Azure Updates – Number 120 – September 6, 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

Table Talk: Sentinel’s New ThreatIntel Tables Explained

Automating Microsoft Sentinel: Playbook Fundamentals

Azure Updates

[Launched] Generally Available: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch

[Launched] Generally Available: Near-zero-downtime maintenance in Azure Database for MySQL

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Logic Apps Standard Automated Test Framework

[Launched] Generally Available: Custom Code support in Azure Logic Apps Standard with .NET 8

[Launched] Generally Available: Business Process Tracking in Azure Logic Apps (Standard)

[Launched] Generally Available: Gateway level metrics and native autoscaling for Azure API Management v2 tiers

[Launched] Generally Available: Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model

[In preview] Public Preview: Organizational Templates in Azure Logic Apps

[In preview] Public Preview: Confluent Kafka Connector in Azure Logic Apps (Standard)

[Launched] Generally Available: Workspaces and workspace gateways in the Premium v2 tier of Azure API Management

[In preview] Public Preview: Expanded support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Azure API Management

[Launched] Generally Available: Enhanced Data Mapper Experience in Logic Apps (Standard)

Retirement: Confidential VM SKUs DCesv5, DCedsv5, ECesv5, ECedsv5 SKUs

Retirement: Azure CDN ? Migrate to Azure Front Door on December 1, 2025

[Launched] Generally Available: Playwright Workspaces in Azure App Testing

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in UK South

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in Central US

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in West US 2

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure App Service – New Premium v4 Offering

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Front Door Standard and Premium are now available in Azure China.

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Entra ID group login using user credentials

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2025

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2025

[Launched] Generally Available: Schema migration is now available in Azure Database Migration Service (DMS)

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)?add shards and rebalance data

[Launched] Generally Available: Entra ID and RBAC support for GetAccountInfo and other supplemental APIs for Azure Storage

[In preview] Public Preview: Custom block response code and body for Application Gateway WAF

[Launched] Generally Available: CNI Overlay for Application Gateway for Containers and AGIC

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files short-term clones

[In preview] Public Preview: Roslyn Analyzer for Durable Functions in .NET isolated

[Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Azure now available from cloud region in Austria

[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

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

What?s new in Microsoft Security Copilot