Microsoft Azure Updates

Generally Available: Entra-only identities with Azure Files

Public Preview: Evaluate feature rollouts with Azure App Configuration Scorecards

Generally Available: Auto activation for SaaS subscriptions in Microsoft Marketplace

Update: Microsoft Foundry built-in RBAC role naming and enhancements

Generally Available: Support for workloads with large files in Azure NetApp Files

Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in all three available zones in Japan West

Public Preview: Azure SQL update for early-May 2026

Update: Egress and data transfer with Azure in the United Kingdom

Generally Available: Bring your own AI Gateway in Foundry Agent Service

Public Preview: Azure Backup for Elastic SAN

Generally Available: Capacity Autoscaling

Public Preview: Azure Monitor supports native OTLP ingestion using the Azure Monitor Agent

Generally available: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 on Azure Databricks

Generally Available: Configure AKS backup using a single Azure CLI command

Generally Available: Encrypt Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks with Cross Tenant Customer Managed Keys

Announcing: Minimum billable object size for cooler storage tiers

Generally Available: Azure File Sync in Belgium Central, Malaysia West, and Indonesia Central

Public Preview: Event Grid as a destination for Stripe events now in Public Preview

Generally Available: PgBouncer 1.25.1 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Public Preview: Rule impact analysis on Azure Network Watcher

Generally Available: Network Security Perimeter for Azure Service Bus

Unlock Client-Side Configuration at Scale with Azure App Configuration and Azure Front Door

Generally Available: Azure DevOps March 2026 updates

Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2026

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2026

Public Preview: Azure Storage Mover enables private data transfers from AWS S3 to Azure Blob

Generally Available: Azure SRE Agent with new capabilities*

Generally Available: Draft & Deploy on Azure Firewall

Generally Available: DCesv6, DCedsv6, ECesv6, and ECedsv6 confidential VMs