Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Azure Data Factory managed identity

Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Azure Data Factory managed identity

Announcing that you can now use user-assigned managed identity and system-assigned managed identity Entra authentication to connect your Azure Database for PostgreSQL instance with Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory. This feature enhances security and simplifies the authentication process.

Generally Available: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now supports mounting Network File System (NFS) Azure Files volumes to your containerized applications. NFS Azure Files volumes provide a scalable and high-performance file system for your apps and jobs. You can use NFS Azure Files volumes to share data between multiple containers in your application, or to persist data across container restarts.

Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL bindings for Azure Functions
We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL bindings for Azure Functions. With this integration, Azure Functions can seamlessly interact with Azure Database for MySQL databases using input and output bindings. By simplifying the code required to read from and write to the database, these bindings significantly speed up the development time. You can create scalable, event-driven applications and serverless APIs using popular programming languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and PowerShell.

Public Preview: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now supports high availability with dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer
Announcing the public preview of a dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server for high availability-enabled servers. With this feature, a high availability configuration gets the benefit of a dedicated Standard Load Balancer, including low latency, high throughput network traffic distribution of front-end requests to backend servers. With Standard Load Balancer managing the MySQL data traffic path, you can enjoy a more optimized failover time for high availability servers.

Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL support for pg_cron extension in PG 17

• Announcing that pg_cron is now supported in PostgreSQL 17 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. This extension brings powerful, built-in job scheduling to PostgreSQL 17—previously available only in earlier versions.

Generally Available: Upsert and Script activity in data factory in Microsoft Fabric for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Upsert method and Script activity support in Microsoft Fabric when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This enhancement enables you to perform efficient, scalable, and declarative data transformations directly within your pipelines.

With the Upsert method, you can now merge incoming data into existing tables without writing complex logic, reducing overhead and improving performance. The Script activity allows you to execute custom SQL scripts as part of your data workflows, enabling advanced transformations, procedural logic, and fine-grained control over data operations.

These capabilities streamline extract, transform, load (ETL) and extract, load, transform (ELT) processes and unlock new flexibility for building robust data integration solutions using Azure Database for PostgreSQL as a source or sink.

Public Preview: In-place major version upgrade to PostgreSQL 17 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
You can now upgrade your Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server instance to PostgreSQL 17 using a simple, in-place upgrade—now available in public preview. This release allows you to move from previous PostgreSQL versions (14, 15, or 16) to PostgreSQL 17 without changing your server endpoint, reconfiguring your application, or performing manual data migration. The in-place upgrade process is designed to minimize downtime and reduce operational complexity, helping you stay current with the latest PostgreSQL capabilities.

PostgreSQL 17 introduces several enhancements that benefit both developers and database administrators. You’ll see improved performance for vacuuming, query planning, and more; expanded SQL/JSON functionality, including support for JSON\\_TABLE; new MERGE command capabilities with RETURNING support; and more flexible partition management. Upgrading also ensures you remain on a supported version, aligned with the PostgreSQL community lifecycle and the Azure platform support roadmap.

This capability is available through both the Azure portal and the Azure command-line interface (CLI), giving you flexibility in how you manage the upgrade process. If you're currently running PostgreSQL 11 or 12, this is a great time to begin your upgrade journey to a more secure, supported, and feature-rich version of PostgreSQL.

Generally Available: Required role assignment for private endpoint approvals in AzureML workspaces and/or AI Foundry hubs with managed network
Starting April 30, 2025, private endpoint approvals from the Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Foundry managed network will no longer be handled by the internal networking service. Moving forward, either the Azure AI Enterprise Network Connection Approver RBAC role must be assigned to the workspace’s managed identity, or a custom role with the necessary private endpoint connection permissions on the target resource types must be created. This change addresses security concerns related to the previous automatic role assignment. Existing resources with approved private endpoints are not affected, as the appropriate role was already assigned by the service.

Required action: Ensure that a managed identity is configured for your workspace or hub. Assign either the Azure AI Enterprise Network Connection Approver role or a custom role to this identity within your subscription to enable private endpoint approvals. For details on supported private endpoint target resource types, refer to the official documentation.

Public Preview: Azure Migrate enhances resiliency by supporting ZRS Disks Migration
Azure Migrate now supports migration to ZRS Disks. Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks synchronously replicates data across three physically separate availability zones within a region – each with independent power, cooling, and networking – enhancing Disk availability and resiliency. In the event of a zonal failure, ZRS disks can be force-detached from the impacted VM and reattached to another VM for workload continuity. Azure Migrate now migrates ZRS as the target disk type for eligible data disks in regions where ZRS is supported. ZRS for managed disks is only supported with Premium SSD and Standard SSD managed disks.

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks
Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks. ASR provides seamless disaster recovery for Virtual Machines across Azure Regions and from on-premises to Azure, helping organizations maintain business continuity. It offers cost-effective replication, automated failover, and easy disaster recovery simulation, ensuring minimal production impact during disaster events. With built-in security, compliance support, and native integration with Azure services, ASR helps your organization stay resilient and minimize downtime.

Premium SSD v2 offers low-latency, consistent performance with the flexibility to scale throughput and IOPS independently, making it ideal for a broad spectrum of enterprise production workloads including SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, and big data environments. It is particularly well suited for customers seeking to optimize performance and cost across diverse workloads, without over-provisioning.

Generally Available: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB source to Azure Blob target
Azure Storage Mover can now migrate your SMB shares to Azure Blob container.

Storage Mover is a fully managed migration service that enables you to migrate on-premises files and folders to Azure Storage while minimizing downtime for your workload. Together with just-in-time permission setting and Azure Key Vault, your migration is secure from source to target.

Besides the existing general available capability to migrate from an on-premises NFS share to an Azure blob container and SMB source to Azure File shares, Azure Storage Mover now supports SMB source to Azure Blob container as target.