Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on November 15, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely on them:Av2-seriesF-series, Fs-series, Fsv2-seriesG-series, Gs-seriesLsv2-seriesAfter this date:New Batch pools usin…
Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on May 1, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely on them:D-series, Ds-seriesDv2-series, Dsv2-seriesLs-seriesAfter this date:New Batch pools using these VM series cannot be…
As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, we are announcing the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts. This includes …
SQL MCP Server is now generally available, giving customers a secure, high-performance way to build agentic solutions with controlled access to production data. Built for SQL and compatible with PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos DB, SQL MCP Serv…
Update to our previous communication: We previously announced the retirement of all Inbound NAT rules version 1 resources, which included both single-VM NAT rules and NAT pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets. We have narrowed the scope of …
Microsoft Entra server principals (logins) for Azure SQL Database is now generally available. You can now use CREATE LOGIN ... FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER in the virtual master database, bringing parity with SQL logins for your Microsoft Entra …
As of March 31, 2026, new Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL accounts can no longer enable Azure Synapse Link. Existing customers will remain fully supported until March 31, 2029, when Azure Synapse Link will reach end of life.We encourage all customer…
The Azure VPN Client for Linux (Preview) has remained in public preview and does not have a path to general availability (GA). As part of our ongoing efforts to align Azure networking services with current security and reliability standard…
You can now use Agent mode for GitHub Copilot in SSMS to work with your database: investigating performance problems, tuning queries, reviewing maintenance and configuration, identifying security concerns, troubleshooting errors, and assis…
PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers brings together key AI and application development resources for PostgreSQL on Azure. It includes curated sample apps and solution accelerators, tutorials, and structured learning pathways to help you bu…
Azure NCv6-series virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available in the Azure Southeast Asia and West US 2 regions. NCv6 VMs are powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition graphics processing units (GPUs) with each GPU fea…
Azure Premium SSD v2 disks now support non-zonal, single-instance Azure virtual machines in select Azure regions with Availability Zones (AZs). Customers can now deploy Premium SSD v2 with non-zonal virtual machines without selecting an Av…
Starting July 1, 2026, Microsoft Foundry agent security capabilities previously available through Microsoft Defender for Cloud will transition to a Microsoft Agent 365 license. Agent protection in Defender will be powered by Agent 365 obse…
Azure Site Recovery now supports replication and disaster recovery for Linux Azure Virtual Machines running on NVMe-enabled Generation 2 VM families, such as the Da/Ea/Fa v6-series and Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 in the Azure-to-Azure scenario. This supp…
Enhanced maintenance control capabilities are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. These new capabilities give you greater visibility and flexibility in managing platform maintenance events, helping re…
With role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Managed Redis data access, you can precisely control who can read, write, or administer your Redis data using Microsoft Entra ID—without relying on shared keys. Built on top of Redis Access C…
Metrics Usage Insights now includes an Ingestion Volume Change dashboard to help you compare ingestion volume over time. Quickly detect spikes or drops in time series counts and event ingestion rates, enabling faster investigation of cost …
Guest RDMA is now in preview on Azure, starting in the UK South region, bringing high-throughput, ultra-low latency networking directly into guest VMs within the same region. By using Azure Boost to enable RDMA in the guest OS, application…
In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now supports avatar voice sync with custom voices in the Voice Live API, allowing developers to pair branded or persona-specific text-to-speech voices with real-time avatar experiences. This update help…
We’re pleased to announce that Azure Migrate now generally supports discovery and assessment of SMB and NFS file shares hosted on Windows and Linux servers. This gives customers a complete, data-driven view of their file share environment …
AI pipelines for Azure HorizonDB is now available in public preview. AI pipelines let you describe an AI data ingestion workflow, chunking, embedding, extraction, generation, and ranking, declaratively in SQL, and run it as a fault-toleran…
Azure Monitor's support for native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals is now generally available. This enables you to send telemetry data directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications and platforms to Azure Monitor.…
Microsoft Foundry adds tool search to Foundry toolboxes in public preview, giving developers and admins a fast way to find the right tool inside large, multi-team catalogs. As your toolbox grows, sending every tool definition on every turn…
Microsoft Foundry brings Azure API Management support to all Foundry model integrations in Azure AI Search, now in public preview. Enterprise platform engineers and AI solution teams running large-scale RAG pipelines can place Foundry and …
Microsoft Foundry adds Azure SQL Database as a first-class Knowledge Source in Azure AI Search, available in public preview. Enterprise developers and solution architects building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can now expose author…
Microsoft Discovery is now generally available, providing research and development organizations an enterprise platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines. Also available in previe…
Azure AI Search and Foundry Knowledge Bases now support private, end-to-end network connectivity between search resources and Foundry services. Customers can route ingestion, enrichment, retrieval, and agent traffic over Shared Private Lin…
Microsoft Foundry IQ now treats a Microsoft Fabric Ontology as a federated knowledge source in public preview, giving agents a way to query the semantic layer customers already curate in Fabric. Foundry IQ translates natural language quest…
Microsoft Foundry IQ reaches general availability, giving developers a managed knowledge layer that grounds agents in enterprise data without rebuilding retrieval pipelines for each project. Teams connect SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Blob, a…
Azure AI Search now supports Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization in public preview, expanding the built-in skill that parses rich documents during indexing. Indexers can split documents into semantically meaningful chunk…
Azure Monitor now includes Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), giving teams a clearer way to measure how customers actually experience their applications. Instead of relying only on infrastructure signals l…
Microsoft Foundry now offers MAI-Voice-2 in public preview, a first-party voice model from the Microsoft AI team. MAI-Voice-2 generates natural speech across more than 10 languages and supports voice cloning from a short reference sample, …
Ever wondered how to allow auditing personas (i.e. security analyst in your organization or security assessment contractor) the ability to view your ledger files and establish trust in the cryptographic proofs themselves? With the new loc…
Azure AI Language brings the next-generation Text Analytics for Health (TA4H) playground to general availability in the Microsoft Foundry portal. Clinical informatics teams and ISVs can paste discharge summaries, doctor's notes, or researc…
This feature introduces end user feedback logging semantics that enables developers to capture structured feedback signals from real users interacting with AI agents—such as thumbs up/down, ratings, or custom annotations—and automatically …
Microsoft Foundry brings self-serve custom photo avatar creation to GA in the Foundry NextGen fine-tuning portal. Enterprise customers building voice agents with avatars or producing content with avatar and speech often need a branded avat…
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in Azure Belgium Central, expanding regional availability for OpenShift deployments across Europe. With the launch of Microsoft’s first Azure region in Belgium, customers can now run…
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service adds agent-to-agent (A2A) communication in public preview for Prompt agents and Hosted agents that use the responses protocol. Agents can call other agents by name through a managed endpoint, with identity, …
In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers a Conversational PII (ConvPII) NextGen Playground with transcript input and an API Configuration Panel, enabling developers to validate PII detection across multi-speaker dialogue before inte…
In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers an updated TextPII NextGen Playground with a refreshed API Configuration Panel, including preview features introduced at Ignite 2025. This update lets developers test predefined PII categorie…
Use the Azure Developer CLI (azd) CLI evaluation experience to add a measured quality loop to an agent created with Microsoft Foundry. It empowers users on the hosted-agent lifecycle in azd, where you create, provision, deploy, initialize …
Microsoft Foundry model catalog adds a domain filter in public preview, helping developers narrow the catalog of over 1,900 models to the ones trained for a specific industry or use case. Filters cover domains such as robotics, biomedical …
The Microsoft Foundry extension for Visual Studio Code reaches general availability with a Build 2026 refresh that brings the full model catalog, model playground, and Hosted agent deployment into the editor. Developers can sign in with th…
Microsoft Foundry observability introduces intelligent trace filtering and sampling for evaluations in public preview. Instead of running evaluations against all production traces, Foundry now select a representative subset of traces using…
Azure AI Speech moves the Custom Voice authoring experience into the Microsoft Foundry portal in general availability. Approved Custom Voice customers can now upload voice talent recordings and consent statements, run data quality checks, …
Microsoft Foundry introduces rubric evaluators for measuring agent quality, now in public preview for single-turn and multi-turn agent flows. Rubric evaluators enable developers to define context-specific evaluation criteria using agent pr…
Microsoft is announcing Confidential Live Migration in Azure, a new capability designed to improve operational flexibility and availability for Intel® TDX Confidential VMs during platform servicing. Confidential Live Migration helps move a…
Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager is now in public preview, offering a unified, goal-driven experience to design, assess, and improve application resiliency across Azure. It brings together capabilities across Availability Zones, Azu…
You can now install the DuckDB extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. Learn more.
Now you can unify your search operations in a single database. Azure DocumentDB has added fuzzy search, proximity search, more language support, and BM25 ranking to its full-text capabilities, bringing vector and advanced text search opera…
We are excited to announce the General Availability of Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor, available starting today. This feature is designed to provide a simplified and more intuitive experience for monitoring and alerting, enhancing your…
Microsoft Foundry brings code-first observability to agent developers in public preview, delivered as an observe skill inside the Foundry Plugin for VS Code Copilot Chat. Developers run the full evaluation-driven optimization loop from the…
Your AI coding agents just got smarter about building high-performance database applications. The Azure Cosmos DB Agent Kit is now generally available, bringing proven best practices directly into your development workflow. Whether you're …
In early June 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Now you can use AES 256 symmetric keys to configure transparent data encryption (TDE) with customer-managed keys in Azure SQL Database. Learn more.
Azure Files now supports access from macOS using Entra ID authentication (Public Preview), enabling secure, identity-based access to file shares for cross-platform teams. This expands support for modern workflows, allowing users on macOS t…
The new file share service management experience for Azure Files is now generally available for NFS 4.1 shares on SSD storage. Powered by the Microsoft.FileShares resource provider, file shares are now top-level Azure resources that you ca…
The general purpose Dpsv7 and Dplsv7, memory-optimized Epsv7, high-memory Mpsv4, and dense storage Lpsv5 VMs are now available in preview. These virtual machines deliver significant enhancements over the previous generation Cobalt 100 VMs,…
Azure AI Translator's unified Text Translation API reaches general availability, giving developers a single endpoint that fronts neural machine translation, large language model translation, small language model translation, Adaptive custo…
As organizations adopt multiple LLM providers, developers often need to handle different API formats, SDKs, and integration patterns for each model vendor. This increases application complexity and makes provider switching, failover, and g…
As API estates grow, managing individual custom domains and certificates for every subdomain can quickly become operationally complex and difficult to scale. Without wildcard support, every new subdomain — whether payments.api.contoso.com,…
Global Provisioned Throughput (PTU) reservations are now region-agnostic, enabling a single reservation to cover Global PTU deployments across multiple regions. Why it matters:Optimize savings: One reservation can apply across regions, imp…
You can now enable vaulted backups for Azure Cosmos DB accounts, protecting mission-critical data with secure, isolated, and resilient backups. Azure Backup for Cosmos DB, now in preview, supports cyber-resiliency and compliance needs, eve…
Azure Policy now provides centralized governance for deployments using the model router. Organizations can define and enforce routing standards across their environment, helping ensure that model selection aligns with security, compliance,…
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is now generally available for Voice Live integration, allowing developers to connect real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech to a Foundry Agent without writing their own audio pipeline. Existing agent c…
Azure Sphere OS version 26.06 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to Azure Sphere OS only; it does not include an updated SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS f…
Automatic OS Image Upgrades for Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) using Flexible Orchestration are now in public preview, enabling consistent, fleet-wide OS updates with reduced manual effort. This capability extends automated image upgrad…
OpenTelemetry metrics and visualizations in Azure Monitor are generally available, delivering an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc Servers. This release consolidates key monitoring capabilities into…
Azure Linux 4.0, Microsoft's first-party Linux distribution purpose-built for Azure, is now available in public preview for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets. It brings a modernized stack — including Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, dnf5 pack…
Azure Container Linux is a container-optimized, immutable operating system for AKS node pools — derived from Flatcar Container Linux and built on Azure Linux RPM packages. It delivers a locked-down, minimal host purpose-built for running c…
Azure Event Grid Standard Namespace now supports MQTT v5 subscription identifier capabilities in GA. Now each MQTT subscription can include an identifier that is delivered with incoming messages, enabling applications to route events immed…
Microsoft is announcing the preview of multiparty analytics with Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, resulting in fully managed service that allows customers and their partners to securely analyze privacy sensitive datasets with Apache Spark b…
The Lasv5 and Laosv5 storage optimized VMs, based on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor (Turin), are in preview. Lasv5-series is designed for storage-intensive workloads requiring high disk capacity, throughput, and I/O, while Laosv5-series i…
GitHub Copilot modernization agent is now generally available Coordinated orchestration from estate to code. Scale application assessments and upgrades across your entire app portfolio with GitHub Copilot modernization agen…
Rolling updates are now generally available in the Flex Consumption plan, delivering zero-downtime deployments with a simple configuration change.Instead of forcefully restarting all instances during code or configuration updates, the plat…
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts! Using dynamic thresholds means you don't have to know the right threshold for each Log alert rule - Dynamic thresholds calculate the most approp…
A new workspace-wide Genie MCP endpoint enables any Microsoft Copilot Studio agent to query natural-language questions across an entire Azure Databricks workspace through a single endpoint. The endpoint auto-routes across all connected Gen…
Developers in Azure Databricks can now create a copy-on-write branch of their Lakebase production database with a single command, connect GitHub Copilot agent mode to the branch endpoint, and debug AI apps and agents against real productio…
Azure AI Translator batch document translation ships generally available improvements for PDF translation. The service uses Azure AI Document Intelligence to recover structure from both digital-native and scanned PDFs, then translates the …
Azure AI Translator batch document translation accepts image files as a generally available input type. Supported formats include `.jpeg`, `.png`, `.bmp`, and `.webp`. The service runs OCR on each image, translates the recognized text into…
Azure AI Translator batch document translation now translates text inside images embedded in Word `.docx` files as a generally available capability. The service detects image regions, runs OCR, translates the recognized text, and re-render…
Azure AI Search makes OneLake catalog integration generally available for knowledge sources, so customers can register a OneLake item once and reuse it across multiple knowledge sources and agents. The integration honors existing OneLake i…
Microsoft Foundry makes managed virtual network support generally available for evaluations, so customers can run cloud evaluation jobs against models and agents that sit behind private endpoints. The Foundry-managed VNET handles outbound …
Azure AI Speech makes the LLM Speech API generally available, delivering state-of-the-art LLM-powered transcription and translation for audio files, with multi-lingual support across 25 languages (90+ locales), improved accuracy, expanded …
You can now convert Oracle database schema objects to Azure Database for PostgreSQL-compatible schema directly in the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. The experience provides a project-based workflow for Oracle to Microsoft for…
You can now proactively validate Major Version Upgrade (MVU) readiness for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server before initiating the actual upgrade process. New pre-upgrade validation checks allow you to independently run upgrade…
You can now use Microsoft Defender security assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL to continuously evaluate your database security posture and identify potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This feature helps you strength…
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now supports cross-tenant customer-managed keys (CMK), in public preview, allowing you to encrypt your data at rest using an Azure Key Vault key that resides in a separate Microsoft Entra ten…
Now customers can install the pg_ivm extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. Learn more.
Microsoft Foundry refreshes the Foundry Memory public preview with a redesigned storage model, new retrieval controls, and tighter integration with the Foundry Agent Service tool surface. Agents using Memory can now write, search, and upda…
Azure AI Search adds Microsoft Purview admin access auditing for sensitivity-labeled content in public preview. Admin operations that touch Purview-labeled documents inside Azure AI Search, knowledge retrieval, and Foundry IQ knowledge bas…
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service reaches preview for Hosted Agents, the container-based runtime that lets developers bring their own agent code in any framework and deploy it to Microsoft-managed infrastructure. Each Hosted Agent runs in a …
Azure AI Search adds Microsoft Purview sensitivity label support to knowledge sources in public preview. Labels applied at the source system flow through ingestion into Azure AI Search and into the knowledge bases that ground Foundry agent…
Microsoft Foundry adds MAI-Transcribe-1.5 to the model catalog in public preview, Microsoft's next-generation speech-to-text model. The release adds improved accuracy with noticeably lower word error rate on long-tail locales than the prev…
Microsoft Foundry adds MAI-Image-2.5 to the model catalog in public preview, the next generation of Microsoft's in-house image generation model. The release improves photorealism, prompt fidelity, and generation speed compared with MAI-Ima…
Azure AI Search now offers a serverless option for native indexers in public preview, removing the requirement to provision and manage indexer compute for ingestion workflows. Indexer execution scales with workload demand, so customers sto…
Azure AI Speech is rolling out an updated Neural HD text-to-speech model, moving customers from DragonHDLatest to HDv2.5. The update raises audio quality scores, adds style and paralinguistic tag support for English voices, and reduces wor…
Microsoft Foundry adds connectors and time-based triggers to the Foundry Tools toolbox in public preview, giving enterprise developers and automation engineers a native way to build event-driven AI agents. Foundry agents today are invoked …
Azure AI Speech brings the Custom Avatar and Custom Video authoring experiences into the Microsoft Foundry portal in general availability. Approved customers can upload an actor's video recording, fine-tune a custom video avatar, and gener…
Microsoft Foundry observability adds Trace Replay and new trace visualizations in public preview, giving agent developers a faster way to debug multi-step runs. The replay view rewinds a captured trace step by step, showing the model, tool…
Microsoft Foundry IQ now supports external MCP servers as federated knowledge sources in public preview, expanding retrieval beyond data customers index themselves. Teams can register MCP servers from systems like Salesforce, Atlassian, Co…