Public Preview: MongoDB Atlas—an Azure Native Integration

Public Preview: MongoDB Atlas—an Azure Native Integration
May 2025
MongoDB Atlas is now available as an Azure Native Integration, offering a fully managed document database with native vector search capabilities and direct integration with the Azure ecosystem. Developed through collaboration between Microsoft and MongoDB, this integration simplifies the management of MongoDB Atlas. You get seamless provisioning within the Azure portal and unified billing on existing Azure invoices. In addition, support for single sign-on (SSO) using Microsoft credentials helps to enhance security and improve the developer experience. Now developers can manage their resources across multiple programming languages using Azure CLI and SDKs.

**Generally Available: App Service Webjobs on Linux
App Service**
May 2025
WebJobs allow for the execution of background tasks and scheduled processes, which unlike traditional web applications, are not triggered by HTTP requests. The WebJobs feature is now generally available (GA) for Linux code and container scenarios, bringing feature parity with the App Service Windows option.

Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in Japan West
May 2025
Azure Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) Disk Storage is now available in Japan West. Pv2 is Azure’s next-generation general-purpose block storage designed to deliver an ideal balance of low-latency performance, flexible scalability, and cost efficiency. With sub-millisecond latency and the ability to independently scale IOPS, throughput, and capacity, Pv2 is optimized for a wide range of real-world production workloads. From relational databases like SQL Server, Oracle, and MariaDB, to NoSQL platforms like Cassandra and MongoDB, as well as SAP, analytics workloads, gaming environments, and stateful containerized applications.

Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager high-scale private endpoints in connected groups
May 2025
Azure Virtual Network Manager high-scale private endpoints in connected groups is now in public preview, delivering enhanced scalability for complex Azure network environments.

As organizations grow, the need to large numbers of private endpoints becomes critical. This new capability enables up 20,000 private endpoints within a connected group—empowering you to scale workloads more efficiently in Azure.

Generally Available: Azure App Configuration now offers a Developer pricing plan
May 2025
To provide a new flexible and cost-effective option for developers, Azure App Configuration now offers a Developer pricing plan.
This new plan is ideal for development teams looking for a reliable configuration store for development and testing, and for building prototypes and testing features before moving to production.Learn more

Public Preview: Perth - Azure Extended Zones
May 2025
We are announcing the public preview of the Perth Azure Extended Zone.
Azure Extended Zones are small-footprint extensions of Azure placed in metros, industry centers, or a specific jurisdiction to serve low latency and data residency workloads. They support virtual machines (VMs), containers, storage, and a selected set of Azure services and can run latency-sensitive and throughput-intensive applications close to end users and within approved data residency boundaries.

Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account
May 2025
Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account feature is now generally available. The feature allows each NetApp account to connect to its own Active Directory Forest and Domain, providing the ability to manage more than one Active Directory connections within a single region under a subscription. This enhancement enables distinct Active Directory connections for each NetApp account, facilitating operational isolation and specialized hosting scenarios. Active Directory connections can be configured multiple times for multiple NetApp accounts to make use of it. With the creation of SMB volumes in Azure NetApp Files now tied to these Active Directory connections in the NetApp account, the management of Active Directory environments becomes more scalable, streamlined and efficient.