Announcements and updates

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Azure VM Image Builder in sovereign and air-gapped clouds Azure VM Image Builder is now Generally Available (GA) in Azure Government,…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms Microsoft has been named a Leader in…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Azure Enclave (preview) Azure Enclave is now available in Public Preview, providing a platform-managed approach for deploying and operating secure, isolated,…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Networking IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway Azure VPN Gateway now supports IPv6 inner traffic across VPN tunnels in dual-stack configurations, enabling…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Azure Landing Zone becomes an official Microsoft product Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) is now an official Microsoft product, owned and driven…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Networking ICMP support for Azure StandardV2 NAT Gateway Azure StandardV2 NAT Gateway now supports outbound Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Compute Azure NC RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition v6 Series Virtual Machines Azure NCv6-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are now Generally Available…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Multiparty private offers in Microsoft Marketplace expand to 30 countries in Europe Multiparty private offers in Microsoft Marketplace have expanded to…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Azure Resource Manager MCP Server (preview) Microsoft has announced the Public Preview of the Azure Resource Manager Model Context Protocol (MCP)…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Networking Microsoft HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Azure WAF on Azure Front Door Premium (preview) The Microsoft HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Azure Web…