John Savill’s Technical Training delivers the Azure Update for 12th September 2025, highlighting the latest service expansions, feature enhancements, and product retirements within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.

Azure Update: Announcements and Service Changes (12 September 2025)

Author: John Savill’s Technical Training

This week’s Azure Update presents a concise review of key product announcements and changes impacting Azure services.

Key Updates & Announcements

  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift: Availability expanded to new regions, enhancing multi-cloud container deployment choices.
  • Standard HDD for OS Retirement: Information on the upcoming retirement and migration considerations for standard HDD-backed operating system disks.
  • Multi-tenant Container Insights: New monitoring options for multi-tenant container scenarios in Azure.
  • VM SKUs: Introduction of new D/E/F asv7 VM SKUs and the larger Dsv6 D192 instance size for resource-intensive workloads.
  • Azure NetApp Files (ANF): New migration assistance tools support data transitions to Azure NetApp Files.
  • Azure File Shares: Launch of a new resource type facilitating improved file share management.
  • GQL (Graph Query Language) in KQL (Kusto Query Language): Added graph semantics for more advanced data analysis.
  • Azure Databricks AIM: Enhanced capabilities for analytics and machine learning projects.
  • Database Services:
    • Azure PostgreSQL Flex: Now available in more regions for flexible Postgres deployments.
    • Azure MySQL: Introduction of self-healing mechanisms, extended support versions, and updates to MySQL 8.4.
  • Cosmos DB: Customer managed keys (CMK) support for MongoDB workloads in Azure Cosmos DB.
  • Sora Image-to-Video: Announcement related to image-to-video functionality with Sora (details limited).
  • Microsoft Playwright Testing Retirement: Notification on the upcoming retirement of Playwright Testing as a service.

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