Public Preview: Environmental sustainability features in Azure API Management

Public Preview: Environmental sustainability features in Azure API Management

Azure API Management now supports environmental sustainability features in public preview. These capabilities help organizations minimize the carbon footprint of their API infrastructure by making API traffic and policy behavior carbon-aware.

With these new features, you can:

• Shift and load-balance API traffic to backend regions with lower carbon intensity.
• Shape API traffic dynamically based on real-time carbon emissions in your API Management region.
• Build carbon-intelligent policies using the new context.Deployment.SustainabilityInfo.CurrentCarbonIntensity property to adapt caching, telemetry, or rate-limiting based on emission levels.

These sustainability-aware capabilities empower teams to align API operations with corporate sustainability goals and promote more efficient, environmentally responsible API and AI workloads.

Public Preview: PostgreSQL 18 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
You can now try PostgreSQL 18 in public preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. PostgreSQL 18 introduces new performance, scalability, and developer productivity improvements. With this preview, you get early access to the latest community release on a fully managed Azure service. By running PostgreSQL 18 on flexible server, you can test application compatibility, explore new SQL and performance features, and prepare for upgrades well before general availability.

This update gives you the opportunity to validate your workloads, extensions, and development pipelines in a dedicated preview environment while taking advantage of the security, high availability, and management capabilities in Azure. With PostgreSQL 18 in preview, you are among the first to experience the next generation of PostgreSQL on Azure—ensuring your applications are ready to adopt it when it reaches full general availability.

Public Preview: Azure Integrated HSM
We are announcing the release of Azure Integrated HSM, a Hardware Security Module (HSM) cache and crypto accelerator designed to enhance the security and performance of cryptographic operations in virtual machines. For customers who heavily rely on cryptography and have performance-intensive workloads, Azure Integrated HSM provides a secure way to store cryptographic keys for quick and secure retrieval. This feature is available as part of our AMD D and E series v7 preview.
Azure Integrated HSM is designed to meet the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3 Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules. Azure Integrated HSM protects keys and security assets while these assets are in-use. Azure Integrated HSM has specialized hardware cryptographic accelerators to perform encryption, decryption, signing, and verification operations while they remain within the bounds of the integrated HSM.

Azure Integrated HSM is now available to use in preview on the AMD v7 preview platform with support for our general purpose Dasv7-series, Dadsv7-series, Easv7-series and Eadsv7-series for 8 vCores VMs and above. The Azure Integrated HSM preview will initially have Windows support only, with Linux support coming soon. This feature will be offered at no additional cost.We are announcing the release of Azure Integrated HSM, a Hardware Security Module (HSM) cache and crypto accelerator designed to enhance the security and performance of cryptographic operations in virtual machines. For customers who heavily rely on cryptography and have performance-intensive workloads, Azure Integrated HSM provides a secure way to store cryptographic keys for quick and secure retrieval. This feature is available as part of our AMD D and E series v7 preview.
Azure Integrated HSM is designed to meet the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3 Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules. Azure Integrated HSM protects keys and security assets while these assets are in-use. Azure Integrated HSM has specialized hardware cryptographic accelerators to perform encryption, decryption, signing, and verification operations while they remain within the bounds of the integrated HSM.

Azure Integrated HSM is now available to use in preview on the AMD v7 preview platform with support for our general purpose Dasv7-series, Dadsv7-series, Easv7-series and Eadsv7-series for 8 vCores VMs and above. The Azure Integrated HSM preview will initially have Windows support only, with Linux support coming soon. This feature will be offered at no additional cost..

Generally Available: Microsoft Entra ID token refresh code samples in Python and .NET
You can now access code samples for Entra ID token refresh using Python and .NET in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. These samples are designed to help you securely manage authentication tokens when connecting to your PostgreSQL database with Entra ID, ensuring seamless access without manual token handling.

Whether you're building cloud-native applications or modernizing existing workloads, these examples show you how to efficiently implement token refresh logic, reducing downtime and improving security posture.