Azure Updates – Number 124 – October 31, 2025

The Haunted Highlights of Azure

Welcome, brave souls, to your bi-weekly descent into the crypt of cloud updates! We’ve summoned the latest Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel news from the depths of Microsoft’s blogosphere—so you don’t have to go grave-digging for them yourself.

This week, we publish one day early so that you’ve got all the latest news from the vine!

Whether it’s a spectral preview, a ghostly GA release, or a technical incantation from the Azure Blog, Sentinel Blog, or the Security Copilot crypt, this curated collection will keep your cloud cauldron bubbling with fresh insights.

Inside this eerie edition:

• Phantom features rising from preview to general availability
• Bewitched architecture patterns and spectral scalability tips
• Sentinel sightings and security spells to ward off digital demons

💀 This is just a taste of the haunted harvest—visit the Azure Blog, Sentinel Blog, or Security Copilot Blog to uncover the full tomb of updates.

Stay safe out there in the cloud… and don’t forget to patch your pumpkins. 🎃🧙‍♂️

Microsoft Sentinel Blog

Microsoft Sentinel for SAP Agentless connector GA

Run agentless SAP connector cost-efficiently

New bi-directional export for TI in Microsoft Sentinel and strategic Cyware partnership

6 truths about migrating Microsoft Sentinel to the Defender portal

Azure Updates

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions zero-downtime deployments with rolling updates in Flex Consumption

[Launched] Generally Available: High Scale Private Endpoints

[In preview] Public Preview: Instant Access Snapshots for Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks Storage

Retirement: Support for Node.js 20 ends on April 30, 2026 – upgrade your apps to Node.js 22

Retirement: Remove dependency on these preview features before March 31, 2026

[In preview] Public Preview: Signed request on Azure Front Door

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure WAF CAPTCHA Challenge for Azure Front Door

[Launched] Generaly Available: Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available for evaluation

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Storage Mover support for NFS source to Azure File Share (NFS 4.1) target

[Launched] Generally Available: PgBouncer 1.23.1 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

[Launched] Generally Available: RHEL Software Reservations Now Available on Azure with Updated Pricing

Retirement: Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis will be retired on September 25, 2028

[In preview] Public Preview: VM vCore customization features disabling simultaneous multi-threading (SMT/HT) and constrained cores

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-October 2025

[Launched] Generally Available: Near-zero downtime scaling for HA-enabled Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers

[Launched] Generally Available: Cloud-to-Cloud migration made simple with Azure Storage Mover

[Launched] Open Source: Containerization Assist MCP Server

[In preview] Public Preview: Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups

[Launched] Generally Available: Enhanced cloning and Public IP retention scripts for Azure Application Gateway migration

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

I’m waiting impatiently for Ignite in a few weeks too! Nothing to report this week.