Azure Weekly Update - 27th June 2025

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• Azure Update - 27th June 2025

Announcements Summary

• Azure Advisor VM right-sizing update (00:25) - New SKU inclusions for the right sizing

• FXv2 VMs (01:10) - New v2 SKU that provides 50% performance improvement over the previous SKUs

• AFD managed certificate for wildcard domains (01:52) - Ability to have Microsoft managed certificates for wildcard domains

• WAF security copilot integration (03:26) - Security Copilot is now integrated with Web Application Firewall to provide insight into key areas

• AVNM IPAM (04:26) - Azure Virtual Network Manager now support IP address management to manage pools of IP addresses and allocate as required

• Azure Firewall draft & deploy (05:27) - You can now draft multiple policy updates then apply all at the same time for a single disruption

• Prem SSD v2 and Ultra in Malaysia West (06:21) - Highest performance and lowest latency disks are now available in Malaysia West

• NetApp PMK to CMK migrationless migration (06:59) - Perform a volume switch from platform to customer managed key without data migration

• Azure SQL DB vector data and functions (07:41) - Vector data types and functions enable native work with embeddings which are key to generative AI scenarios

• ACM FOCUS 1.2 support (09:22) - Support for the 1.2 schema which provides enhanced FinOps capabilities

• Azure Monitor Workspace ingestion monitor (10:14) - Easily diagnose ingestion problems with your managed Prometeus in Azure