Azure Service Updates

HDInsight is now generally available in New Zealand North. Azure HDInsight is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source analytics service in the cloud for enterprises. You can use open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, LLAP, Apache More Information
Published: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:15:55 Z

We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Database for MySQL bindings for Azure Functions. With this new feature, Azure Functions can seamlessly interact with Azure Database for MySQL databases using input and output bindings. By simplifying More Information
Published: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:45:05 Z

Starting March 1, 2025, all Azure services will require using TLS 1.2 or higher. Support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end on March 1, 2025. To enhance security and provide best-in-class encryption for your data, we will enable Transport Layer Security (TL More Information
Published: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:00:00 Z

Risk and safety evaluations for images and multimodal content are now available in public preview in Azure AI Foundry. These evaluations can help organizations assess the frequency and severity of harmful content in human and AI-generated outputs to prior More Information
Published: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:00:21 Z

We’re excited to announce the extension of the promotional discounts on serverless compute for Notebooks, Jobs, and Pipelines (Delta Live Tables). You will continue to get 50% off serverless compute for Jobs and Pipelines and 30% off serverless compute fo More Information
Published: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:00:31 Z

Starting January 7th, 2025, Azure Automation will be revising its Service and Subscription limits to ensure fair distribution of cloud resources across all customers. The current Service and Subscription limits for Azure Automation can be found here. Rev More Information
Published: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:15:31 Z

The default maximum request rate for general-purpose v2 and Blob storage accounts has been increased from 20,000 to 40,000 requests per second in the following regions: East Asia Southeast Asia Australia East Brazil South Canada Central More Information
Published: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:15:31 Z

The new Azure security baseline for Linux provides enhanced monitoring of compliance status across Linux workloads. It offers more accurate and detailed compliance information and helps customers meet regulatory requirements faster. Combined with the auto More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:00:28 Z

Today you can control an AKS cluster's egress traffic using Azure Firewall. While this configuration is intended to isolate the cluster to protect sensitive business or customer data, it adds an additional layer of management complexity and cost. AKS now More Information
Published: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:15:40 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) logs now include detailed metadata, such as PodLabels, PodAnnotations, PodUid, Image, ImageID, ImageRepo, and ImageTag. These additions provide richer context and improved visibility into workloads, aiding in troubleshooting More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

GitHub Copilot for Azure now supports Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) plugins. The extension, which enables AKS plugins for GitHub Copilot for Azure (@azure), allows users to perform various tasks related to AKS directly from the GitHub Copilot Chat view. More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

The AKS automated deployments feature has received UI updates designed to make it easier for customers to get started with Azure Kubernetes Service. With these new improvements, you can now select specific locations for saving autogenerated Dockerfiles an More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

When you enable the application routing add-on with NGINX, it creates an ingress controller configured with a public facing Azure Load Balancer. Starting with Kubernetes 1.30, you can control this behavior when enabling the add-on by choosing if it gets a More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

Azure Backup now supports vaulted backups for AKS, enabling cross-region disaster recovery, long-term retention and immutable security. This simplifies compliance and strengthens resilience for cloud-native applications. Customers can protect clusters du More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

With the release of Kubernetes v1.30, the Azure Disk CSI driver has adopted the force detach capability. This feature allows the driver to force detach zone-redundant storage (ZRS) data disks from VM nodes in a failed zone and attach them to another VM, r More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

The AI toolchain operator (KAITO) managed add-on is now available in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Visual Studio Code extension. With an intuitive and visually engaging UI, this add-on is designed to simplify AI inference development. Customers can e More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

KAITO now supports high throughput model serving with the open-source vLLM serving engine. In the KAITO inference workspace, you can deploy models using vLLM to batch process incoming requests, accelerate inference, and optimize your AI workload by defaul More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

AKS now supports GPU-enabled Windows node pools, in public preview, to run compute-intensive Kubernetes workloads. AKS specifies a default GPU driver type for each supported GPU-enabled VM. Because workload and driver compatibility are important for funct More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

The AKS Communication Manager, now in public preview, simplifies notifications for all your AKS maintenance tasks by leveraging Azure Resource Notification and Azure Resource Graph frameworks. It provides timely alerts on event triggers and outcomes, all More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

Currently, all pods on AKS nodes can access the AKS worker node's Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) endpoint. AKS now offers a managed solution that restricts IMDS endpoint access for customer pods. Only AKS system pods and user pods with host networ More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

There are two types of container image pulls: serialized and parallel. By default, AKS versions earlier than 1.31 use serialized image pulls. Starting with AKS version 1.31 preview, AKS defaults to parallel image pulls. Generally, serialized image pulls More Information
Published: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:00:45 Z

The first cloud region in New Zealand is now available with Azure Availability Zones and provides organizations across the globe with access to scalable, highly available, and resilient Microsoft Cloud services while confirming its commitment to promoting More Information
Published: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:15:07 Z

All Azure CDN from Edgio customers must migrate their workloads to Azure Front Door or other CDN services before January 15, 2025 as Edgio has advised their platform is currently scheduled to be shut down by that date. Migrate as soon as possible to avoid More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

In early-December 2024, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Get enhanced monitoring now that the dynamic management function (DMF) displays the component causing throttling of the primary log generation rate in Azure SQL Datab More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:15:04 Z

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in the Spain Central and Mexico Central regions. For a detailed list of supported regions, see Azure regions. More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:15:04 Z

We're thrilled to announce that you can now modify multiple performance management server parameters in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. You can specify the value of hash_mem_multiplier, wal_sender_timeout, and wal_receiver_timeout. You ca More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:15:04 Z

We are excited to announce the release of new network monitoring metrics in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. With these enhancements, you can now gain deeper insights into network activities at the virtual machine level, helping you effect More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:15:04 Z

With the general availability of high-availability (HA) health status monitoring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, you can now track and maintain the health of HA-enabled instances with ease. This feature offers real-time insights into More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:15:04 Z

Higher capacity storage with higher IOPS enables you to host larger workloads on your vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB cluster. Now when you provision new clusters, you can help elevate performance by choosing from 8 TiB, 16 TiB, and 32 TiB with 16 More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

With new support for cross-region disaster recovery in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, you can create a replica of a cluster in another region. This cluster replica is continuously updated with the data written in the primary region. In the rare More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

You can now use up to five physical shards on your vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB clusters. An increased number of shards in a cluster enables you to host larger workloads and get elevated performance through higher concurrency. When you crea More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Now you can use index tuning to analyze the most resource intensive set of queries in your workload and produce recommendations of indexes that, once created, improve the performance of those queries. Index tuning also recommends indexes you can drop if t More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:19 Z

Azure Health Data Services’ de-identification service empowers organizations to securely de-identify clinical data while preserving its clinical relevance and adhering to the strict standards of the HIPAA privacy rule. The service uses natural language pr More Information
Published: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:30:01 Z

We have published an availability Service Level Agreement (SLA). The SLA can be found here, and will provide peace of mind for those of you running mission critical workloads on Elastic SAN. Additionally, we have enabled CRC protection to help customers More Information
Published: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:15:04 Z

Neon Serverless Postgres an Azure Native Integration offers a modern, serverless, and fully managed Postgres service. Developed through collaboration between Microsoft and Neon, this service enables the creation and management of Neon organizations direct More Information
Published: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:00:33 Z

Azure Chaos Studio Experiment Contributor, Chaos Studio Operator, and Chaos Studio Reader are new Azure built-in roles users can utilize to manage access to Chaos Studio within their organizationsChaos Studio Experiment Contributor: Can create, run, and s More Information
Published: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:00:55 Z

AKS upgrades currently fail when encountering a Pod drain failure. To improve upgrade efficiency, a new algorithm is being introduced. It allows you to configure upgrades so that if a node is blocked, AKS will use any available surge capacity to continue More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

We are announcing the general availability of two powerful new features in Kusto Graph Semantics. The star pattern allows users to express nonlinear patterns using comma-delimited sequences, making it particularly useful for describing connections where More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:00:49 Z

We are excited to announce the release of two powerful new graph operators in Kusto: graph-shortest-path and graph-mark-components. The graph-shortest-paths operator is designed to streamline the process of finding the shortest paths between nodes in a gr More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:00:49 Z

In today’s digital landscape, cloud administrators face the challenge of ensuring data and applications remain protected, compliant, and resilient amidst evolving cyber threats. We’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Vaulted Backup sup More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:00:20 Z

The Azure PostgreSQL migration extension in Azure Data Studio (ADS) will be officially retired on November 15, 2024. As part of our commitment to providing you with the most advanced and reliable tools, we are phasing out this extension in Azure Data Stud More Information
Published: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

On May 1, 2025, in alignment with the Azure-wide legacy TLS retirement announcement, TLS 1.0/1.1 protocol versions and TLS 1.2/1.3 Legacy Cipher Suites and Elliptical Curves will be retired for Application Insights Availability Tests. If you’re using any More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:45:04 Z

Now vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB supports the integration of role-based access control (RBAC) to grant secondary users read/read-write privileges. Administrators have more granular access control. They can assign specific roles to users who req More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:30:38 Z

We’re excited to announce a new VS Code extension for Azure Cosmos DB. Now you can connect, query, and manage your Azure Cosmos DB resources directly within VS Code, streamlining your workflow. Learn more. More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:30:38 Z

Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the new Da/Ea/Fav6 series AMD based virtual machines (VMs). These VMs consist of our new general purpose Dasv6-series and Dalsv6-series, our new memory optimized Easv6-series VM series, and our new compu More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:30:38 Z

Azure DNS now supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) in our azure public cloud, a significant enhancement to our DNS services. This new feature provides an additional layer of security to your domain names, ensuring the integrity and aut More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

In mid-November 2024, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: You can now set up a network security perimeter (NSP) in Azure SQL Database. An NSP defines a boundary around a group of platform as a service (PaaS) resources, providin More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:53 Z

You can now use Managed Service Identity to authenticate the Azure Storage extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server against Azure Blob Storage accounts. The Azure Storage extension enables interactions with Azure Blob Storage accounts More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:53 Z

Now you can use elastic clusters to horizontally scale Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server through row-based and schema-based sharding. Elastic clusters make it easy to build multitenant apps by offloading shard management and operations—such More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:53 Z

Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now supports the oracle_fdw extension. This foreign data wrapper gives you easy access to your Oracle databases via foreign tables. Learn more More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:53 Z

We are excited to introduce change streams for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. This new feature enables you to track real-time updates, inserts, and deletions in your database collections, facilitating the development of responsive, event-driven More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:53 Z

Check out the new Azure Cosmos DB Emulator for Mac developers and give us your feedback. The emulator supports Mac ARM64 and x86 architectures and is optimized for Linux-based continuous improvement and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems—giving you a g More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:53 Z

Now you can handle peak loads effortlessly without overprovisioning using the new autoscale capability, currently available in preview for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. Autoscaling gives you instantaneous scalability—your database can quickly a More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:53 Z

Network security perimeter allows Azure PaaS resources to communicate within an explicit trusted boundary. External access can be limited based on network controls defined across all private link resources within a perimeter.  All resources inside a perim More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:53 Z

We are excited to unveil key advancements in Azure Container Storage, our purpose-built storage solution for stateful containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). These updates bring increased performance and improved reliability to support even the most More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:30:31 Z

We are excited to announce the general availability of Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor – Container Insights! This enhancement adds Kubernetes metadata to the ContainerLogsV2 schema, including PodLabels, PodAnnotations, PodUid, Imag More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:00:36 Z

We're thrilled to announce the preview of DiskANN, one of the fastest vector indexing algorithms on the market, which is now available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Developed at Microsoft Research, DiskANN is used extensively at Microsoft in global s More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

We are excited to announce the general availability of Mirroring Azure SQL Database in Fabric. Mirroring is a simple, free, and frictionless way to replicate a snapshot of incremental data changes in Azure SQL Database to Fabric OneLake. Delta tables keep More Information
Published: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:00:14 Z

We’re excited to announce the public preview of the Data API for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. The Data API provides a flexible and powerful way to interact with your database through HTTP-based API calls. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:00:05 Z

We're announcing new features in Dev Box that make it easier to configure task-based workstations for development teams and enhance project guardrails. Cloud-based development environment for teams Team customizations: Dev team leads can create project-b More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:46 Z

Microsoft is announcing the gated preview of Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, a cutting-edge solution designed for organizations that require secure multi-party data collaboration. With Confidential Clean Rooms, you can share privacy sensitive data such as More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:15:23 Z

We’re excited to announce the public preview of DiskANN with filtering in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. With DiskANN, you can perform large-scale vector searches while reducing memory usage by up to 10 times compared to other algorithms like IV More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Announcing the general availability of cool access feature support with large volumes. This allows tiering of infrequently accessed data on large volumes under standard, premium or ultra storage, to a lower-cost storage tier. This allows your large capac More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:00:36 Z

As of November 12, 2024, NET 9 is now generally available for download. Azure PaaS services, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, and more, now fully support .NET 9.Customers can now leverage the enhanced capabilities of .NE More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:00:36 Z

Today, we are announcing the public preview of Azure Spot Placement Score, a feature designed to help you assess the likelihood of success for your Spot VM deployments. Given that Spot availability can fluctuate based on SKU size, location, availability More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:30:02 Z

The Azure Migrate business case enables customers to create a detailed comparison of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for their on-premises estate versus the TCO on Azure, along with a year-on-year cash flow analysis as they transition their workloads to More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Secure by default with soft delete for Azure Backup enables you to recover your backup data even after it's deleted. With enabling soft delete at vault level, we are now providing secure by default promise for all customers where all the backup data will More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Azure Backup users will now have immutable WORM storage for their backups when immutability is enabled and locked on a Recovery Services Vault. When immutability is enabled, it ensures that a Recovery Point, once created, cannot be deleted or have its ret More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Fallback to internet on Private DNS Zones: New feature which unblocks adoption of a fully managed solution for Network Isolation and simplifies scenarios with Private Link and Private DNS. This feature enables public recursion to occur in the event of rec More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

DNS security policy is now in public preview. This new feature brings the visibility of DNS traffic at the VNET level with the flexibility to send logs to storage account, log analytics workspace, or event hubs. The private preview also includes DNS filte More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We are pleased to announce that the Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion feature is now generally available. This significant enhancement allows customers to transition their virtual machine scale sets from a regional to zonal resiliency strategy or add additional More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re excited to announce our new feature that increases virtual machine create and delete success in your scale sets. Resilient create and delete initiates auto-recovery from failed create and deletes by performing retries of those operations on your beh More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances is now in public preview. Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances enable customers to create a pool of pre-provisioned container groups that can be used to scale out in response to incoming traffic. The con More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Custom metrics for rolling upgrades enables you to utilize the application health extension to emit custom metrics to your Virtual Machine Scale Set. These custom metrics can be used to tell the scale set the order in which virtual machines should be upda More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Rolling upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets is now generally available. Rolling upgrades with MaxSurge can help improve service uptime during upgrade events. With MaxSurge enabled, new instances are created in batches using the latest s More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Upgrade policies allow for more granular control over the upgrade process, ensuring that your services remain available and responsive during updates. The available upgrade policies are: Automatic, Manual, and Rolling. Automatic upgrade policy: the scale More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Attribute-based VM selection, is new feature in Azure Compute Fleet that enables you to configure your instance requirements as a set of VM attributes (e.g., memory, vCPU, and storage), instead of explicitly chosen VM sizes. This means users gets optimal More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Azure Compute is announcing the gated preview launch of multi-region deployment in Azure Compute Fleet, an innovative capability designed to bring unmatched flexibility and reliability on accessing compute capacity for your cloud workloads. This new featu More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Azure Virtual Network now supports up to 16X more private IP addresses with configuration of blocks of private IP addresses on a network interface. Network interfaces in Azure support configuration of one primary and multiple secondary IP configurations. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the synchronization between Azure API Management and Azure API Center! This integration combines the robust governance of API Center with the powerful management capabilities of API Management, delivering a unified solution for More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re excited to share that API Analysis in Azure API Center is now fully managed! With this release, you can enable API analysis effortlessly, with zero manual configuration or upkeep. Our API linting capabilities automatically examine your API definitio More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We're excited to introduce the GenAI Gateway Token Quota Policy in Azure API Management, designed to help organizations manage token consumption effectively when experimenting with large language models (LLMs). This new policy allows administrators to set More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re excited to announce expanded support for GPT4o models (including text and image-based capabilities) across all Generative AI policies in Azure API Management. With this release, you can now apply enhanced management and optimization features, includ More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re excited to announce the general availability of automated build and deployment support for Standard logic app workflows in Azure Logic Apps. With this release, you can streamline the deployment process for single-tenant logic apps using Azure DevOps More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of deployment slots in Azure Logic Apps Standard, a feature designed to enable zero-downtime deployment for mission-critical logic apps. With deployment slots, you can now update and deploy new versions o More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

The Azure Firewall integration in Security Copilot helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions. In an announcement ea More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re excited to introduce AI capabilities in the Azure Logic Apps Consumption SKU, now available in public preview! This release brings advanced AI-driven features that empower users to leverage intelligent document processing, search, and language capab More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Premium Integration Account in Azure Logic Apps, bringing enhanced capabilities for enterprise-grade B2B integrations. Designed to support mission-critical workloads, the Premium Integration Accou More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Templates Support in Azure Logic Apps Standard. Templates in Azure Logic Apps are pre-built workflow solutions designed to address a variety of integration scenarios, ranging from simple data transfer More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re excited to introduce the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model, a new feature in Azure Logic Apps designed to provide more deployment flexibility for customers with unique integration needs. With this model, you can now build and deploy workflows that More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We are thrilled to introduce the Public Preview of the Azure API Management Premium v2 Tier, our most powerful, high-capacity option for managing APIs at enterprise scale. This tier is designed for organizations requiring enhanced performance, greater ent More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We are excited to announce the general availability of shared workspace gateways in Azure API Management! This new feature introduces the ability to associate multiple workspaces with a single workspace gateway, offering a cost-effective way to federate A More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Now generally available, instance pools give you a flexible way to deploy compute resources for Azure SQL Managed Instance. You can deploy cost-effective, two-vCore instances, providing an ideal platform as a service (PaaS) target for small instances when More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

You can now use mirroring to easily replicate Azure SQL Managed Instance data to Microsoft Fabric. Mirroring replicates your data in near real-time directly into Fabric OneLake. Using mirroring helps you avoid complex Extract Transform Load (ETL) processe More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We are announcing the general availability of the Los Angeles Azure Extended Zone. Azure Extended Zones are small-footprint extensions of Azure placed in metros, industry centers, or a specific jurisdiction to serve low latency and data residency workloa More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We're thrilled to announce that Azure Database for MySQL now supports the MySQL 9.1 Innovation release, bringing the latest features to your database experience. This release includes exciting new capabilities, such as JavaScript for stored procedures and More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Now generally available in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, vector search enables your applications to perform high-dimensional vector similarity searches. You can take advantage of advanced AI scenarios including semantic search, Retrieval Augmented Generation More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Accuracy of the information retrieval pipeline plays a key role in the quality of advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. Using the new Semantic Ranker Solution Accelerator, you can extend Azure Database for PostgreSQL with a semantic More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Accuracy of the information retrieval pipeline plays a key role in the quality of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. GraphRAG is one of the advanced RAG techniques that improves accuracy of the information retrieval using graph-like relati More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

Now you can use Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL to power more generative AI scenarios and to build applications with advanced search capabilities. We are thrilled to announce three new search features in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, now available in public previe More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

As your applications scale, fast and reliable data access becomes critical. Now in public preview, Azure Managed Redis brings the latest Redis innovations with enhanced availability while being more cost-effective. Azure Managed Redis boosts AI applicatio More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We're excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft DiskANN vector index in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. With this cutting-edge vector index type, you can perform fast, accurate vector similarity searches at any scale. With this release, you get More Information
Published: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:17 Z

We are excited to announce workspace monitoring in Fabric. Workspace monitoring is designed for admins and developers to view detailed diagnostic logs and workload metrics about their workspaces to troubleshoot performance issues, capacity performance, an More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

OneLake catalog is a complete solution to explore, manage, and govern your entire Fabric data estate. The OneLake catalog comes with two tabs, Explore and Govern, that can help all Fabric users discover and manage trusted data, as well as provide governan More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of sidecar support for both source-code and container-based applications on Azure App Service for Linux. This feature is a significant step forward in providing robust, flexible cloud services, furt More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

We’re thrilled to announce that Microsoft Playwright Testing supports the NUnit test runner. This feature is now in preview. C# developers can now seamlessly run NUnit-based tests with Microsoft Playwright Testing to streamline continuous integration (CI) More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

AKS is introducing security dashboard in the portal. You can now have full visibility over the vulnerabilities of runtime and host in your AKS cluster. Defender for Cloud blade in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) portal offers a simplified and streamli More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Auto-instrumentation for AppInsights is now available in public preview for Azure Kubernetes Service. Auto- instrumentation enables Application Insights to make telemetry like metrics, requests, and dependencies available in your Application Insights reso More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

AKS Automatic will now dynamically select an appropriate virtual machine SKU for the system node pool based on the capacity available in your Azure subscription. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Application developers often need to deploy Kubernetes resources into multiple clusters. Fleet operators often need to pick the best clusters for placing the workloads based on heuristics such as cost of compute in the clusters or available resources such More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Platform administrators managing large number of Kubernetes clusters face the challenge of updating Kubernetes or node images in a way that is safe and predictable. To address this challenge, Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager (Kubernetes Fleet) provides upda More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

There are two generally available capabilities as part of the extended scheduling: cluster and namespace-wide attribute overrides for resources. At the cluster level, operators can use ClusterResourceOverride to define rules based on cluster labels, spec More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Trusted Launch enabled nodes are now generally available on AKS. Trusted launch improves the security of generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) by protecting against advanced and persistent attack techniques. It enables administrators to deploy AKS nodes, wh More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Azure Container Apps now offers planned maintenance in public preview. This feature allows you to control when non-critical updates are applied to your Container Apps environment to minimize downtime and impact to applications. Non-critical updates includ More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Azure Container Apps now support Serverless GPUs in public preview. Serverless GPUs enable you to seamlessly run your AI workloads on-demand with automatic scaling, optimized cold start, per-second billing with scale down to zero when not in use, and redu More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Private endpoints are now supported in public preview for workload profile environments in Azure Container Apps. This enables customers to connect to their Container Apps environment using a private IP address in their Azure Virtual Network, eliminating e More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

The dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps is a fast, sandboxed, ephemeral compute, suitable for running AI-generated, untrusted code at scale in hostile multi-tenancy scenarios. Each session has full compute isolation using Hyper-V. There are two mod More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

.NET Aspire is an opinionated stack that simplifies development of distributed applications in the cloud. You can now enlist Azure Functions projects using .NET on the isolated worker model into Aspire orchestrations using preview support. This equips tea More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Azure Functions now supports .NET 9 for applications using the isolated worker model. You can now use the improved performance of .NET 9, write your code with the new language features of C# 13, and more. Support is being enabled for Windows and Linux on More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Azure Functions now supports creating an OpenAI resource and an optional Azure AI Search vector store for building intelligent applications in Flex consumption portal experience. This makes it easier to build intelligent applications for text completion, More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Flex Consumption plan is a new Azure Functions hosting plan that builds on the consumption pay per second serverless billing model with automatic scale down to zero when not in use for cost efficiency., It provides you with more flexibility and customizab More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Microsoft is announcing the preview of the new DCa/ECa v6 series AMD based confidential virtual machines (VMs) running on 4th generation AMD EPYC™ processors with Secure Encrypted Virtualization – Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) security features. These VM More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

We're pleased to announce the release of MySQL 8.4 LTS for Azure Database for MySQL, a stable, long-term support version. MySQL 8.4 LTS is the ideal choice when you need a dependable, consistent database solution that evolves with your needs. You can conf More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:37 Z

Azure Local brings the power of Azure compute and platform services to customers' distributed and on-premises locations, addressing both mission critical and cloud-native applications like AI with flexibility and scalability. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:46 Z

New capabilities in Azure Event Grid add functionality to the MQTT broker feature and to Namespace topics – as well as enhanced security options. Generally Available features: Namespace topic push delivery to webhook endpoints  Support for webhook endpoi More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:00:28 Z

Evaluations for quality metrics are now generally available in Azure AI Foundry, accessible through the code-first Azure AI Foundry SDK experience and no-code Azure AI Foundry portal. These evaluators provide a scalable way to assess text-based models and More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:46 Z

Management center, now available in Azure AI Foundry portal, provides cross-functional teams with simplified, centralized management and governance controls for GenAI applications. Now, AI development, operations, and compliance teams can easily create, m More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:46 Z

New features in Azure Deployment Environments further expand developer access to app infrastructure and give platform engineers even more effective tools for customizing and securing enterprise deployments. Enhanced integration with Azure Developer CLI More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:46 Z

Network security perimeter restricts access to resources within the perimeter, and it allows non-perimeter public traffic through explicitly defined inbound and outbound access rules. With network security perimeter, administrators can: Create a secure bo More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:00:33 Z

Azure Bastion Premium is a new SKU to target customers handling highly sensitive virtual machine workloads. Its mission is to offer enhanced security features that ensure customer virtual machines are connected securely and to monitor VMs for any anomalie More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:00:43 Z

Windows Server 2025 Standard and Datacenter edition server hotpatching - security updates without reboots - is ready for your evaluation in preview. This feature will be a game changer; simpler change control, shorter patch windows, easier orchestration H More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:00:33 Z

Windows Server 2025 is generally available. The latest Windows Server helps organizations optimize for the future while delivering the security, performance, and flexibility they need today. Drive productivity with seamless hybrid, multicloud and edge cap More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:00:33 Z

Jumpstart Agora Contoso Hypermarket has officially reached general availability, showcasing how Azure Arc and Azure AI services empower digital transformation in the retail industry. This scenario brings next-gen innovations to life, such as AI-powered s More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:00:33 Z

Jumpstart Drops has officially reached general availability, marking a major milestone in simplifying workflows and empowering users exploring Microsoft technologies. Since its Public Preview debut at Microsoft Build 2024, Jumpstart Drops has grown into More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:00:33 Z

In the face of zonal outages, ensuring seamless server recovery is critical for maintaining business continuity. With this new enhancement in Dec 2024, your mission-critical MySQL workloads on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Business Critical s More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:00:46 Z

We’re excited to announce new Apache AGE support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a significant advancement in graph processing capabilities within the PostgreSQL ecosystem. You can now take full advantage of a powerful set of graph database tools using More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:00:46 Z

Now you can create physical snapshots of Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server based on your business needs. This feature complements the scheduled automated backups offered by the service, while adding the flexibility to delete the on-demand ba More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:00:46 Z

Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration is now generally available. Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets enables you to increase scaling performance by creating a pool of pre-provisioned virtual machines. The virt More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:30:07 Z

Application Gateway for Containers now supports Web Application Firewall (WAF) in private preview. WAF’s Default Ruleset provides Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) users with centralized protection against malicious attacks and exploits such as: Cross-site More Information
Published: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:30:07 Z

We are announcing that Azure Bastion now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication for SSH connections in the portal. With Microsoft Entra ID authentication, there are two main benefits to users connecting to their virtual machines. First, it eliminates More Information
Published: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

GitHub Copilot has rapidly become a favorite among developers, thanks to its conversational chat interface and seamless IDE integration. Recently, GitHub Copilot for Azure was introduced to streamline development on the Azure platform, making it an excell More Information
Published: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:00:53 Z

We’re announcing the general availability of Advanced Container Networking Service for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), a cloud native purpose-built solution to enhance security and observability for Kubernetes and containerized environments. Advanced Cont More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:41 Z

Support for Azure Load Balancer numberOfProbes property ends on September 1, 2027. To avoid service disruption, upgrade your apps to API version 2022-05-01 or higher and start using Azure Load Balancer probeThreshold property. We will not be supporting th More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

To respond to evolving technology and regulatory standards, Azure Storage will remove support for TLS version 1.1 and 1.0, and the minimum supported version will be TLS1.2 starting November 1, 2025. TLS 1.2 is more secure and faster than older TLS version More Information
Published: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:00:17 Z

We’re excited to introduce LangChain.js integration with Azure Cosmos DB. You can use this powerful combination to efficiently manage fast and accurate data retrieval with greater ease in your JavaScript applications. The new LangChain.js integration make More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:00:28 Z

With the Gateway migration experience, customers can use the Azure Portal or PowerShell scripts to deploy a second Virtual Network Gateway within the same GatewaySubnet of the Virtual Network. During the migration phase, once initiated by the customer, Az More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Azure Chaos Studio’s faults for Azure Kubernetes Service clusters now work with managed identity authentication. Previously, local authentication through the Kubernetes API server was the only supported authentication method. To enable customers with an e More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:00:17 Z

Because we're consolidating resources and there is low usage in the region, we'll be retiring Azure Health Data Services the Qatar Central region on October 31, 2025. Please ensure that you migrate to another available Azure Health Data Services region by More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:30:29 Z

SeccompDefault is available in public preview as a new parameter through custom node configuration. Secure computing mode (seccomp) is used to restrict a container’s syscalls that can be sent to the kernel. This establishes an extra layer of protection a More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:41 Z

Azure Linux 3.0, the next major version release of the Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), is now available in preview on AKS version 1.31. Azure Linux 3.0 offers increased package availability and versions, an updated kernel, a More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:41 Z

Static egress gateway for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now in public preview. This feature allows AKS customers to configure a fixed source IP for out-of-cluster communications without incurring the significant cost of deploying a dedicated node pool More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:41 Z

Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager upstream team is making new multi-cluster features available to any Kubernetes operator.For core multi-cluster workload placement there is a v1alpha1 release of staged release pipelines (ClusterStagedUpdateRun) whi More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:41 Z

Node pools in AKS can now be deleted even if there are pods monitored by a PodDisruptionBudget (PDB) – previously, the deletion of the node pool could fail due to an unsatisfied PDB. This enhancement allows the deletion to proceed by ignoring the PDB erro More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:41 Z

It is now possible to specifically choose which VM to delete and remove when scaling down a node pool in AKS. This provides greater control and flexibility in managing resources within the node pool. Learn more. More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:41 Z

We are announcing the public preview of WebSocket on Azure Front Door Standard and Premium. WebSocket is enabled by default without customer configurations on Azure Front Door. WebSocket enables full duplex communication between a server and a client ov More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:00:34 Z

Azure Chaos Studio is a managed service that uses chaos engineering to help measure, understand, and improve cloud applicaion and service resilience. Azure Chaos Studio Resource Targeting is now available in Canada Central region. For complete list of reg More Information
Published: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:00:44 Z

We're excited to announce the public preview of PostgreSQL 17 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. This release introduces several enhanced features, including improved vacuum processes and dynamic logical replication, optimizing performanc More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

In early November 2024, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Azure SQL Database Hyperscale now offers 128 TB maximum storage capacity, up from 100 TB. More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Now generally available: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB with an API for cluster management, offering you scalable, high-performance clusters on Azure. With this release, you can programmatically manage your vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Now available in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, Microsoft.Build.Sql projects are a database development and deployment toolkit for SQL Server, the Azure SQL family, and Fabric Data Warehouse. This update adds SQL projects based on the Microsof More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Easily enable your data for enterprise AI workloads thanks to the newly introduced support for vectors in the Azure SQL family of databases. Store embeddings and run vector similarity searchs right in Azure SQL using the new vector type and the related ve More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

We are thrilled to announce some exciting performance enhancements for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Our latest updates push the boundaries of what's possible in relational data storage, delivering even greater speed, efficiency, and reliability.One key More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Announcing the general availability of Azure Load Balancer Administrative State (Admin State), which simplifies managing backend pool instances.Admin State enables you to override the health probe behavior for each instance without additional configuratio More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

We’re announcing the general availability of User-Defined Route (UDR) Management in Azure Virtual Network Manager. This new feature simplifies managing complex routing behaviors by automating UDR orchestration. Through Azure Virtual Network Manager’s UDR More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Announcing the general availability of Azure Load Balancer Health Status, a powerful feature designed to provide detailed information about the health of backend instances in your Azure Load Balancer backend pool.The Health Status feature offers valuable More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

We are excited to announce the public preview of Confidential Containers on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). This innovative feature enables cloud native confidential computing by leveraging Trusted Execution Environments to protect containers and data, add More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Azure cross-subscription Load Balancer. Cross-subscription load balancing enables the load balancers components to be located in different subscriptions. For example, the frontend IP address or the back More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:30:03 Z

Azure File Sync support for managed identities is now in public preview.Managed Identity eliminates the need for shared keys as a method of authentication to your Azure file shares by utilizing a system-assigned managed identity provided by Microsoft Entr More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:15:47 Z

Now generally available: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB with an API for cluster management, offering you scalable, high-performance clusters on Azure. With this release, you can programmatically manage your vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:00:28 Z

You can now debug queries more efficiently with the improved error messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer. This release addresses common challenges, such as syntax errors, invalid operators, parameters, or typos that previously resulted in generic, t More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:00:28 Z

We are announcing the public preview of Edit network features with no downtime for Azure NetApp Files volumes. Standard Network Features provide you with an enhanced Virtual Networking experience for a seamless and consistent experience along with securit More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:30:23 Z

On October 31st, 2025, Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor will be retired. As a result, any workloads using Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor will be deleted and the associated application data will be lost.Before the retirement d More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:00:44 Z

A new bot protection rule set (Microsoft_BotManagerRuleSet_1.1) is now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Application Gateway.This updated ruleset enhances the existing Bot Manager 1.0 by introducing new bad bot and go More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:30:10 Z

On October 31st, 2025, Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor will be retired. As a result, any workloads using Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor will be deleted and the associated application data will be lost.Before the retirement d More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:30:29 Z

Azure stream analytics PowerBI output connector will be retired on Oct 31, 2027.What is changing for Azure Stream Analytics Power BI output connector?DateWhat happensBeginning October 31st, 2024New customers will not be able to create new Azure Stream Ana More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:30:29 Z

Application Insights Code Optimizations helps you identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at the code level in your running .NET applications. Utilizing an advanced AI-based model, it analyzes Application Insights profiler traces and provides actiona More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:30:29 Z

Virtual network integration in App Service previously required one subnet per App Service plan integration. If you are working with many App Service plans, managing the subnets can be an unnecessary administrative task. Therefore, we are happy to announce More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:30:29 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in Germany West Central, Israel Central, Italy North, Spain Central, Mexico Central regions. This next-generation storage solution offers advanced general-purpose block storage with the best price perform More Information
Published: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:30:29 Z

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the feature for Converting to Premium SSD v2 disks (Pv2). Confidently move your workloads to Pv2 by leveraging this feature to take advantage of the unparalleled balance of price and performance of Pv More Information
Published: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:45:07 Z

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Live Resize for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks. Dynamically increase the storage capacity of your disks without causing any disruption to your applications. To reduce costs, you can begin by creating s More Information
Published: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:45:07 Z

In late-October 2024, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: More than twice as many Azure regions as before now support autoscaling—up to 80 vCores—using serverless in Azure SQL Database. More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Functions now supports Node.js 22 in preview. You can now develop functions using Node.js 22 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.Learn more about upgrading your Function Apps to Node.js 22. More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

The Premium tier for Azure App Configuration is now generally available, making it possible to support larger and more complex applications with higher performance and scalability.This new pricing plan is ideal for organizations that need greater capacity More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

You can now set fail criteria on server metrics, thereby defining performance and quality expectations for your application under load. Monitor your applications components and specify the thresholds on server metrics for test failure.Learn more. More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

The September 2024 release of the FinOps toolkit (version 0.6) is now available. This month, you’ll find:New: FinOps best practices library.New: Power BI reports for governance and workload optimizationCustomizable promoted tags in Power BI.Ingest prices, More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Backup users will now have immutable WORM storage for their backups when immutability is enabled and locked on a Recovery Services Vault. When immutability is enabled, it ensures that a Recovery Point, once created, cannot be deleted or have its ret More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Enterprise and Enterprise Flash tier caches now have the ability to scale up or out without requiring downtime. Scaling up allows a cache to scale to a larger Enterprise SKU with more memory capacity, connections, and compute performance. Scaling out spre More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Following the announcement on November 10, 2023, we are continuing our transition to requiring TLS 1.2 or later for all connections to Azure services. To minimize disruption to customer workloads, several services will continue supporting TLS 1.0 and TLS More Information
Published: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

We are happy to announce the general availability of enabling Azure Backup on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disk on GRS vaults. Premium SSD v2 offering provides the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of IO-intensive More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Elastic SAN for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is now generally available. Azure Elastic SAN offers AVS customers an Azure deployed, fully managed, VMware Certified storage area network (SAN) that can achieve massive scale, is easy to manage, and has r More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the new Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machines (VMs). The Cobalt 100 VMs consist of our new general purpose Dpsv6-series and Dplsv6-series and our memory optimized Epsv6-series VM series. They offer up to More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Announcing general availability of ExpressRoute Metro, a new private connectivity architecture designed to enhance network resiliency for our customers. ExpressRoute Metro provides a highly resilient circuit that enables diverse connections to two separat More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure customers can now use the secure and smaller ED25519 SSH keys with their Linux VMs. Previously, customers only had the option of using RSA keys for SSH connections to their Linux VMs on Azure. Now customers can choose between RSA and ED25519 based k More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Announcing Reduced Pricing for JBoss EAP on App Service starting October 1, 2024!Price ReductionAcross all available non-free SKUs, JBoss EAP License fees have been reduced by 63%! This reduction in license fees makes JBoss EAP on App Service more accessi More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Public Preview: VM watch – Enhancing VM Health Monitoring VM watch, now in preview, is a standardized, lightweight, and adaptable in-VM service offering for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets. It runs health checks within the VM at configurab More Information
Published: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

In early-October 2024, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Reduce costs by lowering the auto-pause delay for serverless compute in Azure SQL Database. Learn more.Perform bidirectional failovers between SQL Server 2022 and Azure S More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Not all workloads in the cloud need the same resources, which is why organizations regularly optimize their architecture with a mix of technologies and service plans that best meet their current needs. To meet this need for varied workload sizes, we’ve de More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Manage your data more easily using the new custom column selector and filter history features in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer. You can customize your data views by selecting specific columns that matter most to you, streamlining your workflow. Additional More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Take control of your schedule with flexible maintenance, now generally available. You can reschedule Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server maintenance activities to a time that best suits your business operations. With a maximum 30-day reschedule win More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

We are excited to announce that Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports the anon extension version 1.3.2. This extension enhances data anonymization capabilities, providing a powerful tool for protecting sensitive information in your More Information
Published: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z