Azure Updates – Number 118 – August 23, 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.

Apologies for the delayed posting – the integration of tools used needed a refresh & we are good to go now!

Microsoft Sentinel Blog

Table Talk: Sentinel?s New ThreatIntel Tables Explained

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

Manage cases from across tenants in one place

Azure Updates

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Node.js 22

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Migrate now supports migration to disks with Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) redundancy

[Launched] Generally Available: Application Gateway adds MaxSurge support for zero-capacity-impact upgrades

[Launched] Generally, Available: Search Job in Log Analytics – Now Supporting Up to 100 Million Results

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files file access logs

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions Flex Consumption plan now supports 512 MB instance size and diagnostic settings

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Bastion now supports connectivity to private AKS clusters via tunneling

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level now supports cool access

[In preview] Private Preview: DCesv6 and ECesv6 series confidential VMs with Intel? TDX

Retirement: Microsoft Sentinel Deprecation in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet Announcement

Retirement: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Deprecation in Microsoft Azure Operated by 21Vianet Announcement

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Blob Storage Archive Tier Now in Malaysia West

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Files provisioned v2 billing model for SSD (premium)

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks connector for Microsoft Power Platform

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra v5.0

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in Malaysia West

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) encryption with customer-managed key

[Launched] Generally Available: Deployment resumption – Azure Automation revised Service and Subscription limits

[In preview] Public Preview: Announcing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts in Azure Monitor

[In preview] Public Preview: Introducing Azure App Testing: Scalable End-to-end App Validation

[Launched] Generally Available: App Service Inbound IPv6 Support

[Launched] Generally Available: Upsert and Script Activity in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

What’s new in Microsoft Security Copilot