Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2023
Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026 – Transition to Application Gateway V2
Target retirement date: April 28, 2026
Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026
New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs
New, recently released capabilities that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security and more.
Public Preview : Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Data Encryption with Customer Managed Keys
Data encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL allows you to bring your own key for data protection at rest.
Update your IoT Edge devices on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS reaches the end of standard support on May 31st, 2023. To continue to receive support and security updates, we highly recommend that you update your host OS to a Tier 1 supported platform.
General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Poland
Microsoft has announced the opening of the newest cloud region Poland and the first in Central Europe.
Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-April 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL and Azure SQL Managed Instance in late-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.
General Availability: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.
Public Preview: Azure API Management and Microsoft Defender for APIs integration
Take your API security coverage to the next level with Azure API Management and Microsoft Defender for APIs integration.
Continuous Language ID in Azure Speech Service
Continuous Language ID makes transcription and translation easier by continuously identifying up to 10 languages in a single piece of audio.
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.
Generally available: Azure Monitor alerts now suggests signals to alert on
When creating an alert rule using the Azure portal, configuring the condition of the alert rule is now made simpler with popular signals and settings.
Generally Available: Operation Abort in AKS
You can now abort long running operations in AKS via the CLI.
Generally Available: Inbound IP restrictions for Azure Container Apps
You can now restrict inbound traffic by IP without using a custom solution.
Public preview: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps
You can now enable session affinity without writing code.
Generally Available: TCP support for Azure Container Apps
You can now expose arbitrary TCP ports from your container apps.
Generally available: Synthetic GraphQL
With Synthetic GraphQL, customers can create GraphQL APIs using their existing REST and SOAP APIs, allowing them to modernise their application API stack with minimal effort.
Public preview: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps
You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault
Generally available: API Management Authorisations
API Management Authorisations are now generally available, providing a simple and reliable way to unbundle and abstract authorisations from web APIs.
Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup
Target availability: Q2 2023
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.
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