Azure updates
Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs. Subscribe to notifications to stay informed.
RSS feedOctober 2023
Public preview: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor
September 2023
Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Migrate your data from Azure API for FHIR to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service for richer data integration and analytics capabilities.
SMART on FHIR proxy feature in Azure Health Data Services will be retired on 21st September 2026 - Transition to SMART on FHIR (Enhanced).
Target retirement date: September 21, 2026
SMART on FHIR proxy feature in Azure Health Data Services will be retired on 21st September 2026 - Transition to SMART on FHIR (Enhanced) to enable SMART on FHIR scenarios.
August 2023
Public preview: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall
Resource Health and Embedded Firewall Workbooks are now in public preview.
General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall
Structured Logs and Latency Probe Metric are now in general availability.
Private Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q3 2023
Now you can protect, monitor, and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its DR Lifecycle, while also generating cluster-consistent recovery points – which are consistent across all the disks (including the Shared Disk) of the cluster.
July 2023
Public preview: Network observability add-on for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now get complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.
General availability: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
Always Serve feature for Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is now generally available. This feature allows you to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.
Public preview: Azure Monitor Agent Health experience
The Azure Monitor Agent Health experience is now available in preview. Identify data collection problems across your organization before they start impacting your business.
May 2023
Public Preview: Azure Monitor announces Network Observability AKS add-on
The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.
Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health
Target availability: Q2 2023
Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.
General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.
General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems.
Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
Target availability: Q2 2023
We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview. This feature allows customers to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.
April 2023
General Availability: Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States
Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.
General Availability: NGINXaaS - Azure Native ISV Service
Natively integrated software as a service (SaaS) solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.
March 2023
Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 30, 2026
Azure Site Recovery’s classic experience to protect VMware VMs will be retired on 30 March 2026
Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant
Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), such as geocoding patient home addresses.
Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant
Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), like when calculating travel time and distance from a patient’s location to the nearest healthcare facility.
Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules
Target retirement date: March 15, 2026
Effective 15 March 2026, adding playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules creation/edit will be deprecated.
Azure at Microsoft Build
Get answers to your questions from Microsoft and Community experts.
Community supportRead commonly asked questions on Azure updates.
FAQFind the latest news, updates, and resources for Azure partners.
Azure Partner ZoneTell us what you think of Azure and what you want to see in the future.
Provide feedbackAzure is available in more regions than any other cloud provider.
Check product availability in your region