass

Wed, 06 May 2026 16:25:00 Z

The question that never stays answered — until now As Azure Databricks workspaces evolve, complexity creeps in unnoticed. Every Azure Databricks conversation with customers eventually lands on the ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Categories:

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell: Open-Source Power Meets AI-Driven Database Automation

Wed, 06 May 2026 16:00:29 Z

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell – a powerful, open-source command-line interface that revolutionizes how developers interact with their Azure Cosmos DB databases. With integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support, native agentic capabilities, and bash-like syntax, Azure Cosmos DB Shell transforms database management into an intelligent, developer-friendly […] The post Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell: Open-Source Power Meets AI-Driven Database Automation appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories: Management

Introducing cert-manager for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes: now in Public Preview

Wed, 06 May 2026 15:30:00 Z

Today we’re releasing a public preview of cert-manager for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes. It’s an Arc extension that automates TLS certificate and trust bundle management for edge Kubernetes clusters....
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc, Categories:

Stream SQL Change Events to Microsoft Fabric Eventstream with Change Event Streaming for Real-Time Analytics

Wed, 06 May 2026 14:56:23 Z

Coauthor: Nikola Zagorac In today’s data-driven world, the ability to capture and act on data changes in real time is a competitive necessity. From financial services processing millions of transactions per second to e-commerce platforms tracking inventory and customer behavior, real-time data streaming has become the backbone of modern decision-making—and nowhere is this more critical than in the database tier, where every insert, update, and delete represents a business event happening right now. Traditionally, Change Data Capture (CDC) has been the go-to mechanism for tracking SQL Server data changes. However, CDC relies on polling-based capture with intermediate change tables, introducing latency and operational overhead, such as managing polling, offsets, and replaying windows in connector. Change Event Streaming (CES), introduced in SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance, takes a fundamentally different approach: it pushes data change events directly from the database engine to external streaming platforms in real time. Built on the CloudEvents specification, CES delivers structured JSON messages with the operation type and full row data - eliminating intermediate tables and reducing end-to-end latency to near zero. On the receiving end, Microsoft Fabric Eventstream provides a fully managed platform for ingesting, transforming, and routing real-time data streams. Its source custom endpoint—an Event Hubs–compatible ingestion point supporting AMQP and Kafka protocols—is a natural fit for CES. Because Eventstream automatically provisions an Event Hubs namespace, CES can deliver change events straight into Fabric without any additional middleware, creating a seamless, zero-infrastructure bridge from your relational database to Fabric Real-Time Intelligence. The integration: SQL CES meets Eventstream’s custom endpoint The integration between SQL CES and Fabric Eventstream leverages existing, production-ready capabilities in both pl
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, SQL Database, Event Hubs, Categories: Services

Simplify Real-Time Pipelines with the Fabric Eventstreams SQL Operator

Wed, 06 May 2026 14:56:19 Z

Author: Vaibhav Shirvastava - Principal Program Manager
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Simplify Real-Time Pipelines with the Fabric Eventstreams SQL Operator

Wed, 06 May 2026 14:56:19 Z

Author: Vaibhav Shirvastava - Principal Program Manager
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Modernizing Azure Landing Zone Deployments: From Terraform Scripts to GHCP-Driven Engineering

Wed, 06 May 2026 06:05:00 Z

The code nobody wants to write anymore Most Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) deployments we see today still follow the same pattern they did a few years ago. Engineers manually write Terraform modules, cop...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Modernizing Azure Landing Zone Deployments: From Terraform Scripts to GHCP-Driven Engineering

Wed, 06 May 2026 06:05:00 Z

Operationalizing Responsible AI in Microsoft Foundry within Enterprise Network Boundaries

Wed, 06 May 2026 05:23:00 Z

Strategic Overview Deploying Microsoft Foundry within a VNet-integrated landing zone requires a thoughtful balance between innovation and enterprise-grade security, especially in highly regulated i...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Virtual Network, Categories:

Control runtime patch updates with Platform Release Channel on Azure App Service for Linux

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 Z

Azure App Service for Linux is introducing Platform Release Channel, a new setting that gives you more control over when runtime patch updates are applied to your app.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

Use Azure Container Registry as an Upstream Source for Artifact Cache

Tue, 05 May 2026 23:29:00 Z

In collaboration with: Luis Dieguez, Principal Software Engineering Manager, Azure Container Registry Akash Singhal, Senior Software Engineer, Azure Container Registry Kiran Challa, Senior Softwar...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Registry, Categories:

Public Preview: Migrate Availability Sets to Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Tue, 05 May 2026 22:30:00 Z

We're excited to announce the public preview of availability set to Virtual Machine Scale Set migration for Azure Virtual Machines. This new capability enables you to move your existing VMs from avai...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, Categories:

Providing more insights & tools: Capacity health, timepoint summary, timepoint detail, chargeback now generally available

Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:59 Z

Author: Pankaj Arora - Principal Product Manager _____________________________________________________
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Providing more insights & tools: Capacity health, timepoint summary, timepoint detail, chargeback now generally available

Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:59 Z

Author: Pankaj Arora - Principal Product Manager _____________________________________________________
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Azure Reserved Virtual Machines Instances for select VM series

Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:13 Z

Starting July 1, 2026, purchases and renewals will no longer be available for one-year Azure Reserved VM Instances for the Av2, Amv2, Bv1, D, Ds, Dv2, Dsv2, F, Fs, Fsv2, G, Gs, Ls, and Lsv2 VM series. Additionally, one-year and three-year reserved instanc
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories: Pricing & Offerings, Retirements

Bring your Dremio data into OneLake

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:27:58 Z

Author: Matthew Hicks - Principal Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

On-premises data gateway April 2026 release

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:24:04 Z

Author: Leo Li - Principal Program Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

On-premises data gateway April 2026 release

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:24:04 Z

Author: Leo Li - Principal Program Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Monitor your Eventstreams with workspace monitoring

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:21:33 Z

Author: Anasheh Boisvert - Senior Program Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Monitor your Eventstreams with workspace monitoring

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:21:33 Z

Author: Anasheh Boisvert - Senior Program Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:12:02 Z

Author: Katie Murray - Senior Program Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Discover items across workspaces with the OneLake Catalog Search API, MCP and CLI tools

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:10:44 Z

Author: Nadav Schachter - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Discover items across workspaces with the OneLake Catalog Search API, MCP and CLI tools

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:10:44 Z

Author: Nadav Schachter - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Pipelines are evolving beyond ETL

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:09:38 Z

Author: Connie Xu - Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Pipelines are evolving beyond ETL

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:09:38 Z

Author: Connie Xu - Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Simplify Schema Changes in Fabric Data Warehouse with ALTER COLUMN

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:08:11 Z

Author: Twinkle Cyril - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Simplify Schema Changes in Fabric Data Warehouse with ALTER COLUMN

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:08:11 Z

Author: Twinkle Cyril - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

From repetition to reuse: accelerate data prep with My queries in Dataflow Gen2

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:06:28 Z

Author: Miguel Escobar - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

From repetition to reuse: accelerate data prep with My queries in Dataflow Gen2

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:06:28 Z

Author: Miguel Escobar - Senior Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Direct Lake on SQL with Fabric Data Warehouse

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:04:47 Z

Author: Justin Barry - Sr. Cloud Solution Architect
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Direct Lake on SQL with Fabric Data Warehouse

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:04:47 Z

Author: Justin Barry - Sr. Cloud Solution Architect
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Introducing OpenAI's newest chat model in Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 05 May 2026 18:10:00 Z

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant (or Chat-latest in the API) begins rolling out in Microsoft Foundry today as GPT-chat-latest. Built on GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.3-chat, the new model delivers measurable gains in fa...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Application Gateway for Containers managed add-on + AKS Automatic

Tue, 05 May 2026 17:30:03 Z

We previously announced the availability of Application Gateway for Containers and the Application Gateway for Containers AKS Add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). At that time, one limitation was that Application Gateway for Containers could not be
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Application Gateway, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Azure Elastic SAN support for AVS Gen2 Private Cloud

Tue, 05 May 2026 16:00:38 Z

Elastic SAN datastores deliver simpler connectivity and improved performance when used with AVS Gen2 Private Cloud: Simpler connectivity & configuration No ExpressRoute gateway required A single Private Endpoint is sufficient to configure t
Update Type: GA, Services: ExpressRoute, Azure Elastic SAN, Categories: Features

Single Volume Snapshots on Azure Elastic SAN

Tue, 05 May 2026 16:00:38 Z

Azure Elastic SAN now supports single volume snapshots, enabling incremental, point‑in‑time backups of individual SAN volumes. Snapshots capture only changes since the previous snapshot and reside within the SAN, allowing customers to quickly deploy new v
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Elastic SAN, Categories: Features

AVS Support for AV64 SKU on Azure Elastic SAN

Tue, 05 May 2026 16:00:38 Z

Azure Elastic SAN datastores are now supported with AV64 SKUs, enabling higher-scale and higher-performance storage options for Azure VMware Solution deployments.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure VMware Solution, Azure Elastic SAN, Categories: Features

Extending Sentinel Data Integration: Azure Blob Storage Support for CCF Connectors

Tue, 05 May 2026 16:00:00 Z

As organizations scale their security operations, the ability to ingest, process, and analyze high volumes of data reliably becomes increasingly critical. Microsoft Sentinel continues to expand its e...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Storage, Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

From Manual Backfills to Autonomous Pipelines: Building an LLM-Powered Backfill Agent on Azure

Tue, 05 May 2026 10:16:00 Z

Introduction: Data backfills are a common operational requirement in modern data platforms. Missing partitions, upstream delays, or failed pipeline runs often require engineers to manually identif...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Deploying Azure Resources with Managed HSM Keys Using Bicep

Tue, 05 May 2026 09:30:00 Z

Architecture Overview The deployment includes: Managed HSM instance Key creation inside HSM User-assigned managed identity / service principal Role assignments for key access Azure reso...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Building an AI Agent for Azure Infrastructure Validation

Tue, 05 May 2026 06:05:00 Z

1. Introduction Infrastructure consistency is critical in large-scale Azure environments, especially in migration programs and DevOps-driven deployments. While Infrastructure as Code (IaC) ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Building Multi-File Refactoring Agents with GitHub Copilot Workspace

Tue, 05 May 2026 03:49:00 Z

Introduction AI-assisted development continues to evolve beyond inline code suggestions toward end-to-end engineering workflows. While tools such as GitHub Copilot have significantly improved devel...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Build and Deploy Logic App Workflows Using Visual Studio Code and CI/CD Pipeline

Tue, 05 May 2026 03:39:00 Z

Throughout this guide, you'll create a Standard logic app workspace and project, build your workflow, and deploy it as a Standard logic app resource in Azure. This enables your workflow to run in a s...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Architecture to Resilience: A Decision Guide

Mon, 04 May 2026 21:24:00 Z

Start with the framework, accelerate with the tool Watch the video walkthrough The Application Resilience Framework originated from a practical gap we saw in resilience reviews: teams had archite...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Cleanup legacy AlternateId usage to ensure continued service

Mon, 04 May 2026 17:45:58 Z

We have identified an issue impacting Multi-line (Multiple Number Assignment) feature for Teams Phone enablement related to the usage of AlternateId in customer internal implementations for Azure Communication Services (ACS). AlternateId is an Microsoft i
Update Type: GA, Services: Comm. Services, Categories: Features, Services

Azure Functions durable task scheduler Consumption SKU

Mon, 04 May 2026 17:45:58 Z

The Durable Task Scheduler Consumption SKU is now generally available. Run durable workflows and AI agent orchestrations on Azure with pay-per-use pricing. No storage to manage, no capacity to plan, and no idle costs.The Consumption SKU charges only for a
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, Microsoft Entra ID, Container Apps, Categories: Features

Modernizing Azure Virtual Desktop with Nerdio and Azure Files

Mon, 04 May 2026 16:05:00 Z

Coauthored with Nerdio Organizations adopting Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) typically begin with small pilot deployments that perform well under limited load. As these environments scale to hundreds...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Storage, Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Retired Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances Transition Guide

Mon, 04 May 2026 15:59:00 Z

Summary This guide is designed for customers with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs) that will no longer be available for new purchase or renewal starting July 1, 2026 for select VM ser...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories:

Azure Reserved VM Instances for select VM series will no longer be available starting July 1, 2026

Mon, 04 May 2026 15:59:00 Z

Summary Starting July 1, 2026, Azure will no longer offer new purchases or renewals of certain Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs) for select VM series. This change affects only the abil...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories:

Logic Apps Newsletter - May 2026

Mon, 04 May 2026 15:00:00 Z

In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month May 2026's Ace Aviator: Yahya Ajwad What's your role and t...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Performance Tuning and Scaling Optimization for Large-Scale Azure Workloads

Mon, 04 May 2026 13:41:00 Z

Summary As cloud-native systems scale, performance challenges rarely stem from a single bottleneck. Instead, they emerge from the interaction between compute, orchestration, and data layers under l...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Announcing the public preview of Oracle Database built-in connector for Azure Logic Apps Standard

Mon, 04 May 2026 05:45:00 Z

Announcing the public preview of Oracle Database built-in connector for Azure Logic Apps Standard Run Oracle Database operations natively in your Logic Apps Standard workflows. Today we’re excite...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Running GitHub Actions Runners on Azure Container Apps with KEDA Autoscaling

Sun, 03 May 2026 13:47:00 Z

GitHub-hosted runners work well for most scenarios. But as workloads grow, teams often need: Better cost optimization — pay only when jobs run More control over execution environments and insta...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

How MS Discovery Is Empowering Scientists to Do More

Sun, 03 May 2026 12:05:00 Z

Research and development has traditionally been a slow, sequential, and largely manual endeavour. Scientists formulate hypotheses, design experiments, run computations in constrained environments, an...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Modernizing Terraform Pipelines on Azure: OIDC Federation for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

Sat, 02 May 2026 20:09:00 Z

The secret nobody wants to rotate Most Terraform-on-Azure pipelines we see still authenticate the same way they did three years ago. A long-lived ARM_CLIENT_SECRET sitting in GitHub Actions or Azur...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

Automating Azure Naming Standards using API and DevOps Pipelines

Sat, 02 May 2026 19:45:00 Z

Introduction In large Azure environments, one of the most overlooked yet critical governance challenges is resource naming consistency. While organizations define naming standards, enforcing them...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Reimagining Azure Governance with Automation & EPAC

Sat, 02 May 2026 19:26:00 Z

🧩 The Challenge: Governance at Scale Managing Azure environments manually introduces: ❌ Policy drift across subscriptions ❌ Inconsistent naming conventions ❌ Delays in compliance enforceme...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Update: Egress and data transfer with Azure in the United Kingdom

Fri, 01 May 2026 21:45:13 Z

We support customer choice, including the choice to transfer your data between Azure and environments outside of Azure. Azure has offered free egress and at-cost data transfer for customers and CSP partners in Europe transferring data via the internet bet
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories: Management, Pricing & Offerings

High-Fidelity Network Observability at Scale- ACNS Metrics Filtering and Log Aggregation Now GA

Fri, 01 May 2026 20:29:00 Z

We are thrilled to announce that Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now delivers two powerful observability features in General Availability: container n...
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Categories: Services

Introducing langchain-azure-cosmosdb: Build Agentic Apps and RAG with One Database

Fri, 01 May 2026 16:43:29 Z

Build AI Agents and RAG Applications with the New LangChain + LangGraph Connector for Azure Cosmos DB Building AI agents and RAG applications today means stitching together half a dozen services, a vector database, a chat history store, a checkpointer for agent state, a semantic cache, a long-term memory layer. Each adds operational overhead, latency, […] The post Introducing langchain-azure-cosmosdb: Build Agentic Apps and RAG with One Database appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Cosmos DB, Categories: Services

Fabric Influencers Spotlight April 2026

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:49:06 Z

Welcome to the April 2026 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users are doing some amazing work on all aspects of Microsoft Fabric. The Microsoft Fabric Community team has created the Fabric Influencers Spotlight to highlight and amplify blog posts, videos, presentations, and other content related to Microsoft Fabric. We’ve cultivated submissions from members of Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users from the Fabric community that cover the Fabric Platform, Data Engineering & Data Science in Fabric, Data Warehousing, Power BI, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Integration, Fabric Administration & Governance and Databases. Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who utilize their deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions, to solve real world problems, and to bring “leading edge” content to the data community. To learn about the Microsoft MVP Award and to find MVPs, visit the official website. Fabric Super Users are the heroes of the Fabric Community. They contribute helpful answers, write informative blog posts, post data stories and are key contributors to the Fabric product via engagement with the product group. To learn more about the Super User program, visit the official website. Data Warehouse Dominic Godfroid Affiliation: Super User YouTube: Fabric Warehouse: J'ai testé les 7 fonctions IA en SQL In this video, I test all 7 T-SQL AI Functions available in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehous: ai_analyze_sentiment, ai_classify, ai_extract, ai_translate, ai_fix_grammar, ai_summarize, and ai_generate_response, on a real dataset of 124 beers from 30 countries with reviews in 5 languages. Power BI Cengizhan Arslan, LinkedIn Affiliation: Super User Blog: Custom Totals vs DAX Wrappers:
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Functions, Categories: Services

AI-Accelerated AVM Refactoring: Modernizing Legacy IaC Safely and Swiftly

Fri, 01 May 2026 12:14:00 Z

Why AVM refactoring is harder in brownfield Greenfield AVM adoption is straightforward: pick the module, deploy, and iterate. Brownfield is different. You’re refactoring *live* infrastructure — whe...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories:

Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2026

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:53:08 Z

The Azure Developer CLI (azd) shipped five releases in April 2026. The biggest theme this month is multi-language hook support: write azd hooks in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or .NET alongside the existing Bash and PowerShell options. Here’s what’s in versions 1.23.14, 1.23.15, 1.24.0, 1.24.1, and 1.24.2. To share your feedback and questions, join the April […] The post Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2026 appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

AHEAD helps us launch the Strategic Azure Storage Services Partner Program

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:49:00 Z

AHEAD becomes the first Azure Storage Strategic Channel Partner by demonstrating their expertise in helping customers select the ideal Azure Storage, or Azure Storage ISV, Service to offer the ideal ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Storage, Categories: Services

Introducing DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro in Microsoft Foundry

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:09:00 Z

As AI adoption matures, the conversation is shifting from model capability to system design, how to orchestrate models that deliver the right balance of quality, speed, and cost. Today, we’re expa...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Prompt flow is being retired

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:15:00 Z

Prompt Flow in Microsoft Foundry and Azure Machine Learning will be retired on 20 April 2027. Customers should begin migrating existing Prompt Flow applications and deployments to Microsoft Agent Fra...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Machine Learning, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Whats new in Microsoft Sentinel: April 2026

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:58:00 Z

Welcome to the April 2026 edition of What's new in Microsoft Sentinel. April brings a broad set of updates, with RSAC 2026 announcements rolling out alongside new features. Highlights include cost li...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Prefix-scoped access for User Delegation SAS

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:00:11 Z

Support for prefix-scoped access for User Delegation SAS for Azure Blob Storage is generally available in all Azure regions. SAS tokens for Blob Storage have historically supported two levels of scope: container and individual blob. With this release, you
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Storage, Categories: Features

Azure Functions support for Java 25

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:15:44 Z

Azure Functions support for Java 25 is now generally available. You can now develop apps using Java 25 locally and deploy them to supported Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows, including the Flex Consumption plan. Learn more: Update your app
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Functions, Categories: Features, Open Source

Prefix-scoped access for User Delegation SAS is now generally available for Azure Blob Storage

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:00:00 Z

We would like to share that prefix-scoped access for User Delegation SAS for Azure Blob Storage is generally available in all Azure regions. SAS tokens for Blob Storage have historically supported ...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Storage, Categories:

Introducing Post-Stream Refinement: Higher-Accuracy Real-Time Transcription

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:05:00 Z

Real-time speech recognition has always been defined by a fundamental trade-off: speed versus accuracy. Applications that need instant, streaming transcription — live captions, voice agents, real-tim...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Voice Live API now supports WebRTC (Preview)

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:00:00 Z

We are thrilled to announce that Voice Live API now supports WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) connection, enabling low‑latency, real‑time voice interactions directly from web and mobile clients. ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Public Preview: Managed Identity support for graphical session recording

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:05:00 Z

Overview Azure Bastion provides secure RDP and SSH access to Azure virtual machines directly via the Azure portal or via the native SSH/RDP client already installed on your local computer. Toda...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Bastion, Categories:

Discover Fabric items across workspaces with the OneLake Catalog Search API, MCP and CLI tools

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:00:00 Z

The OneLake Catalog helps people find, explore, and curate Fabric items across their organization. With OneLake Catalog Search API, MCP and CLI tools, that same discovery experience is now available programmatically, making it possible to build search directly into scripts, internal tools, and agentic workflows. Search across workspaces The OneLake Catalog Search REST API brings … Continue reading “Discover Fabric items across workspaces with the OneLake Catalog Search API, MCP and CLI tools (Preview)”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Azure Data Studio to VS Code: What it means for SQL database in Fabric developers

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:27:04 Z

Azure Data Studio (ADS) has been a familiar tool for SQL developers, but with its retirement on February 6, 2025, and end of support on February 28, 2026, teams need a clear path forward. For those working with SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the transition to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is not just a … Continue reading “Azure Data Studio to VS Code: What it means for SQL database in Fabric developers”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Retirements

Pipelines are evolving beyond ETL

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:00:00 Z

For years, data pipelines have been synonymous with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load): extract data from one place, transform it, and load it somewhere else. That model worked well when analytics workflows were mostly batch driven and isolated from the rest of the business. But that world has changed. Now, organizations use data platforms to power … Continue reading “Pipelines are evolving beyond ETL”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:01:26 Z

Welcome to the April 2026 Microsoft Fabric update! This month’s update brings a broad set of new capabilities across Microsoft Fabric, spanning the platform experience, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Warehouse, and Real-Time Intelligence. Read on to learn about improvements to the Fabric experience, deeper VS Code integration, enhanced notebook resiliency, expanded machine learning and … Continue reading “Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary “
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Machine Learning, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

From Drift to Diagnosis: AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis for Azure Infrastructure

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:08:00 Z

🌍 A Real-World Scenario During a recent production deployment of an enterprise AI platform, everything looked perfectly aligned from an infrastructure perspective: ✅ Infrastructure deployed via ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

From ServiceNow to Self-Healing Infrastructure: A Multi-Repo Azure AI Platform

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:00 Z

How we built a self-verifying Azure platform that deploys infrastructure across multiple markets, tracks every change with three independent records, and catches drift, whether it comes from a failed...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

From Drift to Self-Healing: Building a Multi-Repo Azure AI Infrastructure You Can Actually Trust

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:00 Z

Running Diffusion Models at Scale on AKS

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:38:00 Z

Diffusion workloads are simple at prototype scale and unforgiving in production. A single demo can run on one GPU-backed VM, but a real platform has to handle bursty demand, long-running jobs, model ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Service, Categories:

Azure SRE Agent for Azure Monitor Alerts: Reduce Alert Fatigue, Investigate What Matters

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:28:00 Z

The Alert Problem Organizations running Azure Monitor tend to land in one of two situations: Alert fatigue has set in. Alert rules tend to grow over time — a CPU threshold from two years ago, a...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, SRE Agent, Categories:

Enforcing trust and transparency: Open-sourcing the Azure Integrated HSM

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 Z

Enforcing trust and transparency: Open-sourcing the Azure Integrated HSM As cloud workloads become more agentic and AI systems handle increasingly sensitive data, trust must be engineered directly into infrastructure. Azure Integrated HSM brings hardware‑enforced key protection into Azure, extending cryptographic trust from silicon to services through verifiable and transparent design.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Plugin Marketplace for Azure SRE Agent: Build Once, Install Anywhere

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:25:00 Z

What's a Plugin? A plugin bundles two things: Skills — Operational knowledge (triage runbooks, policy rules, known issues) the agent reads at runtime to guide its reasoning MCP Connectors — L...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: SRE Agent, Categories:

Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Austria East

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:00:48 Z

The Austria East region is now generally available to Azure Red Hat OpenShift customers and partners. The region includes three availability zones, supporting resilient and scalable operations. Why it matters: In-country data residency: Data stored in
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories: Features, Compliance, Security, Management, Open Source

Use Data Wrangler to Streamline Your Microsoft Sentinel data lake Notebook Development

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:18:00 Z

One of the many exciting features of the Microsoft Sentinel data lake is a built-in advanced analytics engine, powered by Apache Spark. This Spark cluster has access to data that is within Sentinel d...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Operating AI Agents on Azure: Observability with Azure AI Foundry

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:15:00 Z

Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s enterprise platform for building, deploying, and operating AI applications and intelligent agents as first‑class Azure workloads. From an infrastructure perspective, F...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:15:05 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework is now version 1.0 for both .NET and Python, with stable APIs and a long-term support commitment. Agent Framework 1.0 supports multi-agent orchestration, multi-provider model support, and cross-runtime interoperability via A2A an
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, SDK and Tools

Announcing the Private Preview of Cosmos DB Azure RBAC Integration

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:13:59 Z

Introduction Managing access to Azure resources often means dealing with two separate permission models: one for management operations and another for data access. For Azure Cosmos DB customers, this split can increase complexity, slow down onboarding, and create confusion around governance and security boundaries. Today, we’re excited to announce the private preview of Integrated Azure […] The post Announcing the Private Preview of Cosmos DB Azure RBAC Integration appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories: Security, Management

Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) for Banking: A Modern Customer 360 Approach

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:10:34 Z

Introduction: Transforming Customer Intelligence in Banking Every day, people interact with their bank across mobile apps, branches, call centers, ATMs, chatbots, and partner ecosystems. Each touchpoint holds a piece of the customer story but rarely the whole picture. For many institutions, these moments of truth get lost in a maze of legacy systems, disconnected business […] The post Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) for Banking: A Modern Customer 360 Approach appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories:

Get started with the New Relic MCP server in Azure SRE Agent

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:35:00 Z

Overview The New Relic MCP server is a cloud-hosted bridge between your New Relic account and Azure SRE Agent. Once configured, it enables real-time interaction with your observability data—APM tra...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: SRE Agent, Categories:

Building an Enterprise-Grade SQL Platform on Kubernetes using Crossplane and Azure PostgreSQL

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:58:00 Z

Strategic Overview Build a Kubernetes-native SQL platform using Crossplane-based database operator to provision Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Active–Passive, multi-region database architect...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Refresh Token (RT) Transfer to Apple Watch in Microsoft Entra External ID Native Authentication

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:13:11 Z

We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Single Sign-On (SSO) from Native Apps to Embedded Web Views for Microsoft Entra External ID (EEID) Native Authentication. This release marks a major milestone in delivering end-to-end seamless authentication experiences for modern CIAM applications bridging the gap between native and web-based app surfaces. Why RT transfer […] The post General Availability: Refresh Token (RT) Transfer to Apple Watch in Microsoft Entra External ID Native Authentication appeared first on Microsoft Entra Identity Platform.
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Entra ID, Azure AD EI, Categories:

Migrating Splunk Logs to Azure Application Insights on VMs

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:35:00 Z

Phase 0 – Understanding the Current Environment Before touching any code or agents, map out the existing architecture. Current setup: Applications write logs via log4net → local log files on ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories:

On-premises data gateway April 2026 release

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:00 Z

The April 2026 release of the on-premises data gateway is (version 3000.314). New Features On-premises Data Gateway Auto-Update (Admin Triggered) | (Generally Available) With this capability, gateway administrators now have greater control and flexibility over gateway lifecycle management. Instead of relying solely on automatic background updates, admins can: This enhancement improves operational predictability while still … Continue reading “On-premises data gateway April 2026 release”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Features, Management

AG-UI: The Future of Agent-Driven User Interfaces

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:59:00 Z

As AI agents evolve from simple chatbots into workflow engines, decision-makers, and copilots, one challenge has remained stubbornly unsolved: How do we connect intelligent agents to rich, dynamic, u...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

General availability of Default Ruleset (DRS) 2.2 for Web Application Firewall

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:31:00 Z

Introduction As attackers continue to evolve their techniques, organizations require web application security that keeps pace with emerging threats without disrupting legitimate traffic. Azure Web ...
Update Type: GA, Services: App Service, Categories:

Transforming Video Content into Structured SOPs Using Graph-based RAG

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:04:00 Z

Introduction In today’s digital-first environments, a large portion of enterprise knowledge lives inside video content, training sessions, onboarding walkthroughs, and recorded operational procedur...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Flexible Cooling for AI Growth: How Zonal Architecture Supports Diverse Hardware Needs

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:58:00 Z

By: Ricardo Bianchini, Steve Solomon, Brijesh Warrier, Martin Herbert, Jay Jochim, Husam Alissa, Pulkit Misra, Eric Peterson and Cam Turner Context - Microsoft is pioneering zonal cooling in its...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Memory in Foundry Agent Service

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:55 Z

Foundry’s memory (preview) is a managed long-term memory capability built directly into Foundry Agent Service and now integrates natively with Microsoft Agent Framework and LangGraph— no external databases to provision, scale, or secure.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services

Container Network Insights Agent

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:30:30 Z

Troubleshooting Kubernetes networking issues is often slowed by logs and metrics scattered across multiple tools, requiring engineers to manually correlate signals during incidents. The Container Network Insights Agent provides a lightweight, web‑based in
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Categories: Features, Services

Connect to Elastic SAN from Windows VM via VM Extension

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:30:56 Z

Azure Elastic SAN now supports volume connectivity for Windows Virtual Machines using the Elastic SAN VM extension, directly from the Azure Portal. This capability enables customers to connect Elastic SAN volumes during virtual machine deployment, simplif
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Elastic SAN, Categories: Features

The problem: All-or-nothing batch processing in Azure Service Bus

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:47:37 Z

Azure Functions lets you settle each Service Bus message on its own within a batch. Complete, abandon, dead-letter, or defer messages one by one to avoid duplicate processing and handle errors with precision. The post The problem: All-or-nothing batch processing in Azure Service Bus appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Service Bus, Azure Functions, Categories: Services

HashiCorp Vault Integration with Terraform - Secure Secret Management

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:55:00 Z

Introduction When provisioning cloud infrastructure using Terraform, it is common to require sensitive values such as: Administrative credentials (usernames, passwords) API keys and tokens ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories: Management

Microsoft HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Azure WAF on Azure Front Door Premium

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:45:04 Z

Announcing the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset on Azure Front Door Premium.HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, and traditional static controls often fall short against evolving botnets. The new HTTP DDoS Ruleset
Update Type: Preview, Services: App Service, DDoS Protection, Azure Front Door, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Cross-region IPAM pool association in Azure Virtual Network Manager

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:45:04 Z

Managing IP address space across multiple regions can be difficult to scale and prone to configuration mistakes.With cross-region IPAM pool association, you can associate a single IPAM pool with virtual networks across multiple Azure regions. This helps c
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Network, VNet Manager, Categories: Features, Services, Management