Here is a the list of reading news i share on November 2025.

All of this list are a little messy, in the future i will try to sort them by category.

Storage & Data

• [Launched] Generally Available: Planned Failover for Azure Storage
• [Launched] Generally Available: Object Replication Metrics
• [Launched] Generally Available: Object Replication Priority Replication for Azure Blob
• [Launched] Generally Available: Geo Priority Replication for Azure Blob
• [In preview] Public Preview: Smart Tier account level tiering (Azure Blob Storage and ADLS)
• [In preview] Public Preview: Entra-only identities support with Azure Files SMB
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure DocumentDB high-performance storage

Networking

• [Launched] Generally Available: Monitor end-to-end ExpressRoute connectivity with Connection Monitor
• [Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute resiliency insights
• [Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute resiliency validation
• [Launched] Generally Available: Application Gateway for Containers with Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• [Launched] Generally Available: Troubleshoot Azure Firewall using packet capture
• [Launched] Generally Available: DNS flow trace logs for Azure Firewall
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure WAF JavaScript challenge on Azure Front Door
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management Pool Association Recommendation
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager UseExisting Mode for UDR management
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager peering compliance
• [In preview] Public Preview: Pod CIDR expansion in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure VNet Flow Log - Filtering
• [In preview] Public Preview: Standard V2 NAT Gateway and StandardV2 Public IPs
• [In preview] Public Preview: Cross region pool association support for Azure Virtual Network Manager IP address management
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager address overlap prevention in mesh
• [In preview] Public Preview: Application Gateway for Containers Istio Service Mesh integration
• [Launched] Generally Available: TLS and TCP termination on Azure Application Gateway
• [Launched] Generally Available: Cluster-wide Cilium network policy with Azure CNI powered by Cilium for AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: Local redirect policy in Azure CNI powered by Cilium for AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: Layer 7 policy with Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: DNS security policy Threat Intelligence feed
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Network Watcher Topology - AKS Visualization
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Network Watcher Topology - Agentless Connection Troubleshoot

Databases

• [Launched] Generally Available: Query Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL read replicas with Premium SSD v2
• [In preview] Public Preview: Index Advisor for Azure DocumentDB
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Fleet Analytics
• [Launched] Generally Available: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB
• [In preview] Public Preview: Dynamic data masking with Azure Cosmos DB
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure DocumentDB - an open-source, MongoDB-compatible document database service for hybrid and multicloud
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB fleet pools
• [In preview] Public Preview: Online and offline migrations in Azure DocumentDB Migration extension
• [In preview] Public Preview: Oracle to PostgreSQL migration tooling in Visual Studio Code
• [Launched] Generally Available: Online migration from Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB RU to Azure DocumentDB
• [Launched] Generally Available: Elastic clusters on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
• [Launched] Generally Available: PostgreSQL 18 with in-place upgrade on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL change event streaming
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL storage extension support for Parquet
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose service tier
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL Database long-term retention (LTR) backup immutability
• [Launched] Generally Available: Fuzzy search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL full-text search
• [Launched] Generally Available: Vector indexing performance improvements in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Containers & Kubernetes

• [Launched] Open Source: Announcing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator
• [In preview] Public Preview: Agentic CLI for AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: LocalDNS for AKS
• Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Kubernetes Service desktop
• [Launched] Generally Available: Pod sandboxing on AKS
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Container Registry Repository Permissions with Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
• [Launched] Generally Available: Managed namespaces on AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: AKS Automatic managed system node pools
• [Launched] Generally Available: AKS Automatic pod readiness SLA
• [Launched] Generally Available: MCP support for AI toolchain operator add-on in AKS
• [In preview] Public Preview: Container network metrics filtering in Advanced Container Networking Services for (ACNS) for AKS

Compute & Serverless

• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure MCP Server
• [In preview] Public Preview: GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• [Launched] Generally Available: .NET 10
• [In preview] Public Preview: Managed Instance on Azure App Service
• [In development] Private Preview: Azure Boost remote storage throughput and network bandwidth enhancements
• [Launched] Generally Available: Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool trigger for Azure Functions
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions durable task scheduler Dedicated SKU (GA) & Consumption SKU (Public Preview)
• [Launched] Announcing: Resources for migrating to Azure Functions Flex Consumption
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions enables OpenTelemetry support
• [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Container Apps introduces flexible workload profile

Monitoring & Management

• [In preview] Public Preview: Introducing SDK Stats to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
• [Launched] Generally Available: Advanced sampling and richer data collection in Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
• [In preview] Public Preview: Recommended alerts for Azure Monitor Workspace

Disaster Recovery & Security

• [Launched] Generally Available: Capacity guidance for Azure Site Recovery
• [In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft Defender for Cloud + GitHub Advanced Security
• [In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft HTTP DDoS Ruleset 1.0 on Application Gateway WAF v2