| A_V2 series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure HDInsight is now available in South India | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Update Management: Reboot control | Azure Updates | Launched | August 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Azure Updates | Launched | August 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL | Azure Updates | Launched | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure API Management update August 28 | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Improvements to meter names and impacts to Power BI content pack reporting | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Comma-delimited (.csv) reports for new Azure consumption and charges APIs now available | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Functions Runtime 2.0 breaking changes | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Add HTTPS probes to standard load balancers from the Azure portal | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Automation in Korea Central and West US 2 regions | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| .NET Framework 4.7.2 update coming to Azure App Service apps | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Management Groups now available | Azure Updates | Launched | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Database Migration Service—Support for using existing backup files for migration | Azure Updates | In preview | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Database Migration Service—Save project and run activity now supported | Azure Updates | Launched | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Instance size flexibility for Azure Reserve Virtual Machine Instances now available | Azure Updates | Launched | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Security Center—Adaptive Application Controls now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Save up to 80 percent with reserved capacity and Azure hybrid benefit | Azure Updates | Launched | August 2018 | | 1 |
| App Service Windows Container in preview | Azure Updates | In preview | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Review summarized test results in VSTS Sprint 138 Update | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Data Factory/Azure Cosmos DB connector now supports UPSERT | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure API Management update August 3 | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| PHP minor version update for September 2018 | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Power BI Developer Center is live | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| System Center Operations Manager Management Pack to configure Operations Management Suite | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Automatic recommendations help optimize performance with SQL Data Warehouse | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Power BI Embedded API for programmatic control of visual headers | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Power BI Embedded available in Azure China cloud | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| Log Analytics workspaces must be created in the Azure portal | Azure Updates | – | August 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Site Recovery Update Rollup 27 | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| OMS Linux Agent July 2018 release now available | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Linux on App Service Environment | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Security Center update July 22 | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Metric alerts for logs | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure App Service support for Java SE on Linux | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure App Service support for Java SE 8 on Linux now in preview | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Change feed support in Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Database for PostgreSQL: 4-TB server storage now available | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Database for MySQL: 4-TB server storage now available | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| New query features in Azure Search | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Name change: End of Dv2-series VMs promotion | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Accelerated and flexible restore points for Azure SQL Data Warehouse | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Run signed runbooks in Azure Automation | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Free course on the Log Analytics query language (KQL) now available | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| All Analytics custom logs are now grouped under the schema “Custom Logs” category | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure DevTest Labs: Configure mandatory artifacts for your lab | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 name change | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Content Delivery Network GUID migration and UoM change | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Site Recovery Update Rollup 26: provider and agent updates | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |