Instant Access for application-consistent restore points on virtual machines (that have Premium v2 or Ultra disks as data disks) is now generally available. With Instant Access, you can begin restoring a disk from a restore point as soon as the snapshot i

Teams building agentic applications, multi-tenant platforms, development environments, and CI/CD systems have often had to stitch together custom infrastructure to run untrusted code safely, preserve state across sessions, and handle bursty demand without

Azure Container Apps Express is now generally available. It is the simplest and fastest way to launch and scale powerful applications on Azure, from zero to hyperscale, without infrastructure decisions. It represents the first Azure compute platform purpo

Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to the Azure Sphere OS only, with no update to the SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud.The 26.

Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.6 is now generally available. You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.6 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions plans. Learn more: Updating your app to PowerShell 7.6 What's new in PowerShell 7.6? Azure

Microsoft Foundry now exposes enable and disable actions for Foundry agent objects within the Agent 365 governance surface in Microsoft Admin Center, generally available. Administrators can control whether a Foundry agent is available for use across their

Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams is now generally available. An agent only delivers value once it reaches the people who need it, and Foundry developers previously had no native path to make their agents operational a

You can now monitor the synchronization status of your logical replication slots in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server using the new logical_replication_slot_sync_status metric. This Azure Monitor metric shows whether each logical replication

Updated troubleshooting guidance is now available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. You can use the expanded documentation to diagnose high CPU, memory, IOPS, temporary file usage, and autovacuum issues, helping you identify root causes a

Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters now support PostgreSQL 18, bringing the latest PostgreSQL capabilities to distributed, cloud-scale workloads. You can build new applications or modernize existing ones with the performance, reliability, and d

High-scale mesh using connected group in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in general availability. In available regions, customers may connect up to 3,000 virtual networks in a single mesh connectivity configuration by default and higher scale IP conn

Azure Functions Flex Consumption support for TLS/SSL certificates is now generally available through a new site-scoped certificate model. Each function app can hold up to 3 private (.pfx) and 3 public (.cer) certificates uploaded directly, imported from A

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

Announcing the addition of enhanced secure authentication in Azure Storage that combines the flexibility of user-delegation shared access signature (SAS) with the user-bound access of Entra ID. User-bound user delegation SAS is now generally available for

Azure Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching is now generally available for new virtual machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets. The capability caches the complete OS image on a VM’s local storage, eliminating remote-storage reads after caching finishes. Thi

Playwright Workspaces in Azure App Testing is now generally available in Switzerland North, Japan East, and Australia East.Playwright Workspaces provides fully managed cloud-hosted browsers for running end-to-end Playwright tests at scale, with parallel e

The Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework is now generally available. The framework enables developers, teams, and partners to extend Azure Developer CLI with custom capabilities that support their preferred application development workflows.With

Azure Virtual Network Manager IP address management is now generally available in additional regions: US Gov Virginia, US Gov Texas and US Gov Arizona, and China North 3 and China East 3. In complex network environments, managing IP addresses effectively

Customers can now bring Azure Container Apps environments into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, helping security teams extend posture management across more of their container estate from a single workflow. This mak

Organizations running Windows-based workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) face increasing pressure to modernize as support timelines for older Windows Server versions approach retirement. To help customers prepare, AKS now offers GA support for Wind