Azure News per 09-03-2026

Retirement: Azure Policy faster enforcement and retirement of login/logout workaroundAzure Policy now enforces Resource Manager mode policies within 5 minutes, retiring the previous login/logout cache workaround for quicker compliance updates.Generally Available:...

Azure News per 02-03-2026

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in a third Availability Zone in New Zealan NorthAzure Premium SSD v2 is now available in a third Availability Zone in New Zealand North offering low latency and high performance for Azure...

Azure News per 23-02-2026

Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Brazil Southeast, and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia CentralAzure Premium SSD v2 is now available in Brazil Southeast and in additional Availability Zones in Malaysia West...

Azure News per 16-02-2026

Generally Available: AKS support for Kubernetes version 1.34Kubernetes 1.34 is now generally available on AKS, adding 58 upstream enhancements, including 23 Stable, 22 Beta, and 13 Alpha features to improve cluster operations.Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for...

Azure News per 09-02-2026

Private Preview: Vaulted Backups for Azure DiskAzure Disk Backup adds vaulted backup capability, protecting Azure Disk data via crash-consistent snapshots stored in a dedicated operational tier within your subscription. Public Preview: Azure Monitor pipeline data...

Azure News per 02-02-2026

Retirement: “Send data to Event Hubs & Storage (Preview)” retiring July 31, 2026On July 31, 2026, Microsoft will retire this preview feature, preventing creation of new data collection rules using it.Retirement: Support for Python 3.10 ends on October...