- Recent and upcoming Microsoft exam changes – Thursday 21 March 2024
Will be updated on 3/26/2024:
- 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