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
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
OmniVec, an open-source embedding toolkit for Azure
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Integrated embeddings for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Logic Apps MCP Server.
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure API Management now supports token metrics for all token types
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Logic Apps Automation SKU for agentic business process automation.
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Logic Apps now enables developers to invoke Microsoft Foundry Agents directly from workflows.
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Benchmark evaluations for fine-tuned models in Microsoft Foundry
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Speech SDK 1.50 for Azure AI Speech
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Region-agnostic reservations for Global PTU in Microsoft Foundry
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
OneLake Catalog integration for Foundry IQ Knowledge Sources
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Image serving in Foundry IQ knowledge bases
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Managed identity for Foundry billing calls from Azure AI Search
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
GenAI prompt skill and chat completion in Azure AI Search knowledge sources
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Content Understanding extractionMode for documents
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
SharePoint in Microsoft 365 indexer supports ASPX pages and Lists
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Microsoft Purview sensitivity label auditing in Azure AI Search
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Photo Avatar standard and custom in Azure AI Speech
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Adaptive custom translation in the Azure AI Foundry NextGen playground
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure AI Translator SDKs for the latest text translation API
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Document translation for image files (synchronous, single document)
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Content Understanding NextGen in Microsoft Foundry
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Incremental SharePoint permissions sync for Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
MCP Server Knowledge Source in Microsoft Foundry IQ
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Trace Replay and trace visualizations for Foundry agents
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Custom Avatar and Custom Video portal in Microsoft Foundry
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Toolbox connectors and triggers in Microsoft Foundry
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Neural HD voice update (HDv2.5) in Azure AI Speech
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Serverless indexers in Azure AI Search
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
MAI-Image-2.5 in Microsoft Foundry model catalog
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
MAI-Transcribe-1.5 in Microsoft Foundry model catalog
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Purview sensitivity labels in Azure AI Search knowledge sources
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Hosted Agents in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Purview admin access auditing for sensitivity-labeled content in Azure AI Search
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Foundry Memory preview refresh
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
LLM Speech API in Azure AI Speech
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Managed virtual network for evaluations in Microsoft Foundry
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
OneLake catalog integration for Azure AI Search knowledge sources
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Image translation inside Office documents for batch document translation
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Image file translation for batch document translation in Azure AI Translator
Jun 02 2026
19:00:47 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Improved PDF batch document translation in Azure AI Translator
Jun 02 2026
18:10:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
New MAI models in Microsoft Foundry across text, image, voice, and speech
Jun 02 2026
17:20:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
A Developers Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry
Jun 02 2026
17:20:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
A Developers Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry
Jun 02 2026
17:15:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Foundry IQ: New governance and enterprise AI security capabilities
Jun 02 2026
17:15:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Foundry IQ: Improve recall by up to 54% with knowledge bases
Jun 02 2026
17:15:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Improved data processing features in Foundry IQ: Richer content extraction and data enrichment
Jun 02 2026
17:10:22 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026
Jun 02 2026
17:10:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval
Jun 02 2026
17:10:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Build agents you can trust across any framework with open evals and a control standard
Jun 02 2026
17:00:16 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Azure Translator: Improving Translation Quality with Adaptive Datasets and Few-Shot Learning
Jun 02 2026
17:00:06 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Azure Translator API Version 2026-06-06 (GA): Supporting Multilingual Applications with Flexible Translation Options
Jun 02 2026
17:00:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats new in Microsoft Foundry | Build Edition
Jun 02 2026
16:09:10 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats New in Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service
Jun 02 2026
15:15:36 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Snapshot backup for SQL Server in Azure VMs
Jun 02 2026
13:00:06 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure VMware Solution AV36 node End of Support on September 30, 2027
Jun 02 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview
Jun 02 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases
Jun 01 2026
18:30:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Automatic OS Image Upgrades for VMSS Flex
Jun 01 2026
16:53:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Online Meeting Effectiveness Index (OMEI)
May 31 2026
06:18:28 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats new in Microsoft Foundry | May 2026
May 29 2026
23:30:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats new in Azure Language in Foundry Tools
May 29 2026
22:30:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
GPT Realtime in Production: Which Context Strategy Should You Actually Use?
May 29 2026
21:15:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Choosing the Right Language Analyzer for Azure AI Search
May 29 2026
19:30:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Migrating to GPT-5.x Without Breaking GPT-4: A Practical, Backward-Compatible Playbook
May 29 2026
16:45:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
AI Observability Starter Kit for Microsoft Foundry agents
May 29 2026
15:15:43 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Site Recovery Support for Performance Plus Managed Disks
May 29 2026
15:00:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Load testing hosted MCP servers with Locust and Azure Load Testing
May 29 2026
01:20:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Extending the Vercel AI SDK to Microsoft Foundry (TypeScript)
May 28 2026
23:33:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Gov. and Mgmt Blog
[Preview] CIS Benchmarks on Azure; Now for Windows Server
May 28 2026
18:09:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry
May 25 2026
15:15:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Deploying Existing Agentic Services to Microsoft 365 Copilot via Gateway and OBO
May 22 2026
20:30:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Striking the Right Balance: ECN and PFC Thresholds for AI Clusters
May 22 2026
17:30:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Monitoring & Observability in Microsoft Foundry
May 22 2026
15:00:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Foundry IQ as a Shared Knowledge Brain for Multiple AI Agents
May 21 2026
21:30:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
When AI Should Ask for Help: Human-in-the-Loop Patterns in Microsoft Foundry
May 21 2026
19:38:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Teaching AI to Remember: Exploring Memory Store in Microsoft Foundry
May 21 2026
17:41:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
What's New in Microsoft Foundry Labs - May 2026
May 21 2026
17:29:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
You Can Build a Framework-Agnostic AI Gateway on Azure App Service - Here's How
May 21 2026
17:28:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Cohere Command A+ Now Available in Microsoft Foundry
May 21 2026
15:38:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Securing Azure AI Applications: Against Prompt Injection | Part - 2
May 20 2026
23:15:14 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
SQL Server on Azure VMs in Malaysia West, Indonesia Central
May 20 2026
02:56:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Golden Image Refresh for Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets: Driving Consistency at Scale
May 19 2026
16:34:07 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
How to run evals for the model router
May 19 2026
11:41:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Building AI Guardian Extension: AI Detection and Enterprise AI Security
May 19 2026
10:08:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Rundeck - AWS Enterprise Rundeck Integration with Azure Runner
May 18 2026
16:04:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Now in Foundry: Tongyi-MAI Z-Image-Turbo, with FLUX.1-schnell and SDXL base 1.0
May 18 2026
15:45:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
"Not Available in Your Region" Isn't a Dead End: A Security Assessment of Global Deployments
May 18 2026
08:27:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Getting Started with OpenSearch on AKS with AKS AVM and Helm
May 15 2026
22:00:42 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Microsoft Foundry built-in RBAC role naming and enhancements
May 15 2026
16:24:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Designing AI-Driven Observability for Trustworthy Agentic AI Systems
May 14 2026
20:29:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Building an AI-Powered Contract Price Adjustment Agent with Docusign MCP and Microsoft Foundry
May 14 2026
18:00:48 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Support for workloads with large files in Azure NetApp Files
May 14 2026
17:30:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Managed Identity Support for Azure Files SMB Is now GA
May 14 2026
16:09:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Open Model Inference at Scale on Foundry: Whats New with Fireworks AI
May 14 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
App Service Team Blog
New SSH helper aliases for Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux
May 13 2026
18:09:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
NVIDIA Dynamo on AKS - Autoscaling LLM Inference
May 13 2026
17:14:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing the general availability of Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module
May 13 2026
16:12:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Introducing Grok 4.3 on Microsoft Foundry: Latest Generation Agentic Capabilities
May 13 2026
03:11:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing the General Availability of the Next Generation of Azure Boost
May 12 2026
22:11:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Private Networking and Inference in Microsoft Foundry: Architecture Impact on Enterprise AI
May 12 2026
16:51:39 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API
May 12 2026
15:34:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Driving Efficiency in Modern System Engineering with AI Agents
May 12 2026
07:13:15 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026
May 08 2026
16:02:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Safely Migrating Terraform Managed Disks on Azure Using Stable Keys and Copilot
May 07 2026
21:33:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Migrate your regional virtual machines to availability zones
May 07 2026
18:15:17 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in all three available zones in Japan West
May 07 2026
18:00:38 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Dl/D/E v7 Virtual Machines
May 07 2026
17:59:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
A New Chapter for Realtime AI: Reasoning, Translation, and Real-Time Transcription
May 07 2026
16:08:00 UTC
GA
Azure Compute Blog
Announcing General Availability of Azure Dl/D/Esv7-series VMs based on Intel Xeon 6 processors
May 06 2026
19:45:54 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Bulk Restore for Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Backup
May 06 2026
16:30:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Now in Foundry: IBM Granite 4.1, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano Omni, and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
May 06 2026
05:23:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Operationalizing Responsible AI in Microsoft Foundry within Enterprise Network Boundaries
May 05 2026
22:30:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Migrate Availability Sets to Virtual Machine Scale Sets
May 05 2026
20:00:13 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Reserved Virtual Machines Instances for select VM series
May 05 2026
18:10:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Introducing OpenAI's newest chat model in Microsoft Foundry
May 05 2026
16:00:38 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
AVS Support for AV64 SKU on Azure Elastic SAN
May 04 2026
15:59:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Azure Reserved VM Instances for select VM series will no longer be available starting July 1, 2026
May 04 2026
15:59:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Compute Blog
Retired Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances Transition Guide
May 01 2026
12:14:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
AI-Accelerated AVM Refactoring: Modernizing Legacy IaC Safely and Swiftly
May 01 2026
00:09:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Introducing DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro in Microsoft Foundry
Apr 30 2026
21:15:00 UTC
Retirement
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Prompt flow is being retired
Apr 30 2026
15:05:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Introducing Post-Stream Refinement: Higher-Accuracy Real-Time Transcription
Apr 30 2026
15:00:00 UTC
Preview
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Voice Live API now supports WebRTC (Preview)
Apr 30 2026
14:05:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Network Security Blog
Managed Identity support for graphical session recording
Apr 30 2026
04:38:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Architecture Blog
Running Diffusion Models at Scale on AKS
Apr 29 2026
19:15:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Operating AI Agents on Azure: Observability with Azure AI Foundry
Apr 29 2026
18:15:05 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0
Apr 29 2026
11:35:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Migrating Splunk Logs to Azure Application Insights on VMs
Apr 29 2026
00:00:55 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Memory in Foundry Agent Service
Apr 28 2026
20:30:56 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Connect to Elastic SAN from Windows VM via VM Extension
Apr 28 2026
17:45:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Architecting Cost-Aware LLM Workloads with Model Router in Microsoft Foundry
Apr 28 2026
16:30:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
OrganAIze - What Happens When You Let AI Agents Organize Themselves?
Apr 27 2026
21:15:00 UTC
GA
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Bring Your Own Model to Foundry Agent Service Is Now Generally Available
Apr 27 2026
18:00:52 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Bring your own AI Gateway in Foundry Agent Service
Apr 27 2026
16:15:55 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Prompt Flow in Azure ML and Foundry
Apr 27 2026
06:06:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Azure AI Foundry vs Traditional ML Pipelines: Whats Different and Why It Matters
Apr 24 2026
18:15:17 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (formerly AI Toolkit for VS Code)
Apr 24 2026
18:15:17 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service
Apr 24 2026
13:00:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Deploying an Agentic Service to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Delegated OBO Access
Apr 23 2026
19:00:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
GPT Capability in Understanding Coordinates:How GPT-5.4 Transforms Spatial Precision
Apr 23 2026
16:16:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Microsoft 365 multi-agent workflow with Microsoft Agent Framework
Apr 23 2026
16:00:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Automate Prior Authorization with AI Agents - Now Available as a Foundry Template
Apr 23 2026
04:08:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Entra ID Login via Azure Bastion Fails After VM Recreation
Apr 23 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
OpenAIs GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform
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
17:30:43 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry
Apr 22 2026
17:30:12 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey for Building, Composing, and Deploying AI Agents
Apr 22 2026
17:30:03 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents
Apr 22 2026
16:00:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Three tiers of Agentic AI - and when to use none of them
Apr 22 2026
15:56:00 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Introducing Kimi K2.6 in Microsoft Foundry
Apr 20 2026
17:30:53 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor supports native OTLP ingestion using the Azure Monitor Agent
Apr 16 2026
19:34:46 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats New in Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning | April 2026
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 09 2026
23:33:53 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats new in Microsoft Foundry | March 2026
Apr 09 2026
19:00:00 UTC
GA
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Foundry Local is now Generally Available
Apr 08 2026
15:00:50 UTC
Notice
Azure SDK Blog
Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
Apr 07 2026
19:30:53 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Red Hat OpenShift adds NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU support
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 02 2026
12:50:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
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
Apr 01 2026
18:00:10 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Select Azure AI Language Features
Mar 31 2026
16:30:51 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in US Gov Arizona
Mar 31 2026
03:31:29 UTC
Notice
Azure SDK Blog
Azure Developer CLI (azd) - March 2026: Run and Debug AI Agents Locally, GitHub Copilot Integration, & Container App Jobs
Mar 30 2026
21:45:47 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching for VM/VMSS
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 23 2026
16:54:40 UTC
Notice
Azure SDK Blog
From code to cloud: Deploy an AI agent to Microsoft Foundry in minutes with azd
Mar 19 2026
17:48:10 UTC
Preview
Azure DevOps Blog
Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry
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 18 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform
Mar 17 2026
17:45:45 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Foundry Agent Service
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
20:30:57 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Foundry Agent Service is GA: private networking, Voice Live, and enterprise-grade evaluations
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 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 11 2026
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Introducing Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry: Bringing high performance, low latency open model inference to Azure
Mar 09 2026
07:16:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Compute Blog
Upcoming Compute API Change: Always return non-null securityType
Mar 06 2026
23:08:31 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats new in Microsoft Foundry | February 2026
Mar 05 2026
19:11:40 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry
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 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 20 2026
05:51:29 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Microsoft Agent Framework Reaches Release Candidate
Feb 19 2026
01:01:09 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats new in Microsoft Foundry | Dec 2025 & Jan 2026
Feb 18 2026
19:00:07 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Unlocking document understanding with Mistral Document AI in Microsoft Foundry
Feb 17 2026
18:08:39 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale
Feb 17 2026
09:30:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Compute Blog
Automatic zone balance for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Feb 13 2026
23:13:44 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
DPO Fine-Tuning Using Microsoft Foundry SDK
Feb 11 2026
17:29:15 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Beyond the Prompt - Why and How to Fine-tune Your Own Models
Feb 06 2026
23:00:02 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Vaulted Backups for Azure Disk
Feb 06 2026
19:11:04 UTC
Notice
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Building an AI Skills Executor in .NET: Bringing Anthropics Agent Pattern to the Microsoft Ecosystem
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 05 2026
18:30:32 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Claude Opus 4.6, Available on Microsoft Foundry
Feb 05 2026
07:43:00 UTC
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Azure Infrastructure Blog
Observability in Generative AI: Building Trust with Systematic Evaluation in Microsoft Foundry
Feb 05 2026
00:00:00 UTC
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Announcements Blog
Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropics powerful model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows is now available in Microsoft Foundry
Feb 04 2026
20:00:42 UTC
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Azure Updates
Azure NetApp Files Elastic zone-redundant service level
Feb 04 2026
11:23:00 UTC
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Azure Compute Blog
Azure Automated Virtual Machine Recovery: Minimizing Downtime
Feb 02 2026
00:00:00 UTC
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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
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Azure Updates
7th generation Intel-based VMs - Dlsv7/Dsv7/Esv7
Jan 27 2026
17:00:06 UTC
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Azure Updates
Azure NetApp Files support in OpenShift Virtualization
Jan 27 2026
14:00:07 UTC
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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 15 2026
18:52:42 UTC
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Azure Gov Blog
Announcing GPT-5.2 Availability in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret Clouds
Jan 15 2026
16:05:00 UTC
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Azure Architecture Blog
Deploy PostgreSQL on Azure VMs with Azure NetApp Files: Production-Ready Infrastructure as Code
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 23 2025
19:03:00 UTC
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Apps on Azure Blog
Host ChatGPT apps on Azure Functions
Dec 19 2025
04:55:08 UTC
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Microsoft Foundry Blog
Whats new in Microsoft Foundry | October and November 2025
Dec 11 2025
22:01:00 UTC
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Azure HPC Blog
Azure Managed Prometheus on VM / VMSS
Dec 07 2025
10:55:00 UTC
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Microsoft Foundry Blog
Foundry IQ in Microsoft Agent Framework
Dec 04 2025
09:00:00 UTC
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Microsoft Fabric Blog
Unlocking Enterprise AI: Seamless Integration of OneLake Files in Microsoft Foundry Knowledge
Dec 03 2025
19:15:11 UTC
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Microsoft Foundry Blog
Announcing Foundry MCP Server (preview) in the cloud, speeding up AI development with Microsoft Foundry
Dec 03 2025
03:15:13 UTC
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Microsoft Foundry Blog
Upcoming Virtual Event AI Dev Days, Level-Up Your AI Skills with Microsoft Reactor
Dec 01 2025
17:30:38 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Perth - Azure Extended Zones
Nov 28 2025
10:42:00 UTC
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Apps on Azure Blog
Azure App Service AI Scenarios: Complete Sample with AI Foundry Integration
Nov 25 2025
16:45:50 UTC
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Azure Updates
Managed Identity support in Network Watcher VNET flow log, traffic analytics and packet capture
Nov 24 2025
20:15:00 UTC
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Azure Network Security Blog
Entra ID support for RDP connections in portal
Nov 24 2025
17:15:03 UTC
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Azure Updates
Entra ID support for RDP connections
Nov 21 2025
18:45:18 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Migrate to dedicated VM for your compute clusters
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
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Microsoft Fabric Blog
Azure Monitor to Fabric Eventhouse
Nov 19 2025
11:36:00 UTC
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Azure Compute Blog
Introducing Metadata Security Protocol (MSP): Elevating Platform Security for Azure VMs
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
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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
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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
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Azure Updates
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server v6 series VMs and AMD v6 Confidential Compute
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
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Azure Updates
Windows Server 2025 on AKS
Nov 18 2025
17:01:02 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Pod sandboxing on AKS