Blogs summary – Tuesday 28 May 2024
Azure news
- Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
- Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments
- Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions
- Preview: Windows gRPC support is now available on App Service
- Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights
- Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews
- Public preview of the App Configuration Extension for AKS
- Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability
- Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto
- Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery
- Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery
- Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle
- Visual Studio Code extension for sAzure Web PubSub now in preview
- Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions
- General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code
- General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs
- General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary
- General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size
- Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
- Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines
Blogs summary – Tuesday 14 May 2024
Azure news
- General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB RU supports version 5.0 and 6.0
- General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts
- General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- Public Preview: SQL Server on Azure VM storage configuration deployment experience with support for Premium SSD v2
- General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts
- Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
- GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS
- Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS
- New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available
- Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
- Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
- Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024
- General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU
- Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU
- Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
- Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Front Door server variable enhancement general available
- Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure
- Public preview: Sensitive data protection for Azure Front Door Web Application Firewall
Blogs summary – Sunday 28 April 2024
Azure news
- Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024
- Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
- App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
- Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024
- Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.
- .Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
- Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs
- The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024
- Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions
- General availability: Virtual network flow logs
- General availability: HNSW vector index in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
- General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore
- General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features
- Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
- General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
- Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries
- General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement
- Public preview: Azure Change Analysis New Portal Experience
- Public preview: Extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments
- Updated Retirement Notice: Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024
Blogs summary – Sunday 14 April 2024
Azure news
- Generally Available: AKS cost views
- Public Preview: Resiliency Review on Azure Advisor
- Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard)
- General Availability of Azure Logic Apps connectors for IBM Mainframe and Midranges
- Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions
- Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI
- Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks
- General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA
- App Service virtual network integration multi plan subnet join
- Azure Load Testing availability in Fairfax (USGov Virginia)
- Native Delta Lake Output Now Generally Available in Azure Stream Analytics
- Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps
- Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric
- Public Preview: Long-term retention for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
- Generally available: Defender for Cloud supports Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
- General Availability: Virtual private network (VPN) with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
- General Availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link
- General availability: Extensible key management using Azure Key Vault for SQL Server on Linux
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-April 2024
Blogs summary – Thursday 28 March 2024
Azure news
- General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
- Breaking Changes to Azure API Management Workspaces
- Public Preview: Azure SQL Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
- Azure Static Web Apps distributed functions capability now in Public Preview
- Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)
- Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs
- General availability: Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits
- General availability: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Public Preview: Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Public Preview: Invoke Azure Machine Learning models using the azure_ai extension
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
- Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on 31 March 2027
- Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry collector support
- Public preview: PowerShell 7.4 support for Azure Functions
- Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps
- Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps
- GA: Azure SQL Trigger support for Azure Functions
- General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
- Generally available: Microsoft Dev Box in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North
Blogs summary – Monday 18 March 2024
Azure news
- Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs
- WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure
- Announcing Try Azure Cosmos DB support in Vercel Integration
- General availability: Additional cache size for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
- General availability: Microsoft Entra ID integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- General Availability: Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
- General Availability: Major version upgrade logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2024
- General Availability: Azure Defender for Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- Public Preview: Modernizing Azure Resource Manager Throttling
- Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps
- Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps
- Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps
- Now available: Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure
- Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Core Snaps
- Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping
- Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
- Retirement: Support for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall v2 Configuration is ending
- Visual Studio App Center retirement
- Azure Classic Administrator roles are retiring on 31 August 2024
Blogs summary – Thursday 14 March 2024
Azure news
- Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
- Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor
- Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation
- Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6
- Public preview: Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones
- Generally available: Azure Functions Support for Node.js 20
- Public preview: Change Actor
- General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions
- Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
- General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
- Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China
- Azure API Center Updates
- Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs
- WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure
- Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
Blogs summary – Monday 4 March 2024
Azure news
- Announcing NBCROW Compression in Kusto's TDS Implementation
- Public preview: Azure Application Gateway introduces support for TLS and TCP protocols
- Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks
- General availability: Application Gateway for Containers
- General availability: Azure CLI support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- General availability: Azure SDKs support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-February 2024
- Public preview: AKS support for node soak duration for upgrades
- Public preview: Disable network policy in AKS for migration
- GA: Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service
- Generally Available: Capacity Reservations support in AKS
- Generally Available: Node Soak Duration for Upgrades
- Public preview: OS SKU in-place migration for Linux nodes
- Public preview: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS
- Public preview: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js
- Public preview: Internet inbound for Network Virtual Appliances in Virtual WAN Hubs
- General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.
- Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
- Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor
Blogs summary – Wednesday 14 February 2024
Azure news
- Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts
- Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning
- Generally Available: Azure Stack HCI latest feature release
- Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
- Azure Virtual Network Manager topology view now generally available
- Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in 30 regions
- Support for log alert rules that use cross-workspace queries with resource names or qualified name identifiers will be retired on 31 May 2024
- Announcing General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints
- Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS
- Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East
- Generally available: Support for up to 100 TB of storage for the FHIR service
- Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions
- General Availability: Application consistent restore points supports Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks
- Public preview: Azure SQL migration assessment enabled by Azure Arc
- General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches
- Public preview: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-February 2024
- Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication