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Effective March 31, 2027, the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Azure hosted by Power BI will be retired. After this date, the dashboard will no longer be accessible and technical support will be disco...
In mid-March 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Publish SQL database projects directly from Visual Studio Code to streamline database deployment work...
Azure Red Hat OpenShift now supports managed identities and workload identities as a generally available capability, enabling you to run OpenShift clusters and applications on Azure without long lived...
The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now introduces GitHub Copilot integration in Schema Designer, expanding the visual schema design experience with AI-assisted capabilities. Based on developer...
Bring the benefits of schema-as-code to your database development workflow. SQL database projects enable you to source control your database schema, perform reliable deployments to any environment, an...
Announcing SQL MCP Server, our Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector for production databases. SQL MCP Server is a feature rich component of data API builder (DAB) that gives you a simple, predictabl...
GitHub Copilot is now generally available in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22, bringing AI‑powered assistance directly into the application that you use every day. With GitHub Copilot in SSMS, ...
Azure Databricks now offers a Lakeflow Connect Free Tier that gives each workspace 100 free DBUs per workspace per day for ingestion from SaaS applications and databases. This allows you to bring roug...
Azure SQL Database now supports versionless keys for transparent data encryption (TDE), giving you a simpler and more reliable way to manage your own encryption keys. You no longer need to reference a...
The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now introduces Data API builder in public preview with built-in GitHub Copilot integration, bringing a guided back-end generation experience directly into yo...
As AI systems grow more autonomous, observability becomes essential. Learn how visibility into AI behavior helps detect risk and strengthen secure development.
The post Security
Mar 18, 2026
We are updating the managed ruleset support policy for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) following the general availability of Default Rule Set (DRS) 2.2 on Azure Application Gateway and Azure Fron...
Announcing general availability (GA) of the next-gen Foundry Agent Service—a redesigned API format and runtime experience designed to help teams build and operate agents that can move from prototype t...
Microsoft is announcing the retirement of the AV36P and AV52 Nodes on June 30, 2029. The terms of your current AV36P and AV52 Reserved Instance (RI) are not affected by this announcement. At this time...
Azure Batch periodically retires support for operating systems that reach end-of-life status. Support for Windows Server 2016 concluded on January 11, 2022, with extended support scheduled to end on J...
Azure Batch had retired Low-Priority VMs on September 30, 2025 and will begin a system-initiated migration to Spot VMs beginning March 1, 2026. This change aligns Batch with the broader Azure Spot ...
Microsoft Entra ID-based access for Azure Blob Storage SFTP is now in public preview. This new capability empowers you to use Microsoft Entra ID identities (including guest users via Entra External ...
Microsoft Azure will retire support for NVv3 or NVv4-series VMs on September 30th, 2026, including NVv3 Series (NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPU): Standard_NV12s_v3, Standard_NV12hs_v3, Standard_NV24s_v3, Standar...
Azure Kubernetes Service support for Flatcar Container Linux for AKS (preview) will be retired on June 8, 2026, transition to a supported alternative by that date. From now to June 7, 2026, you can ...
As organizations adopt AI, security and governance remain core primitives for safe AI transformation and acceleration.
The post Security
Mar 16, 2026
A DART investigation into a Microsoft Teams voice phishing attack shows how deception and trusted tools can enable identity-led intrusions and how to stop them.
The post Security
Mar 16, 2026
Summary rules run batch aggregation inside your Log Analytics workspace and re-ingest the summarized results into a custom destination table. When a bin fails, that can create gaps in your summarize...
Azure Storage Mover now enables direct, secure data migration from AWS S3 data in Virtual Private Cloud to Azure Blob Storage with private networking. This update removes the need for manual pipelin...
Learn about some best practices for building cloud applications and how they align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
Storm-2561 uses SEO poisoning to push fake VPN downloads that install signed trojans and steal VPN credentials. Active since 2025, Storm-2561 mimics trusted brands and abuses legitimate services. T...
Learn about Azure compute technologies, from virtual machines to serverless functions. Review guidance, solution ideas, and reference architectures.
The latest Microsoft benchmarking data reveals how Microsoft Defender mitigates modern email threats compared to SEG and ICES vendors.
The post Security
Mar 12, 2026
Hidden instructions in content can subtly bias AI, and our scenario shows how prompt injection works, highlighting the need for oversight and a structured response playbook.
The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and Flexib...
You can now provision and manage Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters using Terraform, Bicep, and Ansible, with full General Availability support. With native infrastructure-as-code suppo...
You can now monitor your Azure Database for PostgreSQL with rich, built-in Grafana dashboards—right from the Azure portal. This native integration with Azure Monitor means you no longer need to set up...
You can now enhance data security for your Azure Database for PostgreSQL workloads by using customer managed keys (CMKs) with Premium SSD v2 disks. Available in public preview, this update gives y...
Azure SRE Agent is now generally available. This AI-powered operations agent helps teams improve uptime, reduce incident impact, and cut operational toil by accelerating diagnosis and automating re...
The MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now introduces Query Profiler in public preview, bringing real-time insight into your database activity directly inside Visual Studio Code. With Query Profil...
Discover how cloud modernization and agentic AI are accelerating migration across healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing.
The post Azure Blog
Mar 11, 2026
Learn how to build an Azure system that serves web and non-web workloads with resilient multitier applications in multiple Azure regions.
Learn about an enterprise-level cloud file sharing solution that uses Azure Files, Azure File Sync, Azure private DNS, and Azure private endpoints.
We’re announcing the first agentic end-to-end modernization solution that brings IT and developers into a single, connected workflow.
The post Azure Blog
Mar 11, 2026
We’re announcing the public preview of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry, bringing high‑performance open model inference into Azure. This integration reflects Microsoft Foundry’s broader direction:...
Today we're introducing "The Shift" podcast, an evolution of "Leading the Shift," to share more dialogue. Grounded in questions we heard from you after announcements at Ignite, we’re releasing eigh...
We’re excited to announce Copilot Cowork, the execution layer for Microsoft 365—delegate tasks, coordinate workflows, and stay in control.
The post Microsoft 365
Mar 09, 2026
Wave 3 marks a new version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, moving beyond assistance to embedded agentic capabilities.
The post Microsoft 365
Mar 09, 2026
Learn how Microsoft Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 E7 can help secure your Frontier Transformation.
The post Security
Mar 09, 2026
Explore the benefits, challenges, and best practices for event-driven architectures on Azure.
Customers are on the hunt for smarter models, more capable agents, and market-ready solutions to operationalize AI workflows.
The post Azure Blog
Mar 06, 2026
Threat actors are operationalizing AI to scale and sustain malicious activity, accelerating tradecraft and increasing risk for defenders, as illustrated by recent activity from North Korean groups ...
Today, we’re announcing OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 to be generally available soon in Microsoft Foundry: a model designed to help organizations move from planning work to reliably completing it in production ...
Learn how to use Azure Service Bus and Azure Data Explorer to enhance an existing message broker architecture with near real-time analytics.
Learn the best practices for running a Linux virtual machine on Azure, which requires some additional components, including networking and storage resources.
Learn how to decouple back-end processing from front-end hosts by using asynchronous operations and HTTP polling for long-running tasks.
Learn how to design Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Local to provide a more secure and productive remote desktop experience for users.
Learn about day-2 patching and upgrading practices for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) worker nodes and Kubernetes versions.
Use an intermediary message broker or event bus to decouple senders from consumers and distribute messages to interested subscribers asynchronously.
This Women’s History Month, we explore ways to support the next generation of female defenders at every career stage.
The post Security
Mar 05, 2026
Over the years, we’ve made significant investments to improve the responsiveness of the Azure Policy service. As a result, policy assignment creation and updates for Resource Manager mode policies now...
Use this guide to decide which Azure storage service best suits your application.
Learn how to choose the right Azure data store for your workloads by evaluating functional, performance, cost, and security requirements.
Deploy an AKS cluster in a hub-and-spoke network topology by using Terraform and Azure DevOps. Help protect inbound and outbound traffic by using Azure Firewall.
This article describes the features of Azure Private Link that are useful when you work with multitenanted systems, and it provides links to guidance and examples.
Learn proven practices for running SAP NetWeaver in a Windows environment on Azure, with high availability.
Learn more about proven practices for running SAP S/4HANA effectively in a Linux environment on Azure with high availability.
As organizations accelerate digital transformation, infrastructure decisions increasingly shape how quickly teams can adopt AI, how reliably applications operate at global scale, and how effectivel...
Learn about ways to mitigate the No-Caching antipattern, the common design flaw of repeatedly fetching the same data.
Learn how caching can improve the performance and scalability of a system by copying frequently accessed data to fast storage close to the application.
Guidance on using Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to deliver high-bandwidth content hosted in Azure.
View guidance for how to separate data partitions to be managed and accessed separately. Understand horizontal, vertical, and functional partitioning strategies.
View guidance on separating data partitions to be managed and accessed separately in different services, such as Azure AI Search, Azure storage queues, and more.
Learn how to use Azure Arc for management, maintenance, and monitoring of SQL Server instances in on-premises and multicloud environments.
Learn how to preserve the original HTTP host name between a reverse proxy and its back-end web application in common Azure services.
Learn about a secure enterprise API management architecture that uses Azure Application Gateway, API Management, and CI/CD pipeline deployment.
Enterprises today face a familiar yet formidable challenge: mountains of documents -contracts, invoices, reports, forms - remain locked in unstructured formats. Traditional OCR (optical character r...
Learn proven practices for enabling improved-security inbound and outbound internet connections for your SAP on Azure infrastructure.
The new Draft & Deploy feature for Azure Firewall Policy introduces a streamlined, two-phase approach to managing firewall policies, significantly reducing deployment time and disruption. Traditiona...
Azure Databricks workspaces have two network configurations – Azure Databricks-managed VNet and VNet Injection. The ability to update the Network Configuration of your workspace is now generally av...
Today we’re announcing the General Availability of Azure Databricks Lakebase, a managed PostgreSQL environment with next generation separation of storage and compute for OLTP, providing instant availa...
Enhance your security in a client access scenario by using Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication.
Enhance your security in a mobile access scenario by using Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication.
Control access to your apps and data by designing and implementing an identity solution. See resources with guidelines, best practices, and recommendations.
Today, we’re excited to introduce instant access support for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk, delivering an industry-leading snapshot experience where creation, disk re...
Twenty-five years ago, SharePoint set out to help people share knowledge and work better together, a mission that today operates at extraordinary scale.
The post Microsoft 365
Mar 02, 2026
Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in a third Availability Zone in New Zealand North. Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines,...
The DCesv6, DCedsv6, ECesv6, and ECedsv6 series are Azure’s next generation of confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) based on 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Inte...
The upstream Ingress-NGINX project is being deprecated and will stop receiving updates after March 2026. Microsoft will continue providing critical security patches through 30 November 2026, after whi...
Learn about the Siemens Teamcenter product lifecycle management (PLM) solution architecture on Azure.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in three additional Azure regions: Malaysia West, New Zealand North, and Mexico Central. This expansion strengthens Azure Red Hat OpenShift’s presenc...
Get an overview of Azure Storage technologies, guidance offerings, solution ideas, and reference architectures.
Understand storage options for a Kubernetes cluster, and compare Amazon EKS and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) storage options.
Learn proven practices for running SAP NetWeaver in a Windows environment on Azure, with high availability.
Learn how to use the Azure Cosmos DB change feed feature and Azure Service Bus for reliable messaging and guaranteed delivery of domain events in distributed applications.
We’re excited to announce the addition of enhanced secure authentication in Azure Storage that combines the flexibility of user-delegation shared access signature (SAS) with the user-bound access of...
Learn how to handle transient faults that the loss of network connectivity, temporary unavailability, or timeouts can cause.
Use domain-driven design in a microservices architecture to identify the entity and aggregate patterns, which help identify natural boundaries for the services.
Use APIOps with an Azure API Management instance to build and deploy APIs. This solution provides self-service tools, auditing, policy enforcement, and early feedback.
We are announcing several capabilities in public preview with Azure Monitor pipeline. Secure Ingress to Azure Monitor pipeline from external endpoints (TLS/mTLS) with Bring Your Own Certi...
View a reference architecture that shows how to deploy ArcGIS Pro in Azure Virtual Desktop to support the hyperscale of Azure.
Learn about the Ambassador pattern, which creates helper services that send network requests on behalf of a consumer service or application.
Learn how to use Azure Service Bus and Azure Data Explorer to enhance an existing message broker architecture with near real-time analytics.
Learn about a baseline reference architecture for a network secured, highly available, and zone-redundant Azure App Service web application.
In late-February 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Introducing Search Database Objects in the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Instantly find table...
In late-February 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Manage your databases directly from the dialog using actions such as Name, Rename, and Drop. Import ...