Azure updates

Public preview: Azure Container Apps offers new plan and pricing structure

You can now run your apps using serverless, consumption-based compute, and optionally run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports user defined routes (UDR) and smaller subnets

You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

General Availability: App Configuration geo-replication

Replicate your application configuration data across supported regions to create redundancy, reduce latency, and distribute request load.

• App Configuration
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps

Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant

Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), such as geocoding patient home addresses.

• Azure Maps
• Compliance

Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3

Enterprises are now able to operate more securely with large SKUs to support more demanding workloads with App Service Environment v3.

• App Service
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Migrate - Discover ASP.NET & Java web apps and assess ASP.NET in all environments

Discovery of Java & ASP.NET web apps and assessment of ASP.NET web apps to Azure App Service code (native) on VMware, Hyper-V and Physical servers is now in public preview.

• App Service
• Azure Migrate
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Azure Maps Elevation APIs and Render V2 DEM tiles will be retired on 5 May 2023

To avoid service disruption in your applications, please review the following migration options and transition before 5 May 2023.

• Azure Maps
• Retirements

Generally available: Azure Private Link support for Inbound traffic in Azure API Management

With Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management, you can now integrate clients in a virtual network privately.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build

Public Preview: Workspaces in Azure API Management

Workspaces for Azure API Management is now in public preview. This new capability enables granular access control in multi-team Azure API Management deployments.

• API Management
• Features

Public preview: Azure Maps Creator – Improved indoor maps onboarding and new Features API

Target availability: Q1 2023

An updated Conversion service now allows you to easily onboard indoor maps and a new Features API to read and edit your map features!

• Azure Maps
• Features

General Availability: ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts

ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts is now generally available.

• App Service
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant

Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), like when calculating travel time and distance from a patient’s location to the nearest healthcare facility.

• Azure Maps
• Compliance

Generally available: Azure Monitor integration with Azure Container Apps

You can now choose different destinations for your Azure Container Apps logs

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting

General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting

• App Service
• Features

Azure Web PubSub Premium tier reaches General Availability

New plan offers greater resiliency, scalability, and flexibility - helping you add real-time two-way communication to your web and mobile apps.

• Azure Web PubSub
• Features