Azure Service Updates

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over request body inspection, and maximum size limits for request bodies and file uploads. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:00:33 Z

Reduce RU-costs and improve query speeds with Index Advisor! More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:01:07 Z

Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain! More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:01:00 Z

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB improves its vector search capabilities with filtered vector search, now in preview. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:53 Z

Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:46 Z

Store cluster backup in another region. Restore cluster in the primary or another region. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:39 Z

The HNSW vector index is now generally available in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:33 Z

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks More Information
Published: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:34:34 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally. More Information
Published: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:15 Z

Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change More Information
Published: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:00:01 Z

Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs. More Information
Published: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:00:01 Z

.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date, it won’t be possible to use the feature. Please transition to JavaScript user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:59 Z

Azure Notification Hubs support for GCM/FCM legacy will be retired on 1 July 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:53 Z

Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:47 Z

Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:39 Z

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:32 Z

Classic Networking Services retiring in August 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:22 Z

The bulk delete operation allows deletion of FHIR resources across different levels, enabling healthcare organizations to comply with data retention policies while providing asynchronous processing capabilities. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:12:17 Z

Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. More Information
Published: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:10:54 Z

Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:42:10 Z

HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:42:38 Z

Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:00:08 Z

A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:00:04 Z

Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale. More Information
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:00:04 Z

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:55:05 Z

Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival. More Information
Published: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:51:09 Z

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. More Information
Published: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:00:37 Z

Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability. More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:08:19 Z

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:00:23 Z

Ensures predictable and reliable flow of communication among MQTT clients during unexpected disconnections. More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:00:23 Z

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated. More Information
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:00:22 Z

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2024. More Information
Published: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:00:24 Z

New features include support for ARO in Azure Terraform provider, ability to bring your own NSG, new GPU instance types for Day 2 operations, and more! More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:00:11 Z

Extensible key management (EKM) using Azure Key Vault in SQL Server on Linux is now generally available from SQL Server 2022 CU12 onwards. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:13 Z

For enhanced security in your virtual network architectures where outbound connectivity is not allowed. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:12 Z

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports Private Endpoints in General Availability. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:12 Z

The feature will allow you to retain/manage backups for up to 10 years in the standard tier according to your compliance and auditing needs. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:11 Z

You can now protect Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:11 Z

Get near-real time analytics on your Azure Cosmos DB data in Microsoft Fabric with zero-ETL. More Information
Published: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:00:10 Z

Load test your web apps directly from Azure App Service in Azure portal. More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:05:18 Z

The native support for Delta Lake output in Azure Stream Analytics is now generally available. More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:00:21 Z

Azure Load Testing GA in Fairfax cloud - USGov Virginia. US Government customers on the Fairfax cloud can now use Azure Load Testing to simplify their end-to-end load testing process. More Information
Published: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:00:10 Z

We're excited to announce that the multi plan subnet join for virtual network integration is now available in preview in all regions! More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:00:43 Z

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now Generally Available More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:00:41 Z

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. More Information
Published: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:00:42 Z

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally. More Information
Published: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:30:54 Z

Exciting news! Our IBM Mainframe and Midrange connectors, including IBM 3270, IBM CICS, IBM DB2, IBM i, IBM MQ, and IBM IMS, are now generally available. These connectors address highly sought-after customer requests, bring capabilities to extend Azure Logic Apps cloud native workloads with some of the oldest systems ever built for Mainframes and Midranges. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:00:38 Z

We're thrilled to announce two new built-in connectors for Azure Logic Apps: Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. With the increasing adoption of AI technologies, there's a growing demand to integrate these capabilities seamlessly into Logic Apps workflows. To address this need, we're launching the Public Preview of these connectors, bridging the gap between Logic Apps and AI. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:00:31 Z

Improve your workload’s resiliency and optimize your cloud deployments by reviewing recommendations on Advisor More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:00:21 Z

Enable Prometheus community recommended alerts to monitor key signals to be promptly notified on potential critical issues within your clusters. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:00:00 Z

The Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes namespaces cost views are now generally available in Cost analysis within Azure portal. You can view the aggregated costs for all your AKS clusters and namespaces across a subscription and drill down into infrastructure and namespaces costs of a cluster. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:00:35 Z

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure API Management's newest pricing tiers – Basic v2 and Standard v2. The Azure API Management v2 pricing tiers represent a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to projects of all sizes, from small-scale endeavors to large-scale enterprise applications. Importantly, these new v2 pricing tiers are available alongside our existing Azure API Management classic pricing tiers, ensuring continuity for users. It's worth noting that the Azure API Management classic pricing tiers remain actively supported and invested in. More Information
Published: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:00:28 Z

The API Management developer portal is an automatically generated, fully customizable website with the documentation of your APIs. It's where API consumers can discover your APIs, learn how to use them, request access, and try them out. We recently improved the portal editor interface to boost your productivity and enhance the interactions with your favorite features and tools. More Information
Published: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:22:44 Z

ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. More Information
Published: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:00:08 Z

Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for MySQL- Flexible server. More Information
Published: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:00:07 Z

Azure Backup now supports transferring Azure Files backups to the vault for comprehensive protection against severe data loss scenarios like ransomware attack. More Information
Published: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:00:06 Z

The classic built-in analytics dashboards will be retired on 15 March 2027. More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:19:35 Z

The Git repository feature in Azure API Management will be retired 15 March 2025 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:38 Z

Long Audio API will be retired on March 31, 2027 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:38 Z

End of Life Announcement for Chef Run_lists and Cookbooks in Azure CycleCloud Cluster-Init Projects on 31 March 2025 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:37 Z

Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:37 Z

Custom .Net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:36 Z

We're retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:36 Z

Custom .net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date, it won't be possible to use the feature. Please transition to a JSON, AVRO, or CSV built-in deserializer by that date. More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:35 Z

Azure HDInsight 5.0 for cluster shapes Kafka, Interactive Query, and Spark will retire on 31 March 2025. HDInsight, 5.1 is Generally available from November 1, 2023, this release contains all the latest versions of supported software. It comes with all the improvements made in open-source versions and the integrations from Microsoft. More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:35 Z

Windows Server 2022 will be retired on 15 March 2027 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:34 Z

Legacy Azure Storage C++ client libraries will be retired on 29 March 2025. Before that date, you’ll need to transition to the latest version of the Azure Storage C++ client libraries. More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:34 Z

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:33 Z

Upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:33 Z

Migrate your .NET apps in Azure Functions to the isolated worker model More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:32 Z

Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:31 Z

Standard_NC24rs_v3 virtual machines will be retired on March 31st, 2025 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:31 Z

End of life announcement for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS support for Azure Batch pools on 23 April 2025 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:30 Z

End of life for Basic and Standard A-series VM families support in Batch pools on 31 August 2024 More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:30 Z

Every-write AOF will be retired on 1 April 2025, and all instances using the feature will automatically switch to use every-second AOF instead. More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:00:29 Z

Deploy new Azure NetApp Files volumes in Azure availability zones (AZs) of your choice to support workloads across multiple availability zones More Information
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:24:23 Z

The Azure Sphere 24.03 release includes Azure Sphere (Integrated) general availability, support for custom certificates to connect to Azure IoT Services, an updated version of cURL for the Azure Sphere OS, security fixes, SDK support for Ubuntu 24.04 pre-release, removal of SDK support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and changes to the CMake toolchain. More Information
Published: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:00:37 Z

Azure Disks Standard SSD throughput limits are now 100 MB/s on disks sized 8191 GBs and lower. More Information
Published: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:00:35 Z

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the new Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption, revolutionizing your workflow experience with unparalleled speed, smoothness, and reliability. Unifying the designer experience across all supported platforms, including standard Azure Logic Apps, the Azure Logic Apps Visual Studio Code extension, and consumption Azure Logic Apps in the portal, ensures seamless usability and familiarity wherever you work. More Information
Published: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:00:35 Z

Measure your generative AI application’s susceptibility to jailbreak attacks and to producing unsafe content, so you can implement effective mitigations and go from prototype to production with confidence. More Information
Published: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:00:36 Z

Microsoft Dev Box is generally available in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:16 Z

You can now build application logic in Azure Function apps which can be driven by the data from Azure SQL database More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:15 Z

Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:15 Z

Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:14 Z

You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:14 Z

You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.4 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:13 Z

You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:12 Z

Migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium by 31 March 2027, when Front Door (classic) will be retired. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:28:56 Z

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2024 . More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:14 Z

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2024. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:14 Z

Text translation right within SQL facilitates building intelligent multilingual applications on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:13 Z

Invoke Azure Machine Learning models in real-time from SQL in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:13 Z

Seamlessly migrate PostgreSQL to Azure using a managed service for complete schema and data transfers, hassle-free. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:00:12 Z

Rate Limiting is now generally available over ExpressRoute Direct port circuits, providing enhanced control over bandwidth usage. This Quality of Service (QoS) feature prevents circuits from bursting beyond their configured bandwidth, thereby improving network performance and reliability. Rate Limiting can be enabled for each circuit individually, offering flexibility to prioritize certain circuits. This feature can be activated during or after the creation of the ExpressRoute Direct circuit. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:00:13 Z

You can now reserve capacity with SLA for following Specialty VM sizes, Mv3 series, NC-series (v3 and newer), NV-series (v2 and newer), and Lsv2 series More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:00:12 Z

The ability to change the partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos is now available in preview for NoSQL API. More Information
Published: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:00:11 Z

Mirroring Azure SQL Database provides an easy experience to continuously replicate SQL DB data directly into Microsoft Fabric. More Information
Published: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:00:14 Z

Reduced latency by distributing managed functions to regions of high demand. More Information
Published: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:00:14 Z

As part of our commitment to enhancing workspaces (in Public Preview) within Azure API Management, we are implementing several critical breaking changes effective June 14, 2024. These changes are designed to streamline functionality and improve overall performance.   These breaking changes will be effective from June 14, 2024. We strongly advise making any necessary adjustments to your workspace configurations before this date to ensure uninterrupted service. More Information
Published: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:00:25 Z

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature. More Information
Published: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:00:16 Z

Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management. More Information
Published: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:00:16 Z

Azure VM backup now supports agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups in public preview. More Information
Published: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:00:15 Z

Extended support for Node 18 LTS is ending More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:15 Z

Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service will be retired on 31 March 2025. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:15 Z

We encourage users to explore our new offering Azure AI Content Safety that offers both new and updated capabilities to meet your content moderation needs. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:14 Z

On 31 August 2024, Azure will retire Basic and Standard A-series VMs as announced earlier on 24 August 2021. Before 31 August 2024, you need to migrate your HDInsight A series VMs to Av2-series VMs, which provide more memory per vCPU and faster storage on solid-state drives (SSDs). To avoid service disruptions, migrate your workloads from Basic and Standard A-series VMs to Av2-series VMs before 31 August 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:14 Z

End of Support for Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2. Apache Spark 3.2 will be retired and disabled as of July 8, 2024. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:13 Z

The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service will be retired on 31 March 2025. By that date, please consider alternative cost management reporting for AWS available in the market. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:13 Z

Upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8 by 14 May 2024 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:12 Z

Applications that are using the Azure Functions Service Bus extension v4.x will be unsupported after 31 March 2025 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:12 Z

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:11 Z

The Grafana version 9 will be retired on 31 August 2024 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:11 Z

End of life announcement for default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses on 30 September 2025 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:10 Z

End of life announcement for HPC Pack 2016 on 12 January 2027 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:10 Z

Community support for Standard_M192idms_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:09 Z

Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:09 Z

Support for Standard_M192ims_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:08 Z

Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:08 Z

Microsoft Actions and Compliance offerings, two regulatory compliance features in public preview, will no longer be available through the Defender for Cloud portal pages starting September 30, 2025. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:07 Z

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1 More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:07 Z

Azure HPC Cache is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:06 Z

Avere vFXT for Azure is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025. More Information
Published: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:05 Z

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0. More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:00:02 Z

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features. More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:00:01 Z

The next generation of general purpose service tier brings improved performance, 32 TB storage and higher database density. More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:00:01 Z

Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names. More Information
Published: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:00:00 Z

Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances. More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:00:11 Z

Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications. More Information
Published: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:00:07 Z

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:40:07 Z

With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over their imaging data and increased flexibility for accessing and working with that data through the Azure storage ecosystem and APIs. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:00:20 Z

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:00:20 Z

The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:00:18 Z

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor. More Information
Published: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:18:57 Z

You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:17 Z

You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:16 Z

You can now schedule workloads in Fleet based on cost and availability of resource heuristics. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:16 Z

YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:15 Z

You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:15 Z

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:14 Z

You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:14 Z

You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:13 Z

You can now use deployment safeguards to implement Kubernetes best practices and get warnings on deployment or deny the deployment of manifest files that are not following best practices. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:13 Z

You can now deploy AKS clusters in dual stack mode which now enables resource connection through IPv4 or IPv6. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:12 Z

You can now choose IP-based backend pool membership for new or existing clusters in AKS. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:11 Z

You can now directly configure allowed ports in your nodepool settings. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:11 Z

AKS now lets you deploy pods without manually specifying host ports. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:10 Z

You can now utilize Azure routing preference for your cluster, public node IPs in AKS More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:10 Z

Administrators can now deploy AKS nodes with verified and signed bootloaders, OS kernels, and drivers. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:09 Z

You can now scale your AKS cluster to larger than 1000 nodes without having to request any special limit increases or whitelisting. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:00:08 Z

Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench is a new service that provides a fully managed work environment for engineering development, accelerating project startup, and enabling secure collaboration between development teams. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:00:06 Z

Azure Managed Prometheus was announced GA in May 2023 and was available in 26 regions, with this new update Azure Managed Prometheus will be available in 13 additional regions. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:00:04 Z

You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase, which provides an easy way to continue getting reservation discounts. More Information
Published: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:00:03 Z

On 31 August 2024, Azure classic administrator roles will be retired. Transition from Azure Classic Administrator roles to RBAC roles More Information
Published: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 23:00:29 Z

Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025. More Information
Published: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 23:00:16 Z

On 15 March 2027, the Application Gateway WAF v2 Configuration will be retired. To continue using this service, switch to the Application Gateway WAF v2 Policy before the retirement date. More Information
Published: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 23:00:03 Z

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping for Prometheus instance served with TLS. To enable TLS and mTLS based scraping, you can configure the TLS settings in the ConfigMap. More Information
Published: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:00:08 Z

We are expanding the Azure IoT Edge supported platforms to include Ubuntu Core Snaps on IoT Edge as a Tier 1 supported operating system. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:00:08 Z

Learn how to qualify for free egress when moving your data out of Azure. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:30:07 Z

Java apps are now attuned to the container environment and primed for better performance and reliability by default. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:00:08 Z

You can now leverage managed Java components in Azure Container apps for service registry and externalized application properties. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:00:08 Z

You can now deploy a Java application using a WAR file to Azure Container Apps. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:00:07 Z

In 2024, Azure Resource Manager is introducing a revamped throttling experience for subscriptions, with increased limits and a token bucket algorithm for managing requests. This will enhance API management and improve productivity. The transition to the new architecture will be gradual, leading to a more efficient and dynamic throttling experience. For more information, consult the Azure Resource Manager documentation. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:12:07 Z

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2024. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:00:11 Z

Defender for Cloud detects anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. When deployed, it provides another important security barrier. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:00:11 Z

Private endpoint for Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Private Link is now available, enhancing security. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:00:10 Z

Major version upgrade logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now generally available. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:00:10 Z

Utilize an additional Enterprise-tier cache size to optimize the price and performance of your Redis workload. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:00:09 Z

Now you can use Microsoft Entra ID authentication on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters in addition or instead of the native Postgres authentication. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:00:09 Z

We're excited to announce Try Azure Cosmos DB support in our Azure Cosmos DB integration with Vercel. More Information
Published: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:00:06 Z

Azure Communication Services Advanced Messaging is now generally available, enabling developers to send and receive messages from their applications through third party social messaging platforms, like the WhatsApp Business Platform. This latest messaging service helps businesses create intelligent B2C communication workflows to reach more customers at scale and deliver safe, reliable communications to customers worldwide. More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:00:53 Z

Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Azure Event Hubs. More Information
Published: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:00:52 Z

We are pleased to announce an update to the Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code, introducing new capabilities for API inventory and design. Additionally, we are unveiling a new API governance feature in API Center, enabling API linting and analysis based on customer-owned design guidelines. More Information
Published: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:00:39 Z

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in generally available in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China. More Information
Published: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:00:38 Z

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account. More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:00:42 Z

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier has published Service Level Agreements. More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:00:45 Z

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Now available in additional regions. More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:00:41 Z

Change Actor allows you to see who initiated the change and with which client that change was made, for changes across all your tenants and subscriptions. More Information
Published: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:00:40 Z

Develop functions using Node.js 20 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows. More Information
Published: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:00:27 Z

Public Preview of Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – file path uniqueness More Information
Published: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:00:13 Z

Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU. More Information
Published: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:00:17 Z

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation for this release period provides 28 days for backward-compatibility testing. More Information
Published: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:00:07 Z

Initiate a self-serve experience of Assessments and manage their recommendations on Azure Advisor More Information
Published: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:00:57 Z

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024. More Information
Published: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:19 Z

Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in Canada East, West Europe, South Central US and West US 3. More Information
Published: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:00:01 Z

You can now stagger AKS node upgrades and minimize application downtime. More Information
Published: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:00:38 Z

You can deploy an officially supported Istio addon for AKS More Information
Published: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:00:25 Z

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.1, 15.5, 14.10, 13.13, 12.17, 11.22 More Information
Published: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:00:29 Z

Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution to Application Gateway's Ingress Controller; bringing performance, scale, deployment, and feature enhancements. More Information
Published: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:00:06 Z

Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery. More Information
Published: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:00:05 Z

TLS and TCP protocol support now available through Azure Application Gateway. More Information
Published: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:33:10 Z

A new feature that reduces the data transfer for MSSQL queries on Kusto. More Information
Published: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:00:01 Z

As of March 15, 2024, this behavior will change and sending a log search alert with a cross tenant target resource (except for the lighthouse case) will no longer be supported. Alerts will not be sent to unauthorized target resources, and log search alert rules with an unauthorized target will be ignored. This will ensure that only authorized users can receive and investigate log search alerts. More Information
Published: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:11:28 Z

The new .update command allows you to update records (rows) in a Kusto Database (either in Azure Data Explorer or in Fabric KQL Database). This is a new tool to help you build great data pipeline! More Information
Published: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:00:22 Z

Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario. More Information
Published: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:00:22 Z

Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes GA More Information
Published: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:00:21 Z

Microsoft Dev Box, config-as-code customizations feature is now in preview. With customizations, developers can efficiently configure workstations to their exact project requirements, and admins can set guardrails to automatically enforce governance and security policies. More Information
Published: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:00:20 Z

Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management tasks for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage. More Information
Published: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:29:27 Z

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup. More Information
Published: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:00:09 Z

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup. More Information
Published: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:00:08 Z

Azure Monitor Logs connector lets you query data in your Log Analytics workspace or Application Insights components per Logic App trigger or schedule, and list or visualize results. The Time range… More Information
Published: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:00:07 Z