Azure DevOps & Cloud-Native Updates - August 2025

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Introduction

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Welcome to our Monthly Azure DevOps and Cloud Tech Updates Series!

Welcome to my monthly blog series where we bring you a concise roundup of significant Azure updates pertinent to DevOps, keeping you in the loop with the latest advancements.

Let’s check what’s new!

Updates

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AI + machine learning

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• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks connector for Microsoft Power Platform

Compute

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• [In preview] Public Preview: Roslyn Analyzer for Durable Functions in .NET isolated
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Node.js 22
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions Flex Consumption plan now supports 512 MB instance size and diagnostic settings
• [In preview] Private Preview: DCesv6 and ECesv6 series confidential VMs with Intel® TDX
• [Launched] Generally Available: App Service Inbound IPv6 Support
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure 128 & 192 vCPU sizes for the Esv6 and Edsv6 series VMs
• [In development] Private Preview: Agentic experience for AKS in the Azure CLI
• [In preview] Public Preview: Managed Namespaces in AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: AKS Security Dashboard
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Verifier for AKS (VNV) for AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: Multiple Standard Load Balancers support in AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: Static egress gateway public prefix support in AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: LocalDNS for AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview : Azure Bastion integration with AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: AKS Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
• [Launched] Generally Available: Control Plane Improvements in AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway for Containers
• [Launched] Generally Available: Deployment safeguards in AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: Encryption in Transit for Azure Files NFS shares in AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: Confidential VMs for Ubuntu 24.04 in AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: Confidential VMs for Azure Linux
• [In preview] Public Preview: Disable HTTP proxy

Databases

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• [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
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra v5.0
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in Malaysia West
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) encryption with customer-managed key
• [Launched] Generally Available: Upsert and Script Activity in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

DevOps

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• [Launched] Generally, Available: Search Job in Log Analytics - Now Supporting Up to 100 Million Results
• [In preview] Public Preview: Announcing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts in Azure Monitor
• [In preview] Public Preview: Increase ingestion quota for Azure Managed Prometheus with an ARM API

Developer tools

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• [In preview] Public Preview: Introducing Azure App Testing: Scalable End-to-end App Validation

Features

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

Hybrid + multicloud

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• Retirement: Microsoft Sentinel Deprecation in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet Announcement
• Retirement: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Deprecation in Microsoft Azure Operated by 21Vianet Announcement

Management and governance

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• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Migrate now supports migration to disks with Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) redundancy
• [Launched] Generally Available: Deployment resumption - Azure Automation revised Service and Subscription limits
• [Launched] Generally Available: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup for Azure VMs

Migration

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• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Data Box Next Gen is now generally available in additional regions

Networking

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• [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
• [Launched] Generally Available: Application Gateway adds MaxSurge support for zero-capacity-impact upgrades
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Bastion now supports connectivity to private AKS clusters via tunneling
• [Launched] Generally Available: Private Application Gateway on Azure Application Gateway v2
• [Launched] Generally Available: Network security perimeter
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh now supports 5,000 virtual networks
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure DNS Public Zones DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is now available in our US Gov and China regions

Security

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• [Retirement: Azure Dedicated HSM

Storage

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• [Launched] Generally Available: Entra ID and RBAC support for GetAccountInfo and other supplemental APIs for Azure Storage
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files short-term clones
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files file access logs
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level now supports cool access
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Blob Storage Archive Tier Now in Malaysia West
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Files provisioned v2 billing model for SSD (premium)
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Storage Discovery
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Storage Actions is now in 22 more regions
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure File Sync Arc Extension

Sources

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https://azure.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Dev Blog Azure Website