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Microsoft Azure updates and Terraform AzureRM provider. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
Tracking 420 Azure releases · Updated
- Azure Updates aiazurepreviewengineer ·
DevUI Agent Inspector for Microsoft Agent Framework Announced
Microsoft has announced the DevUI Agent Inspector, a new tool for the Microsoft Agent Framework. This tool aims to facilitate AI-powered discovery of Azure Updates through the Microsoft Release Communications MCP server. It is currently in preview, available to all Azure customers for non-production use and testing, with a limited offering for select customers in development.
announcement feature - Azure Updates networkingazurepreviewengineer ·
Azure Front Door adds public preview of edge actions
Azure Front Door is now available in public preview with new edge actions, enabling developers to modify requests and responses directly at the network edge. This feature allows for advanced traffic management and request manipulation, benefiting engineers and architects managing global web applications. The preview is available to all Azure customers for non-production use and testing.
feature announcement - Microsoft Azure Blog blogaiobservabilityazureengineer ·
Azure Introduces Agentic Cloud Operations for Seamless Insight-to-Action
Azure is evolving cloud operations towards an agentic model where AI-powered agents, guided by user intent, continuously observe, reason, and act across the cloud lifecycle. This approach integrates observability, governance, and optimization to move from reactive monitoring to proactive, system-driven improvements. The Azure Copilot observability agent is now generally available, with the Azure Resource Manager MCP Server in public preview, enabling AI agents to access cost and usage data for more informed decision-making across teams and environments.
feature - Terraform AzureRM Provider Releases terraforminfraazuregaengineerazure-key-vault ·
Terraform Azure Provider v4.81.0 Adds New Resources and Enhancements
Terraform's Azure provider has been updated to version 4.81.0, introducing several new resources for managing Azure CDN, Cognitive Services, and other services. The release also includes enhancements to existing resources, such as improved Key Vault integration for Logic Apps, and dependency updates for underlying Azure SDKs. These changes aim to provide more comprehensive infrastructure-as-code capabilities for Azure users, with new resources available immediately and enhancements impacting specific resource configurations.
feature patch - Microsoft Azure Blog bloginfraazureengineer ·
PostgreSQL extension for VS Code enhances Azure performance tuning
Microsoft has significantly enhanced the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, integrating database performance diagnostics and optimization directly into the developer workflow. This aims to reduce the time and friction associated with troubleshooting and tuning Azure Database for PostgreSQL, benefiting developers and DBAs. New features include a server metrics dashboard, Azure Advisor recommendations, AI-assisted query analysis, and improved authoring experiences, all accessible within VS Code.
feature - Microsoft Azure Blog bloginfraazuregaengineer ·
Azure Files Enhancements for Modern Linux Workloads
Azure Files now offers several new features to accelerate modern Linux workloads, including AI, cloud-native, and enterprise modernization scenarios. These enhancements include improved performance through NFS nconnect, zonal placement for reduced latency, and faster provisioning for Kubernetes. The updates aim to help organizations run shared file storage in Azure more efficiently and cost-effectively.
feature - Microsoft Azure Blog blogaiazureengineer ·
2026 Agent Confidence Index: Builder Confidence in AI Agents
Microsoft, in partnership with MIT Technology Review Insights, released the 2026 Agent Confidence Index, surveying 300 technical experts on AI agent capabilities. The index reveals growing confidence in agents for predictable, repetitive tasks, with automated report generation and boilerplate code generation scoring highest. This research highlights the increasing delegation of toil to AI agents, emphasizing the importance of human judgment for high-stakes decisions and the maturity of teams keeping humans in the loop during agent adoption.
announcement feature - Microsoft Azure Blog blogaiazuregaengineer ·
Claude on Microsoft Foundry now generally available on Azure
Claude, Anthropic's frontier large language model, is now generally available within Microsoft Foundry on Azure. This integration provides enterprises with a production-ready path to build and deploy AI agents, leveraging Azure's native controls for procurement, governance, security, and data management. It allows developers to focus on application development rather than infrastructure, simplifying the transition from AI experimentation to scaled production.
feature announcement - Microsoft Azure Blog bloginfraazurepreviewengineer ·
Azure Chaos Studio Workspaces enhances resilience testing with scenarios
Azure Chaos Studio Workspaces, now in public preview, simplifies chaos engineering by offering scenario-focused resilience testing. It simulates real-world failure modes across infrastructure and applications, helping teams proactively identify and fix potential outages before they impact production environments. This new approach reduces the complexity of setting up tests and provides detailed reports, benefiting engineers and architects responsible for application reliability on Azure.
feature announcement - Microsoft Azure Blog blogaiobservabilityazureengineer ·
Azure's Brain: AI System Enhancing Cloud Reliability
Azure has unveiled Brain, an AI-powered system designed to enhance cloud reliability by creating a digital twin of its own health. This AIOps system fuses platform telemetry, AI/ML models, and service dependencies to provide a unified view of Azure's performance. For Azure customers, Brain means faster detection and scoping of issues, leading to improved resource health notifications and quicker incident response.
announcement feature - Microsoft Azure Blog blogsecuritygovernanceazurepreviewazure-key-vault ·
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM external key management enters public preview
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM now offers external key management in public preview, allowing customers to keep their encryption keys on hardware outside of Azure datacenters. This feature addresses stringent regulatory and contractual requirements for organizations in sectors like government and finance that mandate cryptographic keys reside outside the cloud provider's environment. While Managed HSM already provides significant sovereignty, external key management shifts the root of trust to customer-owned hardware, requiring increased operational responsibility.
feature announcement - Microsoft Azure Blog bloggovernanceinfraazureengineer ·
Azure advances resiliency with a city-like approach and shared responsibility model
Azure is evolving its cloud resiliency by adopting a city-like model that emphasizes adaptability, recovery, and control beyond simple availability metrics. This approach integrates infrastructure, data, and cyber recovery into a lifecycle designed to be built and validated with customers. It addresses diverse needs, including sovereign and regulated environments, moving beyond a one-size-fits-all strategy towards workload-specific resilience architectures.
announcement feature - Microsoft Azure Blog blogaiazuregaengineer ·
Microsoft Foundry advances AI agents with new models and production capabilities
Microsoft Foundry is now generally available with GPT-5.6 frontier models, an Asia-Pacific Data Zone, and hosted agents in its Agent Service, simplifying agent development and deployment. These updates allow organizations to build, run, and govern AI agents on a single platform, integrating with enterprise data, tools, and Microsoft 365. This aims to move AI agents from experimentation to production reliably and securely for over 100,000 organizations building on Foundry.
feature announcement - Azure Updates azuredatabricksgaengineer ·
Azure Databricks SQL Serverless GA in UK West
Azure Databricks SQL Serverless is now generally available in the UK West region, enabling AI-powered discovery of Azure updates and product information. This expansion caters to cloud investment needs, offering production-ready capabilities to all Azure customers. The announcement highlights ongoing development and preview phases for broader customer adoption and feedback.
feature announcement - Azure Updates infraazurepreviewengineer ·
Manage Azure Chaos Studio via Azure CLI in Preview
Azure Chaos Studio is now manageable through the Azure CLI in public preview, enabling engineers to automate chaos engineering experiments. This feature is available to all Azure customers for non-production use and testing. It aims to simplify the integration of chaos experiments into CI/CD pipelines. Users can leverage this CLI command for greater control and automation.
feature announcement - Azure Updates aiazuredatabricksga ·
Azure Databricks GA: OpenAI GPT-5.6
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is now generally available on Azure Databricks, enhancing AI-powered discovery of Azure updates. This release allows all Azure customers to leverage the production-ready model for their cloud investment needs. The announcement also points to the Microsoft Azure Blog for security solutions and community support channels for inquiries.
feature announcement - Azure Updates securityazuregamediaazure-event-hubs ·
Azure Event Hubs Dedicated adds GA confidential computing
Azure Event Hubs Dedicated now offers Generally Available (GA) confidential computing support, enhancing data privacy for sensitive workloads. This feature allows for processing sensitive data with enhanced protection within a secure enclave. It is now available to all Azure customers, with documentation and community support provided.
feature announcement - Azure Updates securitynetworkingazuregaazure-event-hubs ·
Azure Event Hubs gains Network Security Perimeter support
Azure Event Hubs now supports Network Security Perimeter (NSP) integration, enhancing security for event streaming. This feature allows for finer-grained network isolation and threat protection for sensitive data processed by Event Hubs. It is now Generally Available to all Azure customers. This update is particularly relevant for organizations handling critical data that requires robust network security measures.
feature announcement - Azure Updates observabilityazurepreview ·
Log Analytics Export jobs now in public preview
Azure Log Analytics workspaces can now export historical data using Export jobs, currently in public preview. This feature allows users to retrieve past data for analysis or compliance purposes. It is available to all Azure customers for non-production testing and evaluation.
feature announcement - Azure Updates azurepreviewengineer ·
Azure Chaos Studio Workspaces and Scenarios now in public preview
Azure Chaos Studio is introducing Workspaces and Scenarios, now available in public preview for all Azure customers for non-production use. This feature allows for AI-powered discovery of Azure updates through Microsoft Release Communications, helping users stay informed about their cloud investments. The preview is intended for non-production testing and learning.
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