GA: Defender CSPM and Defender for Servers Plan 2 in Azure Government cloud

August 2025

General availability of Defender for Storage in Azure Government cloud
August 12, 2025
Microsoft Defender for Storage is generally available to government cloud customers. The service helps U.S. federal and government agencies, secure their storage accounts. All features of Defender for Storage are available in government clouds, aligning the feature coverage with commercial cloud services. Learn more about Defender for Cloud's government cloud coverage.

General availability of Defender CSPM and Defender for Servers Plan 2 in Azure Government cloud
August 11, 2025
Microsoft Defender for Cloud's Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is generally available to government cloud customers. The service helps U.S. federal and government agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD) and civilian agencies, manage cloud security posture and improve compliance.

All features of Defender for Servers Plan 2's (P2) are available in government clouds, aligning the feature coverage with commercial cloud services.

Storage aggregated logs in XDR's Advanced Hunting (Preview)
August 5, 2025
The new CloudStorageAggregatedEvents table is now available in Microsoft Defender XDR’s Advanced Hunting experience. It brings aggregated storage activity logs, such as operations, authentication details, access sources, and success/failure counts, from Defender for Cloud into a single, queryable schema. The aggregation reduces noise, improves performance, and provides a high-level view of storage access patterns to support more effective threat detection and investigation.

The logs are available at no additional cost as part of the new per-storage account plan in Defender for Storage. For more information, visit CloudStorageAggregatedEvents (Preview).