| Azure App Service Authentication and Azure AD domain hints | Azure Updates | – | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure SQL Data Warehouse | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2016 | | 1 |
| G-Series instances for Azure Virtual Machines available in Australia East | Azure Updates | – | July 2016 | | 1 |
| Preview: Microsoft R Client | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2016 | | 1 |
| Microsoft introduces AppSource for SaaS business apps | Azure Updates | – | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Microsoft Azure IoT Hub S3 edition | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Cortana Intelligence Suite with Bing Predicts | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Bing APIs in Microsoft Cognitive Services | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Microsoft R Server for Linux virtual machines | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: SQL Server Stretch Database | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Two new Azure regions | Azure Updates | – | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure ExpressRoute in additional locations | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: New version of Azure Active Directory PowerShell cmdlets | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Always Encrypted for Azure SQL Database | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2016 | | 1 |
| Automation schedules support time zones and daylight saving | Azure Updates | – | July 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Redis Cache: Preview of new administration options in Premium tier | Azure Updates | In preview | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure cool blob storage in Canada | Azure Updates | Launched | July 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability of IaaS migration from classic to Resource Manager | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB capacity planner update | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Point-in-time restore retention for Standard tier extended to 35 days | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Generally available: Windows 10 Enterprise State Roaming via Azure Active Directory Premium | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Preview of Service Fabric on Linux | Azure Updates | In preview | June 2016 | | 1 |
| New Azure Mobile Engagement SDKs for Xamarin, Unity, and web (preview) available | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure cool blob storage in new regions | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Release of Service Fabric SDK 2.1.150 and runtime 5.1.150 | Azure Updates | In preview | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Two more things to keep your cost on track in DevTest Labs | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Git integration for API Management | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Scale data across the globe with Azure Cosmos DB multiple-region replication | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| New capabilities available on the Azure Batch service | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Site Recovery: Scout 8.0.1 Update 3 is available | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Search: Update to the Search Traffic Analytics dashboard in Power BI | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Batch send notifications to device tokens using Notification Hubs | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Support for Azure Active Directory B2C | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Search S3 and S3 High Density tiers in public preview, and Basic tier generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Log Analytics in Microsoft Operations Management Suite available in additional regions | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| General Availability: Apple FairPlay Streaming for Azure Media Services | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Generally available: Azure Redis Cache Premium tier in India and Canada | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Announcing: F-Series of compute-optimized virtual machines | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Introducing appLens for Web Apps in Azure App Service | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Export API definitions from API Management developer portal | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Retiring support for PHP 5.4 | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB is available in Canada East and Canada Central | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Spark on HDInsight | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Introducing Premium Storage | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| New Azure Cosmos DB throughput calculator | Azure Updates | – | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Preview update: Azure Cosmos DB protocol support for MongoDB | Azure Updates | In preview | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Redis Cache: General availability of support for Resource Manager–based virtual networks | Azure Updates | Launched | June 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Web Apps Gallery now supported only in Azure Marketplace | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| New generation of D-Series instances for Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services in Japan West | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |