| New Azure Monitor Agent available on latest Linux distros and new regions | Azure Updates | In preview | February 2021 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West | Azure Updates | Launched | February 2021 | | 1 |
| Support for SAP Application (NetWeaver) and Operating System (Linux) telemetry in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions | Azure Updates | In preview | February 2021 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure Machine Learning - Responsible ML updates | Azure Updates | In preview | February 2021 | | 1 |
| General availability: Stop/start functionality for Azure Database for MySQL | Azure Updates | Launched | February 2021 | | 1 |
| Support for Azure API Management certificates in Azure Key Vault has reached general availability. | Azure Updates | Launched | February 2021 | | 1 |
| Microsoft Azure Attestation is now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | February 2021 | | 1 |
| Additional IOPS feature for MySQL - Flexible Server in public preview | Azure Updates | In preview | February 2021 | | 1 |
| Support for more workloads, tag based policies now in Backup Center public preview | Azure Updates | In preview | February 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Security Center—Public preview updates for January 2021 | Azure Updates | In preview | February 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Security Center—General availability updates for January 2021 | Azure Updates | Launched | February 2021 | | 1 |
| General availability: Text Analytics' Named Entity Recognition v3 now supports 10 languages with improved AI quality | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Machine Learning Output Datasets | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure Machine Learning Data Labeling – Image Instance Segmentation | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Sphere version 21.01 is now available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement | Azure Updates | –
Retirement | 28 April 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure API Management Updates - January, 2021 | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage now in public preview | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Cognitive Services Translator - Inuktitut language text translation now available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| 99.99% uptime for Azure Active Directory Premium customers is coming April 1st, 2021 | Azure Updates | In development | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Germany West Central Availability Zones now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| South Central US Availability Zones now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Python 3.9 in Azure Functions is now in public preview | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure HDInsight extends capabilities for encryption of data in transit and at rest | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| New Azure Cloud Services deployment model in public preview | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Generally available: Copy Blob support over private endpoints in Azure Storage | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Action Required: Upgrade IoT Hub IP filter before 1 February 2022 | Azure Updates | –
Retirement | 1 February 2022 | | 1 |
| Azure Boards - New enhancements to Delivery Plans 2.0 | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Automatic Cluster Upgrades in AKS | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Application Insight in Japan West | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Prevent Shared Key authorization on Azure Storage accounts | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Automation is now available in Switzerland West | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| General availability: Application Insight in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| App Service Authentication portal experience is now in public preview | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Monitor Network Insights is now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Changes in Azure Monitor Logs for the AzureDiagnostics table is now available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Automatic tracking of click events with Application Insights is now available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Public preview of Linux Diagnostics Agent 4.0 | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| General availability: Optional Uptime SLA for Azure Kubernetes Service private clusters | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB: Multiple region Availability Zones support with single-region write now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| LIKE keyword support now generally available in Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB Management with PowerShell cmdlets is now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves now in public preview | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows available for public preview | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2021 | | 1 |
| Azure Site Recovery update rollup 53 is now available - January 2021 | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |
| The Azure Quota REST API to manage service limits (quotas) is now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2021 | | 1 |