Generally Available: Multiple address prefixes for subnets in Azure Virtual Networks

Generally Available: Multiple address prefixes for subnets in Azure Virtual Networks
Support for multiple address prefixes in a subnet is now generally available in Azure Virtual Networks.

Azure Virtual Network subnets supported only a single address prefix, which limited the scale out for certain applications when the address space was exhausted. This capability now allows adding additional address prefixes to the subnet, expanding the available address space without the need to empty the subnet to resize.

The key benefits of this approach are –

• Dynamic subnet expansion without impacting existing workloads in subnet
• Efficient subnet address space usage with scope for expansion when needed

Generally Available: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch
Announcing general availability support to enable Trusted launch on existing Azure Gen1 VMs by upgrading the Gen1 VM to Gen2-Trusted launch. This will help improve the foundational security of existing Azure VMs.

Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational compute security to Azure Generation 2 VMs by enabling Secure Boot and vTPM capabilities. Trusted Launch protects OS against rootkits, boot kits and enables attestation by measuring the boot chain of VM.

Generally Available: Near-zero-downtime maintenance in Azure Database for MySQL
You can now take advantage of near-zero-downtime maintenance for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with high availability (HA) enabled. This capability is now generally available and is supported by our new HA architecture based on a dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer design. With this release, planned maintenance operations are applied seamlessly without disrupting your application’s connectivity or performance.

Thanks to the dedicated Standard Load Balancer design, maintenance is now faster and no longer impacted by client-side DNS caching, which previously caused brief connection drops in some scenarios. This enhancement ensures that your mission-critical workloads remain continuously available, even during infrastructure updates, helping you meet strict uptime requirements and maintain operational continuity.

Generally Available: Enhanced Data Mapper Experience in Logic Apps (Standard)
Introducing the redesigned Data Mapper UX in the Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. The new experience, which was in public preview, becomes the default for creating and editing maps.

This release is a major step forward in modernizing data transformation workflows. It delivers a more stable, performant, and intuitive experience, shaped directly by feedback from our integration developer community.

With GA, developers can seamlessly open and edit existing V1 maps in the updated V2 experience, work reliably on macOS with schema-related crashes resolved, and benefit from clearer documentation and examples for built-in collection functions on repeating nodes.

Public Preview: Expanded support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Azure API Management
We’re announcing expanded support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Azure API Management with two new capabilities: MCP in v2 SKUs and the ability to expose existing MCP-compliant servers. These updates make it easier to connect APIs and AI agents with enterprise-grade control without rewriting backends.

MCP support is now available in public preview for Basic v2, Standard v2, and Premium v2 SKUs, enabling you to expose REST APIs as MCP servers, secure them with Microsoft Entra ID, API keys, or tokens, and register tools in Azure API Center. In addition, you can now bring external MCP-compliant servers, including Logic Apps, Azure Functions, LangChain, or custom runtimes, under governance with API Management to apply security, monitoring, and discovery.

With built-in security, policy enforcement, monitoring, and integration with Azure API Center, Azure API Management provides a single control plane for governing MCP-based interactions across both internal APIs and external tool servers.

Generally Available: Workspaces and workspace gateways in the Premium v2 tier of Azure API Management
Announcing the general availability of workspaces and workspace gateways in the Premium v2 tier of Azure API Management. (Note: Premium v2 remains in preview at the time of this announcement.)

Workspaces enable organizations to manage and govern APIs at scale. They make it easier to support large portfolios across teams or business units, while maintaining central governance, observability, and security. This federated model helps teams innovate independently without losing enterprise-wide control.

To get started, create an API Management Premium v2 service in a supported region and follow the documentation Set up a workspace in Azure API Management | Microsoft Learn to set up workspaces.

Public Preview: Confluent Kafka Connector in Azure Logic Apps (Standard)
Announcing the public preview of the Confluent Kafka Connector in Azure Logic Apps (Standard). This new connector allows you to both send and receive messages between Logic Apps and Confluent Kafka.

Confluent Kafka is a distributed streaming platform widely used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications across industries such as financial services, retail, IoT, and more. With the new connector, you can publish and subscribe to streams of records directly from Logic Apps, enabling real-time integration scenarios.

The connector supports both triggers (receive) and actions (publish), making it easier to integrate event-driven workflows with Confluent Kafka in Logic Apps.

Public Preview: Organizational Templates in Azure Logic Apps
Announcing the public preview of Organizational Templates in Azure Logic Apps. This feature empowers teams to author, share, and reuse automation patterns within their own organization, helping standardize integration practices at scale.

Organizational Templates extend the existing Logic Apps Templates experience by allowing templates to be published and scoped to your Azure tenant or subscription. Teams can create templates directly from workflows using a new UI, share them securely across the organization, and manage their lifecycle from test to production.

With integration to Azure RBAC and subscription-level scoping, you can control who can author, view, and deploy templates ensuring the right teams get access to the right automation patterns while maintaining security and governance.

Generally Available: Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model
Announcing the general availability of the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model, offering customers unprecedented flexibility and control over where their integration workloads run. You can now host Logic Apps on customer-managed infrastructure, including on-premises, private cloud, or third-party public cloud environments.

This deployment model helps organizations meet regulatory, data privacy, and network requirements while still leveraging the capabilities of Azure Logic Apps. It supports a semi-connected architecture with local workflow processing, storage, and network access, enabling higher throughput and direct access to local data sources.

With built-in connectors executing on local compute, the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model ensures your workflows can process sensitive data securely while maintaining enterprise-grade performance and connectivity.

Generally Available: Gateway level metrics and native autoscaling for Azure API Management v2 tiers
Announcing gateway-level metrics and native autoscaling for Azure API Management v2 tiers: Basic v2, Standard v2, and Premium v2. These updates give you deeper visibility into gateway performance and enable automatic scaling based on real-time usage.

Gateway-level metrics include CPU and memory usage per gateway instance, providing the insights needed for monitoring, diagnostics, and intelligent scaling. With these metrics, you can define autoscale rules in Azure Monitor to automatically increase or decrease gateway instances, ensuring consistent performance without manual intervention.

Autoscaling helps maintain reliability during traffic spikes, improves operational efficiency, and optimizes costs by scaling in when demand drops. It’s ideal for APIs with unpredictable traffic, enterprise workloads requiring resilience, and teams looking to balance performance and cost.

Generally Available: Business Process Tracking in Azure Logic Apps (Standard)
Announcing the general availability of Business Process Tracking in Azure Logic Apps (Standard). This capability provides business stakeholders with timely insights by tracking key data properties throughout your workflows in production environments.

With Business Process Tracking, you can define stages and map critical business data to your Logic Apps implementation. As workflows run, the data is sent to Azure Data Explorer (ADX), where it can be visualized using the business process overlay, giving teams a clear view of process execution and outcomes.

This feature helps organizations monitor and analyze workflows efficiently, bridging the gap between technical implementation and business insights.

Generally Available: Custom Code support in Azure Logic Apps Standard with .NET 8
Announcing the general availability of Custom Code support in Azure Logic Apps Standard with .NET 8. This release enables developers to embed .NET 8 code directly in workflows, unlocking advanced logic scenarios, code reuse, and seamless integration with existing .NET libraries and services.

Key enhancements in GA include the ability to bring your own NuGet packages without dependency conflicts, native support for Dependency Injection for more maintainable code, and an improved authoring experience with better tooling, templates, and local debugging in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

With these updates, developers can build more powerful, flexible, and enterprise-grade integration workflows on Azure Logic Apps Standard.

Generally Available: Azure Logic Apps Standard Automated Test Framework

Announcing the general availability of the Azure Logic Apps Standard Automated Test Framework, enabling developers to build, test, and maintain enterprise-grade workflows with confidence.

The framework allows teams to create unit tests for workflow definitions and runs directly in Visual Studio Code, simulating external dependencies and validating workflow behavior before deployment. GA introduces key enhancements, including broader support for mocked actions (built-in and managed connectors), access to workflow settings for assertions, and inline script actions for JavaScript, enabling more comprehensive and reliable testing of complex workflows.

With these improvements, developers can ensure workflow logic, environment settings, and scripts behave as expected, supporting faster, safer, and more maintainable integration solutions.