Azure Updates – Number 114 – May 31, 2025

A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Every update is linked to it’s original Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Sentinel or other blog source. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

Updates include preview and general availability announcements, news, and technical articles published in the listed topic areas for the previous 2 week snapshot. Presented is a subset of news that is highlighted here, visit Azure Blog, Sentinel Blog, or the Microsoft Security Copilot Blog to see all the updates.

Microsoft Sentinel Blog

AI-Powered MITRE ATT&CK Tagging for SOC Optimization

Automating Microsoft Sentinel: A blog series on enabling Smart Security

Risk-based Recommendation for SOC Optimization

The Power of a Unified SIEM+XDR IdentityInfo Schema

Automate Extraction of Microsoft Sentinel Analytical Rules from GitHub Solutions

Announcing File Attachments for Case Management

Enhance mobile security with the Samsung Knox solution for Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel for SAP: New Security Content Goes Beyond Agentless ??

Transitioning from the HTTP Data Collector API to the Log Ingestion API?What does it mean for me?

RSAC 2025 new Microsoft Sentinel connectors announcement

App Assure?s promise: Migrate to Sentinel with confidence

Announcing Rich Text for Case Management

Microsoft Sentinel Ninja Training – the April 2025 update

Multi-workspace for Multi-tenant is now in Public Preview in Microsoft’s Unified SecOps Platform

Multi Workspace for Single tenant is now in Public Preview in Microsoft?s unified SecOps platform

Automating Azure Resource Diagnostics Log Forwarding Between Tenants with PowerShell

Case Management is now Generally Available

Integrating Radware WAF Logs with Microsoft Sentinel Using Logic Apps

Ingesting Akamai Audit Logs into Microsoft Sentinel using Azure Function Apps

Microsoft Sentinel Project Deployment Tracker

Azure Updates

Retirement: Language Understanding (LUIS) retirement extended to October 31, 2025

Retirement: Microsoft Fabric Runtime 1.2

Retirement: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4

[In preview] Public Preview: Live Resize for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra NVMe Disks

[Launched] Generally Available: Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) on Azure Firewall Private IP address

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Backup for Elastic SAN

[Launched] Generally Available: App Service Hybrid Connection Manager

[In preview] Public Preview: Using Server-sent events with Application Gateway

[Launched] Generally Available: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption with Azure Key Vault Managed HSM

[In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro

[In preview] Private Preview: Application Awareness

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Migrate expands support for migrations with Ultra SSD

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Migrate enhances support with Premium SSD v2 Disks

[In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft DocumentDB Docker Image

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) trigger and bindings for Azure Functions

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript SDK 4.0

[Launched] Generally Available: Container Apps and Functions as Private Link enabled origins for Front Door Premium

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Front Door now supports origin authentication via Managed Identities

[Launched] Generally Available: Private subnet

[Launched] Generally Available: Inbound Private Endpoint Support for Azure API Management Standard v2

[In preview] Public Preview: New Free Tier in Azure API Center

[In preview] Public Preview: Applications in Azure API Management

[In preview] Public Preview: Premium v2 Tier for Azure API Management

[Launched] Generally Available: Workspace Gateway Autoscaling in Azure API Management

[In preview] Public Preview: Model Context Protocol support in Azure API Management and Azure API Center

[Launched] Generally Available: Support for AWS Bedrock API in AI Gateway Capabilities in Azure API Management

[Launched] Generally Available: Import from Azure AI Foundry to Azure API Management?s AI Gateway

[Launched] Generally Available: Session Aware Load Balancing in Azure API Management

[Launched] Generally Available: LLM Logging in AI Gateway Capabilities in Azure API Management

[Launched] Generally Available: Workspace Gateway Metrics in Azure API Management

[Launched] Generally Available: Federated Logging in Azure API Management

[Launched] Generally Available: Cross-cloud data governance with Unity Catalog on Azure Databricks

[Launched] Generally Available: Versionless customer managed keys in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server

[Launched] Generally Available: Change streams for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Logic Apps Rules Engine

[In preview] Public Preview: Build Agentic Business Processes with the Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps

[In preview] Public Preview: Native Integration of Azure Logic Apps with Azure AI Search for RAG Workflows

[In preview] Public Preview: Streamlined Document Ingestion into Azure Cosmos DB with Azure Logic Apps

[In preview] Public Preview: New Monitoring and Alerting Capabilities in Azure Integration Environment

[In preview] Public Preview: Automated Testing Framework for Azure Logic Apps (Standard)

[Launched] Generally Available: New fine-tuning capabilities in Azure AI Foundry

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

Retirement: MICROSOFT AZURE OPERATED BY 21VIANET – Action required to migrate to Azure China North 3 region by July 1, 2026 due to China North 1 and China East 1 region retirement

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Traffic Manager SLA raised to 100%

[In preview] Public Preview: GitHub Copilot app modernization capabilities for Java and .NET

[Launched] Generally Available: Natural Language App Code Generation

[Launched] Generally Available: GitHub Copilot for Azure

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-May 2025

[Launched] Generally Available: GRS and CRR support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup availability in more regions

[Launched] Generally Available: Improved free Azure SQL Managed Instance offer

[Launched] Generally Available: Every AKS version is now long term support (LTS) compatible

[Launched] Generally Available: Connected registry in Azure Container Registry (ACR)

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports DNS-based public load balancing

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports placement drift detection and takeover

[In preview] Public Preview: Automated deployments support in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

[Launched] Generally Available: Smart VM defaults in AKS

[In preview] Public Preview: Registry-agnostic agentless runtime container vulnerability assessment (Microsoft Defender for Cloud)

[In preview] Public Preview: AI-powered actionable insights in Azure Load Testing

[Launched] Generally Available: Track AKS supported Kubernetes version regional updates in AKS release tracker

[In preview] Public Preview: Recommended services in Azure Portal

[Launched] Generally Available: New Availability Zone Features for Azure App Service

[Launched] Generally Available: Core Kubernetes extensions for AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Custom certificate authority support in AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: HTTP proxy can now be enabled on an existing AKS cluster

[Launched] Generally Available: Automated deployments in AKS now supports Azure DevOps (ADO), AKS-ready templates and service connectors

[Launched] Generally Available: Entity Tags (eTags) for Concurrency Control in AKS

[In preview] Public Preview: Onboarding of individual AKS clusters in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

[In preview] Public Preview: AKS security dashboard (Microsoft Defender for Cloud)

[In preview] Public Preview: Vulnerability assessment and malware detection for AKS nodes (Microsoft Defender for Cloud)

[In preview] Public Preview: Gating vulnerable deployments in AKS (Microsoft Defender for Cloud)

[In preview] Public Preview: Agentless runtime vulnerability assessment for AKS-owned images (Microsoft Defender for Cloud)

[Launched] Generally Available: Send a Custom Event from the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

[In preview] Public Preview: VM Network Troubleshooter

[In preview] Public Preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations in Azure Monitor for Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters

[Launched] Generally Available: Managed Prometheus visualizations and enhanced monitoring experience in Azure Monitor for AKS

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor Prometheus community recommended alerts for AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Log Analytics cross-regional Workspace Replication

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI query limit increased to 100K records

[In preview] Public Preview: Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Log Analytics

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions integration with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

[Launched] Generally Available: Planned maintenance in Azure Container Apps

[Launched] Generally Available: Private endpoint support in Azure Container Apps for workload profiles environments

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Arc enabled Azure Container Apps

[Launched] Generally Available: Dedicated GPU in Azure Container Apps

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs now support Azure AI Foundry models

[In preview] Public Preview: Filtered Vector Search with DiskANN

[In preview] Public Preview: Encryption in Transit for Azure Files NFS Shares

[In preview] Public Preview: .NET Aspire support on Azure App Service

[In preview] Public Preview: Enhanced Azure Functions experience in Azure Container Apps

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure App Service – New Premium v4 Offering

[In preview] Public Preview: Smarter Troubleshooting in Azure Monitor with AI-powered Investigation

[In preview] Private Preview: Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2

[In preview] Public Preview: Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor

[Launched] Generally Available: Vaulted Backups by Azure Backup for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ? Flexible Server in all regions

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk are now available in Indonesia Central

[Launched] Generally Available: Availability Set support for Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

[In preview] Public Preview: Foundry Local for on-device AI

[In preview] Public Preview: SQL Server 2025 enterprise AI-ready database from ground to cloud

[In preview] Public Preview: Throughput buckets in Azure Cosmos DB

[In preview] Public Preview: JSON Index

[In preview] Public Preview: MSSQL Extension Integrates GitHub Copilot in VS Code

[In preview] Public Preview: Per Partition Automatic Failover for Azure Cosmos DB

[In preview] Public Preview: Document indexing with Azure Logic Apps and Azure Cosmos DB

[In preview] Public Preview: Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21

[Launched] Generally Available: Filtered vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)

[In preview] Public Preview: At-scale Insights dashboard for Azure Cosmos DB

[In preview] Public Preview: Aggregated diagnostics Logs for Azure Cosmos DB

[Launched] Generally Available: SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-May 2025

[In preview] Public Preview: Network Optimized Azure Virtual Machines – Dnsv6, Dndsv6, Dnlsv6, Dnldsv6, Ensv6 and Endsv6

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions MCP extension now supports additional capabilities

[Launched] Generally Available: New regions for Azure Functions Flex consumption

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana

[In preview] Public Preview: Introducing Azure SRE Agent

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Databricks Azure AI Foundry Connector

[In preview] Public Preview: Durable task scheduler support in Azure Container Apps

[Launched] Generally Available: Vector search in DocumentDB

[Launched] Generally Available: DiskANN in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

[In preview] Public Preview: Visual Studio Code extension for DocumentDB

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB global secondary index

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB fleets

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB integration in Azure AI Agent Service

[Launched] Generally Available: Phrase search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

[In preview] Public Preview: Multiple-language full-text search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

[In preview] Public Preview: Fuzzy text search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

[Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Entra ID for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)

[Launched] Generally Available: Migrate from Azure Cosmos DB Mongo DB RU-based to vCore-based via Azure portal

[In preview] Public Preview: Empower AI development with new features in Microsoft Dev Box

[In preview] Public Preview: Premium Ingress in Azure Container Apps

[Launched] Generally Available: Aspire Dashboard in Azure Container Apps

[Launched] Generally Available: OpenTelemetry agent in Azure Container Apps

[Launched] Generally Available: Durable functions v3 in Azure Functions

[In preview] Public Preview: SDK type bindings in Azure Functions for Azure Blob Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Event Hubs

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python

[Launched] Generally Available: SDK type bindings for Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions in Python

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions Flex Consumption now supports availability zones and 512 MB instances

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Semantic Operators

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure AI extension managed identity support

[In preview] Public Preview: PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot

[Launched] Generally Available: Apache AGE extension for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

[In preview] Public Preview: Confidential computing for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server

[Launched] Generally Available: DiskANN on Azure Database for PostgreSQL

[Launched] Generally Available: Carbon optimization in Azure

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files cross-zone-region replication (CZRR)

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files cross-zone and cross-region replication across subscriptions

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure File Sync in Italy North

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Automating Phishing Email Triage with Microsoft Security Copilot

Busting myths on Microsoft Security Copilot