Azure Arc Roadmap

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Azure Arc is a set of capabilities enabling Azure to work with deployments hosted outside of Azure, and it includes offerings for server management, data and application services, and Kubernetes management. It works by extending Azure management services to resources outside of Azure and enables some Azure services to operate on-premises.

Product: Azure Arc

Near Term (2025-2026)

Multicloud connector enabled by Azure Arc became generally available in early 2025, but supports only AWS public cloud subscriptions.

Auto agent upgrade for Arc enabled servers, in preview, will automatically upgrade the local Arc agent software to the latest version without manual effort or scripting.

Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL server, which never left preview, was retired in July 2025.

The following Arc enabled services remain in preview:

Arc enabled Azure Container Apps

Arc enabled Logic Apps

App Service, Functions, and Logic Apps on Azure Arc (this

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