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Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025

Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025

• Retirements

Public Preview: Invoke Azure Machine Learning models using the azure_ai extension

Target availability: Q1 2024

Invoke Azure Machine Learning models in real-time from SQL in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Features

Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs

Target availability: Q2 2024

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

• Pricing & Offerings

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.

• Compliance
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS

You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

• Features

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions

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.

• Virtual Network
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Change Actor

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. 

• Azure Resource Graph
• Management
• Features