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With database-level managed identity in Azure SQL Database, you can use a user-assigned managed identity for each database to query files in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 through external tables and OPENROWSET. You can authenticate t
Large OS Disk Encryption (LOSDE) is now generally available for Azure Confidential VM migration scenarios. Organizations can move larger, production-scale workloads into confidential computing with the OS disk fully protected, instead of being held back b
Announcing the general availability of the HTTP DDoS ruleset for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door Premium. HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, and static controls such as IP filters and fixed rat
Azure MCP Server 3.0 is now generally available, expanding how AI agents and developer tools interact with Azure through the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).This release introduces new and expanded capabilities:Infrastructure as code: Azure Terraform to
The Log Analytics logging destination for Azure Container Apps is now a legacy logging option. Existing environments configured with the Log Analytics logging destination will continue to function normally. However, we recommend planning a migration to th
Cross-Tenant Restore (CTR) helps organizations establish an independent recovery path by enabling Azure VM backups to be restored into a separate Azure tenant. It strengthens cyber resilience while using the existing backup copy, without requiring custome
Private offers through Microsoft Marketplace help you optimize your spending power with pricing and terms aligned to your organization’s needs, including flexible billing, custom contract lengths, and more. For eligible private offers, we are simplifying
Higher Azure Storage account resource quotas are now generally available, supporting up to 1,000 storage accounts with standard endpoints per region, per subscription, up from the default of 250. Manage more accounts in a single subscription, reducing the
Microsoft Foundry now brings Claude models into Azure Cost Management alongside the rest of your Foundry spend, generally available. Until now, Claude charges appeared under SaaS rather than under the Foundry resource used to deploy them, and Claude deplo
Announcing the general availability of profile and route level policies for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door Premium. WAF policies are no longer limited to individual domains: you can now apply broad baseline protection across an e
Azure Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering is now generally available, enabling you to control which network traffic flows are logged based on specific criteria such as IP addresses, ports, protocols, encryption state, flow state, and traffic directio
Azure Backup now supports Item-Level Recovery (ILR) for Azure virtual machines using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks with both 512 byte and 4KB logical sector sizes. You can now recover individual files and folders from your Azure VMs with Premium SSDv2 an
ABFS Vectored Read helps compatible analytics engines reduce request overhead for selective reads in Azure Data Lake Storage. By combining nearby file ranges into fewer storage requests and executing reads asynchronously, it can reduce network round trips
What and whyStarting October 30, 2026, Microsoft Entra ID will make the Choose Your Own Telephony Provider experience available. This feature enables organizations to use a supported third-party telecommunications provider for SMS and voice authentication
Safe Key Rotation for Azure Cosmos DB is now generally available. You can view timestamp metadata showing when each account key was last used, helping you identify active keys before rotating or retiring credentials.This visibility helps reduce the risk o
Announcing the public preview of disable VNet peering route, a route-table capability that gives you more control over traffic between peered virtual networks. DPR suppresses system-generated peering routes on subnets associated with the route table while
Announcing the general availability of the service tag match condition for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules on Azure Front Door Premium. Service tags represent groups of IP address prefixes used by Azure services, and Microsoft updates th
Azure Application Gateway now supports keyless TLS termination using certificates whose private keys stay in Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. Each TLS handshake signature is performed inside the HSM, and the private key is never exported to the gateway. This
Advanced platform metrics for Azure Monitor are now generally available. Advanced platform metrics provide finer-grained signals that help customers more quickly and accurately identify changes and trends within their resources.With this release, customer
Metrics usage insights is now generally available, giving you greater visibility into what’s driving metrics usage across your Azure Monitor workspace. Monitor workspace utilization, identify unused metrics, understand usage trends, and investigate change
Azure DNS now provides DNS based load balancing by seamless integration with Azure Traffic Manager. Customers can directly associate an Azure DNS record set with a Traffic Manager profile, eliminating the need to create a CNAME record pointing to the traf
Private network gateway for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview, enabling serverless compute to connect to resources in your virtual network (VNet) and transitively connected networks through a single managed gateway. Customers can use the gateway t
External key management for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is now generally available in all Azure public regions. For organizations with regulatory or sovereignty requirements to retain physical control of key-encryption keys, it lets Azure services that su
Azure Files customers can now copy and synchronize file share data across storage accounts, Azure regions, and subscriptions within the same tenant using Azure Storage Mover. Schedule incremental transfers to maintain secondary copies that can support bus
Standard service endpoint, a new capability in the Azure Private Link family, provides a scalable and secure approach for connecting Azure IaaS workloads to Azure PaaS services. Standard service endpoint addresses the manageability, and the scale limitati
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