Organizations running Windows-based
workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) face increasing pressure to
modernize as support timelines for older Windows Server versions approach
retirement. To help customers prepare, AKS now offers preview support for
Windows Server 2025, bringing significant improvements over Windows Server
2022.
Windows Server 2025 provides many
improvements as compared to Windows Server 2022:
Stable ABI: Allows you to run Windows
Server 2022 containers on Windows Server 2025
New defaults: Generation 2 VM, containerd
2.0, FIPS enablement