Updates Archives

General Availability - Azure API Center

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure API Center is now generally available, providing a centralized solution to manage the challenges of API sprawl, which is exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of APIs and AI solutions. Azure API Center offers a unified inventory for seamless discovery, consumption, and governance of APIs, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.

• API Management
• Features

Action needed: Update Azure Autoscale Notifications to using additional email addresses for notifications

Azure Classic roles will be retired by 31st August, 2024 – transition to using only additional email addresses for Azure Autoscale Notifications as Azure Autoscale is dependent on the Azure Classic Roles.

• Azure Monitor
• Retirements

Azure Governance Update - Management Groups

Beginning May 3, 2024, Azure will start enabling the root management group for tenants that have not enabled it yet. Using Azure management groups leverages best practices when applying Azure Policy and having it pre-enabled reduces the initial set up work to follow the best practices. 

• Azure Management Groups
• Azure Policy
• Azure Resource Manager
• Management

Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management now in public preview

UDR management in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in public preview, enabling users to describe their desired routing behavior via configuration, simplifying the management of routing behaviors at scale.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Features

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge v1.5.0 (LTS) release

The Azure IoT Edge release of v1.5 is the latest LTS version of Azure IoT Edge.

• Azure IoT Edge
• Open Source
• Services