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August 2024
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
Use private Azure Container Registry (ACR) with the extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments for more secure, customizable deployments.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
Volume enhancement: Azure NetApp Files now supports 50 GiB minimum volume sizes.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Resource specific tables provide a dedicated and optimized way to store and query logs for Application Gateway. The resource specific tables allow for better data manipulation and enhanced performance in terms of ingestion latency and query times.
Aug 16
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure App Service Environment v1/v2 on 31 August 2024.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Backup now supports performing Cross-Region Restore of SQL and HANA backups from a vault which has Private Endpoints enabled.
Aug 16
RETIREMENT
Ensure that your client applications can support TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Multiple encryption layers for increased data security.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
You can now enable or disable FIPS on an existing node pool in AKS.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
You now have greater control over your network traffic within your Kubernetes environment in AKS.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
You can now implement and manage dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 network configurations on your Windows nodepools in AKS clusters.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
This AKS extension update for the Visual Studio Code includes several new features including deployment file generation, GitHub Actions, and more.
Aug 15
NOW AVAILABLE
Enable multifactor authentication to maintain access to admin portals.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Chaos Studio now supports a new Network Isolation fault for virtual machines
Aug 16
RETIREMENT
Effective September 12th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 will be executed.
Aug 16
IN PREVIEW
Using the new High Scale mode in Container Insights, customers can send up to 50K logs per second per node from their AKS clusters.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Use Terraform to perform geo-restore for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Disable access keys for Azure Cache for Redis authentication when using Microsoft Entra ID.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Help ensure compliance and security with Azure Policy support for Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Discover enhanced navigation and data management with the latest Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer update.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-August 2024.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Use HSM-backed encryption keys to protect data at rest in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.
Aug 16
NOW AVAILABLE
Simplify your development process with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database.
Aug 08
IN PREVIEW
Customers now have the capability to operate latency-sensitive workloads in close proximity to end-users, all within a framework that supports data residency needs.
Aug 08
NOW AVAILABLE
Replicate Azure NetApp Files volumes from one availability zone to another in a fast and cost-effective way, protecting your data from unforeseeable zone failures
Aug 08
NOW AVAILABLE
Populate previously deployed, existing volumes with the logical availability zone information to enable failure domain protection for workloads in specific availability zones.
Aug 08
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports Prometheus Operator model and Custom Resource Definitions for Service and Pod Monitors.
Aug 08
RETIREMENT
Effective August 29th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.1 will be executed.
Aug 08
IN PREVIEW
Azure API Center Visual Studio Code extension is now adding a pre-release version allowing developers to get an early look at some of the upcoming features.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Fine-tuning and inferencing with adapters is now supported on open-source Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO).
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now trigger a node image upgrade between one Linux SKU to another on an existing nodepool in AKS.
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Get the latest release in Windows Server and portability between container hosts and container images.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
App Configuration references are now available on App Service
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Customers can now transition existing volumes from platform-managed keys (PMK) to customer-managed keys (CMK) without data migration
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Empowering Azure developers and IT professionals to optimize the carbon footprint from cloud usage.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Lifecycle management rules in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage now provide more control over returning rehydrated objects back to archive tier with support for daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Container Storage, industry’s first platform-managed container-native storage solution in the public cloud, is now generally available with full support for Ephemeral Disks (Local NVMe/Temp SSD) and Azure Disks.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
We are certifying IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) on Washington version of ServiceNow.
Aug 01
RETIREMENT
Effective August 15th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 2.4 will be executed.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Support for .NET integration with Semantic Kernel in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Configure long-term retention for CMK-enabled Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Servers.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Enable storage autogrow for read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Aug 01
NOW AVAILABLE
Vaulted backup for Azure Blob Storage, now generally available, can help you comprehensively protect your data in Azure Blob Storage against data loss.
Aug 01
RETIREMENT
As we near the August 31, 2024, deadline, it has become imperative for you to complete your upgrade from Integration Service Environments (ISE) to Logic Apps Standard.
Aug 01
RETIREMENT
The August 31st deadline to upgrade from Azure API Management stv1 to stv2 is rapidly approaching. After this date, your stv1 platform will no longer receive the latest updates and additional features available in stv2.
Aug 01
IN PREVIEW
Azure API Management is announcing a new WordPress plugin to enable our customers to easily deploy a highly customizable developer portal on WordPress hosted on Azure App Service. Customers can now take advantage of site capabilities in WordPress to customize and add features to API Management developer portal including localization, collapsible and expandable menus, custom stylesheets, file downloads, and more.
July 2024
Jul 25
IN PREVIEW
Converting to Azure Premium SSD V2 feature speaks to the ability to change your existing Standard SSD, Standard HDD, or Premium SSD v1 disks to PV2 disks in a few clicks with minimal downtime. This process avoids disk destruction, eliminates the need to use snapshots as a staging resource, and doesn’t require waiting for background data copying.
Jul 25
IN PREVIEW
Azure Monitor is announcing the public preview of a new logs plan called Auxiliary Logs.
Jul 25
IN PREVIEW
Azure NetApp Files large volumes now support throughput up to 12.5-GiB/s and maximum volume size up to 2 PiB.
Jul 25
IN PREVIEW
Azure is proud to announce the public preview of the 6th generation Intel-based VMs, with up to 20% higher vCPU performance and 3x larger L3 cache than the previous generation Intel Dl/D/Ev5 VMs.
Jul 25
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Monitor Basic Logs is announcing new capabilities to maximize customer benefit and enhance functionality.
Jul 25
NOW AVAILABLE
AzAcSnap 10 with new features is now available
Jul 25
NOW AVAILABLE
Learn about Delete or Reset Azure Site Recovery replication appliance
Jul 25
RETIREMENT
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Jul 18
RETIREMENT
Azure Lab Services will be retired on June 28, 2027, with new sign-ups closing on July 15, 2024. Users should transition to alternative Microsoft VDI services or recommended partner solutions by the retirement date to avoid disruptions.
Jul 18
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to announce preview support to enable Trusted launch on existing Azure Gen1/Gen2 Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) Uniform by upgrading the VMSS Uniform resource to Gen2-Trusted launch.
Jul 18
RETIREMENT
Deprecation of Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2
Jul 18
RETIREMENT
Azure Synapse runtime for Apache Spark 3.3 will be retired and disabled March 2025.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Functions now supports .NET 8 using the in-process model
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now use Redis as an Azure Function trigger.
Jul 18
IN PREVIEW
You can now monitor and configure Spring Boot web applications using managed Admin Java component
Jul 18
IN PREVIEW
You can now use managed identities in your scale rules in Azure Container Apps.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now encrypt network traffic transmitted between applications within an Azure Container Apps environment using peer-to-peer-encryption.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for Azure Container Apps at the environment level.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
ExpressRoute Traffic Collector can now be enabled on ExpressRoute provider circuits.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
Announcing support for ExpressRoute FastPath Virtual Network Peering and User Defined Routes (UDR) connectivity.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
This feature enables a group of virtual networks to directly communicate to each other without an additional hop, thus improving the latency and management overhead of establish each virtual network's desired connectivity.
Jul 18
IN PREVIEW
Preview of cross region data transfers for Azure Data Box
Jul 18
RETIREMENT
The API “Microsoft.AlertsManagement alerts 2018-05-05-preview” that is in preview mode will be deprecated from the date 10-10-2024
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
Pgvector 0.7 is now available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
In-place major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
Delete multiple items at once now in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer.
Jul 18
NOW AVAILABLE
The .update command is now Generally Available (GA)
Jul 11
RETIREMENT
Azure will retire Guest OS Families 2, 3, and 4, with end-of-life dates for Windows Server 2008 R2 in December 2024, and Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 in February 2025. Learn how to transition to supported OS Families.
Jul 11
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of encryption of data in Backup vaults using Customer Managed Keys.
Jul 11
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process.
Jul 11
NOW AVAILABLE
We now have the ability for customers to scale down their unused capacity at the SAN level. We have also released diagnostic logging and expanded into new regions.
Jul 11
IN PREVIEW
Customers now have access to pod level metrics and DNS metrics for troubleshooting their AKS cluster networks.
Jul 9
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
Users can now run their Azure Databricks job without configuring and deploying infrastructure.
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
Serverless compute for notebooks allows you to run your notebooks quickly without configuring and deploying infrastructure.
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
DLT with serverless compute allows you to run your streaming data pipelines without configuring and deploying infrastructure.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
When a Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) is deployed into a Virtual WAN hub, it can serve as a third-party gateway with various functionalities. Cisco FTD is the newest NVA integration with the Virtual WAN hub.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Migrate Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) to Azure Front Door for enhanced security, rules engine, logging and analytics capabilities.
Jul 5
IN DEVELOPEMENT
Azure ExpressRoute is rolling out several product enhancements to help customers improve their multi-site and zonal resiliency posture with ExpressRoute deployments.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Online MongoDB migration capabilities in Azure Data Studio for uninterrupted database transfers.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-July 2024.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Connect cross-subscription resources to your Azure Load Balancer
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Azure Backup support for backup and restore of Elastic SAN Volumes is now in private preview.
Jul 5
RETIREMENT
Onco-Phenotype model within Azure AI Health Insights will be retired on July 31st, 2024.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
One feature now available in public preview enables you to consume predictions from a diverse set of models in a uniform and consistent way. Developers can talk with different models deployed in Azure Machine Learning without changing the underlying code they are using.
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
Three features now available in GA enable you to provide a secure and efficient way to deploy and consume AI/ML models, submit training jobs through the Studio UI—including hyperparameter tuning—using an improved submission experience, and ensures a seamless interactive experience for developing LLM applications.
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
We are now introducing a new region - Spain Central for Azure HDInsight.
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Data Explorer (ADX) tables, and even joining data between those data sources in a single query.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Customers will now be able to detach the ZRS disks and attach them to another VM, decreasing the RTO.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to offer Azure customers enhanced security and performance with ED25519 SSH key support for Linux virtual machines (VMs) in Azure.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, announces the launch of Continuous Performance Diagnostics. This new feature elevates the existing on-demand Performance Diagnostics for Azure VMs by providing continuous, actionable insights into high resource usage. It empowers you to swiftly diagnose performance issues, optimize resource utilization, and maximize efficiency. Now available in Public Preview for Windows VMs, Continuous Performance Diagnostics is the next leap in Azure VM performance troubleshooting with Azure Monitor.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Windows Server 2025 preview is now available. Check out the advanced security, performance increases, and modernized experience of the newest version of Windows Server.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Use the latest version of Redis on your cache instances.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Experience seamless online migration for PostgreSQL with migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
Keep your PostgreSQL extensions up-to-date with a single command for enhanced security and stability.
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
New and updated Azure Advisor recommendations created for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
Optimize database performance with dynamic IOPS scaling for Azure PostgreSQL Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Jul 5
NOW AVAILABLE
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-June 2024.
Jul 5
IN PREVIEW
The new Geo-Replication feature for Service Bus is now in public preview. This feature allows to replicate data and metadata for a namespace between a primary and a secondary region.
IN PREVIEW
Increase your security posture and generate a non-intrusive mitigation when a request matches a WAF bot rule or custom rule using Azure WAF JS challenge.
IN PREVIEW
Azure Container Apps is now available in public preview in Azure Government Cloud Virginia.
ANNOUNCEMENT
You can now configure different egress IPs for your pods without creating multiple nodes with instance-level public IPs.
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now use OS Security Patch channel for Linux in AKS to limit disruption from patching.
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now access the API server and control plane of a private cluster more easily.
IN PREVIEW
Upgrade Policies help ensure your virtual machines in your scale set remain up to date with the latest scale set model.
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new and updated Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging at-scale for Azure services.
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Monitor now offers a way to get Live Metrics while using vender-neutral OpenTelemetry APIs that are the foundation of the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh and direct connectivity are generally available in all public regions
NOW AVAILABLE
Run load tests in debug mode with enhanced logging. You get the debug logs and request and response data for failed requests.
IN PREVIEW
Aggregate ingested data to workspace continuously per given query and cadence to enable efficient queries on large data sets and time ranges.
NOW AVAILABLE
Manage Log Analytics Dedicated cluster in Azure portal.
IN PREVIEW
With Foundation Model Training, Azure Databricks users can use their own data to customize a foundation model to optimize performance
NOW AVAILABLE
Load test your functions directly from Azure Functions in Azure portal.
END OF SUPPORT
End of Azure Standard support offer on June 30, 2024. Customers without another paid support plan and who wish to maintain technical support coverage should purchase support.
NOW AVAILABLE
vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB has expanded its capabilities and now supports Mongo Version 7.0.
IN PREVIEW
Now Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB customers can migrate to continuous backup.
IN PREVIEW
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-June 2024.
June 2024
Jun 3
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Resource Health helps you diagnose and get support for service problems that affect your Azure resources. Azure Resource Health now supports log search alert rules, so that you can use the activity log to check the health status of your log search alert rules.
Jun 3
IN DEVELOPMENT
Starting July 2024, alert rules using linked storage will require a managed identity to access the linked storage. This requirement will be enforced on alert rules created with API version 2023-12-01 or newer. Creating or updating linked storage rules using an older API version will be blocked.
Jun 3
NOW AVAILABLE
TARGET AVAILABILITY: Q2 2024
We are excited to announce that audit logging for user actions in the Azure API Management developer portal is now generally available. API administrators and managers can now enable a diagnostic setting in Azure API Management to send developer portal audit logs to a storage account, event hub, or Log Analytics workspace.
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