Azure Releases
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 ·
Microsoft Foundry Agent Framework Adds Multi-Agent Orchestration SDK
Microsoft has released a new Multi-agent orchestration SDK for its Foundry Agent Framework, available in C# and Python. This SDK enables AI-powered discovery of Azure Updates by integrating with the Microsoft Release Communications MCP server. The feature is currently in preview for non-production use and testing, with a full production release planned.
feature announcement - Azure Updates aiazurepreviewengineer ·
Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework Announced
Microsoft is introducing Agent Harness within the Microsoft Agent Framework, enabling AI-powered discovery of Azure Updates via the MCP server. This feature aims to help users stay informed about Azure product and feature developments to meet their cloud investment needs. It is currently in preview for non-production use and testing by all Azure customers.
announcement feature - Azure Updates aiazuregaengineer ·
Microsoft Agent Framework Adds Multi-agent Orchestration
The Microsoft Agent Framework now supports multi-agent orchestration patterns, including Magnetic. This feature aims to enhance AI-powered discovery of Azure updates by leveraging the MCP server. While currently in limited offering for select customers, it is expected to be fully released and production-ready for all Azure customers.
feature announcement - Azure Updates aiazuregapreviewengineer ·
Microsoft Agent Framework adds GitHub Copilot and Claude code connectors
The Microsoft Agent Framework now supports GitHub Copilot and Claude code connectors, enabling AI-driven discovery of Azure updates via the Release Communications MCP server. This feature aims to keep cloud investment needs current by providing the latest information on Azure products and features. It is currently in limited offering for select customers for non-production use and testing, with plans for wider availability.
feature announcement - Azure Updates azurepreviewengineerenergyazure-sql ·
Azure SQL Updates Preview for Mid-July 2026
Microsoft is previewing new Azure SQL updates, enabling AI-powered discovery of Azure product and feature changes via the Release Communications MCP server. This preview is available to all Azure customers for non-production testing, with a fully released version planned for production use. Users can subscribe to notifications and access community support for further information.
announcement feature - Azure Updates azuregaengineerazure-sql ·
Azure Arc SQL Migration GA for SQL Server on Azure VMs
Azure Arc SQL Migration is now generally available for SQL Server running on Azure Virtual Machines. This expansion allows for AI-powered discovery of Azure updates, helping users manage their cloud investments more effectively. The feature is production-ready and available to all Azure customers.
feature announcement - Azure Updates observabilityazurepreviewengineer ·
Azure Monitor adds advanced platform metrics in public preview
Azure Monitor is introducing advanced platform metrics, powered by AI, to help users discover updates for Azure products and features. This feature is currently in public preview, available for non-production use and testing by all Azure customers. The goal is to keep users informed about their cloud investments and evolving Azure services.
feature announcement - 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 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 bloginfraazureengineer ·
Azure IaaS: Optimize Cloud Infrastructure for Long-Term Cost Efficiency
This blog post, part three of the Azure IaaS series, offers best practices for building cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. It addresses how compounded architectural choices in compute, storage, and networking can lead to increased costs, especially with growing AI initiatives and modernization. The article explores solutions across Azure IaaS capabilities to improve resource utilization, reduce total cost of ownership, and create a scalable foundation.
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 - endoflife.date eolazure-functions-runtime ·
Azure Functions runtime 1 reaches end of life in 64 days
Azure Functions runtime 1 reaches end of life on 2026-09-14 (64 days from now).
deprecation - endoflife.date eolazure-kubernetes-service ·
Azure Kubernetes Service 1.33 reaches end of life in 19 days
Azure Kubernetes Service 1.33 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2027-07-31.
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