Azure Updates – Number 117 – July 26, 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.

A true mid-summer update being a little bit thin on changes – reminder to check on all your certifications for renewal dates, updates, and to use a rainy Sunday afternoon to catch up on some reading or studying. Remember to take some personal time to recuperate and rest.

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

Automating Microsoft Sentinel: Playbook Fundamentals

Automating Watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel

Planning your move to Microsoft Defender portal for all Microsoft Sentinel customers

Introducing Summary Rules Templates: Streamlining Data Aggregation in Microsoft Sentinel

Azure Updates

[Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute – Auto-assigned Public IP for ExpressRoute Gateways

[Launched] Public Preview: Modernizing Azure Resource Manager Throttling for Sovereign Clouds

[Launched] Generally Available: Search Job Enhancements in Log Analytics

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure CNI static block allocation for pod subnet

[Launched] Generally Available: Log Analytics Summary rules

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Managed Lustre now supports VNet Encryption for in-transit data protection

[In preview] Public Preview: Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway for Containers

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Firewall now supports ingestion-time transformation in Log Analytics for flexible, cost-efficient logging

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

[Launched] Generally Available: Geo-Replication for Azure Event Hubs Premium and Dedicated

[In preview] Public Preview: CLI command for migration from Availability Sets and Basic load balancer on AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Virtual Machines node pools support in AKS

[In preview] Public Preview: Max blocked nodes allowed support in AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Cluster Extension Manager move to AKS control plane

[Launched] Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning support in AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Durable Functions PowerShell SDK as a standalone module

[In preview] Public Preview: Orchestration versioning for Durable Functions and durable task SDKs

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions Kafka trigger support in Consumption plan

[In preview] Public Preview: AZNFS (3.0) for BlobNFS with FUSE for superior performance

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server: Indonesia Central

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Backup standard policies support for Trusted Launch virtual Machines

Retirement: Azure HDInsight ? Enterprise Security Package

[Launched] Generally Available: Mirroring Azure Databricks Unity Catalog to Microsoft OneLake in Fabric

[Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM

Retirement: Azure Front Door (classic) and Azure CDN from Microsoft Classic SKU ending CNAME based domain validation and new domain/profile creations by August 15, 2025

[In preview] Public Preview: Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Smarter Prompts for Smarter Investigations: Dynamic Prompt Suggestions in Security Copilot

New tools for Security Copilot management and capacity planning