Azure Updates – Number 121 – September 20, 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

Automate Security Workflows in Microsoft Sentinel with BlinkOps

How to: Ingest Splunk alert data to Microsoft Sentinel SIEM

Microsoft Sentinel?s AI-driven UEBA ushers in the next era of behavioral analytics

Table Talk: Sentinel’s New ThreatIntel Tables Explained

Azure Updates

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager ? update run approval gates

[Launched] Generally Available: Distributed tracing for Durable Functions

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions .NET 10 support

[Launched] Generally Available: Introducing the new Network Security Hub experience

[In preview] Public Preview: Databricks One in Azure Databricks

[Launched] Generally Available: Confidential computing for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server

[Launched] Generally Available: At-cost data transfer between Azure and an external endpoint

Retirement: Azure Kubernetes Service on VMware will be retired on March 16, 2026 – Replace with Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Local

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure File Sync in Poland Central and Spain Central

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure HBv5-series VMs

[Launched] Generally Available: AKS Automatic

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Container Storage v2.0.0 now with NVMe performance boost, open source, and no service fees

Retirement: Azure Databricks Standard tier will retire by October 2026

Retirement: hsmPlatform 1 Keys in Azure Key Vault

[Launched] Generally Available: Enabling dedicated connections to backends in Azure Application Gateway

[Launched] Generally Available: Backend TLS validation controls in Azure Application Gateway

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL hub experience in Azure portal

Retirement: Azure Linux 2.0 on AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Support for JBoss EAP on Azure App Service

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) same-region replica cluster

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks automatic identity management

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in Austria East and Chile Central

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure MySQL Self Heal

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure MySQL Extended Support

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL 8.4

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) encryption with customer-managed key

[In preview] Public Preview: File share centric management model (Microsoft.FileShares) for Azure Files

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure D192 Sizes in the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series VM Families

[In development] Private Preview: Azure AMD-based Dasv7, Easv7, and Fasv7-series Virtual Machines

[Launched] Generally Available: Multitenant Managed Logging in Container Insights

Retirement: Microsoft Playwright Testing (Preview) will be retired on March 8, 2026

Retirement: Operating System (OS) Disks on Standard HDD will be retired on 08 September 2028

[In preview] Public Preview: Graph Query Language (GQL) in KQL graph semantics

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Available in UAE Central and US Gov Texas

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files migration assistant

Retirement: Azure CDN will be retired on December 1 2025 in China

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.13

[In preview] Public Preview: .NET 10 Preview Now Available on Azure App Service

[Launched] Generally Available: Multiple address prefixes for subnets in Azure Virtual Networks

Microsoft Copilot for Security Blog

Top 3 Summer Copilot for Security Blog Posts:

What?s new in Microsoft Security Copilot

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

New tools for Security Copilot management and capacity planning