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March 2024

22 Mar

Default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

End of life announcement for default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses on 30 September 2025

  • Retirements
18 Mar

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now scale your AKS cluster to larger than 1000 nodes without having to request any special limit increases or whitelisting.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

January 2024

31 Jan

Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API

NOW AVAILABLE

General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data plane API We are excited to share Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API is Now Generally Available! Unlock enhanced insights into the monitoring of your Azure resources with our powerful API. Explore its features and elevate your monitoring experience today!

  • Azure Monitor
  • Metrics
  • Batch
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

November 2023

15 Nov

Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles

IN PREVIEW

You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November

NOW AVAILABLE

Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows.  

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

30 Oct

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Blob Batch operations

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob Batch operations now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.

  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
6 Oct

Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023

Target retirement date: November 03, 2023

Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023

  • Bing Speech
  • Retirements

September 2023

29 Sep

Support for select marketplace images for Batch pools will be retired

Target retirement date: January 10, 2024

End of life announcement for select marketplace images for Batch pools

  • Batch
  • Operating System
  • Retirements
29 Sep

Azure Batch pool list usage metrics API will be retired on 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

End of Life Announcement of Azure Batch Pool List Usage Metrics API on 30 September 2024

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
29 Sep

Azure Batch CLI extensions will be retired on 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

End of Life Announcement of Azure Batch CLI Extensions on 30 September 2024

  • Batch
  • SDK and Tools
  • Retirements
29 Sep

Azure Batch task authentication token will be retired on 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

End of life announcement of Azure Batch task authentication token on 30 September 2024

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
13 Sep

Generally available: Higher default value for Azure Functions Event Hubs max batch size

NOW AVAILABLE

Starting with version 6.0.0 of the Azure Functions Event Hubs extension, a higher default value of 100 will be used for max batch size

  • Azure Functions
  • Features

August 2023

30 Aug

Generally available: Azure Container Apps jobs

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now run production workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events.

  • Features

May 2023

23 May

Public preview: Serverlessly run on-demand, scheduled, and event-driven jobs on Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

Run workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
23 May

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build

IN PREVIEW

New features now available in PuPr include the ability to evaluate text/image data fairness and enjoy one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflow with LLM. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
17 May

Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

IN PREVIEW

Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge provides you a new way of upgrading VM instances in a Virtual Machine Scale Set to the latest scale set model.

  • Features

April 2023

26 Apr

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Metrics Dataplane API released

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Metrics Dataplane API is a new approach to Azure Monitoring that improves resource insight gathering by enabling higher querying capacity and efficiency.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Resource Mover
  • Features
3 Apr

General Availability: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5

NOW AVAILABLE

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services

March 2023

24 Mar

Batch custom image pools using VHD or managed images will be retired on 31 March 2026

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

Transition custom image pools use images from Azure Compute Gallery

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
24 Mar

Batch Service in select regions will be retired on 31 March 2026

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

Migrate your Batch workloads before 31 March 2026 to other regions where Azure Batch will continue to be available.

  • Batch
  • Services
  • Retirements

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