Azure-Updates

Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

• Retirements
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

Einstellung am: März 31, 2025

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

• Retirements
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

• Managed Disks
• Azure Disk Storage
• Virtuelle Computer
• Virtuelle Windows-Computer
• Virtuelle Linux-Computer
• Features

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

Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q1 2024

The next generation of general purpose service tier brings improved performance, 32 TB storage and higher database density.

• Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Azure SQL
• Features

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names.

• Azure DNS
• Features

Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q1 2024

Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.

• Azure-Daten-Explorer
• Azure SQL
• Features

Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support

Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Features

General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.

• Azure Monitor
• Verwalteter Prometheus
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Network Watcher
• Open Source
• Services
• Features

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: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS

You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS

YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• 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

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS

You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS

You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features