Azure-Updates

SMART on FHIR proxy feature in Azure Health Data Services will be retired on 21st September 2026 - Transition to SMART on FHIR (Enhanced).

Einstellung am: September 21, 2026

SMART on FHIR proxy feature in Azure Health Data Services will be retired on 21st September 2026 - Transition to SMART on FHIR (Enhanced) to enable SMART on FHIR scenarios.

• Retirements

General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

Structured Logs and Latency Probe Metric are now in general availability.

• Azure Firewall
• Security
• Services
• Features

Private Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q3 2023

Now you can protect, monitor, and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its DR Lifecycle, while also generating cluster-consistent recovery points – which are consistent across all the disks (including the Shared Disk) of the cluster.

• Services
• Features

General availability: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager

Always Serve feature for Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is now generally available. This feature allows you to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.

• Traffic Manager
• Features

Public preview: Azure Monitor Agent Health experience

The Azure Monitor Agent Health experience is now available in preview. Identify data collection problems across your organization before they start impacting your business.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2023

Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.

• Features

General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions

This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.

• Features

General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2023

Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems.

• Services
• Management

Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2023

We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview. This feature allows customers to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.

• Traffic Manager
• Features

General Availability: NGINXaaS - Azure Native ISV Service

Natively integrated software as a service (SaaS) solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.

• Services

Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant

Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), such as geocoding patient home addresses.

• Azure Maps
• Compliance

Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant

Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), like when calculating travel time and distance from a patient’s location to the nearest healthcare facility.

• Azure Maps
• Compliance

Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules

Einstellung am: März 15, 2026

Effective 15 March 2026, adding playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules creation/edit will be deprecated.

• Azure Sentinel
• Security
• Retirements