Azure Updates – Number 125 – Saturday November 15th, 2025

Microsoft Ignite is just around the corner, and the excitement is building! This year promises groundbreaking announcements across cloud, security, and AI—shaping the future of enterprise technology. Before we dive into the latest updates, let’s set the stage: Ignite is where innovation meets implementation, giving IT leaders and developers the tools to transform ideas into reality. Stay tuned for highlights that will redefine productivity, security, and intelligent automation.

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

Ignite 2025: New Microsoft Sentinel Connectors Announcement

Detect more, spend less: the future of threat intelligence correlation

Operationalizing the Sentinel data lake: A Practitioner’s Guide

Automating IOC hunts in Microsoft Sentinel data lake

What’s New in Microsoft Sentinel: November 2025

Microsoft Sentinel for SAP Agentless connector GA

Azure Updates

Retirement: Support for Python 3.10 ends on October 1st, 2026

Retirement: Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc

[In preview] Public Preview: Pod CIDR expansion in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS

[In preview] Public Preview: eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager UseExisting Mode for UDR management

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management Pool Association Recommendation

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager peering compliance

[Launched] Generally Available: .NET 10

[Launched] General Availability: Server Parameters support for lower_case_table_names in Azure Database for MySQL- Flexible Server

[In preview] Public Preview: Scheduler profile configuration for AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL Triggers for Azure Functions

[In preview] Public Preview: Agentic CLI for AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: LocalDNS for AKS

[In preview] Public Preview: Insights in Azure Migrate

[Launched] Generally Available: Vaulted Backup for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

[Launched] Generally Available: DNS flow trace logs for Azure Firewall

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Linux OS Guard for AKS

[In preview] Public Preview: Flatcar Container Linux for AKS

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure WAF JavaScript challenge on Azure Front Door

[Launched] Generally Available: Object Replication Priority Replication for Azure Blob

[Launched] Generally Available: Geo Priority Replication for Azure Blob

[Launched] Generally Available: Troubleshoot Azure Firewall using packet capture

[Launched] Generally Available: Application Gateway for Containers with Web Application Firewall (WAF)

[In preview] Public Preview: openCypher support for KQL graph semantics

[Launched] Generally Available: labels() function in KQL graph semantics

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server availability zones expansion in Japan West

[Launched] Generally Available: Ultra Disk’s new flexible provisioning model

[Launched] Generally Available: Object Replication Metrics

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure MCP Server

[In preview] Public Preview: GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early November 2025

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL read replicas with Premium SSD v2

[Launched] Generally Available: Planned Failover for Azure Storage

[Launched] Generally Available: Monitor end-to-end ExpressRoute connectivity with Connection Monitor

[Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute resiliency insights

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now supports high availability with dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer

[Launched] Generally Available: Query Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB

[Launched] Generally Available: ORDER BY ST_DISTANCE in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Geospatial Queries

[Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute resiliency validation

[Launched] Open Source: Announcing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator

[In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Object REST API

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Get Ready for Microsoft Ignite!