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Azure Functions brings new flexibility with unlimited execution time
You can now request for access to try out Flex Consumption, a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.
Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles
You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.
MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities now available for Azure Event Grid
Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events
Azure Monitor alerts as a destination in Event Grid event subscriptions allow you to receive notification of critical events via action groups as Short Message Service (SMS), email, push notification, and more. You can leverage on the low latency event delivery of Event Grid with the flexibility and direct-to-customer notifications of Azure Monitor alerts.
GA: Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) Add-on for AKS
You can now use the KEDA add-on for AKS in production.
Azure Elastic SAN updates: Snapshots, Security, and Usability
Introducing the latest update to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), which now offers snapshot capabilities, enhanced security features, new features for a more simplified use experience, and an entirely new integration with Azure VMware Solution
October 2023
Public preview: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor
ExpressRoute Traffic Collector is now generally available
Use ExpressRoute Traffic Collector to enable collection of flow logs for traffic sent over your ExpressRoute direct circuit.
Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.
Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don't conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end.
September 2023
Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Migrate your data from Azure API for FHIR to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service for richer data integration and analytics capabilities.
GA: Azure Container Apps in Azure China cloud
You can now run microservices, API’s, and other container workloads without managing infrastructure in Azure China cloud
General Availability: Malware Scanning in Defender for Storage
Target availability: Q3 2023
Malware Scanning in Defender for Storage enables organizations to detect and prevent malware distribution events with content scanning upon upload and near real-time malware detection powered by Microsoft Defender Antivirus technologies.
Project Azure FarmBeats will be retired on 30 Sep 2023 – transition to Azure Data Manager for Agriculture.
Target retirement date: September 30, 2023
Project Azure FarmBeats will be retired on September 30, 2023
General availability: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.
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
Introducing Graph Semantics in Kusto, a new way to contextualize time series data
Target availability: Q4 2023
Analyze networks, connected assets and more with Kusto's graph semantics extension to the Kusto Query Language (KQL). Find out how to contextualize your time series data in KQL, and how to leverage time-aware graphs.
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.
Generally Available: SDK type bindings in Azure Functions
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Functions now supports binding to types from the Azure SDK, providing a richer development experience.
Public preview: Azure VNet flow logs
Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your Virtual Networks
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