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22 Mar

Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8

Target retirement date: May 24, 2024

Upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8 by 14 May 2024

  • Azure functions
  • Retirements
22 Mar

Update to Azure Functions Service Bus extension v5.x by 31 March 2025 for continued support

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Applications that are using the Azure Functions Service Bus extension v4.x will be unsupported after 31 March 2025

  • Retirements
22 Mar

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
22 Mar

Action recommended: Update to using Grafana version 10 for Azure Managed Grafana

Target retirement date: September 30, 2024

The Grafana version 9 will be retired on 31 August 2024

  • Retirements
22 Mar

Default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

End of life announcement for default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses on 30 September 2025

  • Retirements
22 Mar

HPC Pack 2016 will be retired on 12 January 2027

Target retirement date: January 13, 2027

End of life announcement for HPC Pack 2016 on 12 January 2027

  • Retirements
22 Mar

Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: March 14, 2027

Community support for Standard_M192idms_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

  • Retirements
  • Features
22 Mar

Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Target retirement date: March 18, 2027

Support for Standard_M192ids_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

  • Retirements
  • Features
22 Mar

Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Target retirement date: March 19, 2027

Support for Standard_M192ims_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
22 Mar

Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
22 Mar

Some compliance features in Microsoft Defender for Cloud will be retired on September 30, 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Microsoft Actions and Compliance offerings, two regulatory compliance features in public preview, will no longer be available through the Defender for Cloud portal pages starting September 30, 2025.

  • Security Center
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Retirements
22 Mar

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
22 Mar

Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Azure HPC Cache is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Retirements
22 Mar

Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Avere vFXT for Azure is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Avere vFXT for Azure
  • Retirements
21 Mar

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

IN DEVELOPMENT

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Features
21 Mar

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
21 Mar

Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

The next generation of general purpose service tier brings improved performance, 32 TB storage and higher database density.

  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure SQL
  • Features
21 Mar

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

IN PREVIEW

Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names.

  • Azure DNS
  • Features
20 Mar

Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure SQL
  • Features
20 Mar

Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

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