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Latest vendor release: Oct 22, 2026

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Azure Cosmos DB Safe Key Rotation is generally available, providing key-use timestamps to help identify active account keys before rotation or retirement and reduce service disruption risks.

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Oct 22, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 22, 2026
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Azure Virtual Network's public preview of Disable VNet Peering Route suppresses system-generated peering routes while preserving peering connections. It enables summarized user-defined routes to direct traffic through network virtual appliances such as Azure Firewall.

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Oct 22, 2026
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Oct 22, 2026
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Azure Front Door Premium WAF custom rules can now match HTTP request source IP addresses against Azure service tags, simplifying traffic control for Azure services.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 22, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 22, 2026
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Azure Application Gateway now supports generally available keyless TLS termination with Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, keeping private keys inside the HSM during TLS handshakes.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 22, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 22, 2026
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Advanced platform metrics for Azure Monitor are generally available, providing finer-grained signals to identify resource changes and trends. The feature can be enabled through the Azure portal and is available in public cloud, Fairfax, and Mooncake.

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Oct 22, 2026
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Oct 22, 2026
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Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor workspace is generally available, helping organizations monitor utilization, identify unused metrics, understand usage trends, investigate ingestion changes, and optimize costs.

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Oct 22, 2026
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Oct 22, 2026
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Azure DNS is generally available with DNS-based load balancing through directly linked Azure Traffic Manager records. The integration reduces DNS lookup latency and enables DNSSEC compatibility for load-balanced records.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 22, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 22, 2026
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Azure Databricks Private network gateway is now in Public Preview, enabling serverless compute to access VNet and transitively connected private resources through a single managed gateway.

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Oct 19, 2026
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Oct 19, 2026
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Exceptions are generally available for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door, allowing selected requests to bypass inspection at the rule, rule group, or managed ruleset level.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
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Microsoft Agent 365 integration with Azure API Management is now available in public preview, enabling centralized governance and runtime enforcement for MCP servers and tools.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
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Anyscale on Azure is now generally available as an Azure Native service, deploying onto Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters to run distributed Python workloads across CPU and GPU resources.

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Oct 19, 2026
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Oct 19, 2026
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SQL Server on Linux now supports the bulkadmin fixed server role and ADMINISTER BULK OPERATIONS permission, enabling bulk data imports without sysadmin membership.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
SQL Server 2025 CU9; SQL Server 2022 CU27
Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
SQL Server 2025 CU9; SQL Server 2022 CU27
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AKS on bare metal Ubuntu is now available in public preview, enabling customers to deploy Kubernetes clusters directly on their own Ubuntu hardware using Azure CLI, with flexible CPU, GPU, and software choices.

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Oct 19, 2026
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Oct 19, 2026
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Azure HorizonDB enters public preview in additional Azure regions, providing more deployment options for PostgreSQL workloads closer to applications and users.

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Oct 19, 2026
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Oct 19, 2026
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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is generally available in Azure Bleu, supporting SQL Server deployments in France’s sovereign cloud with data residency and sovereignty requirements.

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Oct 19, 2026
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Oct 19, 2026
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Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster adds physical, incremental vaulted backups for databases up to 64 TB, daily protection, long-term retention, and Restore as Server.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
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Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
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Azure Application Gateway WAF now supports inspection and enforcement for IPv6 traffic in Public Preview, including managed rule sets, custom rules, and diagnostics for dual-stack applications.

Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
Security update Microsoft Azure
Oct 19, 2026
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Major version upgrades are now available in public preview for Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters. Upgrade existing clusters in place without replacing the cluster, migrating distributed data, or changing the application connection endpoint.

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Oct 19, 2026
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Oct 19, 2026
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Azure Databricks Private network gateway is now in Public Preview, enabling serverless compute to access VNet and transitively connected resources through a managed gateway.

Microsoft Azure
Oct 17, 2026
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Oct 17, 2026
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External key management for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available in all Azure public regions, enabling supported Azure services to use customer-managed keys held in customer-operated HSMs outside Microsoft infrastructure.

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Oct 17, 2026
Microsoft Azure
Oct 17, 2026