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2025 (9)

October (2)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Firewall Updates - IP Group limit increased to 600 per Firewall Policy

Azure Updates

2025-10-07

Azure Firewall Policy now generally available supports up to 600 IP Groups per policy (previously 200), allowing administrators to simplify and better organize firewall rules by using more IP Groups instead of long IP lists.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: New Health Check infrastructure for Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Updates

2025-10-02

Azure Traffic Manager's new health check infrastructure is now generally available. The update improves the service's resiliency and scalability, and Microsoft is migrating customers to the new probing infrastructure as the rollout progresses.

September (7)

github: Copilot coding agent is now generally available

GitHub

2025-09-25

GitHub announced that the Copilot coding agent — an asynchronous, autonomous developer agent — is now generally available to all paid Copilot subscribers. Users can delegate tasks to the agent and it will act on their behalf, for example by opening draft pull requests.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Delete on-demand backup in Azure DB for MySQL - Flexible Server

Azure Updates

2025-09-24

Azure DB for MySQL - Flexible Server now supports deleting on-demand backups. As of the August 2025 release this capability is generally available, complementing the existing ability to manually trigger on-demand backups and the system automated backups.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Data Box Next Gen is now generally available in additional regions

Azure Updates

2025-09-19

Azure Data Box Next Gen is now generally available in India, Qatar, South Africa, and Korea; the 120 TB and 525 TB Data Box SKUs are GA in the US, UK, Europe, and US Gov.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: At-cost data transfer between Azure and an external endpoint

Azure Updates

2025-09-16

Azure has made at-cost data transfer generally available in Europe, allowing customers and CSP partners to pay only the underlying cost for internet data transfers between Azure and external endpoints.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure File Sync in Poland Central and Spain Central

Azure Updates

2025-09-16

Azure File Sync is now generally available in the Poland Central and Spain Central regions. The service lets you tier data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files for hybrid scenarios and simplified migrations while retaining on-premises file server performance, flexibility, and compatibility.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: AKS Automatic

Azure Updates

2025-09-16

Azure announced general availability of 'AKS Automatic', a managed AKS capability that automates routine cluster operations (provisioning, scaling, upgrades, patching and security) to reduce operational complexity and let teams focus on delivering applications.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files migration assistant

Azure Updates

2025-09-05

Azure NetApp Files migration assistant (with SnapMirror) is now generally available, enabling efficient, cost-effective migrations to Azure NetApp Files using ONTAP's replication engine.