Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Available in UAE Central and US Gov Texas

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Available in UAE Central and US Gov Texas
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in two new regions: UAE Central and US Gov Texas, bringing enterprise-grade managed OpenShift capabilities to customers in the Middle East and southwestern United States. These expansions provide local deployment options with reduced latency and enhanced data residency compliance for organizations operating in these strategic markets.
The GA release in both regions includes full feature parity with other Azure regions, supporting managed identity capabilities, and comprehensive networking options. Customers can now deploy production workloads with confidence, benefiting from Azure's robust infrastructure and Red Hat's enterprise Kubernetes platform in these locally available regions.
These regional expansions reinforce Microsoft's commitment to serving customers globally with world-class cloud services.

Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files migration assistant
Azure NetApp Files migration assistant (with SnapMirror) provides efficient and cost-effective data migration leveraging ONTAP's built-in replication engine for seamless transition from on-premises or CVO/other cloud providers to Azure NetApp Files (ANF). This feature offers benefits aligned with the goal to accelerate and simplify migrations of business-critical applications and data to Azure. The feature is currently only available with the REST API and is now Generally Available.
Key Benefits

Storage-efficient data transfer that reduces network transfer costs for both baseline and incremental updates
Low cutover/downtime window ensuring faster and more efficient final updates, minimizing disruption to customer operations
Volume migration using migration assistant includes source volume snapshots for primary data protection, and directory and file metadata maintaining security attributes

Public Preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.13
You can now develop functions using Python 3.13 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions.

Starting with Python 3.13, Functions introduces runtime version control, a new opt-in feature that lets you target specific versions of the Functions Python runtime used by your app. Python 3.13 also introduces several enhancements to Functions that improve performance and reliability. In Python 3.13+, Azure Functions no longer supports custom worker extensions and shared memory for large payloads, requiring migration to supported alternatives and gRPC-based messaging. For more detail, check out the full

Public Preview: .NET 10 Preview Now Available on Azure App Service
Announcing .NET 10 Preview is now available on Azure App Service for both Windows and Linux! Whether you’re building modern web apps with ASP.NET, experimenting with Blazor, or exploring the simplicity of Minimal APIs, you can now take advantage of the latest .NET 10 features directly in App Service.Like with previous preview versions, any app targeting the .NET 10 preview will be automatically updated to the latest .NET 10 Preview releases as they become available on the platform all the way up to RC and GA.