Here is a the list of reading news i share on July 2025.
All of this list are a little messy, in the future i will try to sort them by category.
Azure Security & Identity
- Copilot for Azure - Remove access for your users
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure DNS security policy
- [Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM
- Rising star: Meet Dylan, MSRC-s youngest security researcher
- Retirement: Azure AI Speaker Recognition
- Retirement: Azure HDInsight - Enterprise Security Package
Azure Networking
- [Launched] Generally Available: FQDN Filtering in DNAT rules in Azure Firewall
- [Launched] Generally Available: Customer controlled maintenance for Azure Firewall
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Firewall now supports ingestion-time transformation in Log Analytics for flexible, cost-efficient logging
- [Launched] Generally Available: Hosted-On-Behald-Of (HOBO) Public IP model for ExpressRoute Gateways
- [Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute - Auto-assigned Public IP for ExpressRoute Gateways
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure CNI static block allocation for pod subnet
- [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager high-scale private endpoints in connected groups
- Retirement: Azure Front Door (classic) and Azure CDN from Microsoft Classic SKU ending CNAME based domain validation and new domain/profile creations by August 15, 2025
Azure Compute & Containers
- [Launched] Generally Available: Virtual Machines node pools support in AKS
- [In preview] Public Preview: CLI command for migration from Availability Sets and Basic load balancer on AKS
- [In preview] Public Preview: Max blocked nodes allowed support in AKS
- [Launched] Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning support in AKS
- [Launched] Generally Available: Cluster Extension Manager move to AKS control plane
- Post-Quantum Cryptography in Kubernetes
Azure Databases & Data
- [Launched] Generally Available: Secondary users for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)
- [In preview] Public Preview: Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric
- [Launched] Generally Available: Mirroring Azure Databricks Unity Catalog to Microsoft OneLake in Fabric
- [Launched] Generally Available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
- [Launched] Generally Available: PostgreSQL 17 with in-place upgrade on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Entra authentication for Power BI Desktop
- [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL cascading read replica
- [Launched] Generally Available: Accelerated logs now available for General Purpose tier in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
- [Launched] Generally Available: Configure backup interval for Azure Database for MySQL automated backups
Azure Storage & Backup
- [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Storage Mover adds free, direct AWS S3-to-Azure Blob migration
- [Launched] Generally Available: Migrate Azure VM backups from standard to enhanced policy
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Backup standard policies support for Trusted Launch virtual Machines
- [Launched] Generally Available: Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Azure File Sync
Azure App Services & Automation
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub 25R1
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.4 & Python 3.10 runbooks and Runtime environment
Azure SQL & Analytics
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for early-July 2025
- [In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-July 2025
- [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-July 2025
- [Launched] Generally Available: Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics
- [Launched] Generally Available: Search Job Enhancements in Log Analytics