đź“ť Overview
Microsoft expanded Azure’s enterprise and security capabilities with general availability of Network Security Perimeter support and Confidential Computing for Azure Event Hubs, alongside the launch of Azure Red Hat OpenShift in the Chile Central region. The company also introduced preview features including exceptions management for web application firewalls in Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door, Chaos Studio workspaces and scenarios for resilience testing, and export jobs for historical Log Analytics workspace data.
Azure Web Application Firewall for Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door now offers preview support for exceptions, helping organizations reduce false positives by allowing safe and expected requests while maintaining protection against common threats.
Source: Azure service updates
• Published: July 07, 2026
Azure Chaos Studio has introduced preview support for Workspaces and Scenarios, enabling teams to test application resilience against outages through application-focused configurations across subscriptions, resource groups, or service groups.
Source: Azure service updates
• Published: July 07, 2026
Log Analytics Export jobs are now available in preview, allowing users to export historical workspace data to Azure Storage accounts based on selected queries and time ranges for external analysis or archiving.
Source: Azure service updates
• Published: July 07, 2026
Azure Event Hubs now generally supports Network Security Perimeter, allowing organizations to define isolation boundaries for PaaS resources and manage public network access through perimeter-based rules.
Source: Azure service updates
• Published: July 07, 2026
Azure Event Hubs Dedicated now generally supports Confidential Computing, using trusted execution environments to help protect sensitive streaming data while it is processed in memory.
Source: Azure service updates
• Published: July 07, 2026
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in Chile Central (Chile), expanding managed OpenShift deployment options in South America through Microsoft’s first Azure region in the country.
Source: Azure service updates
• Published: July 07, 2026