Azure-Updates

General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.

HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics.

• Virtuelle Computer
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters

Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Machine Learning
• Services

GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities

A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials.

• Warnungen
• Features

Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview

Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Security
• Management
• Features

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI

• Services
• Retirements

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024

Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Features

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all 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.

• Virtual Network
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability.

• Azure Monitor
• Metriken
• Verwalteter Prometheus
• Features

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 - April 2024

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

• Features

Azure Event Grid support for last will & testament (LWT) capabilities now in Public Preview

Ensures predictable and reliable flow of communication among MQTT clients during unexpected disconnections.

• Event Grid
• Features

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.

• Managed Disks
• Azure Disk Storage
• Features

General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-April 2024

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2024.

• Azure SQL-Datenbank
• Features

Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates

New features include support for ARO in Azure Terraform provider, ability to bring your own NSG, new GPU instance types for Day 2 operations, and more!

• Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Features

General availability: Extensible key management using Azure Key Vault for SQL Server on Linux

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Extensible key management (EKM) using Azure Key Vault in SQL Server on Linux is now generally available from SQL Server 2022 CU12 onwards.

• SQL Server auf Azure Virtual Machines
• Features

General Availability: Virtual private network (VPN) with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

For enhanced security in your virtual network architectures where outbound connectivity is not allowed.

• Azure Managed Instance für Apache Cassandra
• Features

General Availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports Private Endpoints in General Availability.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Features

Public Preview: Long-term retention for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

The feature will allow you to retain/manage backups for up to 10 years in the standard tier according to your compliance and auditing needs.

• Azure Database for MySQL
• Features

Generally available: Defender for Cloud supports Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

You can now protect Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

• Azure Database for MySQL
• Features

Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Get near-real time analytics on your Azure Cosmos DB data in Microsoft Fabric with zero-ETL.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features