Azure Updates – Number 122 – October 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
Azure Updates
Retirement: Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance will be retired on Sep 30, 2026 [Launched] Generally Available: CLI command for migration from Availability Sets and basic load balancer on AKS [Launched] Generally Available: Cross-tenant customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption Retirement: Azure Static Web Apps database connection feature [In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Support for OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, and Red Hat Directory Server LDAP services Retirement: Azure VPN Gateway support for SSTP Protocol will be retired on March 31, 2027 Retirement: General Purpose v1 (GPv1) and legacy blob storage accounts [Launched] Generally Available: New Health Check infrastructure for Azure Traffic Manager [In preview] Public Preview: MSSQL extension integration with Microsoft Fabric Retirement: Azure Machine Learning – Data labeling Deprecation Retirement: Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) for Linux nodes on AKS to Be Retired by September 30, 2028 [In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late September 2025 [In preview] Public Preview: Soft Delete feature in Azure Compute Gallery Retirement: Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30th, 2026 Retirement: NVv4-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30, 2026 Retirement: Spark Native Connector for Semantic Link [Launched] Generally Available: Visualize New Azure Resource Manager Metrics through Azure Monitor Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028 Retirement: Entity Linking from Azure AI Language Retirement: The Linux Consumption hosting plan of Azure Functions will be retired on September 30, 2028. Migrate to Flex Consumption. Retirement: Upgrade BlobFuse v1 to latest version of Blobfuse v2 Retirement: Azure App Service on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes [Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level Retirement: The Insights blade in AKS is now called Monitor [In preview] Public Preview: Discover and assess PostgreSQL in Azure Migrate [Launched] Generally Available: Delete on-demand backup in Azure DB for MySQL – Flexible Server Retirement: Azure Disk Encryption [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks Retirement: NVv3-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30 ,2026 [Launched] Generally Available: GitHub Copilot app modernization capabilities for Java and .NET are now available [Launched] Generally Available: Using Server-sent events with Application Gateway [Launched] Generally Available: Vaulted backup for Azure Files (Premium)
Microsoft Security Copilot Blog
