Azure Update Storyline

Update's chronological storyline revealing the context of the previous events related to the services referenced
Date Services Type / Source Event / Link
Apr 29 2026
11:35:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Migrating Splunk Logs to Azure Application Insights on VMs
Apr 28 2026
20:30:56 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Connect to Elastic SAN from Windows VM via VM Extension
Apr 23 2026
16:45:55 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Apr 23 2026
10:23:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Azure Monitor Pipeline: A Modern Approach to Telemetry Ingestion at Scale
Apr 23 2026
04:08:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Entra ID Login via Azure Bastion Fails After VM Recreation
Apr 22 2026
20:45:32 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Arc adds SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines as a migration target
Apr 22 2026
18:34:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
AI-Powered Downtime Investigation for Azure VMs: Automating Root Cause Analysis
Apr 22 2026
17:45:10 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Logical replication slot sync Status metric for Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Apr 21 2026
20:51:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
Ingest at Scale, Securely - Azure Monitor pipeline Is Now Generally Available
Apr 21 2026
20:30:49 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor pipeline
Apr 21 2026
18:15:14 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Transition to Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD) to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by September 30, 2026
Apr 20 2026
17:30:53 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor supports native OTLP ingestion using the Azure Monitor Agent
Apr 17 2026
02:14:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
New in Azure SRE Agent: Log Analytics and Application Insights Connectors
Apr 15 2026
17:30:33 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
End of lift reminder of HBv2/HC-Series/NP-Series Azure Virtual Machine in Azure Batch Pool
Apr 15 2026
10:30:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Networking Blog
A demonstration of Virtual Network TAP
Apr 14 2026
21:15:15 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Azure VMs with NVMe disk controllers.
Apr 13 2026
18:45:30 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Managed identity support for graphical session recording
Apr 13 2026
17:45:02 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Monitor AKS applications with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor
Apr 13 2026
17:15:23 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Managed Grafana Essential SKU will retire on March 30, 2027
Apr 13 2026
08:06:00 UTC
Notice
Integration on Azure Blog
Migrate Data Ingestion from Data Collector to Log Ingestion
Apr 10 2026
16:37:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Service Mesh-Aware Request Tracing in AKS with Istio and Application Insights
Apr 09 2026
16:43:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Monitor AI Agents on App Service with OpenTelemetry and the New Application Insights Agents View
Apr 08 2026
17:30:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Observability in AKS Namespace and Workload Views
Apr 07 2026
19:30:53 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Red Hat OpenShift adds NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU support
Apr 07 2026
15:20:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Azure Monitor in Azure SRE Agent: Autonomous Alert Investigation and Intelligent Merging
Apr 06 2026
11:54:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Gov. and Mgmt Blog
Announcing Public Preview for Essential Machine Management
Apr 03 2026
04:48:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Demystifying On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Apr 02 2026
23:45:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Enterprise-Scale Azure Subscription Vending Using Azure Verified Modules (AVM)
Apr 02 2026
23:45:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Enterprise-Scale Azure Subscription Vending Using Azure Verified Modules (AVM)
Apr 01 2026
21:00:19 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Service Fabric support for Windows Server 2022 ends on March 31, 2027 - upgrade to Windows Server 2025
Apr 01 2026
20:30:41 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Service Fabric support for Windows Server 2019 ends on March 31, 2027 - upgrade to Windows Server 2025
Mar 31 2026
16:30:51 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in US Gov Arizona
Mar 30 2026
21:45:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching for VM/VMSS
Mar 30 2026
21:30:50 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Deprecation of sidecar for remote-write for Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Mar 30 2026
16:30:50 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in South India
Mar 30 2026
12:37:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching for VM/VMSS
Mar 30 2026
00:59:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
From Toil to Trust: How Azure SRE Agent Is Redefining Cloud Operations
Mar 24 2026
18:30:36 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
AKS managed GPU metrics in Azure Monitor
Mar 24 2026
18:15:48 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Container network logs in AKS
Mar 24 2026
17:30:29 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Prometheus community recommended alerts for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
Mar 24 2026
17:15:45 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Ingest OTLP data into Azure Monitor with the OpenTelemetry Collector
Mar 19 2026
16:30:27 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
NP-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on May 31, 2027
Mar 19 2026
16:30:27 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
HBv2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on May 31, 2027
Mar 19 2026
16:30:27 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
HC-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on May 31, 2027
Mar 18 2026
20:08:00 UTC
GA
Azure HPC Blog
Azure NCv6 Virtual Machines: Enhancements and GA Transition
Mar 17 2026
17:30:11 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure VMware Solution AV36P and AV52 node retirement on June 30, 2029
Mar 16 2026
18:45:11 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Migration of Azure Batch Low-Priority VMs to Spot VMs in early March
Mar 16 2026
18:30:34 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
End of life reminder of NVv3 and NVv4-series Azure virtual machine in Azure Batch pools
Mar 13 2026
09:54:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Observability Blog
Introducing Azure Managed Grafana 12
Mar 12 2026
21:15:25 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Summary rules in Log Analytics workspace now support manual Retry bin
Mar 11 2026
18:00:35 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Database for PostgreSQL dashboards with Grafana
Mar 11 2026
14:00:09 UTC
GA
Azure Gov Blog
Announcing general availability of Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) virtual machines for U.S. government environments
Mar 09 2026
07:16:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Upcoming Compute API Change: Always return non-null securityType
Feb 27 2026
23:15:13 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
DCesv6, DCedsv6, ECesv6, and ECedsv6 confidential VMs
Feb 27 2026
23:15:13 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in a third Availability Zone in New Zealan North
Feb 26 2026
00:30:50 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Secure ingestion and pod placement for Azure Monitor pipeline
Feb 25 2026
15:40:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing new public preview capabilities in Azure Monitor pipeline
Feb 20 2026
19:00:04 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Brazil Southeast, and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central
Feb 17 2026
09:30:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Automatic zone balance for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Feb 11 2026
16:16:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Azure Monitor pipeline transformations
Feb 09 2026
16:25:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing Application Insights SDK 3.x for .NET
Feb 06 2026
23:00:02 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Vaulted Backups for Azure Disk
Feb 06 2026
22:45:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor pipeline data transformations
Feb 06 2026
15:45:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Announcing Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) support for Existing VM SKUs
Feb 06 2026
15:04:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Announcing Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) support for Existing VM SKUs
Feb 06 2026
01:00:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
AMD v6 confidential VMs in new regions for January 2026
Feb 06 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
AKS Engineering Blog
Deploying KubeVirt on AKS
Feb 05 2026
21:45:03 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure virtual network routing appliance
Feb 04 2026
20:00:42 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure NetApp Files Elastic zone-redundant service level
Feb 04 2026
11:23:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Azure Automated Virtual Machine Recovery: Minimizing Downtime
Feb 02 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
PostgreSQL on Azure supercharged for AI
Jan 30 2026
18:30:02 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
"Send data to Event Hubs & Storage (Preview)" retiring July 31, 2026
Jan 30 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
AKS Engineering Blog
Navigating Capacity Challenges on AKS with Node Auto Provisioning or Virtual Machine Node Pools
Jan 28 2026
19:15:24 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure AMD Turin Dasv7, Easv7, and Fasv7-series Virtual Machines
Jan 27 2026
17:00:06 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
7th generation Intel-based VMs - Dlsv7/Dsv7/Esv7
Jan 27 2026
17:00:06 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure NetApp Files support in OpenShift Virtualization
Jan 27 2026
14:00:07 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Command Launcher for Java
Jan 27 2026
13:54:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing General Availability of Azure Da/Ea/Fasv7-series VMs based on AMD Turin processors
Jan 27 2026
13:54:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing General Availability of Azure Da/Ea/Fasv7-series VMs based on AMD Turin processors
Jan 26 2026
16:30:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
How SRE Agent Pulls Logs from Grafana and Creates Jira Tickets Without Native Integrations
Jan 15 2026
16:05:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Architecture Blog
Deploy PostgreSQL on Azure VMs with Azure NetApp Files: Production-Ready Infrastructure as Code
Dec 31 2025
21:00:35 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Cloud-native apps on Kubernetes pricing calculator scenario
Dec 31 2025
20:45:49 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Austria East and in a second Availability Zone in Japan West
Dec 11 2025
22:01:00 UTC
Preview
Azure HPC Blog
Azure Managed Prometheus on VM / VMSS
Dec 01 2025
17:30:38 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Perth - Azure Extended Zones
Nov 25 2025
16:45:50 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Managed Identity support in Network Watcher VNET flow log, traffic analytics and packet capture
Nov 24 2025
20:15:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Network Security Blog
Entra ID support for RDP connections in portal
Nov 24 2025
17:15:03 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Entra ID support for RDP connections
Nov 23 2025
18:55:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing public preview of query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor
Nov 21 2025
18:45:18 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Migrate to dedicated VM for your compute clusters
Nov 20 2025
17:22:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
Generally Available - Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS) Scale Limits Increased by 10x!
Nov 20 2025
15:00:59 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Trusted Launch is now supported for Arm64 Marketplace Images
Nov 20 2025
12:00:00 UTC
Preview
Microsoft Fabric Blog
Azure Monitor to Fabric Eventhouse
Nov 20 2025
08:00:32 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Nov 19 2025
17:45:05 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Recommended alerts for Azure Monitor Workspace
Nov 19 2025
11:36:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Introducing Metadata Security Protocol (MSP): Elevating Platform Security for Azure VMs
Nov 19 2025
01:55:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
General Availability: Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Logs
Nov 19 2025
01:13:00 UTC
GA
Azure HPC Blog
Azure ND GB300 v6 now Generally Available - Hyper-optimized for Generative and Agentic AI workloads
Nov 18 2025
18:00:28 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Managed Instance on Azure App Service
Nov 18 2025
17:35:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing General Availability of Scheduled Actions for Azure Virtual Machines
Nov 18 2025
17:35:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing the Preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 VMs based on the 5th Gen Intel Xeon processor
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server v6 series VMs and AMD v6 Confidential Compute
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Functions enables OpenTelemetry support
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Windows Server 2025 on AKS
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Pod sandboxing on AKS
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Advanced sampling and richer data collection in Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
NVv6 Virtual Machines
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Boost remote storage throughput and network bandwidth enhancements
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Boost confidential device
Nov 18 2025
16:56:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing General Availability: Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
Nov 18 2025
16:30:36 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Copilot observability agent
Nov 18 2025
16:12:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Simplify Application Monitoring for AKS with Azure Monitor (Public Preview)
Nov 18 2025
16:09:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Troubleshoot with OTLP signals in Azure Monitor (Limited Public Preview)
Nov 18 2025
16:00:16 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts
Nov 18 2025
16:00:16 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Copilot brings new intelligent agents to support end-to-end lifecycle management of workloads
Nov 18 2025
16:00:16 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor unified onboarding experience for AKS and VMs
Nov 18 2025
16:00:16 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
OpenTelemetry visualizations and enhanced monitoring experience in Azure Monitor for Azure VMs and Arc Servers
Nov 18 2025
16:00:16 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
OpenShift Virtualization now available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Nov 18 2025
16:00:16 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Industry-leading storage performance Ebsv6 VM series
Nov 18 2025
16:00:16 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Scheduled Actions
Nov 18 2025
16:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing preview of new Azure Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs based on Intel Xeon 6 processors
Nov 18 2025
16:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
PUBLIC PREVIEW: Announcing public preview of dynamic thresholds for log search alerts
Nov 18 2025
16:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Observability Blog
Introducing Monitoring Coverage: Assess and Improve Your Monitoring Posture at Scale
Nov 18 2025
16:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing preview of new Azure Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs based on Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids
Nov 18 2025
16:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Reimagining VM Application Management for an AI-Powered, Secure Future
Nov 18 2025
15:44:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Azure Monitor Integration with Fabric Real Time Intelligence Eventhouse
Nov 18 2025
13:45:04 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Threat Detection in Azure Backup powered by MDC
Nov 18 2025
09:35:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing the Preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 VMs based on the 5th Gen Intel Xeon processor
Nov 18 2025
08:00:28 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor
Nov 17 2025
20:00:46 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Introducing SDK Stats to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
Nov 17 2025
16:30:12 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Capacity guidance for Azure Site Recovery
Nov 17 2025
16:30:12 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Support 5x churn in Azure Site Recovery
Nov 17 2025
16:30:12 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Seamless failback for HyperV-to-Azure: Managed Disk support in Azure Site Recovery
Nov 17 2025
13:36:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Handle Scale for Power State Operations using Scheduled Actions for Azure Virtual Machines.
Nov 12 2025
17:43:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing public preview of query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor
Nov 05 2025
12:00:29 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure HBv5-series VMs
Nov 04 2025
14:35:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Observability Blog
Introducing the enhanced query diagnostics in Azure Log Analytics
Oct 29 2025
17:26:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Streamline Cloud Spend with Azure Reserved VM Instances
Oct 22 2025
17:15:22 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
VM vCore customization features disabling simultaneous multi-threading (SMT/HT) and constrained cores
Oct 20 2025
17:15:20 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups
Oct 17 2025
21:52:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing Preview of vCore Customization: Disable Multithreading & Configurable Constrained Cores
Oct 17 2025
21:52:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing Public Preview of VM Customization in Azure: Disable Multithreading & Constrained Cores
Oct 15 2025
22:43:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Public Preview for Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups - now available
Oct 15 2025
16:15:01 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
The F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B series VMs are retiring in 2028
Oct 14 2025
15:00:50 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Spot Placement Score
Oct 14 2025
10:30:39 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Site Recovery support for Ultra Disks
Oct 13 2025
15:30:40 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Integrated HSM
Oct 10 2025
01:32:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing resource-scope query for Azure Monitor Workspaces
Oct 07 2025
13:00:16 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Legacy Authentication in Azure Monitor - Container Insights will be retired on September 30, 2026.
Oct 06 2025
20:45:03 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 31 March 2026 (formerly 30 September 2025)
Oct 06 2025
10:12:54 UTC
Preview
Microsoft Fabric Blog
Spark Connector for SQL databases
Oct 03 2025
18:15:20 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance will be retired on Sep 30, 2026
Oct 03 2025
16:45:25 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
CLI command for migration from Availability Sets and basic load balancer on AKS
Sep 30 2025
19:30:35 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Soft Delete feature in Azure Compute Gallery
Sep 30 2025
17:15:32 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
NVv4-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30, 2026
Sep 29 2025
15:30:44 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Visualize New Azure Resource Manager Metrics through Azure Monitor
Sep 27 2025
00:30:39 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028
Sep 25 2025
17:10:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Microsoft Azure Introduces Azure Integrated HSM: A Key Cache for Virtual Machines
Sep 25 2025
12:00:02 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
The Insights blade in AKS is now called Monitor
Sep 24 2025
17:52:00 UTC
Preview
Apps on Azure Blog
Announcing thePublic Preview ofAzure Container AppsAzure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
Sep 24 2025
17:00:24 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Discover and assess PostgreSQL in Azure Migrate
Sep 24 2025
11:45:14 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Disk Encryption
Sep 23 2025
17:30:13 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks
Sep 23 2025
16:00:30 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
NVv3-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30,2026
Sep 22 2025
17:00:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Fabric Blog
Unlocking Real-Time Operational Intelligence: Azure Monitor Logs Integration in Fabric via Eventstream
Sep 19 2025
13:30:10 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
High Scale mode for Azure Monitor - Container Insights
Sep 19 2025
13:00:39 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Managed Service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal
Sep 19 2025
12:00:46 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Data Box Next Gen is now generally available in additional regions
Sep 18 2025
20:45:29 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Licensing changes for future Azure VMware Solution subscriptions starting October 16, 2025.
Sep 18 2025
19:00:07 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
DCa/ECa v6 series AMD based confidential virtual machines (VMs)
Sep 18 2025
17:00:27 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Distributed tracing for Durable Functions
Sep 16 2025
19:45:51 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Kubernetes Service on VMware will be retired on March 16, 2026 - Replace with Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Local
Sep 16 2025
14:30:41 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Container Storage v2.0.0 now with NVMe performance boost, open source, and no service fees
Sep 10 2025
15:15:43 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure D192 Sizes in the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series VM Families
Sep 09 2025
20:45:15 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure AMD-based Dasv7, Easv7, and Fasv7-series Virtual Machines
Sep 09 2025
16:30:49 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Multitenant Managed Logging in Container Insights
Sep 09 2025
13:36:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing preview of new Azure Dasv7, Easv7, Fasv7-series VMs based on AMD EPYC Turin processor
Sep 08 2025
23:49:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing General Availability of Azure D192 Sizes in the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series VM Families
Sep 08 2025
21:00:36 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Operating System (OS) Disks on Standard HDD will be retired on 08 September 2028
Sep 08 2025
20:25:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
Generally Available - High scale mode in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
Sep 04 2025
18:15:11 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch
Sep 04 2025
05:50:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Increase security for Azure VMs: Trusted launch in-place upgrade support now available!
Sep 03 2025
23:15:04 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Gateway level metrics and native autoscaling for Azure API Management v2 tiers
Sep 02 2025
18:45:30 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Confidential VM SKUs DCesv5, DCedsv5, ECesv5, ECedsv5 SKUs
Sep 02 2025
17:00:13 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in West US 2
Sep 02 2025
17:00:13 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in Central US
Sep 02 2025
17:00:13 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in UK South
Sep 01 2025
15:00:58 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure App Service - New Premium v4 Offering
Sep 01 2025
10:00:54 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium are now available in Azure China.
Aug 25 2025
20:30:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Gov. and Mgmt Blog
Designing for Certainty: How Azure Capacity Reservations Safeguard Mission-Critical Workloads
Aug 25 2025
16:50:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Migration Blog
Announcing more Azure VMware Solution enhancements
Aug 22 2025
19:20:00 UTC
Notice
Azure AI Services Blog
Azure Machine Learning now supports Large-Scale AI Training and Inference with ND H200 v5 VMs
Aug 22 2025
11:00:33 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Migrate now supports migration to disks with Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) redundancy
Aug 21 2025
16:45:10 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Generally, Available: Search Job in Log Analytics - Now Supporting Up to 100 Million Results
Aug 21 2025
15:30:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Functions Flex Consumption plan now supports 512 MB instance size and diagnostic settings
Aug 20 2025
16:45:09 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
DCesv6 and ECesv6 series confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Aug 14 2025
21:52:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Send signals from Micronaut applications to Azure Monitor through zero-code instrumentation
Aug 14 2025
21:23:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Send logs from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
Aug 14 2025
20:03:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Send traces from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
Aug 14 2025
19:27:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Send signals from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
Aug 14 2025
19:27:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Send metrics/traces/logs from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
Aug 14 2025
19:21:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Send metrics from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
Aug 11 2025
20:00:08 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Announcing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts in Azure Monitor
Aug 07 2025
16:00:43 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure 128 & 192 vCPU sizes for the Esv6 and Edsv6 series VMs
Aug 06 2025
16:00:45 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Data Box Next Gen is now generally available in additional regions
Aug 06 2025
03:30:15 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Confidential VMs for Azure Linux
Aug 06 2025
03:30:15 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Confidential VMs for Ubuntu 24.04 in AKS
Aug 06 2025
03:30:15 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Increase ingestion quota for Azure Managed Prometheus with an ARM API
Aug 05 2025
17:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
General Availability of Azure Monitor Network Security Perimeter Features
Aug 05 2025
15:06:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
General Availability of Auxiliary Logs and Reduced Pricing
Aug 01 2025
21:21:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing General Availability of Azure E128 & E192 Sizes in the Esv6 and Edsv6-series VM Families
Aug 01 2025
16:00:17 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup for Azure VMs
Jul 31 2025
17:15:08 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Live Resize for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra NVMe Disks
Jul 25 2025
10:30:26 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Search Job Enhancements in Log Analytics
Jul 24 2025
11:15:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Log Analytics Summary rules
Jul 23 2025
14:45:55 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Managed Lustre now supports VNet Encryption for in-transit data protection
Jul 22 2025
20:45:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Observability Blog
Introducing the Improved Search Job Experience in Azure Monitor Log Analytics
Jul 22 2025
18:15:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Migration Blog
Azure VMware Solution now available in Spain Central
Jul 18 2025
16:45:08 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Firewall now supports ingestion-time transformation in Log Analytics for flexible, cost-efficient logging
Jul 17 2025
20:15:19 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
GRS and CRR support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup availability in Norway and Japan
Jul 17 2025
18:00:35 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Virtual Machines node pools support in AKS
Jul 17 2025
18:00:35 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
CLI command for migration from Availability Sets and Basic load balancer on AKS
Jul 17 2025
17:00:17 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Node auto-provisioning support in AKS
Jul 16 2025
12:15:04 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Backup standard policies support for Trusted Launch virtual Machines
Jul 15 2025
16:15:41 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM
Jul 14 2025
16:20:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
SSD storage account support for Ephemeral OS disks
Jul 11 2025
13:30:24 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Migrate Azure VM backups from standard to enhanced policy
Jul 10 2025
14:45:50 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Trusted launch default for new Gen2 VMs & Scale sets
Jul 10 2025
14:45:50 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Enable Trusted launch on existing Virtual machine Uniform scale set
Jul 10 2025
14:45:50 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Enable Trusted launch on existing Virtual machine Flex scale set
Jul 10 2025
14:45:50 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Azure File Sync
Jul 02 2025
04:15:12 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
VM Insights Map and Dependency Agent are being on June 30, 2028
Jun 30 2025
19:00:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Encryption in Transit (EiT) for Azure Files NFS shares
Jun 30 2025
17:45:57 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics
Jun 26 2025
19:45:52 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines
Jun 26 2025
16:45:37 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Monitor ingestion issues with Azure Monitor Workspace
Jun 23 2025
17:30:54 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Advisor VM Right-Sizing Update - Expanded SKU support and series coverage
Jun 20 2025
11:30:35 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk and Ultra Disk are now available in Malaysia West
Jun 18 2025
18:00:12 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Migration service support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL 17
Jun 18 2025
18:00:12 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure SQL Managed Instance faster management operations
Jun 18 2025
16:00:51 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Ultra disks
Jun 18 2025
16:00:51 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
General Available: Increased Disk Capacity for Azure VM Backup
Jun 18 2025
11:15:05 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired- transition to a new method of internet access
Jun 17 2025
17:00:04 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Linux VMs to Enhance VM Troubleshooting
Jun 16 2025
16:15:03 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
DCsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on June 30, 2026
Jun 12 2025
17:00:35 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
New storage optimized Laosv4, Lasv4, and Lsv4 Azure VM series
Jun 12 2025
11:45:48 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Site Recovery Support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs Running Linux OS
Jun 11 2025
19:23:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing the general availability of Azure Laosv4, Lasv4, and Lsv4 storage optimized VMs
Jun 11 2025
12:30:59 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Announcing Azure Command Launcher for Java