Azure Product Updates Digest

Azure product updates grouped by product category, sourced from the official Microsoft Azure Updates feed.

# Azure product updates - 2026-10-06

**5 new update(s)** — first seen in this run. The last 7 day(s) are rescanned every time so late or backdated announcements are not missed. Grouped by Azure product category.

Source: [Azure Updates](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates)

## Summary by category

| Category | Updates | GA | Preview | Top products |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| [Analytics](#analytics) | 1 | - | - | Microsoft Fabric |
| [Compute](#compute) | 1 | 1 | - | SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines |
| [Databases](#databases) | 1 | - | 1 | Azure HorizonDB |
| [Management and governance](#management-and-governance) | 1 | - | 1 | Azure Backup, Azure Database for PostgreSQL |
| [Networking](#networking) | 1 | - | 1 | Application Gateway, Web Application Firewall |

## Analytics

### [Announcing: Table discovery in OneLake Catalog search](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?id=573875)

**Status:** Effective | **Published:** 2026-10-05 | **Products:** Microsoft Fabric | **Tags:** Announcement

Microsoft Fabric Search now includes table discovery from semantic models, lakehouses, and mirrored databases, enhancing data findability while respecting existing permissions.

- Search returns tables as individual results from semantic models, lakehouses, and mirrored databases starting October 15, 2026.
- Users can search tables by name, description, or exact column-name match across multiple Fabric search interfaces.
- Table visibility in search depends on parent item permissions, not data-level permissions; search does not grant data access.
- Admins can control table discovery via the 'Users can find objects in search' setting in the Fabric admin portal, enabled by default.

## Compute

### [Generally Available: SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines in Azure Bleu](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?id=571499)

**Status:** Launched | **Published:** 2026-10-05 | **Products:** SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | **Tags:** Feature

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available in Azure Bleu, enabling deployment in France's sovereign cloud to meet data residency and sovereignty requirements.

- Capability: Run full editions of SQL Server on Azure VMs with simplified licensing and no on-premises hardware management.
- Availability: Now available in Azure Bleu region, supporting France's sovereign cloud environment.
- Customer Impact: Enables customers to comply with data residency and sovereignty regulations while leveraging Azure's cloud infrastructure.
- Management: Features like automated backup, patching, and performance optimization are accessible via the SQL IaaS Agent extension and Azure portal.

Documentation: [Overview of SQL Server on Azure Windows Virtual Machines - SQL Server on Azure VMs](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/virtual-machines/windows/sql-server-on-azure-vm-iaas-what-is-overview?view=azuresql)

## Databases

### [Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB expands to additional regions](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?id=572940)

**Status:** In preview | **Published:** 2026-10-05 | **Products:** Azure HorizonDB | **Tags:** Feature

Azure HorizonDB is now available in additional Azure regions, enabling customers to deploy PostgreSQL workloads closer to their applications and users for improved performance and flexibility.

- Expanded regional availability provides more deployment options tailored to workload needs.
- Azure HorizonDB is a fully managed, AI-ready PostgreSQL database designed for high performance and scale.
- Separation of compute and storage layers allows independent scaling, faster failover, and efficient resource utilization.
- Native AI capabilities and integration with Azure ecosystem support intelligent applications and hybrid workloads.

Documentation: [What Is Azure HorizonDB? - Azure HorizonDB](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/horizondb/overview#azure-regions)

## Management and governance

### [Public Preview: Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?id=573425)

**Status:** In preview | **Published:** 2026-10-05 | **Products:** Azure Backup, Azure Database for PostgreSQL | **Tags:** Feature

Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2) preview introduces physical backups with long-term retention and enhanced scalability, improving backup efficiency and restore capabilities for enterprise-scale PostgreSQL deployments.

- Supports physical backups via managed disk snapshots for flexible servers and elastic clusters up to 32 TB (Premium SSD v1) and 64 TB (Premium SSD v2), overcoming the 1 TB limit of v1 logical backups.
- Provides incremental backups after the initial full backup with daily or weekly schedules, enabling practical multi-terabyte daily protection and configurable retention from 7 days up to 10 years.
- Includes Restore as Server feature allowing direct restore to pre-created PostgreSQL flexible servers or elastic clusters without intermediate storage or manual import.
- Offers enterprise-grade data protection with WORM immutable backups, vault soft delete, multi-user authorization, and customer-managed key encryption to safeguard against ransomware and accidental deletion.

Documentation: [About Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2) - Azure Backup](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-postgresql-flex-server-elastic-cluster-v2-overview)

## Networking

### [Public Preview: IPv6 Support for Application Gateway WAF](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?id=573861)

**Status:** In preview | **Published:** 2026-10-05 | **Products:** Application Gateway, Web Application Firewall | **Tags:** Features, Security

Azure Application Gateway WAF now supports IPv6 traffic inspection and enforcement in Public Preview, enabling consistent security for dual-stack environments as IPv6 adoption grows.

- Application Gateway WAF extends full protection, including managed and custom rules plus diagnostics, to IPv6 traffic in dual-stack deployments.
- IPv6 geo-based custom rules are available during preview via AFEC enrollment, allowing granular traffic governance.
- Dual-stack configuration is required; IPv4-only gateways cannot be upgraded to dual-stack and IPv6-only gateways are unsupported.
- Feature registration is required to enable IPv6 geo-based custom rules, with platform validations preventing unsupported configurations.

Documentation: [IPv6 Geo-Based Custom Rules (Preview) - Azure Web Application Firewall](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/custom-rules-geo-based-ipv6)

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