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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
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters
You can now scale your AKS cluster to larger than 1000 nodes without having to request any special limit increases or whitelisting.
January 2024
Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API
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!
November 2023
Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles
You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November
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.
October 2023
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Blob Batch operations
Azure Blob Batch operations now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.
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
September 2023
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
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
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
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
Generally available: Higher default value for Azure Functions Event Hubs max batch size
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
August 2023
Generally available: Azure Container Apps jobs
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.
May 2023
Public preview: Serverlessly run on-demand, scheduled, and event-driven jobs on Azure Container Apps
Run workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build
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.
Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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.
April 2023
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Metrics Dataplane API released
The Azure Metrics Dataplane API is a new approach to Azure Monitoring that improves resource insight gathering by enabling higher querying capacity and efficiency.
General Availability: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5
The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.
March 2023
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 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.
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