Azure service updates

On September 1, 2026, the cc_v5 confidential VM series will be retired and will no longer be available for use or purchase. Any affected VM that has not been resized before that date will deallocated. The impacted VM sizes that will be retired are: DCas_c

Perimeter link (cross-perimeter connectivity) is a network security perimeter capability that allows trusted resources in two different network security perimeters to securely communicate with each other using Managed Identity (MSI), without requiring add

Azure Private Link over IPv6 enables you to privately access Azure PaaS services, such as Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database, over IPv6-based connectivity. You can now use IPv6 private endpoints to connect from IPv6 clients in an Azure virtual network o

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 Virtual Network routing appliance is now generally available. It delivers private connectivity across virtual networks, using specialized hardware for low latency, high throughput, and better performance than virtual machines. Key benefits and funct

Trusted Launch as Default (TLaD) is now generally available for new Azure Gen2 virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets. TLaD automatically enables Secure Boot and vTPM for supported deployments, helping customers establish a stronger security base

To enhance backup protection, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance now automatically apply immutability to the most recent seven days of backups. This capability is enabled by default for all databases, regardless of the configured point-in-t

Eligible SaaS products on Microsoft Marketplace now support a simplified purchase experience in Azure portal. Customers can review plan, billing, resource group, contact details, and terms information on a single page for completing the purchase. This exp

Route maps for Azure Route Server are now available in public preview, providing fine-grained control over inbound and outbound routing across hybrid connections. Customers can manage routes advertised to and from Azure Route Server BGP peerings with Netw

In late-July 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Regex-based dynamic data masking (DDM) extends the built-in DDM feature with pattern‑based masking to hide sensitive data like emails, phone numbers, and identifiers—centrally

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the India South Central Azure region. Learn more.

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

Starting February 1, 2027, Azure reservations exchanges will no longer be available for services covered by savings plans. At the time of this announcement, this includes reservations for the following services: Compute services: Azure Virtual Machine

We’re announcing symmetric keys on Azure Key Vault Premium are now available in public preview. This preview enables customers and partners to evaluate symmetric encryption capabilities using the oct-HSM key type and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Azure NetApp Files now supports configuration of SMB opportunistic locking (oplocks) for SMB and dual-protocol volumes. Opportunistic locks (Oplocks) improve SMB client caching and are enabled by default. You can configure oplocks on new volumes or update

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 Sphere OS version 26.09 RC1 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. Whilst this release encompasses no customer-facing changes, it represents a major bump in Azure Sphere's underlying Linux kernel version as part of our long-term su

Announcing the public preview of Azure Enclave for Microsoft Azure, Azure Government, Azure Government Secret, and Azure Government Top Secret. Azure Enclave helps streamline the deployment and management of isolated cloud environments for sensitive workl

StandardV2 NAT Gateway now supports NAT64, enabling IPv6 workloads to communicate with IPv4-only internet destinations by translating synthesized outbound IPv6 traffic into IPv4 traffic. NAT64 relies on a DNS64-capable resolver to synthesize IPv6 addresse

Managing ingress routing while adopting newer Kubernetes standards can require balancing modernization efforts with existing deployments. Application Routing with Gateway API is now generally available on AKS, bringing the Kubernetes Gateway API to ingres