| Azure Container Instances now available in Australia East, East US 2, and Central US | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| PHP minor version and Xdebug update for August 2018 in App Service | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: vCore-based purchasing model for SQL databases and elastic pools | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Workspace selection added to Analytics, in each of your query editor tabs | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: SQL Database auto-failover groups | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Configurable long-term backup retention for Azure SQL Database | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Speech SDK 0.5.0 for Cognitive Services | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Business Critical service tier in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| New in Azure Maps: API, map control modules, imagery, and styling features | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Batch services and advanced routing services for Azure Maps | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| What’s new in Azure Monitor—container health | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| SQL Data Warehouse now powered by instant data movement | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Security Center Preview now available in Azure Government | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Virtual WAN | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Firewall | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Security Center is now integrated into the subscription experience | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure SQL Database managed instance business-critical tier in preview | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| New purchasing model for Azure SQL Database | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Long-term backup retention feature of Azure SQL Database now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure SQL Database supports auto-failover | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Service Fabric introduces its fully managed option, Service Fabric Mesh | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Announcing the public preview for Azure Data Box Disk | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Maps unveils satellite imagery, batch services, and advanced geospatial functionality | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Azure Log Analytics | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure DevOps Projects | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Functions Runtime x Preview—breaking change for HttpTrigger for Java | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure Data Box Disk | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Microsoft-hosted Linux and macOS agents in VSTS Sprint 137 Update | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Power BI Embedded dashboards with Azure Stream Analytics | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure SQL Data Warehouse extension for SQL Operations Studio | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Public Preview: Combined Password Reset & MFA Registration | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Security Center update July 1 | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Apply themes to Power BI Embedded dashboards | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| New documentation for Power BI Embedded REST APIs | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Slicers API for Power BI Embedded | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure DevTest Labs: Auto-fill virtual machine username and password | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure DevTest Labs: Auto-fill virtual machine name | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Increased reference data size in Azure Stream Analytics | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| New features for Azure dashboard tiles: resize and edit query | Azure Updates | – | July 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure DNS SLA: Updated to 100% | Azure Updates | – | June 2018 | | 1 |
| A new overview page for Azure Log Analytics | Azure Updates | – | June 2018 | | 1 |
| Static website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview | Azure Updates | – | June 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL 4-TB server storage | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2018 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Database for MySQL 4-TB server storage | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2018 | | 1 |
| Update reports for improved meter names | Azure Updates | – | June 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 now in preview | Azure Updates | In preview | June 2018 | | 1 |
| Azure Web Apps Analytics and Azure Network Security Group Analytics available | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2018 | | 1 |
| Zone redundant configuration for premium service tier of Azure SQL Database—GA | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2018 | | 1 |
| SQL Database storage add-ons GUID migration and name changes | Azure Updates | – | June 2018 | | 1 |
| US Government SQL Database storage add-ons GUID migration and name changes | Azure Updates | – | June 2018 | | 1 |