Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles Azure Files has increased the root directory handle limit per share from 2,000 to 10,000 for standard and premium file shares. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Now Available: Resource-centric log queries in the Azure Monitor Query libraries Resource-centric log query support is available in the latest stable release of the Azure Monitor Query client libraries. Query logs by Azure resource ID using .NET, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions. Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Brazil South, UK South, East US, East US 2, and South-Central US. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Stream Analytics Jobs Are you using GitHub for managing your Stream Analytics project and looking to leverage GitHub's powerful CI/CD pipeline? Follow this comprehensive guide and learn to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for your Stream Analytics jobs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Kafka compaction support in Azure Event Hubs Log compaction in Event Hubs introduces a key-based retention mechanism where the most recent value associated with each event key in an event hub or Kafka topic is retained. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares is now in public preview for standard SMB file shares. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Azure Stream Analytics Schema Registry Integration Azure Stream Analytics can now fetch schema from the Schema Registry and deserialize data from Event Hub inputs for Avro format. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX Now you can use the Azure Portal to configure App Service auto-scaling rules. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes Azure NetApp Files now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge provides you a new way of upgrading VM instances in a Virtual Machine Scale Set to the latest scale set model. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities Azure Data Explorer now supports geospatial analysis with three new functions: geo_point_buffer, geo_line_buffer, and geo_polygon_buffer. These functions let you create polygonal buffers around points, lines, or polygons. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs Routing intent supports inter-region/inter-hub traffic inspection and branch-to-branch traffic inspection for Azure Virtual WAN. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers, Azure Blobs and Azure Disks. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway now supports a fully automated experience when upgrading your WAF from configuration to policy. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates App Service now supports Custom Error pages in public preview App Service supports custom error pages in public preview Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026 API keys for querying data from Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2026 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025 API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Container Storage Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023 We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure VMware Solution on Azure Government We are excited to share details for the General Availability of Azure VMware Solution on Microsoft Azure Government Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom image support in Update management center VM Image support for Update management center has expanded with the addition of support for generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom images. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure DNS Private Resolver is available in 8 additional regions Azure DNS Private Resolver is now available in West US, Canada East, Qatar Central, UAE North, Australia Southeast, Norway East, Norway East, and Poland Central. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based on incoming HTTP requests. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance All existing linked server objects configured to use SQLNCLI will automatically switch to using the fully compatible third (current) generation of provider – known as Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server or MSOLEDBSQL. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Cold Storage Azure Cold Storage, as the most cost-effective access tier with near real-time read latency for infrequently accessed unstructured data is available for public preview. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Palo Alto Networks SaaS Cloud NGFW Integration with Virtual WAN The first security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to be integrated in Azure Virtual WAN, allowing you to protect your workloads with a highly available NGFW. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is now generally available. This capability provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads, with minimal management required. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026– Transition to Application Gateway V2 Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Preview: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure Event Hubs Dedicated self-serve scalable clusters for mission critical Kafka, AMQP and HTTPs workloads Run you mission critical Kafka, AMQP and HTTPS event streaming workloads with consitenct low latency. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is available in Southeast Asia, Australia East and Qatar Central. Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Southeast Asia, Australia East and Qatar Central. Click here for more information.