| General availability: Azure Backup in the Azure portal | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Automation scheduling feature update | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Deploying a Web Apps certificate through Key Vault | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure DevTest Labs | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure API Management is available in Canada regions | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Run your own custom Automation tasks in response to VM alerts | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Redis Cache: Preview of import/export and scale to Premium tier | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Namespace-level tier selection enabled for Notification Hubs | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Deploy geo-fenced push notifications by using Azure Notification Hubs | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Automation: New graphical runbook type based on native PowerShell | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Automation Runbook Gallery update | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Site Recovery in new Azure experience | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB: General availability in the North Central region | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure SQL Data Warehouse: May 2016 update | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Scheduler available in Canada regions | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Resource lock management available in the portal | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Data Lake update announcement | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure SQL Database elastic pools | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Media Analytics for Azure Media Services | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Speaker Recognition API for Microsoft Cognitive Services | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure in Canada | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Test-drive feature is now available on Azure Marketplace | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Content Delivery Network from Akamai is now available | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| API Management adds new cmdlets for managing Git configuration, Properties, and Loggers | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Announcing Azure Mobile Services transition to Azure App Service | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: SQL Database Advisor and Performance dashboard | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: More preview enhancements for Azure Active Directory B2C | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Cosmos DB: Expire data automatically with "time-to-live" setting | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Scheduler: P10 and new P20 Premium plans | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Windows 10 Enterprise State Roaming preview via Azure Active Directory Premium is now available in Asia | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure Active Directory Domain Services now available in Australia | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Announcing support for PHP 7.0 in Azure App Service | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Mid-June 2016 brings compatibility level 130 for new Azure SQL databases | Azure Updates | Launched | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Platform-supported migration of IaaS resources | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure API Management adds support for Swagger model schemas | Azure Updates | – | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure Search Blob indexer parses structured JSON content | Azure Updates | In preview | May 2016 | | 1 |
| Mobile Apps iOS Client SDK v3.1.0 released | Azure Updates | – | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Active geo-replication available on all Azure SQL Database service tiers | Azure Updates | – | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure IoT Gateway SDK enters public beta | Azure Updates | In preview | April 2016 | | 1 |
| New Dv2 instances for Azure HDInsight | Azure Updates | – | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure DevTest Labs available in six more regions | Azure Updates | – | April 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Cool Blob storage | Azure Updates | Launched | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure IoT Suite goes international | Azure Updates | In preview | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure Stream Analytics integration with Power BI is now generally available | Azure Updates | Launched | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Azure IoT Suite security articles added | Azure Updates | – | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Public preview: Azure Search indexer for Azure tables | Azure Updates | In preview | April 2016 | | 1 |
| General availability: Azure Container Service | Azure Updates | Launched | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Southeast Australia region available for Azure Automation | Azure Updates | – | April 2016 | | 1 |
| XML and SQL stored procedure in Logic Apps | Azure Updates | – | April 2016 | | 1 |
| Automation: Run As account | Azure Updates | – | April 2016 | | 1 |