Azure Update 27th March 2026

Key insights

• AKS: Improves networking and observability with app-level routing, meshless Istio support, richer network logs, a new network AI diagnostics agent, managed GPU metrics, and a blue‑green agent pool upgrade to simplify safe node updates.
  
• Azure SQL and Fabric: Add production features including customer‑managed keys for Fabric SQL, SQL Database auto index compaction, change event streaming for SQL Managed Instance, soft delete for SQL Server, and new Hyperscale SKUs for higher capacity.
  
• PostgreSQL migration: Now supports Google AlloyDB and EDB using the pgoutput plugin for online migrations to reduce downtime; PostgreSQL flexible servers also gained custom timezone support for scheduled cron jobs.
  
• Azure Monitor and performance tools: Introduce OLTP ingestion for faster telemetry processing; DiskANN receives accuracy and throughput improvements for large‑scale vector search and retrieval.
  
• Mirroring and priority processing: Fabric adds MySQL and Cosmos DB private‑endpoint mirroring to boost redundancy, and Foundry introduces priority processing to accelerate important workloads.
  
• Entra ID: Strengthens tenant governance and adds external MFA options; organizations and partners should prepare for tighter MFA enforcement on APIs and management flows.
  

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