Azure updates

Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps

Target availability: Q2 2024

Load test your web apps directly from Azure App Service in Azure portal.

• Azure Load Testing
• Web Apps
• Features

Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure API Management's newest pricing tiers – Basic v2 and Standard v2. The Azure API Management v2 pricing tiers represent a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to projects of all sizes, from small-scale endeavors to large-scale enterprise applications. Importantly, these new v2 pricing tiers are available alongside our existing Azure API Management classic pricing tiers, ensuring continuity for users. It's worth noting that the Azure API Management classic pricing tiers remain actively supported and invested in.  

• API Management
• Pricing & Offerings

Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.

• Azure Container Apps
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps

You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support

You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.

• App Service
• App Service (Linux)
• Features

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 – transition to use Azure Maps Web SDK in a web view

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025

• Azure Maps
• Retirements

Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps

Java apps are now attuned to the container environment and primed for better performance and reliability by default.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps

You can now leverage managed Java components in Azure Container apps for service registry and externalized application properties.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

You can now deploy a Java application using a WAR file to Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q1 2024

Customers now have the capability to configure the circuit breaker property in the backend resource, providing protection for a backend service against being overwhelmed by excessive requests.

• API Management
• Features

Public Preview: Load Balancer in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q1 2024

Customers have the ability to create a load balancer that directs traffic to multiple endpoints.

• API Management
• Features

Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview

Target retirement date: March 06, 2024

Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before then.

• Azure Container Apps
• Retirements

General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider

Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.

• App Configuration
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features