Serverless containers

Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in General Availability (GA).

SSH for Cloud Run services and instances is in Preview.

Use this feature to establish a secure, interactive shell connection to your running instances.

Amazon ECS adds Amazon VPC Lattice support for blue/green, linear, and canary deployments

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies for ECS services using Amazon VPC Lattice.

New scheduling policy for Containers to configure image and instance from Durable Objects

Containers now support the durable_object scheduling policy in public beta. This policy lets a Durable Object select the image and instance size for a Container at runtime instead of using one centrally managed configuration for the application.

Snapshot and restore Container filesystem

Containers now support snapshot APIs in public beta for saving and restoring point-in-time filesystem state. Create a snapshot first, then pass it back to start() to restore files after container sleep, restart, or handoff to another Durable Object.

Retirement: Functions on Azure Container Apps V1

The Functions on Azure Container Apps (ACA) V1 will be retired on September 29, 2027. After this date, existing Functions on ACA V1 Apps will stop running and no longer process requests or event-driven triggers.

Custom Container instance types no longer have a disk to memory ratio limit

Containers custom instance types no longer limit disk based on memory. Previously, a custom instance type could have a maximum of 2 GB of disk for each 1 GiB of memory. You can now allocate up to the 20 GB disk maximum to any custom instance type.

Support for specifying custom target CPU or concurrency utilization using scaling controls is in General Availability (GA).

Create custom URLs, like example.cloud.run, that are easy to remember and globally available for your Cloud Run services.

No DNS configuration, load balancers, or extra costs required ( Preview ).

Amazon ECS now provides real-time deployment observability in the AWS Management Console

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides real-time service deployment observability in the Amazon ECS Console for native Linear, Canary, and Blue/Green deployment strategies.

Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports AWS Graviton (ARM64) workloads

Amazon Elastic Container Service Express Mode now supports specifying ARM64 as the CPU architecture for your service, making it easy to deploy ARM-based container images on AWS Graviton-powered compute and benefit from up to 40% better price-performance compared to x86-based…

Use Cloudflare Containers with Codex via the OpenAI Agents API

The OpenAI Agents API gives your application access to Codex through an OpenAI-managed API.

Generally Available: Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework

The Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework is now generally available. The framework enables developers, teams, and partners to extend Azure Developer CLI with custom capabilities that support their preferred application development workflows.

Configure observability per container application

You can now configure observability for each container application when you deploy Containers with Wrangler. This lets you change logging for one container without changing the rest of your Worker.

To take advantage of reduced pricing for Cloud Run jobs, you can delay job execution to defer non-urgent tasks for up to 12 hours (Preview).

To take advantage of reduced pricing for Cloud Run jobs, you can delay job execution to defer non-urgent tasks for up to 12 hours ( Preview ).

Amazon ECS introduces Early Success Criteria for service deployments

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Early Success Criteria for rolling service deployments, giving you the flexibility to define when a deployment is considered successful based on your confidence level and the operational needs of your workload.

Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support non-critical daemons

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now support non-critical Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances.

Generally Available: Microsoft Defender for Cloud support for Azure Container Apps (Serverless Containers Posture)

Customers can now bring Azure Container Apps environments into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, helping security teams extend posture management across more of their container estate from a single workflow.

Support for the Go 1.27 runtime is in General Availability (GA).

Configure Agent Platform features on your Cloud Run services and jobs to securely authenticate AI agents and MCP servers using system-managed Agent Identities.

This support also includes automatic registration in the Agent Registry ( Preview ).