Microsoft Azure Updates

Public Preview: WAF Insights for Application Gateway

Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Brazil Southeast,

Generally Available: Azure Functions .NET 10 support

Generally Available: AKS support for Kubernetes version 1.34

Public Preview: Azure Monitor pipeline data transformations

Generally Available: AMD v6 confidential VMs in new regions for January 2026

Generally Available: Serverless workspaces in Azure Databricks

Generally Available: Azure Databricks Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant

Public Preview: 7th generation Intel-based VMs – Dlsv7/Dsv7/Esv7

Generally Available: Deployment safeguards – pod security standard support in AKS

Public Preview: User delegation SAS for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring with Private Endpoints

Generally Available: Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium

Public Preview: Azure Blob-to-Blob migration made simple with Azure Storage Mover

Public Preview: Service Bus SDK type bindings in Azure Functions for Node.js

Public Preview: Azure Databricks Dashboard subscriptions now support Microsoft Teams

Generally Available: FIPS compliant mode for Application Gateway V2 SKUs

Generally Available: Model Context Protocol support in Azure API Management and Azure API Center

Public Preview: Claude Opus 4.5 Available in Microsoft Foundry

Generally Available: Custom handler support in Azure Functions Flex consumption

Container network metrics filtering in Advanced Container Networking Services for (ACNS) for AKS

Generally Available: Geo Priority Replication for Azure Blob

Public Preview: Azure Functions zero-downtime deployments with rolling updates in Flex Consumption

Public Preview: Signed request on Azure Front Door

Generally Available: Azure Storage Mover support for NFS source to Azure File Share (NFS 4.1) target

VM vCore customization features disabling simultaneous multi-threading

Public Preview: Environmental sustainability features in Azure API Management

Generally Available: Custom port support for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

Public Preview: Introducing Vaulted Backup for Azure Data Lake Storage