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RSS feedJuly 2023
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent supports VM Insights in Azure Government Cloud
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Government Cloud customers can now enable VM Insights via the new Azure Monitor Agent, to monitor the client workload on the VMs or VMSS.
May 2023
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.
Generally available: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Target availability: Q2 2023
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal.
April 2023
Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period
You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.
General Availability: Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States
Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.
March 2023
GA: Spot Priority Mix
Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode.
Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets
Application insights extension enables easy to use application monitoring for IIS-hosted .NET Framework and .NET Core applications running on Azure VMs and VM scale sets.
February 2023
General Availability: Managed Run Command – Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
The ability to manage VMs by remotely executing scripts has been improved with the updated Managed Run Command feature.
January 2023
Public Preview: Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States
Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.
November 2022
Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal.
General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
You can use new cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets for optimization.
October 2022
Public preview: IPVS load balancer support in AKS
You can now use the IP Virtual Server (IPVS) load balancer with AKS, with configurable connection scheduling and TCP/UDP timeouts.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024.
Continuous delivery setting of Azure VMSS will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines
Target retirement date: March 31, 2023
Start using Azure Pipelines by 31 March 2023 instead of Azure Portal to create Continuous delivery pipelines for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set
General availability: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Predictive autoscale manages and scales your virtual machine scale sets by observing and learning from historical CPU usage patterns.
Public preview: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent with Connection Monitor
Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity to ARC enabled endpoints.
Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities
You can now include standard VMs and Spot VMs in the same Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. New VM-series are now supported with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode.
Generally available: Azure Monitor agent migration tools
Migration to the cost-effective, secure, performant, and manageable new Azure Monitor agent is now made easy using migration tools and helpers.
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