Microsoft Azure News
Generally Available: Enhancements to Purchase-Related Details in Cost Management for MCA Customers
By June, we introduce improvements that will provide more detailed and accurate information on reservations (RIs), Azure Saving Plans (ASP), and 3rd party purchases from the Azure Marketplace.
- RIs and ASP purchases will now show their billing subscription ID, helping customers with showback and chargeback.
- ServiceStart and ServiceEnd dates will now show the term of the offer.
- Data for RIs and ASP purchases will now populate the payGCostinBillingCurrency and the paygCostinUSD. This enables customers to compare their costs to retail prices in both currencies. This will be released by June.
- For customers with monthly billing plans for commitment-based offers, the pricingCurrency and costInPricingCurrency fields will now show values for all installments.
- For Marketplace purchases completed via the Azure Portal, we are adding support for tags. Purchases will also include the resourceUri, subscriptionId, and resourceGroupName. Note: Not all Marketplace purchases support these fields.
- Effective Price will now populate for purchases. Effective price is in pricing currency, like all price points in the Cost Management data.
- Customers of partners will now be able to view purchases and refunds at the subscription scope.
For any questions or assistance, please contact the support team.
Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-April 2025
In late-April 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:
- The MSSQL extension for VS Code now includes Schema Compare in its April release—making it easier to compare database schemas, identify differences, and apply updates across databases or files.
Public Preview: Larger container sizes on Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances now supports larger container size instances in public preview. You can now deploy workloads with higher vCPU and memory for standard containers, confidential containers, containers with virtual networks, as well as containers utilizing virtual nodes to connect to AKS.
This setup supports vCPU counts greater than 4 and memory capacities of 16 GB, with a maximum of 32 vCPU and 256 GB per standard container group and 32 vCPU and 192 GB per confidential container group.
Generally Available: Azure Firewall integration in Security Copilot
The Azure Firewall integration in Security Copilot helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions.
The following capabilities can be accessed either via the Security Copilot portal or the Copilot in Azure experience directly on the Azure portal:
- Retrieve the top IDPS signature hits for an Azure Firewall: Get log information about the traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature instead of constructing KQL queries manually.
- Enrich the threat profile of an IDPS signature beyond log information: Get additional details to enrich the threat information/profile of an IDPS signature instead of compiling it yourself manually.
- Look for a given IDPS signature across your tenant, subscription, or resource group: Perform a fleet-wide search (over any scope) for a threat across all your Firewalls instead of searching for the threat manually.
- Generate recommendations to secure your environment using Azure Firewall’s IDPS feature: Get information from documentation about using Azure Firewall’s IDPS feature to secure your environment instead of having to look up this information manually.
Generally Available: Azure Compute Fleet
Azure Compute Fleet is now generally available in all regions. Azure Compute Fleet allows users to easily obtain large amounts of compute capacity algorithmically mixing and matching a variety of available and VM sizes suitable to a user’s workload, up to 10,000 VMs in a single fleet. A user can specify a variety of VM criteria such as RAM size, core count, SKU type, location, and pricing structure, and Azure Compute Fleet will deploy capacity tailored to those criteria.
Azure Compute Fleet also has a variety VM fleet management features that automatically and programmatically control how fleets respond to changing variables, such as cost overruns, capacity shortages for specific VM sizes, or the eviction of Spot VMs