Azure Backup now supports operational backup for Elastic SAN, offering a fully managed solution for backing up and restoring Elastic SAN volumes. This integration helps protect data against accidental deletions, ransomware attacks, and application updates

Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent is now generally available. Troubleshooting Agent is a unified, built-in Azure Copilot capability that helps customers investigate and resolve operational issues faster. Available through both Azure Copilot and Support

Azure Copilot Observability Agent, an AI-powered operational companion in Azure Monitor, is now covering Log Analytics data in Basic and Auxiliary table plans during interactive analysis and deep investigations. Teams can move high-volume telemetry - incl

The Auxiliary table plan in Azure Monitor Logs is a cost-effective option for ingesting and retaining high-volume, verbose logs used for compliance and auditing. Auxiliary Logs is now generally available in the sovereign clouds: Azure Government (Fairfax)

The Auxiliary table plan in Azure Monitor Logs gives you a cost-effective way to ingest and retain high-volume, verbose logs that you keep for compliance and auditing but rarely query. Two highly requested capabilities are now generally available.Auxiliar

Starting in August 2026, customers can engage directly with Azure Copilot agents to move more quickly from questions to action.With this update:Choose the right agent for your goal. Customers can select the specific agent best suited to their needs and ge

Azure Site Recovery now lets you use and attach an existing, pre-provisioned Network Interface Card (NIC) in the target region for test-failover and failover in the Azure-to-Azure scenario. This helps preserve prepared networking configurations, reserve I

Control plane metrics collection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), powered by Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus, is now generally available.This capability gives AKS customers native observability into key managed control plane components, in

Azure DNS now offers a seamless way to integrate with Azure Traffic Manager for DNS-based traffic routing. Customers can now directly associate Azure DNS record set with Traffic Manager profiles without creating CNAME record for trafficmanager.net domain.

Azure Automation is pleased to announce: General Availability of in-support PowerShell 7.6 runbooksRuntime Environment GA, enabling customers to seamlessly upgrade their outdated scripts to supported runtime versions. Support for Azure CLI commands in P

This capability shares telemetry from Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspaces into Microsoft Fabric, making observability data available in OneLake as Delta Parquet, the open format, without duplication and with near real-time availability. All Azure Monit

Azure Monitor Application Insights now stores generative AI content in a dedicated GenAIContent table (AppGenAIContent in Log Analytics), making it possible to apply newly available access controls to sensitive AI telemetry. Because Application Insights p

Starting July 15, 2026, advanced platform metrics are available in Public Preview. This update provides enhanced visibility into platform performance, resource health, and operational trends across supported Azure services. With advanced platform metrics,

Starting October 1, 2026, the specified runtime versions Python 2.7, Python 3.8, and PowerShell 7.1 & 7.2. will no longer be supported by Automation. Runbooks using these versions may continue to run but will not receive security updates, bug fixes, or o

You can now create and run Azure Chaos Studio resilience Scenarios directly from the Azure CLI with the new az chaos extension — no more hand-assembling REST calls and JSON files. Get started in one step: az chaos setup stands up a workspace, wires up per

Azure Chaos Studio now supports Workspaces and Scenarios, a faster, application-centric way to validate how your workloads hold up during real outages.Point a Workspace at your application's scope—a subscription, resource group, or service group—and Chaos

The Log Analytics Export job enables you to export historical data from a Log Analytics workspace to an Azure Storage account based on a specified query and time range. This allows you to extract only the data you need and move it to external systems for

Azure Site Recovery now supports up to 5x churn (500 MB/s per VM). This major enhancement empowers customers to confidently run high IOPS workloads with Azure Site Recovery, ensuring robust disaster recovery for even the most demanding applications like d

In September 2023, we announced Azure Blueprints would retire on July 11, 2026. We're extending that timeline to January 31, 2027, with phased retirement beginning July 31, 2026.What's changing?July 31, 2026, you won't be able to create new blueprint defi

Azure Migrate now integrates with GitHub Copilot Modernization (public preview) to deliver at scale code insights. This capability brings together Azure Migrate’s portfolio-level discovery and assessment with GitHub Copilot’s context-aware code analysis.