| Public preview: String and binary columns in clustered columnstore indexes | Azure Updates | In preview | January 2017 | | 1 |
| Azure Functions deprecating preview versions | Azure Updates | Launched | January 2017 | | 1 |
| Public preview: New T-SQL language features | Azure Updates | In preview | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: New Japanese collations are available in Azure SQL Database | Azure Updates | In preview | December 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: VNet peering | Azure Updates | Launched | December 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Larger block blobs in Azure Storage | Azure Updates | Launched | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure DevTest Labs available in UK South and UK West | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Enterprise Integration Pack for Logic Apps | Azure Updates | Launched | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Logic Apps available in India and West US 2/West Central US regions | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Enhanced loading, monitoring, and troubleshooting experience | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Verizon geo-filtering migration | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure DevTest Labs: Set auto-shutdown for a single lab VM | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB: Change Feed support | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure DevTest Labs: Create claimable lab VMs in a pool | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure IoT Gateway SDK | Azure Updates | Launched | December 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Package Management extension for Visual Studio Team Services | Azure Updates | Launched | December 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure IoT Hub device management | Azure Updates | Launched | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Query Store is turned on by default for Azure SQL Database | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Mobile Apps SDKs for Apache Cordova and JavaScript | Azure Updates | Launched | December 2016 | | 1 |
| New Quickstart experience for Web Apps | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Back up Azure VMs directly from the VM blade | Azure Updates | – | December 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: New API version and .NET SDK for Azure Search | Azure Updates | Launched | December 2016 | | 1 |
| Application Insights: Telemetry data will require HTTPS | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Custom reports for Verizon Standard and Premium profiles | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Backup security capabilities for protecting cloud backups | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Set auto-shutdown for VMs created through Resource Manager | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Application Insights: General availability in additional regions and resource location update | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure DevTest Labs: Create multiple-VM environments with Resource Manager templates | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB: Paper about the TCO of running a NoSQL database is available | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB .NET Core Preview SDK available | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Free local development with the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| New generation of A-series instances for Azure Virtual Machines | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| URL Authorization Rules in App Service | Azure Updates | In preview | November 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Functions | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: R Server on HDInsight | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: G-series for Azure Cloud Services | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| New App Service MVA course now available | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB: Available in West Central US and West US 2 | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Backup support for encrypted Azure VMs | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: In-Memory OLTP in Azure SQL Database Premium | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure API Management SOAP pass-through | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB: New quick-start apps in the Azure portal | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure cool blob storage in additional regions | Azure Updates | Launched | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Functions portal and host improvements | Azure Updates | – | November 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB: Expanded geospatial support, including automatic indexing of Polygon and LineString objects | Azure Updates | – | October 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB supports IP-based access controls for restricting database access | Azure Updates | – | October 2016 | | 1 |
| Akamai Standard supports geo-filtering | Azure Updates | – | October 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB portal updates: New metrics blade and improved collection management | Azure Updates | – | October 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure App Service Companion preview available for iOS | Azure Updates | In preview | October 2016 | | 1 |
| Error handling added to Automation graphical runbooks | Azure Updates | – | October 2016 | | 1 |