Here is a the list of reading news i share on August 2025.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Generally Available: AKS Security Dashboard
- Public Preview: Managed Namespaces in AKS
- Public Preview: Multiple Standard Load Balancers support in AKS
- Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Verifier for AKS (VNV)
- Control Plane Improvements in AKS (GA)
- Deployment safeguards in AKS (GA)
- AKS Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (Preview)
- AKS support for Advanced Container Networking: L7 Policies (GA)
- Encryption in Transit for Azure Files NFS shares in AKS (Preview)
- Azure Bastion connectivity to private AKS clusters via tunneling (Preview)
Networking & Security
- Log or block SAS tokens for Azure Storage based on expiration policy (GA)
- Network security perimeter (GA)
- Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway for Containers (Preview)
- Disable HTTP proxy (Preview)
- Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh supports 5,000 virtual networks (Preview)
- Private Application Gateway on Azure Application Gateway v2 (GA)
- Application Gateway adds MaxSurge support for zero-capacity-impact upgrades (GA)
- Custom block response code and body for Application Gateway WAF (Preview)
- CNI Overlay for Application Gateway for Containers and AGIC (GA)
Monitoring & Management
- Increase ingestion quota for Azure Managed Prometheus with ARM API (Preview)
- Search Job in Log Analytics - Up to 100 Million Results (GA)
- Announcing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts in Azure Monitor (Preview)
Storage & Databases
- Azure Storage Discovery (Preview)
- Entra ID and RBAC support for GetAccountInfo and other supplemental APIs for Azure Storage (GA)
- Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) encryption with customer-managed key (Preview)
- Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)—add shards and rebalance data (Preview)
- Azure SQL updates for late-August 2025 (Preview)
- Azure SQL updates for late-August 2025 (GA)
- Schema migration in Azure Database Migration Service (GA)
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL Entra ID group login using user credentials (Preview)
- Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra v5.0 (Preview)
App Services & Functions
- App Service Inbound IPv6 Support (GA)
- Azure App Testing: Scalable End-to-end App Validation (Preview)
- Azure Functions Flex Consumption plan supports 512 MB instance size and diagnostic settings (GA)
Automation & Migration
- Deployment resumption - Azure Automation revised Service and Subscription limits (GA)
- Azure Migrate supports migration to disks with Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) redundancy (GA)
- Azure Databricks connector for Microsoft Power Platform (GA)