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 Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms Microsoft has been recognized as a…

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 Perth Azure Extended Zone Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of the Perth Azure Extended Zone. Azure Extended Zones are…

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. Last week marked an important milestone with Microsoft Ignite, which brought a wealth of key updates and innovations from Microsoft. To explore the…

This post is a special edition of my regular “Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates” series, dedicated entirely to the wave of news coming from Microsoft Ignite 2025. As every year, Ignite condenses in a few days an impressive number of announcements across infrastructure, networking, management, AI, and sovereign cloud – so this…

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 MCP Server Azure MCP Server is now generally available, bringing the power of the cloud directly into agent-based and AI-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 Compute RHEL Software Reservations Now Available on Azure with Updated Pricing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) software reservations are available again on…

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 Integrated HSM (preview) Azure is releasing Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module (HSM), a built-in HSM cache and cryptographic accelerator designed…

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 VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028 Microsoft announces the retirement of the AV36 node type for Azure…

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 Licensing changes for future Azure VMware Solution subscriptions starting October 16, 2025 Microsoft has announced licensing changes for Azure VMware Solution…

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 to Tighten Cloud Security with Mandatory MFA for Azure Resource Management Microsoft has announced that Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) will be…