Azure Weekly Update - 15th August 2025

Azure Weekly Update - 15th August 2025

Quick update this week!

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Announcements Summary

  • App Service IPv6 inbound (01:11) - App Service can now have IPv6 traffic as input
  • Private App Gateway v2 (01:56) - App Gateway v2 no longer requires a public IP if desired. A fully private instance can be deployed with private endpoints for additional connections.
  • ADF upsert and script for Azure PostgreSQL (02:56) - Azure Data Factory (and Synapse Pipelines) can leverage upsert (update and insert auto combination) and SQL script activities when using Azure PostgreSQL as a source or sink.
  • Managed Cassandra v5.0 (04:11) - Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra now supports Cassandra 5.0 which includes better performance, new indexing capabilities, dynamic data masking, ACID transactions, vector search and more.
  • Cosmos DB for MongoDB CMK (04:37) - The vCore Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports encryption with customer managed key. This is on TOP of the Microsoft managed service-managed key encryption.
  • Azure PostgreSQL flex new region (05:16) - Now available in Malaysia West for that managed VM based PostgreSQL solution giving better resilience, control of parameters, compute options and more.
  • Power Platform Databricks connector (05:33) - From Power Platform you can now easily connect to Azure Databricks enabling real-time data access without copying data.
  • Azure App Testing (06:06) - Provides an end-to-end app validation for both functionality and performance testing. Works for Playwright, JMeter and Locust frameworks.
  • Azure Monitor tenant health alerts (06:43) - You can now create alert rules that are scoped to the tenant instead of specific subscriptions. This makes it easier to create alert rules for health alerts that will cover all your tenant's health issues and simplify the alert rule maintenance.
  • Azure Automation limit updates (07:21) - The rollout of these changes had been paused but are now resuming. These do vary but they are updating limits for Maximum number of Automation accounts in a subscription in a region and Maximum number of concurrent running jobs at the same instance of time per Automation account
  • Windows 365 Reserve (08:02) - Reserve is a way to be productive when your primary device is unavailable for whatever reason. You get ten days of usage per year, using a familiar Windows 11 experience, whilst your other device is repaired etc.

Bruno Costa

Cyber Security @ Securnet | BTL1

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Enjoyed a lot your SC 900 explanation. Will do you the SC 200 as well?

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Huan Woo Song

Aspiring Cloud & IT Professional | Former Professional Golfer | Student at Techtorium (Level 6)

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Thanks for sharing, John

Chris D.

Director | Cloud Architecture & Engineering at Everi Holdings Inc.

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Love this, John. For the Databricks connector. Is this going to work along with private Databricks, or do they need to have some public access?

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Yvo Bennema

Co-founder at Softvalue | Microsoft Cloud Specialist | Azure | Microsoft 365 | Power Platform | Copilot | Fabric | Strategic IT Partner for Digital Transformation

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Thanks for sharing, John 🙏

Amir Rad

Desktop Support Engineer / Entreprenur

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Very informative Azure update, thank you Sir John Savill 🙏 🙌

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